Islands Quotes - Page 21

• I know not where His islands lift Their fronded palms in air; I only know I cannot drift Beyond His love and care.

  John Greenleaf Whittier

  Love, Air, Care

  John Greenleaf Whittier (1873). “The Complete Poetical Works of John Greenleaf Whittier”, p.319

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• I know enough to know that no man is an island.

  Richard Branson

  Men, People, Enough

  Sir Richard Branson (2011). “Screw It, Let's Do It: Lessons in Life and Business”, p.16, Random House

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• Zuleika, on a desert island, would have spent most of her time in looking for a man's footprint.

  Max Beerbohm

  Time, Men, Desert

  Max Beerbohm (2017). “Zuleika Dobson”, p.12, Enhanced Media Publishing

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• A mother's love is like an island, In life's ocean vast and wide, A peaceful, quiet shelter, From the restless, rising tide.

  Helen Steiner Rice

  Family, Mother, Ocean

  Helen Steiner Rice (2003). “Especially for Mothers”, Barbour Publishing

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• If you choose not to live self-responsibly, you count on others to make up your default. No one abjures self-responsibility on a desert island.

  Nathaniel Branden

  Responsibility, Self, Desert

  Nathaniel Branden (1998). “Nathaniel Brandens Self-Esteem Every Day: Reflections on Self-Esteem and Spirituality”, p.164, Simon and Schuster

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• What is the good of being an island, if you are not a volcanic island?

  Wyndham Lewis

  Ifs

  Wyndham Lewis (1963). “Letters”

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• It is estimated that one-third of all reef-building corals, a third of all fresh-water mollusks, a third of sharks and rays, a quarter of all mammals, a fifth of all reptiles, and a sixth of all birds are headed toward oblivion. The losses are occurring all over: in the South Pacific and in the North Atlantic, in the Arctic and the Sahel, in lakes and on islands, on mountaintops and in valleys.

  Elizabeth Kolbert

  Loss, Sharks, Lakes

  Elizabeth Kolbert (2014). “The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History”, p.15, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• Seattle is this curious liberal island.

  Jonathan Raban

  Curious, Seattle

  "In Seattle with Jonathan Raban" by Mike Hodgkinson, www.theguardian.com. May 14, 2008.

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• Mathematics catalogues everything that is not self-contradictory; within that vast inventory, physics is an island of structures rich enough to contain their own beholders.

  Greg Egan

  Self, Inventory, Physics

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• 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, Years, Eden

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• As evening approached, I came down from the heights of the island, and I liked then to go and sit on the shingle in some secluded spot by the lake; there the noise of the waves and the movement of the water, taking hold of my senses and driving all other agitation from my soul, would plunge me into delicious reverie in which night often stole upon me unawares.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Night, Lakes, Water

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• I am going a long way With these thou seëst-if indeed I go (For all my mind is clouded with a doubt)- To the island-valley of Avilion, Where falls not hail or rain or any snow, Nor ever wind blows loudly; but it lies Deep-meadow'd, happy, fair with orchard lawns And bowery hollows crown'd with summer sea, Where I will heal me of my grievous wound.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Happiness, Summer, Lying

  'Idylls of the King' (1842-85) 'The Passing of Arthur' (1869) l. 424

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• AUSTRALIA, n. A country lying in the South Sea, whose industrial and commercial development has been unspeakably retarded by an unfortunate dispute among geographers as to whether it is a continent or an island.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Funny, Country, Lying

  Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.16, 谷月社

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• A man is an island, but the water is deep
  And the shore on the other side is ragged and steep
  To look for perfection is a lonely old ride
  It takes a whole lot of courage and a whole lot of pride
  When you look for independence and you get what you want
  How come you look back, thinking what have I done?
  But time and again, it dawns on me
  It's the price we pay for liberty
  I should have know, we all need a place to call home

  Joey Tempest

  Song, Lonely, Home

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• He wondered how he could ever have thought of the planets, even of the Earth, as islands of life and reality floating in a deadly void. Now with a certainty which never after deserted him, he saw the planets - as mere holes or gaps in the living heaven - excluded and rejected wastes of heavy matter and murky air, formed not by addition to, but by subtraction from, the surrounding brightness.

  C. S. Lewis

  Reality, Air, Heaven

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• Were this world an endless pain, and by sailing eastward we could forever reach new distances, and discover sights more sweet and strange than any Cyclades or Islands of King Solomon, then there were promise in the voyage.

  Herman Melville

  Sweet, Kings, Pain

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• An independent Ireland would see its own independence in jeopardy the moment it saw the independence of Britain seriously threatened. Mutual self-interest would make the peoples of these two islands, if both independent, the closest possible allies in a moment of real national danger to either.

  Eamon de Valera

  Real, Independent, Self

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• For William Cecil and others in Elizabeth's Council, whose sense of Catholic conspiracy and threat governed their political thinking, England's security lay in the creation of a united and Protestant British Isles, which could stand alone, ready to resist invaders. Divine providence had set the islands apart from the rest of the world by encircling seas, 'a little world by itself'.

  Susan Brigden

  Thinking, Sea, History

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• In the world of highways, a beautiful landscape means: an island of beauty connected by a long line with other islands of beauty.

  Milan Kundera

  Beauty, Beautiful, Mean

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• For which reason the sea in those parts is impassable and impenetrable, because there is a shoal of mud in the way; and this was caused by the subsidence of the island.

  Critias

  Sea, Way, Mud

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• I hope that the residents of my current district - from Quincy to Provincetown and the Islands - know that their well-being is my primary concern and nothing changes that.

  Bill Keating

  Things Change, Residents, Currents

  "Keating switch avoids Mass. duel" by Alex Isenstadt, www.politico.com. November 07, 2011.

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• 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

  Rhode Island, Air, Three

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• Islands are where species go to die.

  David Quammen

  Species, Dies

  "The Song of the Dodo: Island Biogeography in an Age of Extinctions". Book by David Quammen, 1996.

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• But here let me say one thing: From the moment I entered the insane ward on the Island, I made no attempt to keep up the assumed role of insanity.

  Nellie Bly

  Insanity, Insane, Roles

  Nellie Bly (2016). “Ten Days in a Mad-House”, p.6, Nellie Bly

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• A bookshop is powder-magazine, a dynamite-shed, a drugstore of poisons, a bar of intoxicants, a den of opiates, an island of sirens.

  John Cowper Powys

  Opiates, Poison, Bars

  John Cowper Powys (1938). “Enjoyment of Literature”, New York, Simon

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