Lighthouses don’t go running all over an island looking for boats to save; they just stand there shining.
The royal navy of England hath ever been its greatest defence and ornament; it is its ancient and natural strength, - the floating bulwark of our island.
The Long Island Sound is an environmentally unique estuary that needs to be protected.
The residents and elected officials of Long Island have fought vigorously for many years and spent millions of dollars to preserve the quality of life that the Long Island Sound offers.
Sometime during the many millions of years that have elapsed since mammalian faunas came into existence, some sort of island crossed from West Africa to South America.
In every island of the Aegaean Sea, on almost every barren rock I might say, are found abundant traces of a vast prehistoric empire; and if the race was not far advanced in the arts of civilisation, it must at all events have had great numerical force.
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.
Manhattan is a narrow island off the coast of New Jersey devoted to the pursuit of lunch.
The painter leaves his mark. And I just put in two statues in Rhode Island that I'm working on. And I think that's going to make me last longer than me.
There are no countries in the world less known by the British than those selfsame British Islands.
We need to get serious about combating gang violence on Long Island, and the entire nation.
In my district, the budget scales back and eliminates several long-term shore protection projects important to the safety and economic security of Long Island.
My grandfather was a cop in Long Island. I often try to draw on things that I've heard about him.
Boredom can be a lethal thing on a small island.
I would love to be the poet laureate of Coney Island.
The guy who owned that island was from Oregon and he decided that he wanted to have an Oregon feeling to it, so he planted pine trees all over the place!
... everyone knew that all islands were worlds unto themselves, that to come to an island was to come to another world.
That island of England breeds very valiant creatures; their mastiffs are of unmatchable courage.
Let's hope I never end up on a deserted island, because I could never make a decision on which three CDs to take with me.
In the sea of grief, there were islands of grace, moments in time when one could remember what was left rather than all that had been lost.
Water is the formless potential out of which creation emerged. It is the ocean of unconsciousness enveloping the islands of consciousness. Water bathes us at birth and again at death, and in between it washes away sin. It is by turns the elixir of life or the renewing rain or the devastating flood.
These are islands in time - with nothing to date them on the calendar of mankind. In these areas it is as though a person were looking backward into the ages and forward untold years. Here are bits of eternity, which have a preciousness beyond all accounting.
England is merely an island of beef swimming in a warm gulf stream of gravy.
Old age is an island surrounded by death.
nights and days came and passed and summer and winter and the sun and the wind 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.
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