Islands Quotes - Page 3

• Yes, I am a Jew and when the ancestors of the right honorable gentleman were brutal savages in an unknown island, mine were priests in the temple of Solomon.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Justice, Diversity, Gentleman

  Benjamin Disraeli's remarks during Disraeli-O'Connell debate in Parliament, www.victorianweb.org. 1835.

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• No man is an island.

  Nick Hornby

  Men

  "About a Boy". www.imdb.com. 2002.

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• Voyaging great distances -- through forests, from island to island, across plains and into the mountains -- is all about finding ourselves.

  Tim Lebbon

  Distance, Mountain, Forests

  Tim Lebbon (2009). “Fallen”, Spectra

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• I love giving gifts and I love receiving them. I really like giving little kids extravagant gifts. You see their little faces light up and they get excited. If it's a really good gift, I love receiving it, like jewels, small islands.

  Gina Gershon

  Christmas, Kids, Light

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• COULD I PASS A WEEK IN THE INSANE WARD AT BLACKWELL'S ISLAND? I SAID I COULD AND I WOULD. AND I DID.

  Nellie Bly

  Badass, Insane, Week

  Nellie Bly (2016). “Ten Days in a Mad-House”, p.4, Nellie Bly

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• When I was doing Dobie Gillis, I got blasted off to the moon with a chimp in a rocket, and I landed on a deserted tropic island. That should have told me something was coming.

  Bob Denver

  Moon, Should Have, Rockets

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• Confronted by too much emptiness ... the brain invents. Loneliness creates company as thirst creates water. How many sailors have been wrecked in pursuit of islands that were merely a shimmering?

  Margaret Atwood

  Loneliness, Water, Brain

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• As a New Yorker, I'm someone who lives on an island and looks across to America.

  Laurie Anderson

  America, Looks, New Yorkers

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• General Washington had rather incautiously encamped the bulk of his army on Long Island - a large and plentiful district about two miles from the city of New York

  Mercy Otis Warren

  New York, Army, Cities

  Mercy Otis Warren (1805). “History of the Rise, Progress and Termination of the American Revolution: Interspersed with Biographical, Political and Moral Observations. In Three Volumes”, p.316

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• The conductor's stand is not a continent of power, but rather an island of solitude.

  Riccardo Muti

  Solitude, Continents, Conductor

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• Hugging trees has a calming effect on me. I'm talking about enormous trees that will be there when we are all dead and gone. I've hugged trees in every part of this little island.

  Gerry Adams

  Talking, Calming Effect, Tree

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The United States is a giant island of freedom, achievement, wealth and prosperity in a world hostile to our values.

  Phyllis Schlafly

  Achievement, World, United States

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• I cannot lead you into battle. I do not give you laws or administer justice but I can do something else - I can give my heart and my devotion to these old islands and to all the peoples of our brotherhood of nations.

  Queen Elizabeth II

  Leadership, Heart, Law

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• A nice pop star would do you nice on one of those deserted islands.

  Tom Felton

  Stars, Nice, Pops

  "Tom Felton Talks About Reading, Collecting, and Being Draco". Interview with Marie Morreale, www.scholastic.com.

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• But Connecticut and Rhode Island have originally realized the most perfect polity as to a legislature.

  Ezra Stiles

  Rhode Island, Perfect, Legislature

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• We used two Princess Cruise ships. The Island Princess and The Pacific Princess. They were identical ships.

  Gavin MacLeod

  Princess, Two, Ships

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• You have to kill to survive. People have been doing it forever. I eat meat, and I eat fish. If I were on a deserted island I would need that to survive.

  Benicio Del Toro

  People, Forever, Fish Tanks

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• We are Bayern Munich and English teams always have trouble as soon as they leave the island.

  Oliver Kahn

  Team, Munich, Trouble

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

  Peter Hain

  Support, Nuclear, Building

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• People in San Francisco and the East Bay have shown interest, done interviews, and have come to shows. I guess that the news travels fast out of this island that we are on.

  Joanna Newsom

  Easter, San Francisco, People

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• 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

  Love, Summer, Grandparent

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• The place of exciting innovation - where the action is - that's Rhode Island!

  Donald L. Carcieri

  Rhode Island, Innovation, Action

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• I've had songs written during the Falklands war, and during the first Gulf war I got letters from soldiers saying they were listening to these songs, like Island of no return.

  Billy Bragg

  Song, War, Soldier

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• Artificial Intelligence leaves no doubt that it wants its audiences to enter a realm of pure fantasy when it identifies one of the last remaining islands of civilization as New Jersey.

  Godfried Danneels

  Civilization, Doubt, Want

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• It has been popular to threaten "small islands and low-lying coasts" with scenarios of disastrous future flooding. The Maldives has been the most utilised target. We have undertaken a careful analysis of actual sea level changes in the Maldives. No rise has been recorded either in the present or the past centuries.

  Nils-Axel Morner

  Lying, Past, Sea

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