Islands Quotes - Page 12

• The boy was standing alone as though the broken glass all around him were a shining sea and he were an island.

  Cassandra Clare

  Boys, Glasses, Sea

  Cassandra Clare, Sarah Rees Brennan (2013). “The Midnight Heir”, p.5, Simon and Schuster

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• Morris was not the type to offer a hug or even hold your hand. But there was something in his quiet indignation at the universe then--and Luke, now--that was just the kind of comfort I needed. "I'm such a mess," I said. "We're almost off the island and I didn't even ask you where you were going." He shrugged. "No place. Wherever you are.

  Sarah Dessen

  Hands, Hug, Comfort

  Sarah Dessen (2013). “The Moon and More”, p.95, Penguin

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• There were only two men on the planet better educated in the various martial arts than Butler, and he was related to one of them. The other lived on an island in the South China Sea, and spent his days meditating and beating up palm trees. You had to feel sorry for the B'wa Kell.

  Eoin Colfer

  Art, Sorry, Men

  Eoin Colfer (2003). “Artemis Fowl: The Arctic Incident - Book #2”, Miramax

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• He looked like someone with a steerage ticket on the titanic. Somebody who'd be standing in line at Ellis Island. Undiluted and old-blooded. Also cute.

  Rainbow Rowell

  Cute, Lines, Standing In Line

  Rainbow Rowell (2016). “The Rainbow Rowell YA Collection”, p.322, St. Martin's Griffin

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• Huh," Leo said. "Well, if you ever get off this island and want a job, let me know. You're not a total klutz." She smirked. "A job, eh?" Making things in your forge?" "Nah, we could start our own shop," Leo said, surprising himself. Starting a machine shop had always been one of his dreams, but he'd never told anyone about it. "Leo and Calypso's Garage: Auto Repair and Mechanical Monsters.

  Rick Riordan

  Dream, Jobs, Monsters

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• Yeah, my bad," Leo muttered. "I should've crashed on one of the other islands. Oh, wait-there aren't any!" She [Calypso] snarled and kept walking along the edge of the water.

  Rick Riordan

  Water, Waiting, Calypso

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• Unless we change our ways and our direction, our greatness as a nation will soon be a footnote in the history books, a distant memory of an offshore island, lost in the mist of time like Camelot, remembered kindly for its noble past.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Change, Time, Memories

  1979 General election campaign speech, Bolton, 2 May.

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• With my mother's death all settled happiness, all that was tranquil and reliable, disappeared from my life. There was to be much fun, many pleasures, many stabs of Joy; but no more of the old security. It was sea and islands now; the great continent had sunk like Atlantis.

  C. S. Lewis

  Happiness, Mother, Fun

  C.S. Lewis (1996). “Joyful Christian”, p.30, Simon and Schuster

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• Through the sunset of hope,
  Like the shapes of a dream,
  What paradise islands of glory gleam!

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Dream, Hope, Sunset

  Percy Bysshe Shelley (1874). “The Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley”, p.177

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• Gertrude Jekyll, like Monet, was a painter with poor eyesight, and their gardens - his at Giverny in the Seine valley, hers in Surrey - had resemblance's that may have sprung from this condition. Both loved plants that foamed and frothed over walls and pergolas, spread in tides beneath trees; both saw flowers in islands of colored light - an image the normal eye captures only by squinting.

  Eleanor Perenyi

  Love, Wall, Flower

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• 'Rapa Nui' is about the conflict in the 1600s on Easter Island. It's about the clash of the royal clan and the working class.

  Jason Scott Lee

  Easter, Class, Royal

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• I remember the Chillicothe ballplayers grappling the Long Island ball players in a sixteen-inning game ended by darkness. And the shoulders of the Chillicothe players were a red smoke against the sundown and the shoulders of the Rock Island players were a yellow smoke against the sundown. And the umpire's voice was hoarse calling balls and strikes and outs and the umpire's throat fought in the dust for a song.

  Carl Sandburg

  Baseball, Song, Player

  Carl Sandburg, “Hits And Runs”

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• The air of England is too pure for a slave to breathe, and so everyone who breathes it becomes free. Everyone who comes to this island is entitled to the protection of English law, whatever oppression he may have suffered and whatever may be the colour of his skin.

