Quotes About Island

I dreamed of holding Noah's hand and walking through bright sunshine, waving across the sound to the deserted island. For some reason I thought Vinnie was there.

Querida, no olvidéis que ésta es una isla, y una isla mujer: y que si bien nadie puede dudar que los hombres son extraordinarios conquistadores, además de otras cualidades bien conocidas, en definitiva las mujeres somos la civilización.

Weather out the storm in the island of tranquility to find inner peace.

On 4 November 1944, the Barbados Observer wrote: Throughout the history of this island, it has been dominated by a small and selfish clique and it is indeed remarkable that now this clan senses that it has reached a crisis, it has actually had the shamelessness and temerity to publicly appeal to the people of this island and ask them to help them consolidate their weakening status.

went to the kitchen and found an avocado to eat. I was becoming addicted to them. They seemed to attain a state of ripeness here in California that was unknown back home on my chilly island.

The community of Fire Island is such that you take your place in it for granted, trust that no matter what happens or who it happens with, you will find your way back.

in Staten Island.

Staten Island

New Dorp High School on Staten Island.

By way of contrast, on uninhabited Wrangell Island, an isolated scrap of land in the Chukchi Sea north of Siberia, mammoths survived until about 4,000 years ago.

Puerto Rico, within the span of two weeks, received two Category 4-5 hurricanes. That has never happened anywhere. The devastation has been enormous.

I first saw the island of Noirmoutier when I was two weeks old. I think it's probably safe to say that I didn't fully appreciate it at the time; but I grew to love it as year after year I spent holidays there at my grandparents' cottage.

I'm thinking my next book should be set on a tropical island, which will obviously require days, even weeks of meticulous research, but I'm prepared to make that sacrifice. That's just the sort of dedicated writer I am.

I love voyaging - the longest has been 3,000 miles to Hawaii. I've also spent weeks all over the Caribbean.

I always wanted to film 'Biggest Loser' in Hawaii. We could call it, 'Come on I wanna weigh you.'

At first I threw my weight upon my heels, as one does naturally in a boot, and was a good deal bruised, but after a few hours I learned the natural walk of man, and could follow my guide in any portion of the island.

We lived on the Key West Army Base. Key West for me was a tropical island paradise.

Sometime during the many millions of years that have elapsed since mammalian faunas came into existence, some sort of island crossed from West Africa to South America.

Thankfully I'm not endlessly ambitious, but I have done some crazy ambitious things like buying an island off the west coast of Scotland in the late Sixties.

I like Cornwall and particularly the Isle of Mull on the west coast of Scotland where I got married. It's absolutely beautiful.

I mean, I didn't ever watch 'Gilligan's Island' and think, 'Those people are actors.' I lived in West Virginia. Hollywood just felt like this total other universe.

It's a very defined area, Newfoundland. It's an island - Labrador is a huge empty space. It's a very defined area with a very few number of people.

If I was stuck on a deserted island, I would have guacamole.

I love our Polynesian designs, whether or not it is coming from Samoa, as I have some of my designs coming from, or right from home in O'ahu.