Island Quotes

My grandfather was a cop in Long Island. I often try to draw on things that I've heard about him.

No man or woman is an island. To exist just for yourself is meaningless. You can achieve the most satisfaction when you feel related to some greater purpose in life, something greater than yourself.

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

People in San Francisco and the East Bay have shown interest, done interviews, and have come to shows. I guess that the news travels fast out of this island that we are on.

I consulted a Chinese herbalist and spent two weeks on an island off the coast of Zanzibar. I was away from any kind of contemporary technology.

I have raised beds, perennial beds, cut flower beds. I have an island on a pond that's just covered in peonies. I have an herb garden, tons of vegetables, raspberries. I have everything. I'm a green guy.

Every summer my husband and I pack our suitcases, load our kids into the car, and drive from tense, crowded New York City to my family's cottage in Maine. It's on an island, with stretches of sea and sandy beaches, rocky coasts, and pine trees. We barbecue, swim, lie around, and try to do nothing.

Dr. David Livingstone left the Island of Zanzibar in March, 1866.

There will be no support in the island of Ireland for building a nuclear power station.

We, in Prince Edward Island, are fully familiar with this modern phenomenon.

By the time May rolls around, I'm probably going to want to spend a month on an island. But if Steven Spielberg or Steven Soderbergh or any number of directors were to say 'Hey, there's this role, are you interested?' I'd be there in a flash.

Long Island is shaped the way it is largely because of Robert Moses. Long Island is a perfect example of how political power shapes people's lives every day.

The island Mayo is generally barren, being dry, as I said; and the best of it is but a very indifferent soil.

I knew I couldn't live in America and I wasn't ready to move to Europe so I moved to an island off the coast of America - New York City .

Hawaii is the best form of comfort for me. When I die, I want to be cremated, and I want half my ashes spread in the Pacific around the island, the rest on the property.

In the islands of the Aegean Sea, every island is full of graves.

Could I pass a week in the insane ward at Blackwell's Island? I said I could and I would. And I did.

I go down to Newport and Huntington a lot. It's more crowded than where I grew up on Phillip Island, but I think it's helped me adjust to life in America - getting into the water as much as I can.

The larger the island of knowledge, the longer the shoreline of wonder.

You can't totally rebel, otherwise you have to go live on your own, on a desert island. It's as simple as that.

Harbour Island in the Bahamas is beautiful, with turquoise water and pink sand.

Sinn Fein is the fastest growing party on the island of Ireland.

The recipe for success is a tried and true one here in Rhode Island - innovation, reform, public service.

First you wonder if they're separate stories, but no, they're not, they're contingent stories and they form a pattern. And you begin with some of the island as the place to which the heroine of the book returns.

True friendship multiplies the good in life and divides its evils. Strive to have friends, for life without friends is like life on a desert island... to find one real friend in a lifetime is good fortune; to keep him is a blessing.

The conductor's stand is not a continent of power, but rather an island of solitude.

Places I've lived since then had to have some kind of uniqueness and character about them. And logically Key West, and then Down Island. So, all of that stuff sort of had it's roots in New Orleans and went crazy.

A week of sweeping fogs has passed over and given me a strange sense of exile and desolation. I walk round the island nearly every day, yet I can see nothing anywhere but a mass of wet rock, a strip of surf, and then a tumult of waves.

We need to get serious about combating gang violence on Long Island, and the entire nation.

The design of those commissioners, frigates and warlike force is directed rather against Long Island and these your Honors' possessions, than to the imagined reform of New England.