Quotes About Island

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

I grew up on lovely Staten Island, which is the forgotten borough of New York City.

We have already seen that certain organisms, such as man, tend for a time to maintain and often even to increase the level of their organization, as a local enclave in the general stream of increasing entropy, of increasing chaos and de-differentiation. Life is an island here and now in a dying world.

We're all trapped. It's always 1734. All of us, we're stuck in the same time capsule, the same as those television shows where the same people are marooned on the same desert island for thirty seasons and never age or escape. They just wear more makeup. In a creepy way, those shows are maybe too authentic.

Pretty small island if everybody fighting everybody.

The owner of the plant store dipped her fingers into the soil of a pot earmarked for a city plant, one hearty in the way the shop's customers were hearty, for wasn't every citizen on the Grand Island a sort of sturdy indoor variety that didn't need much sunlight.

The people in ships, however, took an equally singular view of England. Not only did it appear to them to be an island, and a very small island, but it was a shrinking island in which people were imprisoned.

When I was a child and she was a child, my little Annabel was no nymphet to me; I was her equal, a faunlet in my own right, on that same enchanted island of time;

the record for inflated raft survival appears to have been set in 1942, when three navy plane crash victims survived for thirty-four days on the Pacific before reaching an island, where they were sheltered by natives.

Dear reader who finds this, if I am gone, My name is Jinny I lived here on this island. I loved it. I stayed. I held on. Then, after a pause, Jinny added a line. She'd never be able to write it in ink, bit it was there all the same, a ghost in the letter. As she slid the piece of paper into her pocket, she whispered it aloud. I held on Too long.

Dear reader who finds this, if I am gone My name is Jinny I lived on this island I loved it I held on Too long

After a moment, she decided to stick out her own little hand alongside the other two, as though this was the way people greeted each other on the island. Hand extended, she looked up at the boys for approval.

Cartagena and the priest, watched the spectacle from their island prison.

According to tradition, the fountain was located on the island of Bimini, in the Bahamas.

they had gone ashore, they would have encountered an animal paradise of foxes, hares, puma, peregrine falcons, owls

diminutive island lacking in either fresh water or wood but seething with wildlife.

Magellan had every intention of visiting Serrão in the island paradise

stranding the six seamen on the little island. They passed a wretched night

She's trying to sabotage all the magic holding this island together. But that would create a catastrophe for all of Hawaii." "Well, that does it," Koko huffed. "As of today, she's off my Christmas card list.

In the island the gods are killed, killed like animals. And the man who kills a god becomes a god himself.

In my front yard, there are these two giant old trees, which help the porch vibe, obviously, with a forty-foot-tall canopy. It has a very Jurassic Parky vibe, but without dinosaurs. Also, most people on my street are friendly, and I don't live on an island.

I didn't know how it had happened. Maybe we'd forgotten the rules of normal society. Maybe we'd finally given ourselves over to the wildness of the island. Or maybe we'd been savage our wholes lives, rash and animalistic in the inside, and never known it till now.

What is that sad, dark island?—It is Cythera,They tell us, a country famous in song,Banal Eldorado of all the old bachelors.Look! after all, it is a poor land!

Mathematics catalogues everything that is not self-contradictory; within that vast inventory, physics is an island of structures rich enough to contain their own beholders.