Islands Quotes

778 Islands quotes by 627 unique authors

Honor is like an island, rugged and without a beach; once we have left it, we can never return. — Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux
Park hill staten island seal, rock the reel to reel we high hills deep — Cappadonna
An individual poor person is an isolated island by himself and herself. IT can end that isolation overnight. — Muhammad Yunus
I haven't bought a yacht or an island or even a palm tree. — David A. Siegel
Somewhere there was once a Flower, a Stone, a Crystal, a Queen, a King, a Palace, a Lover and his Beloved, and this was long… — Carl Jung
The ego is an island in the ocean of Hell. You want to get rid of the Hell but you don't want to get rid… — Rajneesh
Football is not a game but a religion, a metaphysical island of fundamental truth in a highly verbalized, disguised society, a throwback of 30,000 generations… — Unknown Author
COULD I PASS A WEEK IN THE INSANE WARD AT BLACKWELL'S ISLAND? I SAID I COULD AND I WOULD. AND I DID. — Nellie Bly
Nervous? He's tighter than Pat Buchanan's sphincter muscle at a 4th of July soiree on Fire Island. — Dennis Miller
Mankind has always drawn from outside sources of energy. This island was the first to harness coal and steam. But our present sources stand in… — Frederick Soddy
No other island received as much preliminary pounding as did Iwo Jima. — Chester W. Nimitz
The battle of Iwo Island has been won. The United States Marines by their individual and collective courage have conquered a base which is as… — Chester W. Nimitz
These are islands in time - with nothing to date them on the calendar of mankind. In these areas it is as though a person… — Harvey Broome
I came from Long Island, so I had a lot of experience at the stick. I played in junior high school, then I played in… — Jim Brown
I'd be devastated if my son grows up to be a hetero. I mean, I'd still love him ... but as a parent you just… — Debra Messing
What happened to Haiti is a threat that could happen anywhere in the Caribbean to these island nations, you know, because of global warming, because… — Danny Glover
I founded Friends of the Earth to make the Sierra Club look reasonable. Then I founded the Earth Island Institute to make Friends of the… — David Foreman
...Started by missionaries in 1841, Punahou Academy had grown into a prestigious prep school, an incubator for island elites...It hadn't been easy to get me… — Barack Obama
My fear is that the whole island will become so overly populated that it will tip over and capsize — Hank Johnson
I don't believe that the solutions in society will come from the left or the right or the north or the south. They will come… — Karl-Henrik Robert
You who prattle that morality is social and that man would need no morality on a desert island - it is on a desert island… — Ayn Rand
America, so far as her physical history is concerned, has been falsely denominated the New World. Hers was the first dry land lifted out of… — Louis Agassiz
The gratitude of every home in our Island, in our Empire, and indeed throughout the world, except in the abodes of the guilty, goes out… — Winston Churchill
I love living my life in flip-flops. I met a guy in the islands a while ago who told me he hadn't worn a pair… — Kenny Chesney
If I were ever stranded on a desert island, there would be 3 things I’d need: food, shelter, and a grip. — George C. Scott

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