Islands Quotes - Page 6

• Lighthouses don’t go running all over an island looking for boats to save; they just stand there shining.

  Anne Lamott

  Running, Commitment, Acceptance

  Anne Lamott (2007). “Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life”, p.236, Anchor

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• The recipe for success is a tried and true one here in Rhode Island - innovation, reform, public service.

  Donald L. Carcieri

  Rhode Island, Innovation, Reform

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• The advice I am giving always to all my students is above all to study the music profoundly... music is like the ocean, and the instruments are little or bigger islands, very beautiful for the flowers and trees.

  Andres Segovia

  Music, Beautiful, Ocean

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• The Long Island Sound is an environmentally unique estuary that needs to be protected.

  Tim Bishop

  Unique, Long, Sound

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• 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.

  Anthony Quinn

  Thinking, Rhode Island, Two

  Interview with Larry King, transcripts.cnn.com. October 5, 1996.

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• 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.

  William Bell

  Night, Years, Long

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• 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.

  Tim Bishop

  Years, Long, Quality

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• My grandfather was a cop in Long Island. I often try to draw on things that I've heard about him.

  Yancy Butler

  Long, Grandfather, Trying

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• If it's a really good gift, I love receiving it,
  like jewels, small islands.

  Gina Gershon

  Receiving Love, Jewels, Gift Giving

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• It's funny, but we were living on this small island off the coast of Charleston, South Carolina when I was 9.

  Josh Lucas

  Funny, South Carolina, Coast

  "Sweet Home Alabama". Interview with Alec Cawthorne, www.bbc.co.uk. December 2002.

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• I have been taking my daily walk round the island, and visited the sugar mill and the threshing mill again.

  Fanny Kemble

  Sugar, Mills, Walks

  Fanny Kemble (1961). “Journal of a Residence on a Georgian Plantation in 1838-1839”, p.125, University of Georgia Press

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• We live in a state with a wonderful climate and plenty of natural beauty, from the shores of Cumberland Island to the Chattahoochee River to the Blue Ridge Mountains.

  Roy Barnes

  Blue, Rivers, Mountain

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• 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.

  William Blackstone

  Strength, Royal Wedding, Navy

  Commentaries on the Laws of England bk. 1, ch. 13 (1765)

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• Boredom can be a lethal thing on a small island.

  Christopher Moore

  Crazy, Blessing, Boredom

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• I would love to be the poet laureate of Coney Island.

  Thornton Wilder

  Love, Poetic, Coney Island

  New York Journal-American, November 11, 1955.

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• 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!

  Christopher Atkins

  Oregon, Guy, Tree

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• ... everyone knew that all islands were worlds unto themselves, that to come to an island was to come to another world.

  Guy Gavriel Kay

  World, Another World

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• That island of England breeds very valiant creatures; their
  mastiffs are of unmatchable courage.

  William Shakespeare

  England, Valiant, Mastiffs

  William Shakespeare (2013). “Second Tetralogy In Plain and Simple English: Includes Richard II, Henry IV Parts 1 and 2, and Henry V”, p.765, BookCaps Study Guides

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• 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.

  Willem Dafoe

  Cds, Decision, Three

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• 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.

  Harvey Broome

  Years, Age, Calendars

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• 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.

  Scott Sanders

  Rain, Ocean, Rivers

  Scott Russell Sanders (1997). “Writing from the Center”, p.142, Indiana University Press

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• 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.

  Kristin Hannah

  Grief, Sea, Grace

  Kristin Hannah (2011). “Night Road”, p.384, Macmillan

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• Old age is an island surrounded by death.

  Juan Montalvo

  Age, Old Age

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• England is merely an island of beef swimming in a warm gulf stream of gravy.

  Katherine Mansfield

  Food, Swimming, Cooking

  Katherine Mansfield (2009). “Stories”, p.33, Vintage

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• 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.

  Margaret Wise Brown

  Summer, Rain, Winter

  Golden MacDonald, Margaret Wise Brown (1946). “The little island”, Doubleday Books for Young Readers

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