Islands Quotes

Islands Quote of the day

I would not be cured if the price of the cure was that I must leave the island and give up my work I am perfectly resigned to my lot. Do not feel sorry for me.

A global human society, characterised by islands of wealth, surrounded by a sea of poverty, is unsustainable

Each person is an island unto himself, in a very real sense; and he can only build bridges to other islands if he is first of all willing to be himself and permitted to be himself.

Through the sunset of hope, Like the shapes of a dream, What paradise islands of glory gleam!

We with our lives are like islands in the sea... The islands also hang together through the ocean's bottom.

Harbour Island in the Bahamas is beautiful, with turquoise water and pink sand.

Island of Hispaniola once so populous (having a population that I estimated to be more than three million), has now a population of barely two hundred persons.

More varied than any landscape was the landscape in the sky, with islands of gold and silver, peninsulas of apricot and rose against a background of many shades of turquoise and azure.

The island is in Kenya, the water is in Uganda... But the [Luos, a Kenyan ethnic group] are mad, they want to fish here but this is Uganda.

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 there's nothing fancy about it.

Planet Earth is our shared island, let us join forces to protect it

The royal navy of England hath ever been its greatest defence and ornament; it is its ancient and natural strength, - the floating bulwark of our island.

I would love to be the poet laureate of Coney Island.

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. The island is so peaceful and the smiles are constant.

If you're shipwrecked on an island with 10 million dollars and your wife has gold and diamonds, but there's no water, no arable land, no fish, you have nothing. Money is a 'nothing' thing.

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

Key West for me was a tropical island paradise.

My fear is that the whole island will become so overly populated that it will tip over and capsize.

Natural erosion had reduced the critical barrier islands in the Gulf, the result of the destruction of some 300,000 acres of wetlands. This amounted to 30 miles of marshlands.

I cannot live on an island of prosperity when I'm surrounded by a sea of misery.

I consulted a Chinese herbalist and spent two weeks on an island off the coast of Zanzibar. I was away from any kind of contemporary technology.

We are Bayern Munich and English teams always have trouble as soon as they leave the island.

Yes, I am a Jew and when the ancestors of the right honorable gentleman were brutal savages in an unknown island, mine were priests in the temple of Solomon.

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

The Order of the Arrow is a thing of the outdoors rather than the indoors. It was born in an island wilderness. It needs the sun and rain, the woods and the plains, the waters and the starlit sky.

I love living my life in flip-flops. I met a guy in the islands a while ago who told me he hadn't worn a pair of shoes in three years! I thought, 'Man, that's the life!'

Heaven: The Coney Island of the Christian imagination.

Football is not a game but a religion, a metaphysical island of fundamental truth in a highly verbalized, disguised society, a throwback of 30,000 generations of anthropological time.

The problem of the twentieth century is the problem of the color-line, -- the relation of the darker to the lighter races of men in Asia and Africa, in America and the islands of the sea.

I feel we are all islands - in a common sea.

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.

I'd go to Coney Island to hang out, and I saw a magician doing a rope trick on the boardwalk. I was fascinated. I guess that's how it started.

This island is made mainly of coal and surrounded by fish. Only an organizing genius could produce a shortage of coal and fish at the same time.

Often it's just a short swim from the shipwreck of your life to the island paradise of your dreams, assuming you don't drown in the metaphor.

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.

Someone asked me, if I were stranded on a desert island what book would I bring... 'How to Build a Boat.'

find your eternity in each moment

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

A self does not amount to much, but no self is an island; each exists in a fabric of relations that is now more complex and mobile than ever before.

I did write some code in Java once, but that was the island in Indonesia.

Jamaica's probably the most dominant island as far as influence goes, as far as music and dancing and culture.

My dream is to go spend a week on some island with no phone.

The world is not a solid continent of facts sprinkled by a few lakes of uncertainties, but a vast ocean of uncertainties speckled by a few islands of calibrated and stabilized forms

For me, a desert island is no tragedy, neither is a deserted planet.

Far clouds of feathery gold, Shaded with deepest purple, gleam Like islands on a dark blue sea.

We must remember that man is not an island, totally isolated and disconnected from others. We are all part of a universal chain, or the universal consciousness. What happens to one happens to all.

I haven't bought a yacht or an island or even a palm tree.

If you want to take the island, then burn your boats. With absolute commitment come the insights that create real victory.

If I were ever stranded on a desert island, there would be 3 things I’d need: food, shelter, and a grip.