Islands Quotes

An island is a fixed and finite piece of geography, and usually the whole place has been carved up and claimed.

Honor is like an island, rugged and without a beach; once we have left it, we can never return.

If the people of New Zealand want to be part of our world, I believe they should hop off their islands, and push 'em closer.

You have to kill to survive. People have been doing it forever. I eat meat, and I eat fish. If I were on a deserted island I would need that to survive.

Somehow, the love of the islands, like the love of a woman, just happens. One cannot determine in advance to love a particular woman, nor can one so determine to love Hawaii.

Our task force put to sea in early January 1942, to attack the Japanese in the Marshall and Gilbert islands, but the mission was called off on the eve of the attack.

The good news was that Enterprise and the newly arrived Yorktown had attacked the Marshall and Gilbert islands. Those attacks had a great effect on morale.

If it's a really good gift, I love receiving it, like jewels, small islands.

England is merely an island of beef swimming in a warm gulf stream of gravy.

In the sea of grief, there were islands of grace, moments in time when one could remember what was left rather than all that had been lost.

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

Nothing less than the fate of the planet is at stake... No place on the planet can remain an island of affluence in a sea of misery.

My mother came from St. Thomas. I heard that melody and all I did was actually adapt it. I made my adaptation of sort of an island traditional melody. It did become sort of my trademark tune.

The undersea world surrounding Green Island looks just like a water fairyland.

When the ship is sinking and you're forced to choose sides, the new solution is to jump from island to island to island. You don't have to pick.

A university should not be an island where academics attain higher and higher levels of knowledge without sharing any of this knowledge with its neighbours.

It sucks, but no Long Islands or margaritas when you drink. It has to be straight vodka.

From sorrow to sorrow love crosses its islands and establishes roots that are watered by weeping.

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

You can see when an actor gets bored: Their eyes go dead. I promised myself I'd never let that happen. If it does, I'll go and live on a desert island for a year.

You can't totally rebel, otherwise you have to go live on your own, on a desert island. It's as simple as that.

I have a massage when I want to relax. I love being pampered. I love island massages when you're outside in the fresh air.

I wanted people to believe that there could still be this little undiscovered piece of the world that survives still on Skull Island.

And a rock feels no pain; And an island never cries.

In the islands of the Aegean Sea, every island is full of graves.

I rented an island for Kanye West birthday. A far, far away place where no one can find us.

Women are like those blinkin' little Greek islands, places to call at but not to stay.

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

My father used to run auctions. He's now a singer in the Canary Islands.

The Romans held Britain from the invasion of Julius Caesar till their voluntary withdrawal from the island, A.D. 420,- that is, about five hundred years.

From the sprinkled isles, Lily on lily, that o'erlace the sea.

So, you wrecked Alcatraz Island, made Mount St. Helens explode, and displaced half a million people, but at least you're safe." "Yep, that pretty much covers it.

There are several sorts of religions, not only in different parts of the island, but even in every town; some worshipping the sun, others the moon or one of the planets.

I got space from Travis Air Force Base, went back to the Philippine Islands and made it a point to meet the only American casting director in the Philippines. I was off and running.

There will be no support in the island of Ireland for building a nuclear power station.

Independence, like honor, is a rocky island, without a beach.

In terms of the fantasy wedding thing, I can kind of cross off the island beach thing. Maybe at sunset or something.

We wanted to step off our island and add the color of the third world. We got gold cigarette paper and stuck it around our teeth. We really did look like pirates and dressed to look the part.

The one-handed palmer can always reach higher, they say. They may be right, but the result is that nearly every line-out is like a tropical island - all waving palms.

The Staten Island Ferry remains a potential terrorist target.

She became for me an island of light, fun, wisdom where I could run with my discoveries and torments and hopes at any time of day and find welcome.

Every summer, my grandparents would rent a house on Balboa Island. They had the house next to Bob Hope's. I've been going down there all my life, to that whole area.

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.

Well managed and healthy oceans are vital to the survival of small island states, such as the Maldives. This important book shows how scientists and governments can better protect the world's oceans.

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.

It's funny, but we were living on this small island off the coast of Charleston, South Carolina when I was 9.

That island of England breeds very valiant creatures; their mastiffs are of unmatchable courage.

When I was Governor of Massachusetts, we worked to get Sable Island gas into New England.

A nice pop star would do you nice on one of those deserted islands.

My goal is to be living back in Canada as soon as I can, hopefully somewhere in the Gulf Islands.