Isle Quotes
63 quotes by 56 authors
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Columbus discovered no isle or key so lonely as himself.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The mother-women seemed to prevail that summer at Grand Isle. It was easy to know them, fluttering about with extended, protecting wings when any harm,…
— Kate Chopin
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We came by night to the Fortunate Isles, And lay like fish Under the net of our kisses.
— Pablo Neruda
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Heaven is not a figment of imagination. It is not a feeling or an emotion. It is not the "Beautiful Isle of Somewhere." It is…
— David Jeremiah
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Both Plockton and the Isle of Muck in north-west Scotland are incredibly beautiful. Sadly, Plockton has been discovered by tourists because it's where they shot…
— Arabella Weir
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But who is this, what thing of sea or land,- Female of sex it seems,- That so bedeck'd, ornate, and gay, Comes this way sailing…
— John Milton
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Instead of the bright, blue sky of America, I am covered with the soft, grey fog of the Emerald Isle. I breathe, and lo! the…
— Frederick Douglass
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Shakespeare was an intellectual ocean, whose waves touched all the shores of thought; within which were all the tides and waves of destiny and will;…
— Robert Green Ingersoll
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I went to the juice isle, I learned something. Cranberries are taking over everything. What do you got, apples? Put some cranberrise in there, make…
— Brian Regan
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I vowed I would do everything I could to stop the Isle of Man counting towards the World Championship. And it was stopped, so they…
— Barry Sheene
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When people say England, they sometimes mean Great Britain, sometimes the United Kingdom, sometimes the British Isles, - but never England.
— George Mikes
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Come with me to the Winged Isle- Northern father's Western child Where the Dance of Ages is playing still through far marches of Acres Wild.
— Ian Anderson
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Thou who didst waken from his summer dreams The blue Mediterranean, where he lay, Lull'd by the coil of his crystalline streams Beside a pumice…
— Percy Bysshe Shelley
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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…
— Susan Brigden
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Id love to spend more time on the Isle of Man. I love the anonymity of putting on a boiler suit and going down to…
— John Rhys-Davies
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The field was even greener than my boy's mind had pictured it. In later years, friends of ours visited Ireland and said the grass there…
— Duke Snider
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It may be we shall touch the Happy Isles, And see the great Achilles whom we knew.
— Alfred Lord Tennyson
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In 1973 we moved to the British Isle of Man, and I put my first band together for one year, named Melody Fair.
— Andy Gibb
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You are good when you are one with yourself. Yet when you are not one with yourself you are not evil. For a divided house…
— Khalil Gibran
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Dappled sunlight and looked at the silver vapor swirling inside. "Mist gathered at first light on the first day of the new moon on the…
— Mary Pope Osborne
Who Wrote These Isle Quotes
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