Quotes About Island

Australia is the only island continent on the planet, which means that changes caused by planet-warming pollution - warmer seas, which can drive stronger storms, and more acidic oceans, which wreak havoc on the food chain - are even more deadly here.

What happened to Haiti is a threat that could happen anywhere in the Caribbean to these island nations, you know, because of global warming, because of climate change and all this.

I can remember in the late 1980s and early 1990s how many men with AIDS I saw everywhere in Key West. There were hospices and medical supply stores geared to people with AIDS. It seemed that every sick man who could afford it had headed for the warmth and the tranquillity and the gay-friendliness of the island.

I try to get out to The Skelligs, and people will know The Skelligs from 'Star Wars' and so forth, but they really are the most incredible monastic settlement on this island off the south coast, the Kerry coast.

If the Pacific took Nauru, it'd wash away one of the strangest and most troubled places on Earth.

In a few more weeks, the ferry that runs between the island and the mainland would shut down for a couple of months. Then we'd be trapped. Deranged killers and psychos would have a field day before the first thaw. And no one would know until it was too late. Hadn't I seen that scenario in a movie? I shuddered at the thought. "So why do you think the owners wanted to sell the place?" I asked. "Because it's haunted.

Wish he would step foot on this island. I'm old but I'll still cut a bitch.

Gwen's neck swerves. "Wish he would step foot on this island. I'm old but I'll still cut a bitch. I know people—they old, too, but they got sons and daughters happy to start some shit.

Rivers of fire. Even the rocks burn. An island rises from the sea. Dark magic in an errant phrase. The people bow to the lord of error.

Manhattan is a narrow island off the coast of New Jersey devoted to the pursuit of lunch.

I am marooned on a Crag of Superiority in an ocean of soldiers.

Being a Puerto Rican artist, I support all kinds of projects that are developed on my beautiful island that in some way or another put our Puerto Rican flag up.

In the bare room under the old library on the hill in the town at the tip of the small peninsula on the cold island so far from everything else, I lived among strangers and birds.

He knows that when she passes, a grief will rip through him unlike anything he has ever known. Preparing for it doesn't help. He just knows it will come. It is like realizing you are sailing a boat across an ocean and soon you will find the other shore- it will be just you and acres of dry, blinding white sand. There may be trees on that island, and sun, and food, but none of it will feel or taste right, because you will stand there and realize: I am alone.

Why slum it where people were burdened by yesterday, and the day before, and the day before that? By history? Here, on the Island, they had learnt how to deal with history, how to sling it carelessly on your back and stride out across the download with the breeze in your face.

Personality is a person among persons. There is no personality of one man on a desert island.

A man is an island in the only sense that matters, not an easy way to be. We live in mystery, a cosmos of separate lonely bodies, men, insects, stars. It is all loneliness and men know it best.

Pain shared, my brother, is pain not doubled but halved. No man is an island

Poverty is such a relative thing; but no man is really poor till life becomes a desert island that gives him neither food nor shelter nor hope.

[on buying a private island] Money doesn't buy you happiness, but it buys you a big enough yacht to sail right up to it.

I also want to go to an Italian island and do cuisine properly with some famous Italian chef and, like, his mother.

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!

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

Life is an island. People come out of the sea, cross the island, and return to the sea. But this short life is long and beautiful. In getting to know nature man exalts the wonder and beauty of life.