Islands Quotes - Page 4

• The good news was that Enterprise and the newly arrived Yorktown had attacked the Marshall and Gilbert islands. Those attacks had a great effect on morale.

  Jack Adams

  News, Yorktown, Morale

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• Natural erosion had reduced the critical barrier islands in the Gulf, the result of the destruction of some 300,000 acres of wetlands. This amounted to 30 miles of marshlands.

  Mortimer Zuckerman

  Erosion, Wetlands, Acres

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• The Romans held Britain from the invasion of Julius Caesar till their voluntary withdrawal from the island, A.D. 420,- that is, about five hundred years.

  Thomas Bulfinch

  Years, Withdrawal, Invasion

  Thomas Bulfinch (1858). “The Age of Chivalry: Or Legends of King Arthur, "King Arthur and His Knights", "The Mabinogeon", "The Crusades", "Robin Hood", Etc”, p.196

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• The Staten Island Ferry remains a potential terrorist target.

  Vito Fossella

  Target, Terrorist, Remains

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• When I'm not working, my family and I have a house in the San Juan Islands. We've been here since '94.

  Elizabeth Pena

  House, Juan, My Family

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• Lest those islands still seem to you too remote in space and time to be relevant to our modern societies, just think about the risks... of our increasing globalization and increasing worldwide economic interdependence.

  Jared Diamond

  Thinking, Space, Risk

  Jared Diamond (2011). “Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed: Revised Edition”, p.129, Penguin

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• Maybe girls need an island to find themselves. Maybe they need a place where no one's is watching them so they can be who they really are

  Libba Bray

  Girl, Needs

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• You can't totally rebel, otherwise you have to go live on your own, on a desert island. It's as simple as that.

  Patrick McGoohan

  Simple, Rebel, Desert

  Interview with Warner Troyer in Toronto for the Ontario Educational Communications Authority, March 1977.

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• I knew I couldn't live in America and I wasn't ready to move to Europe so I moved to an island off the coast of America - New York City .

  Spalding Gray

  Travel, New York, Moving

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• I don't want to go to the Bahamas on holiday. I hate islands. I want to go to Brittany, where it's cold and raining, and there's nothing fancy about it.

  Julie Delpy

  Hate, Rain, Holiday

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• My goal is to be living back in Canada as soon as I can, hopefully somewhere in the Gulf Islands.

  Nicholas Lea

  Goal, Canada, Hopefully

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

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• I'm here not just as an actress but as a woman, an African-American, a granddaughter of Ellis Island immigrants, a person who could not have afforded college without the help of student loans and as one of millions of volunteers working to re-elect President Obama!

  Kerry Washington

  College, Volunteer, African American

  "2012 Democratic Convention: Stars Take Center Stage on Final Day" by Tina Daunt, www.hollywoodreporter.com. September 6, 2912.

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• I was a young kid from Long Island who wanted to do something large with her life, so I can relate to that.

  Edie Falco

  Kids, Long, Young

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• Sinn Fein is the fastest growing party on the island of Ireland.

  Martin McGuinness

  Party, Growing, Sinn Fein

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• My father used to run auctions. He's now a singer in the Canary Islands.

  Jason Statham

  Running, Father, Singers

  Interview with Steve Head, www.ign.com. June 06, 2003.

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• I finished high school there and then I went to Rhode Island School of Design.

  Stephen Sprouse

  School, Rhode Island, Design

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• The Japanese invaded Tulagi, in the Solomon Islands, on May 4.

  Jack Adams

  May, Solomon

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• I got space from Travis Air Force Base, went back to the Philippine Islands and made it a point to meet the only American casting director in the Philippines. I was off and running.

  R. Lee Ermey

  Running, Space, Air

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

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• I looked along the San Juan Islands and the coast of California, but I couldn't find the palette of green, granite, and dark blue that you can only find in Maine.

  Parker Stevenson

  Dark, California, Blue

  "Maine (Celebrate the States)". Book by Margaret Dornfeld and Joyce Hart, 2010.

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• Key West for me was a tropical island paradise.

  Gloria Swanson

  Keys, Paradise, West

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• find your eternity in each moment

  Henry David Thoreau

  Carpe Diem, Eternity Of Life, Live In The Moment

  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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• From the sprinkled isles, Lily on lily, that o'erlace the sea.

  Robert Browning

  Sea, Lilies, Isle

  Robert Browning, John Woolford, Daniel Karlin (1991). “The Poems of Browning: 1826-1840”, p.46, Pearson Education

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• Sprinkled along the waste of years Full many a soft green isle appears: Pause where we may upon the desert road, Some shelter is in sight, some sacred safe abode.

  John Keble

  Sight, Years, Shelter

  John Keble (1858). “The Christian year, thoughts in verse for the Sundays and holydays throughout the year [by J. Keble]. [Another]”, p.9

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• Hawaii is the best form of comfort for me. When I die, I want to be cremated, and I want half my ashes spread in the Pacific around the island, the rest on the property.

  Richard Pryor

  Half, Want, Comfort

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• Passion is our ground, our island - do others exist?

  Eudora Welty

  Passion

  Eudora Welty (2012). “Bride of the Innisfallen & Other Stories: And Other Stories”, p.115, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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