Islands Quotes
778 Islands quotes by 627 unique authors
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You, the Spirit of the Settlement! ... Not understand that America is God's crucible, the great melting-pot where all the races of Europe are melting…
— Israel Zangwill
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Puerto Rico has a stray dog problem. Tens of thousands of homeless canines - hundreds of thousands, by some estimates - live and die on…
— Juliana Hatfield
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You never know what peace is until you walk on the shores or in the fields or along the winding red roads of Prince Edward…
— Lucy Maud Montgomery
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To give a name to a thing is as gratifying as giving a name to an island, but it is also dangerous: the danger consists…
— Primo Levi
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The whole dear notion of one's own Self-marvelous old free-willed, free- enterprising, autonomous, independent, isolated island of a Self- is a myth.
— Lewis Thomas
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When you grow up on an island, what matters is how you stand to the sea.
— Roddy Doyle
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Sinn Fein is the fastest growing party on the island of Ireland.
— Martin McGuinness
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I also want to go to an Italian island and do cuisine properly with some famous Italian chef and, like, his mother.
— Elizabeth Olsen
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There is no Idea Dump, no Story Central, no Island of the Buried Bestsellers; good stories seem to come quite literally from nowhere, sailing at…
— Stephen King
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Islands in the streams, that is what we are.
— Dolly Parton
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Mystery is an inescapable ingredient of mathematics. Mathematics is full of unanswered questions, which far outnumber known theorems and results. It's the nature of mathematics…
— Ivars Peterson
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When I'm not working, my family and I have a house in the San Juan Islands. We've been here since '94.
— Elizabeth Pena
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My mother came from St. Thomas. I heard that melody and all I did was actually adapt it. I made my adaptation of sort of…
— Sonny Rollins
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That's such a great thing about New York, after growing up in a place and being there for twenty plus years, there's still a whole…
— Steven Strait
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Australia is an island surrounded by water. My fondest memories growing up were trips to the beach, walking around the harbor and playing in the…
— Tammin Sursok
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Now, for Romney to believe that somebody's grandmother is going to be so cut off she is going to self deport... He certainly shows no…
— Newt Gingrich
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This is only a small part of the totality. From this island earth we see only a fragment of creation and its knowledge.
— Frederick Lenz
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Australia is properly speaking an island, but it is so much larger than every other island on the face of the globe, that it is…
— Charles Sturt
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My father used to run auctions. He's now a singer in the Canary Islands.
— Jason Statham
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In an age where everything and everyone is linked through networks of glass and air, no one - no business, organization, government agency, country -…
— Don Tapscott
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I'm here not just as an actress but as a woman, an African-American, a granddaughter of Ellis Island immigrants, a person who could not have…
— Kerry Washington
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We tend to think that refusing to exalt Christ is staying true to our self-will and personal freedom when really we are condemning ourselves. Sure,…
— Criss Jami
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I want to see Haiti do better. We have the sun everywhere: that's a big asset. We have wonderful coasts, beautiful islands, mountains. Other countries…
— Laurent Lamothe
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I'm from Long Island. Strong Island.
— Chris Messina
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My dream is to be on my boat. Or on an island. Or in my house in the country. That's my dream.
— Cameron Mackintosh
Who Wrote These Islands Quotes
627 authors contributed a total of 778 Islands Quotes, led by these top contributors: