Islands Quotes

778 Islands quotes by 627 unique authors

For relationships, too, must be like islands. One must accept them for what they are here and now, within their limits - islands surrounded and… — Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Happiness is threatening and misery is safe - safe for the ego. Ego can exist only in misery and through misery. Ego is an island… — Rajneesh
The British Islands are small islands and our people numerically a little people. Their only claim to world importance depends upon their courage and enterprise,… — H.G. Wells
I know not where His islands lift Their fronded palms in air; I only know I cannot drift Beyond His love and care. — John Greenleaf Whittier
I know enough to know that no man is an island. — Richard Branson
Zuleika, on a desert island, would have spent most of her time in looking for a man's footprint. — Max Beerbohm
A mother's love is like an island, In life's ocean vast and wide, A peaceful, quiet shelter, From the restless, rising tide. — Helen Steiner Rice
If you choose not to live self-responsibly, you count on others to make up your default. No one abjures self-responsibility on a desert island. — Nathaniel Branden
What is the good of being an island, if you are not a volcanic island? — Wyndham Lewis
It is estimated that one-third of all reef-building corals, a third of all fresh-water mollusks, a third of sharks and rays, a quarter of all… — Elizabeth Kolbert
Seattle is this curious liberal island. — Jonathan Raban
Mathematics catalogues everything that is not self-contradictory; within that vast inventory, physics is an island of structures rich enough to contain their own beholders. — Greg Egan
That's what I loved about Temptation Island. I don't even know why they did it. — Kathy Griffin
In this first testing ground of the atomic bomb I have seen the most terrible and frightening desolation in four years of war. It makes… — Wilfred Burchett
As evening approached, I came down from the heights of the island, and I liked then to go and sit on the shingle in some… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau
I am going a long way With these thou seëst-if indeed I go (For all my mind is clouded with a doubt)- To the island-valley… — Alfred Lord Tennyson
AUSTRALIA, n. A country lying in the South Sea, whose industrial and commercial development has been unspeakably retarded by an unfortunate dispute among geographers as… — Ambrose Bierce
I've had songs written during the Falklands war, and during the first Gulf war I got letters from soldiers saying they were listening to these… — Billy Bragg
The personal vocabulary, the individual melody whose metre is one's biography, joins in that sound, with any luck, and the body moves like a walking,… — Derek Walcott
If you're ever shipwrecked on a tropical island and you don't know how to speak the natives' language, just say "Poppy-oomy." I bet it means… — Jack Handey
He wondered how he could ever have thought of the planets, even of the Earth, as islands of life and reality floating in a deadly… — C.S. Lewis
Were this world an endless pain, and by sailing eastward we could forever reach new distances, and discover sights more sweet and strange than any… — Herman Melville
An independent Ireland would see its own independence in jeopardy the moment it saw the independence of Britain seriously threatened. Mutual self-interest would make the… — Eamon de Valera
For William Cecil and others in Elizabeth's Council, whose sense of Catholic conspiracy and threat governed their political thinking, England's security lay in the creation… — Unknown Author
In the world of highways, a beautiful landscape means: an island of beauty connected by a long line with other islands of beauty. — Milan Kundera

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