Islands Quotes

• 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.

  Martiros Saryan

  Beautiful, Short Life, Men

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  When we contemplate the whole globe as one great dewdrop, striped and dotted with continents and islands, flying through space with other stars all singing and shining together as one, the whole universe appears as an infinite storm of beauty.

  John Muir

  Beauty, Nature, Stars

  Travels in Alaska, ch.1,'The Puget Sound and British Columbia' (published1915).

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• This is our island. It's a good island. Until the grownups come to fetch us we'll have fun.

  William Golding

  Fun, Fetch, Grownups

  William Golding (2016). “Lord of the Flies”, p.22, Hamilton Books

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• Just the other day the AP wire had a story about a man from Arkansas who entered some kind of contest and won a two-week vacation--all expenses paid--wherever he wanted to go. Any place in the world: Mongolia, Easter Island, the Turkish Riviera . . . but his choice was Salt Lake City, and that's where he went. Is this man a registered voter? Has he come to grips with the issues? Has he bathed in the blood of the lamb?

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Easter, Men, Vacation

  Hunter S. Thompson (2012). “Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail '72”, p.168, Simon and Schuster

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• You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Happiness, Success, Hope

  Henry David Thoreau, Jeffrey S. Cramer (2007). “I to Myself: An Annotated Selection from the Journal of Henry D. Thoreau”, p.395, Yale University Press

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

  Ralph Washington Sockman

  Inspirational, Happiness, Graduation

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• I feel we are all islands - in a common sea.

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh

  Women, Sea, Common

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh (2012). “Against Wind and Tide: Letters and Journals, 1947-1986”, p.43, Pantheon

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• I know that the United Kingdom is sometimes seen as an argumentative and rather strong-minded member of the family of European nations. And it's true that our geography has shaped our psychology. We have the character of an island nation - independent, forthright, passionate in defence of our sovereignty.

  David Cameron

  Strong, Character, Independent

  "The speech that was the start of the end of David Cameron". David Cameron's speech on Britain's membership of the EU, www.independent.co.uk. June 24, 2016.

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• Islands are reminders of arrivals and departures.

  Gretel Ehrlich

  Departure, Reminders, Arrivals

  Gretel Ehrlich (2017). “Islands, the Universe, Home: Essays”, p.67, Open Road Media

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• You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment. Fools stand on their island of opportunities and look toward another land. There is no other land; there is no other life but this.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Commitment, Insperational, Carpe Diem

  Henry David Thoreau, Jeffrey S. Cramer (2007). “I to Myself: An Annotated Selection from the Journal of Henry D. Thoreau”, p.395, Yale University Press

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  No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent.

  John Donne

  Teamwork, Men, Grieving

  Devotions upon Emergent Occasions no. 17 (1624)

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• How I wish that somewhere there existed an island for those who are wise and of good will.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Wise, Spiritual

  Albert Einstein (2010). “The Ultimate Quotable Einstein”, p.4, Princeton University Press

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• Knowledge is an island surrounded by a sea of mystery.

  Chet Raymo

  Sea, Mystery

  Chet Raymo (2005). “Honey from Stone: A Naturalist's Search for God”, p.184, Cowley Publications

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• My great strength is knowing who I am and where I come from - my island.

  Oscar de la Renta

  Who I Am, Knowing

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• Sundown. The distressed sloop, its mainmast shattered by lightning, its sails ripped by the winds of the open sea, drifted into the small, quiet beach of a private island in the Lesser Antilles

  Robert Ludlum

  Beach, Wind, Sea

  Robert Ludlum (2009). “The Scorpio Illusion”, p.16, Hachette UK

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• Life isn't an Island, you have to have other people in your life.

  Lauren Conrad

  People, People In Your Life

  "Hills' recap: Spencer apologizes to Lauren for sex-tape rumor" by Jim Cantiello, www.mtv.com. May 26, 2009.

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• Geographically, Ireland is a medium-sized rural island that is slowly but steadily being consumed by sheep.

  Dave Barry

  Sheep, Mediums, Consumed

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• When you grow up on an island, what matters is how you stand to the sea.

  Roddy Doyle

  Growing Up, What Matters, Sea

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• 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.

  Baltasar Gracian

  Inspirational, Friendship, Thankful

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  There is more treasure in books than in all the pirates' loot on Treasure Island...

  Walt Disney

  Inspirational, Life, Book

  "Peter's Quotations : Ideas for Our Time". Book by Laurence J. Peter, 1977.

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• We live on an island surrounded by a sea of ignorance. As our island of knowledge grows, so does the shore of our ignorance.

  John Archibald Wheeler

  Ocean, Learning, Ignorance

  "Scientific American", Vol. 267, 1992.

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• Life is islands of ecstasy in an ocean of ennui, and after the age of thirty land is seldom seen.

  Luke Rhinehart

  Life, Ocean, Age

  Luke Rhinehart (1998). “Dice Man”, p.10, The Overlook Press

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• In a sense, each of us is an island. In another sense, however, we are all one. For though islands appear separate, and may even be situated at great distances from one another, they are only extrusions of the same planet, Earth.

  Goswami Kriyananda

  Distance, Diversity, Brotherhood

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• California is an island, and New York's an island. Maybe it's time for me to change islands.

  Paul Mazursky

  New York, California

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• The optimist lives on the peninsula of infinite possibilities; the pessimist is stranded on the island of perpetual indecision.

  William Arthur Ward

  Optimistic, Infinite, Indecision

  William Arthur Ward (1968). “Thoughts of a Christian Optimist: The Words of William Arthur Ward”

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