Islands Quotes

778 Islands quotes by 627 unique authors

I’m a black woman who is from Central Falls, Rhode Island. I’m dark skinned. I’m quirky. I’m shy. I’m strong. I’m guarded. I’m weak at… — Viola Davis
The minute you had kids you closed ranks. You didn't plan this in advance, but it happened. Families were like individual, discrete, moated island nations.… — Meg Wolitzer
Verse 11. (They presented unto Him gifts). The people of the east never approach the presence of kings and great personages, without a present in… — Adam Clarke
The truth is I am inventing the maybe. I can only make the choices I make, so why torture myself with what I might have… — Jeanette Winterson
I had still the ambition, formed in Sligo in my teens, of living in imitation of Thoreau on Innisfree, a little island in Lough Gill,… — William Butler Yeats
This is a huge problem. If we don't deal with this within just a few years, you will have island nations flooded; you will have… — William J. Clinton
In the law, rights are islands of empowerment. . . . Rights contain images of power, and manipulating those images, either visually or linguistically, is… — Patricia J. Williams
The Cayman Islands, a British Crown colony in the Caribbean, for instance, is the fifth largest banking center in the world, — Michel Chossudovsky
A single flight of planes no bigger than a wedge of geese can quickly end this island fantasy, burn the towers, crumble the bridges, turn… — Elwyn Brooks White
To be on an island inhabited by artificial ghosts was the most unbearable of nightmares,- to be in love with one of those images was… — Adolfo Bioy Casares
I had dreamed of visiting Bali for many years and because I had an extended family of Balinese friends in Los Angeles, I felt connected.… — Carolyn Murphy
On May 7, a few weeks after the accident at Three-Mile Island, I was in Washington. I was there to refute some of that propaganda… — Edward Teller
If our knowledge is, as I believe, only an island in an infinite sea of ignorance, how can we in our short lifetime find satisfaction… — Daniel J. Boorstin
The conductor's stand is not a continent of power, but rather an island of solitude. — Riccardo Muti
All justice is inherently social. Can someone on a desert island be either just or unjust? — Thomas Sowell
Judging is a lonely job in which a man is, as near as may be, an island entire. — Abe Fortas
I began reading everyhing in the family library. Kidnapped, Treasure Island, Robinson Crusoe. And of course, if you're running out of books to read you… — Robin Hobb
While Haiti has recently celebrated more than 200 years of independence from French colonial rule, the citizens of the island remain vulnerable to poverty, poor… — Eliot Engel
L.A. is very special to me, so far away from my world on the East Coast, Europe, Asia. It's a bit of an island for… — Nicolas Berggruen
I have watched the river and the sea for a lifetime. I have seen rivers rob soil from the roots of trees until the giants… — Keri Hulme
Position yourself to succeed by doing the other things in your life that rejuvenate you. You can create little islands of time away from your… — Jeff VanderMeer
Who rules East Europe commands the Heartland; who rules the Heartland commands the World-Island; who rules the World-Island controls the world. — Halford Mackinder
I wish I could tell you about the South Pacific. The way it actually was. The endless ocean. The infinite specks of coral we called… — James A. Michener
The candle-buds opened their wide white flowers....Their scent spilled out into the air and took possession of the island. — William Golding
As a New Yorker, I'm someone who lives on an island and looks across to America. — Laurie Anderson

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