Islands Quotes

[I] read Anne Frank's diary [while imprisoned] on Robben Island and derived much encouragement from it.

The secret of our success on planet Earth is space. Lots of it. Our solar system is a tiny island of activity in an ocean of emptiness.

Larry Jones with Feed the Children and I are partnering in New York and going into Rikers Island.

The ego is an island in the ocean of Hell. You want to get rid of the Hell but you don't want to get rid of that island. Then there is trouble.

Friendship is an island that you retreat to and you all fall on the floor and laugh at all the other ninnies that don't have enough brains to have your good taste.

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

When you grow up on an island, what matters is how you stand to the sea.

I love Topsail Island, which my grandparents helped settle in 1950, despite the racial tensions. I wanted to immortalize my deep connection to this special island forever.

Sri Lanka is a small island, and the war affected everybody. Everybody knew somebody who was killing or being killed.

I'm from an island, so I've always been near the water. I don't think I could live somewhere far from the sea.

I had a great education. From kindergarten to John Dewey High School in Coney Island, I am public-school educated.

God lead us past the setting of the sun To wizard islands, of august surprise; God make our blunders wise.

August for the people and their favourite islands. Daily the steamers sidle up to meet The effusive welcome of the pier.

Every great group is an island... but an island with a bridge to the mainland.

Civilisation is never so charming as when it is an island in the middle of simplicity, or of a civilisation of an alien kind.

Corporations are not going to stash their money in the Cayman Islands. We are going to reinvest in America, create jobs, make education available to all.

That's where the economy is going. It went somewhere. Just not to America. And the money made? That went to the Cayman Islands and Switzerland. Not back here. Never to be taxed.

Do away with the corporate loopholes that allow major profitable corporations to stash their money in the Cayman Islands and not pay a nickel in some cases in federal income taxes.

The Cayman Islands, a British Crown colony in the Caribbean, for instance, is the fifth largest banking center in the world.

Best of an island is once you get there - you can't go any farther...you've come to the end of things.

Reached only by boat, seaplane and, with less surety, telephone-this is Fire Island, a pile of sand beneath a pile of people.

It is not just the history of the Hawaiian islands but the significance of the ordinary people whose lives - many quite extraordinary - make up that history.

Generally, I like all islands. There, it is easier to rule.

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.

My parents tried to shield me from how famous they were when I was growing up on Long Island. I had no idea.

Not once or twice in our rough island story, The path of duty was the way to glory.

I just need to go to like an island or something.

If I were planning to be stranded on a desert island, I wouldn't take Freud's books with me, because I've already read them all.

the islands of Italy combine all the elements - fire, water, earth, and air - and that is irresistible.

Prime-time network television has become an island without religion in an ever-more-religious America.

Three strikes, you're out. I don't care if you hire Edward Bennett Williams to defend you; three strikes, you're still out. Baseball is an island of stability in an unstable world.

An island of surety in a changing world.

There ain't much future for a man who works the sea, there ain't no island left for islanders like me.

The beauty of Hawaii probably surpasses other places. I like the Big Island and the two mountains, Mauna Loa and Mauna Kea, where you can look out at the stars.

For some reason I only crave fruit when I'm in a tropical place - if it's really hot in the summer or if I go to a tropical island for work. But otherwise I really don't crave it.

Long Island - if you're from out of town, how would I describe it? Well, every girl in my neighborhood looked like Kenny G.

I'm not so sure about this wind and howling darkness business," Jace went on, "smells more like landfill to me. You sure you're not from Staten Island?

Most humans were on one big island, to the fairies, and that island was adrift on a sea called I Totally Don’t Care.

When Mitt Romney says he wants to reform the tax code, hold on to your wallets.

I'm from Long Island. Strong Island.

The sea which we think of separating the two island actually joins them.

On Sunday, the president flies to the Azores islands to attend a summit with British Prime Minister Tony Blair and Spanish Prime Minister Jose Aznar, and here's my prediction: Bush gets voted off.

I never watched 'Harper's Island.'

I discovered Musha Cay and the islands around it in the Exumas.

It's strange, because Long Island is still New York, but the farther you go out on Long Island, the more creepy it gets.

Islands are where species go to die.

You were a stone wall, a fort in high, unreachable trees, an island, my own island, that no boat could reach.

We are so many and many within themselves travel to far islands but no one asks for their story.

We cannot exist as a little island of well-being in a world where two-thirds of the people go to bed hungry every night.

The fact is, we are not islands and we are far more connected than we know