Islands Quotes

778 Islands quotes by 627 unique authors

Woods and forests have been essentialt to the imagination of these islands, and of countries throughout the world, for centuries. It is for this reason… — Robert Macfarlane
But Connecticut and Rhode Island have originally realized the most perfect polity as to a legislature. — Ezra Stiles
I advise everyone to find an island in this life. Find a place where this culture can't take energy away from you, sap your will… — Unknown Author
When I started off as an actress, I did at a play at the Taper Too Theatre here in Los Angeles, called 'In The Abyss… — Vivica Fox
That shoreline where the island of knowing meets the unfathomable sea of our own being is the landscape of myth. — William Irwin Thompson
I have been taking my daily walk round the island, and visited the sugar mill and the threshing mill again. — Fanny Kemble
Put your hand on your heart to keep it from flying off to the lovely magical literary island Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows have… — Kris Radish
I don't want to go to the Bahamas on holiday. I hate islands. I want to go to Brittany, where it's cold and raining, and… — Julie Delpy
Unlike television, reading does not swallow the senses or dictate thought. Reading stimulates the ecology of the imagination. Can you remember the wonder you felt… — Richard Louv
Hawai'i is not truly the idyllic paradise of popular songs--islands of love and tranquility, where nothing bad ever happens. It was and is a place… — Alan Brennert
It is not just the history of the Hawaiian islands but the significance of the ordinary people whose lives - many quite extraordinary - make… — Alan Brennert
I'd rather have a search engine or a compiler on a deserted island than a game. — John Carmack
I was once all by myself in a house on Fire Island. Where I compared the original cast recordings of two different versions of The… — Paul Rudnick
We are sad at home and blame the weather and the ugliness of the buildings, but on the tropical island we learn that the state… — Alain de Botton
The Senkaku islands are inherently Japanese territory. I want to show my strong determination to prevent this from changing. — Shinzo Abe
There's a small island, inhabited in the South Pacific that I will try to swim to. — Peter Arnett
There will be no support in the island of Ireland for building a nuclear power station. — Peter Hain
I did write some code in Java once, but that was the island in Indonesia. — Richard Stallman
You can always tell a Midwestern couple in Europe because they will be standing on a traffic island in the middle of a busy intersection… — Bill Bryson
... and over that side of the island all their sacred men were at work trying to kill me by their (magical) arts. Messengers arrived… — John Gibson Paton
Once more their weird laughter of the loons comes to my ear, the distance lends it a musical, melancholy sound. For a dangerous ledge off… — Celia Thaxter
We live in a state with a wonderful climate and plenty of natural beauty, from the shores of Cumberland Island to the Chattahoochee River to… — Roy Barnes
The royal navy of England hath ever been its greatest defence and ornament; it is its ancient and natural strength, - the floating bulwark of… — William Blackstone
The greater the amount of knowledge you accumulate, the bigger your island gets, but the greater the shoreline of the unknown becomes. In short, the… — Leonard Sweet
We live on a minute island of known things. Our undiminished wonder at the mystery which surrounds us is what makes us human. In science… — Damon Knight

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