Islands Quotes

778 Islands quotes by 627 unique authors

I'm one of relatively few stage-trained actors who doesn't much like acting on stage. It feels kind of like riding the Cyclone at Coney Island,… — Fred Melamed
Flowers heal me. Tulips make me happy. I keep myself surrounded by them as soon as they start coming to the island from Canada, and… — Rebecca Wells
The secret of our success on planet Earth is space. Lots of it. Our solar system is a tiny island of activity in an ocean… — Paul Davies
Fr. Amphilochios, the geronta or elder on the island of Patmos when I first stayed there, would have been in full agreement. Do you know,… — Kallistos Ware
Sometime we will have to stop overevaluating the word. We shall learn to realize that it is only one of the many bridges that connect… — Rainer Maria Rilke
On the periscope . . . . What a beautiful view. Cloud cover over Florida - three to four tenths near the eastern coast. Obscured… — Alan Shepard
The Hawaiian Islands were discovered by hardy Polynesian sailors, who crossed thousands of miles of open ocean in primitive canoes, braving violent storm-tossed seas for… — Dave Barry
I've always felt England was a great place for a comic to work. It's an island and the audience can't run very far. — Bob Hope
And on nearby islands, the Japanese army was eating raw fish. We felt sorry for them. We didn't know that in America after the war,… — Bob Hope
It must be those brief moments when nothing has happened - nor is going to. Tiny moments, like islands in the ocean beyond the grey… — Hans BÃ¸rli
Newport, Rhode Island, that breeding place-that stud farm, so to speak-of aristocracy; aristocracy of the American type. — Mark Twain
Natural erosion had reduced the critical barrier islands in the Gulf, the result of the destruction of some 300,000 acres of wetlands. This amounted to… — Mortimer Zuckerman
The painter leaves his mark. And I just put in two statues in Rhode Island that I'm working on. And I think that's going to… — Anthony Quinn
A child raised on a desert island, alone, without social interaction, without language, and thus lacking empathy, is still a sentient being. — Daniel Dennett
There are no countries in the world less known by the British than those selfsame British Islands. — George Henry Borrow
The general knowledge of time on the island depends, curiously enough, on the direction of the wind. — John Millington Synge
Harbour Island in the Bahamas is a wonderful little island with beautiful beaches, a great restaurant culture and friendly, welcoming atmosphere. — Helena Christensen
If you want to humble an empire it makes sense to maim its cathedrals. They are symbols of its faith, and when they crumple and… — Nancy Gibbs
The countries of the American continent and the adjacent islands are for the United States the natural marts of supply and demand. — Chester A. Arthur
I think the water dictates how food will taste in a country. In England the apples taste unlike apples grown in any other place. England… — Gael Garcia Bernal
I was a small kid from Huntington, Long Island. I never imagined that anything like that would happen to me. — Gerry Cooney
I was a choir boy for 3 years in high school at St. George's in Newport, Rhode Island. — Billy Bush
You know, growing up, I lived in a neighborhood in Long Island where there was basically one black family. And I remember hearing all the… — Lorraine Bracco
The Romans held Britain from the invasion of Julius Caesar till their voluntary withdrawal from the island, A.D. 420,- that is, about five hundred years. — Thomas Bulfinch
We need to get serious about combating gang violence on Long Island, and the entire nation. — Tim Bishop

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