  William Murray, 1st Earl of Mansfield

  War, Law, Air

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• I now have absolute proof that smoking even one marijuana cigarette is equal in brain damage to being on Bikini Island during an H-bomb blast

  Ronald Reagan

  Funny, Weed, Marijuana

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• No nation as rich as ours should have so many people isolated on islands of poverty in such a sea of material wealth.

  Andrew Young

  Should Have, Sea, People

  Andrew Young (1994). “A Way Out of No Way: The Spiritual Memoirs of Andrew Young”, Thomas Nelson Incorporated

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• I saw for the first time the earth's shape. I could easily see the shores of continents, islands, great rivers, folds of the terrain, large bodies of water. The horizon is dark blue, smoothly turning to black. . . the feelings which filled me I can express with one word-joy.

  Yuri Gagarin

  Airplane, Dark, Blue

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• By their victory, the 3rd, 4th and 5th Marine Divisions and other units of the Fifth Amphibious Corps have made an accounting to their country which only history will be able to value fully. Among the Americans who served on Iwo Island, uncommon valor was a common virtue.

  Chester W. Nimitz

  Country, Military, Marine

  Chester W. Nimitz's statement after the Battle of Iwo Jima, circa March - May 1945.

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• Much have I traveled in the realms of gold, And many goodly states and kingdoms seen; Round many western islands have I been Which bards in fealty to Apollo hold. Oft of one wide expanse had I been told That deep-brow'd Homer ruled as his demesne, Yet did I never breathe its pure serene Till I heard Chapman speak out loud and bold: Then felt I like some watcher of the skies When a new planet swims into his ken; Or like stout Cortez when with eagle eyes He stared at the Pacific, and all his men Look'd at each other with a wild surmise, Silent, upon a peak in Darien.

  John Keats

  Eye, Men, Eagles

  "On First Looking into Chapman's Homer" l. 5 (1817)

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• We can safely make one prophecy: whatever the outcome of this war, the British Empire is at an end. It has been mortally wounded. The future of the British people is to die of hunger and tuberculosis in their cursed island.

  Adolf Hitler

  War, People, Tuberculosis

  "The Testament of Adolf Hitler: the Hitler-Bormann documents, February-April 1945". Book by Adolf Hitler, Martin Bormann, London: Cassell, (February 4, 1945), 1961.

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• I know I'm not very popular on Long Island. I don't know who's less popular, me or Joey Buttafuoco.

  Don Maloney

  Hockey, Nhl, Long

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• We have two companies of MARINES running all over this island and thousands of ARMY troops doing nothing!

  John W. Vessey, Jr.

  Running, Marine, Army

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• Land! An island! We devoured it greedily with our eyes and woke the others, who tumbled out drowsily and stared in all directions as if they thought our bow was about to run on to a beach. Screaming seabirds formed a bridge across the sky in the direction of the distant island, which stood out sharper against the horizon as the red background widened and turned gold with the approach of the sun and the full daylight.

  Thor Heyerdahl

  Running, Beach, Eye

  Thor Heyerdahl (1952). “The Kon-Tiki Expedition: By Raft Across the South Seas”

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• The known is finite, the unknown infinite; spiritually we find ourselves on a tiny island in the middle of a boundless ocean of the inexplicable. It is our task, from generation to generation, to drain a small amount of additional land.

  Thomas Huxley

  Ocean, Tasks, Generations

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• There was a magic about the sea. People were drawn to it. People wanted to love by it, swim in it, play in it, look at it. It was a living thing that was as unpredictable as a great stage actor: it could be calm and welcoming, opening its arms to embrace it's audience one moment, but then could explode with its stormy tempers, flinging people around, wanting them out, attacking coastlines, breaking down islands.

  Cecelia Ahern

  Ocean, Sea, Play

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• His mom lived in Long Island for ten years or so. God rest her soul. And, although, she's... wait... your mom's still... your mom's still alive. Your dad passed. God bless her soul.

  Joe Biden

  Mom, Dad, Crazy

  "Only ABC Highlights Biden's Gaffe About 'Dead' Mother of Irish PM, Stephanopoulos Lauds VP's 'Smile'". www.newsbusters.org. March 18, 2010.

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