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Quotes About Island

I had dreamed of visiting Bali for many years and because I had an extended family of Balinese friends in Los Angeles, I felt connected. The island is so peaceful and the smiles are constant.
~ Carolyn Murphy
Every island to a child is a treasure island.
~ Unknown
Artificial Intelligence leaves no doubt that it wants its audiences to enter a realm of pure fantasy when it identifies one of the last remaining islands of civilization as New Jersey.
~ Godfried Danneels
My fear is that the whole island will become so overly populated that it will tip over and capsize.
~ Hank Johnson
Possibly the symbol for America is the Frontier† The corresponding symbol for England is the Island† The central symbol for Canada†is undoubtedly Survival, la Survivance.
~ Unknown
Nights and days came and passed And summer and winter and the rain. And it was good to be a little Island. A part of the world and a world of its own All surrounded by the bright blue sea.
~ Unknown
It came out an overpowering story, hinting at sickly relatives dying in inaccessible parts of the island, cross-country journeys, and a noble, if exhausted Ramillies crawling gamely home to be persuaded by an adoring wife to snatch what rest he might before attempting the feat of endurance which lay before him as a passenger on an almost epic flight.
~ Margery Allingham
Naif hugged herself as she watched the damp stealing in. The island's ready mists were like the ghosts of the young dead roaming the slopes. Below ground was a maze of tunnels and caves. Some led to the mountain top, while a different set ran along the beach. In one of the latter Ruzalia moored her sleek stingray-styled boat. At this time of day she would be down there, preparing it for her next raid.
~ Unknown
Welcome aboard the way to Ixion: island of ever-night, ever-youth and never-sleep. Burn bright!' He gave her a mock salute and disappeared along the long, shadowy deck towards the bridge, leaving her shivering over what she had done. At least the pain from her strip had ebbed, as if his icy hands had robbed it of heat. She could breathe again.
~ Unknown
Chris Black-well, who owned Island Records. Blackwell loved the tracks and said, "Let's take it the whole way." My God, we were on! We cut the rest of
~ Marianne Faithfull
England is merely an island of beef swimming in a warm gulf stream of gravy.
~ Katherine Mansfield
I grew up with coconuts as the main flavor in food in Jamaica. It's part of our culture.
~ Ziggy Marley
I'm going back to my parrot head friends.
~ Jimmy Buffett
Hawaii has always been a very pivotal role in the Pacific. It is in the Pacific. It is a part of the United States that is an island that is right here.
~ Dan Quayle
Hamilton was born on January 11, 1755 outside of the United States on an island called Nevis, which is a British island in the West Indies. His story, which begins on this island, is one of the great immigrant stories in American history.
~ Unknown
Playing poker in their Quonset hut on Tinian, killing the last hours of the preatomic age.
~ Unknown
The larger the island of knowledge, the longer the shoreline of wonder.
~ James Madison
The larger the island of knowledge, the longer the shoreline of mystery.
~ Unknown
Man braucht nur eine Insel Allein im weiten Meer. Man braucht nur einen Menschen, den aber braucht man sehr.
~ Unknown
What You Need… One only needs an island alone and lost at sea. One only needs one person, but this to have is key.
~ Unknown
It would be lovely if we could gather up all the evil people and put them together on one island, leaving them to self-destruct in their collective sinfulness.
~ Matthew Kelly
whom one would care to share a desert island. My subjects represent a range of nationalities, but are chiefly Anglo-Saxon, for this is my own culture. Three rose to lead large forces, most did not. This is a study of fighters, not commanders.
~ Max Hastings
I should have liked this particular story to end with me settled happily ever after in the hut on the island, but it didn't happen. It wasn't long before I had to face the fact that I was living in the sea.
~ Meg Rosoff
A big island of library, in the middle of an ocean, away from all the fools of the world, would this place not be a real paradise?
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan