Islands Quotes

778 Islands quotes by 627 unique authors

Knowledge is an island surrounded by a sea of mystery. — Chet Raymo
So death obscures your gentle form, So memory strives to make the darkness bright; And, in that heap of rocks, your body lies, Part of… — John Masefield
My husband and I went to Bald Head Island for our four-year anniversary. We spent the night in bed with champagne, tequila and Krispy Kreme… — Teri Polo
Mainly I've been back to my books and writings and being nice and quiet and lazy. As I'm writing this, the radio says there's a… — Jack Kerouac
I don't believe in children's books. I think after you've read Kidnapped, Treasure Island, and Huckleberry Finn, you're ready for anything. — John Mortimer
We cannot have islands of excellence in a sea of slovenly indifference to standards. — John W. Gardner
I finished high school there and then I went to Rhode Island School of Design. — Stephen Sprouse
In our victory over Japan, airpower was unquestionably decisive. That the planned invasion of the Japanese Home islands was unnecessary is clear evidence that airpower… — Carl Andrew Spaatz
We have two companies of Marines running rampant all over the northern half of this island, and three Army regiments pinned down in the southwestern… — John W. Vessey, Jr.
Once we were happy in our own country and we were seldom hungry, for then the two-leggeds and the four-leggeds lived together like relatives, and… — Black Elk
It is with roses and locomotives (not to mention acrobats Spring electricity Coney Island the 4th of July the eyes of mice and Niagara Falls)… — E E Cummings
We're gonna put $456 million to go to an island of 50 people? You know...The bridge to nowhere. And this is right after Katrina happened.… — Tom Coburn
The chief character in this narrative is the Caribbean Sea, one of the world's most alluring bodies of water, a rare gem among the oceans,… — James A. Michener
No man is an island- he is a holon. A Janus-faced entity who, looking inward, sees himself as a self-contained unique whole, looking outward as… — Arthur Koestler
From the sprinkled isles, Lily on lily, that o'erlace the sea. — Robert Browning
Sprinkled along the waste of years Full many a soft green isle appears: Pause where we may upon the desert road, Some shelter is in… — John Keble
Three people marooned on a desert island would soon reinvent politics. — Mason Cooley
Sundown. The distressed sloop, its mainmast shattered by lightning, its sails ripped by the winds of the open sea, drifted into the small, quiet beach… — Robert Ludlum
I think I'm Swedish because I like to live here on this island. You can't imagine the loneliness and isolation in this country. In that… — Ingmar Bergman
Metaphorically these essays move as a quiet but observant coast-guard cutter among the rocks and islands up and down the littoral of our life. — David McCord
I think that if I were required to spend the rest of my life on a desert island, and to listen to or play the… — Glenn Gould
We have created islands, small islands of power, but we have not built a bridge between those islands, .. The center and the territories, regional… — Vladimir Putin
When I was doing Dobie Gillis, I got blasted off to the moon with a chimp in a rocket, and I landed on a deserted… — Bob Denver
Islands are havens and breeding grounds for the unique and anomalous. They are natural laboratories of extravagant evolutionary experimentation. — David Quammen
I went on Love Island thinking I was quite headstrong but it turned out I was quite emotional. — Sophie Anderton

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