Island Quotes

I came out even with all the struggles I endured on Rikers Island.
Foxy Brown

Struggles, Endured

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

Growing, Party, Ireland

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

Beautiful, Water, Pink

I felt alone out there, like I was on a desert island. I felt like Gilligan.
Mickey Rivers

Alone, Felt, Desert

Judging is a lonely job in which a man is, as near as may be, an island entire.
Abe Fortas

Lonely, Job, May

The Romans held Britain from the invasion of Julius Caesar till their voluntary withdrawal from the island, A.D. 420,- that is, about five hundred years.
Thomas Bulfinch

Five, Britain, Romans

The Pacific Northwest, and particularly Whidbey Island, is extremely suited to be a location in a novel.
Elizabeth George

Novel, Location, Pacific

The bridge to Coronado Island off San Diego was built because the mob had a hotel there and needed a way to get people out there.
Don Winslow

Off, Needed, Bridge

I've been around the surf culture since I was a kid. I grew up in a beach town in Rhode Island. Then eventually I lived in Dana Point, Calif., a real surf hotbed.
Don Winslow

Real, Around, Point

In this first testing ground of the atomic bomb I have seen the most terrible and frightening desolation in four years of war. It makes a blitzed Pacific island seem like an Eden. The damage is far greater than photographs can show.
Wilfred Burchett

War, Far, Makes

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

Power, Support, Building

I was a small kid from Huntington, Long Island. I never imagined that anything like that would happen to me.
Gerry Cooney

Long, Happen, Small

I think the Caribbean countries face rising oceans and they face increase in the severity of hurricanes. This is something that is very, very scary to all of us. The island states in the world represent - I remember this number - one-half of 1 percent of the carbon emissions in the world. And they will - some of them will disappear.
Steven Chu

Remember, Face, Number

We just did a show in Providence, Rhode Island, and we got three puppy shots before we even got on the air, which was great. Although sometimes you get flashed by some puppies that you'd rather not see. They're more like mongrels.
Jerry Lawler

Great, Before, Sometimes

I have been taking my daily walk round the island, and visited the sugar mill and the threshing mill again.
Fanny Kemble

Daily, Again, Walk

Every summer, my grandparents would rent a house on Balboa Island. They had the house next to Bob Hope's. I've been going down there all my life, to that whole area.
Mike Love

Life, Hope, Down

We were on the island of Hawaii. I think I was there three months. It was fantastic. It is not much different than films. It depends on the television show but much of television today is as good or better than most films.
Bo Derek

Good, Today, Different

If a man were living in isolation his income would be literally his product. Make him the monarch and owner of an island, and the fruits that he raises and the clothing that he makes constitute, in themselves, his income. This ceases to be true when trading begins.
John Bates Clark

True, Him, Living

I'm from Long Island. Strong Island.
Chris Messina

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.
Robert Creeley

Book, Place, Wonder

The Royal Navy of England hath ever been its greatest defense and ornament; it is its ancient and natural strength; the floating bulwark of the island.
William Blackstone

Strength, Greatest, Natural

Most American Jews came from the lower middle classes, and therefore they brought with them not a lot of Jewish culture. The American Jewish story starts with Ellis Island, and the candy store in the Bronx.
Arthur Hertzberg

American, Story, Culture

On embarking to return we could perceive no sign of One Tree Island; and as we swept down towards the sea the leafy top of a tree seen in the clear water under the boat was the only evidence of its existence; though a few hours ago it had formed so prominent an object.
George Grey

The personal vocabulary, the individual melody whose metre is one's biography, joins in that sound, with any luck, and the body moves like a walking, a waking island.
Derek Walcott

Personal, Luck, Body

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.
Peter Stuyvesant

Design, Long, Rather

Growing up in Rhode Island, my friends would have strung me up if I had been a Yankees fan.
Charlie Day

Friends, Growing, Fan

I finished high school there and then I went to Rhode Island School of Design.
Stephen Sprouse

Design, School, High

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.
Jack Bruce

Crazy, Done, Off

I was a choir boy for 3 years in high school at St. George's in Newport, Rhode Island.
Billy Bush

School, High, Boy

I stayed with them for about a year up there and, at night, worked over in Long Island at a club called The High Hat Club which was like a pseudo jazz / blues place.
William Bell

Long, Night, Place

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