Island Quotes

Island Quote of the day

There is more treasure in books than in all the pirates' loot on Treasure Island...

The recipe for success is a tried and true one here in Rhode Island - innovation, reform, public service.

The Long Island Sound is an environmentally unique estuary that needs to be protected.

Give us this day our daily Faith, but deliver us, dear God, from Belief.

Newport, Rhode Island, that breeding place-that stud farm, so to speak-of aristocracy; aristocracy of the American type.

Growing up in Rhode Island, my friends would have strung me up if I had been a Yankees fan.

Rhode Island has become a second home to me after being involved in its cultural life for over 61 years. I look upon it as a privilege to be inducted into the Rhode Island Music Hall of Fame.

Lobster is not going to be as tasty with ice tea unless that ice tea is from Long Island.

I wouldn't want to marry anybody who was wicked, but I think I'd like it if he could be wicked and wouldn't.

We need to get serious about combating gang violence on Long Island, and the entire nation.

No man is an island. No man stands alone.

Personally, my interests are ancient history and ancient civilizations. In my own life, I'd like to go to places like Easter Island.

Faith is an island in the setting sun, But proof is the bottom line for everyone.

Sir, with no intention to take offence, I deny your right to put words into my mouth.

General Washington had rather incautiously encamped the bulk of his army on Long Island - a large and plentiful district about two miles from the city of New York

The place of exciting innovation - where the action is - that's Rhode Island!

His mom lived in Long Island for ten years or so. God rest her soul. And, although, she's... wait... your mom's still... your mom's still alive. Your dad passed. God bless her soul.

I was a small kid from Huntington, Long Island. I never imagined that anything like that would happen to me.

The painter leaves his mark. And I just put in two statues in Rhode Island that I'm working on. And I think that's going to make me last longer than me.

Geographically, Ireland is a medium-sized rural island that is slowly but steadily being consumed by sheep.

I finished high school there and then I went to Rhode Island School of Design.

The thing I love about Vegas is that it's a melting pot. It's like working Ellis Island.

In my district, the budget scales back and eliminates several long-term shore protection projects important to the safety and economic security of Long Island.

My grandfather was a cop in Long Island. I often try to draw on things that I've heard about him.

It's like turning the space program over to the Long Island Railroad.

I was a young kid from Long Island who wanted to do something large with her life, so I can relate to that.

But Connecticut and Rhode Island have originally realized the most perfect polity as to a legislature.

Your grandparents did not endure the indignities of a steerage journey to Ellis Island so that you could stand outside a discothèque and beg a wallpaper designer to take you in with him.

Long Island for me, it's producing more chefs coming out of there than Paris.

The residents and elected officials of Long Island have fought vigorously for many years and spent millions of dollars to preserve the quality of life that the Long Island Sound offers.

My father was the Formica King of Long Island, and my mother was the daughter of a Bengal Lancer in India.

I stayed with them for about a year up there and, at night, worked over in Long Island at a club called The High Hat Club which was like a pseudo jazz / blues place.

Oh", she thought, "how horrible it is that people have to grow up-and marry-and change!

Indeed, most magicians catch the bug as kids. My first audience was my family in Long Island. My first 'assistant' was my mother, whom I levitated on a broom in our living room.

I know I'm not very popular on Long Island. I don't know who's less popular, me or Joey Buttafuoco.

Treasure Island is completed! The entire set of seventeen canvases without one break in my enthusiasm and spirit. Better in every quality than anything I ever did.

I'm a little Jewish girl from Long Island, but when I listened to Tina Turner, I pictured myself in a mini-dress, dancing like Tina Turner. It's inevitable.

I am who I am: an Irish Catholic kid, working class from Long Island. And I made it big.

[Long Island] is buoyant, it's on the outskirts of Manhattan, and so they have access to phenomenal restaurants.

I don't believe in children's books. I think after you've read Kidnapped, Treasure Island, and Huckleberry Finn, you're ready for anything.

There!" Apollo pointed. "Long Island, dead ahead. Let's slow down, dear. 'Dead' is only an expression.

James loved Rhode Island, ... He loved the ocean. He would sit in his beach chair for hours and look out at the ocean.

Say, Cuttino. What are those Godawful clothes you're wearing? Man, this ain't Rhode Island anymore. You're in the NBA. The girls have teeth here.

A good leader will seek the wisdom of others. After all, no man is an island!

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 can always read Shakespeare.

Nonfiction writers are second-class citizens, the Ellis Island of literature. We just can't quite get in. And yes, it pisses me off.

He looked like someone with a steerage ticket on the titanic. Somebody who'd be standing in line at Ellis Island. Undiluted and old-blooded. Also cute.

I don't know the numbers, but roughly half of the people who came through Ellis Island returned home. They came here to make money, not to make history.

And I really wanted a driver's license. I was 43, had my learner's permit and had failed the test once already - but that was in Riverhead, on Long Island.

I grew up in Bedford, N.Y., and it was close enough to Jones Beach on Long Island that every summer my mother would pack the car for the day, and we would drive to the beach!