Top 442 Islands Quotes & Sayings - Page 2
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Last updated on April 15, 2025.
I grew up in Hawaii and I think those islands are some of the most amazing places on the planet.
Life is islands of ecstasy in an ocean of ennui, and after the age of thirty land is seldom seen.
Pacific Islands are among those that contribute least to global warming, yet suffer most.
There is a saying in the Islands. Beware the women of the warrior class, for all they touch is both decorative and deadly.-Yuki
We have to stop living on little islands. We must all go for the same goal, be united, or face the consequences.
Funny that. We live in islands of Hours and we never seem to have time enough for anything.
I know that not many people can go to the Marshall Islands. It is really one of the most remote places on earth.
Small islands of coherence in a sea of chaos can shift the whole system to a higher order.
The Senkaku Islands are an integral part of Japanese territory based on international law as well as in the context of our history.
I've been dying to go to India, especially to the Andaman and Nicobar Islands. I've also heard Bollywood town's a lot of fun!
In fact, the Senkaku Islands are... inherent territory of Japan that is recognized in our history and also by international law.
I loved the Faroe Islands, that was incredible. It was like Scotland and they made me feel at home.
Any frequent visitor to Hawaii is fixated on mapping how the islands have changed since their last visit.
As a child, we visited the San Juan Islands during the summer. Kayaking, big family meals, playing on the beach - great memories!
Far clouds of feathery gold, Shaded with deepest purple, gleam Like islands on a dark blue sea.
As a student I travelled around the Mediterranean - the Greek islands and Salerno on the south coast of Italy.
August for the people and their favourite islands. Daily the steamers sidle up to meet The effusive welcome of the pier.
That's where the economy is going. It went somewhere. Just not to America. And the money made? That went to the Cayman Islands and Switzerland. Not back here. Never to be taxed.
I sometimes detect that a type of regional divide is setting in, and there is a lack of real Caribbean connection among the islands, and I am concerned about this.
A global human society, characterised by islands of wealth, surrounded by a sea of poverty, is unsustainable
Islands are havens and breeding grounds for the unique and anomalous. They are natural laboratories of extravagant evolutionary experimentation.
At a young age, I was going around the islands singing 'spread love, it's the Brooklyn way' and not really understanding what the hell that phrase meant.
When I'm not working, my family and I have a house in the San Juan Islands. We've been here since '94.
If it's a really good gift, I love receiving it,
like jewels, small islands.
The Caribbean is all Third World islands and it's very tough to raise the money for sports.
As finite creatures who think and feel, we can create islands of meaning in the sea of information.
I have this weird tropism for islands. Take me to an island as far from New York as I can possibly go.
Women are like those blinkin' little Greek islands, places to call at but not to stay.
Through the sunset of hope,
Like the shapes of a dream,
What paradise islands of glory gleam!
I believe in Eternity. I can find Greece, Palestine, Italy, Spain, and the Islands, - the Genius and creative Principle of each and of all eras, in my own mind.
We have more endangered species here in our islands than any other state in the country.
No doubt these rocky islands have suggested the idea worked out in gardens, and they have been well imitated.
The jambalaya of the American South owes a lot to the cuisines of the islands and western Africa, and it's my favorite of this type of one-pot cookery.
The countries of the American continent and the adjacent islands are for the United States the natural marts of supply and demand.
Little islands are all large prisons: one cannot look at the sea without wishing for the wings of a swallow.
If the people of New Zealand want to be part of our world, I believe they should hop off their islands, and push 'em closer.
The Gili Islands gave me some of my best scuba diving experiences, including tons of turtles.
The Cayman Islands, a British Crown colony in the Caribbean, for instance, is the fifth largest banking center in the world.
They are supposed to be dispassionate dispensers of Pure Justice, icy islands of emotionless calculation. In short, umpires should be acute Republicans.
The 1898 annexation of the Hawaiian Islands merely formally recognized what had long been American domination.
I thought to live on an island was like living on a boat. Islands intrigue me. You can see the perimeters of your world. It's a microcosm.
My ancestry is really weird, because my great grandfather was from the Cayman Islands, and then his father was from England. But I lose track at that point.
Each year, I await with dread the federal government's catalog of endangered and threatened species in the Hawaiian Islands, where I was raised and where I live.
There is so much more to the Philippines than just Manila. The beauty is in the neighboring islands.
the islands of Italy combine all the elements - fire, water, earth, and air - and that is irresistible.
My goal is to be living back in Canada as soon as I can, hopefully somewhere in the Gulf Islands.
The Bahamas is a beautiful place, but half of that beauty is found in the clear warm ocean that surrounds the Islands.
If Columbus was the first to discover the islands, Americus Vespucius and Cabot, and the Puritans, and we their descendants, havediscovered only the shores of America.
Little islands of human happiness, peace, and prosperity are so exceptional at this point in history that I'm not even sure we can draw lessons from them.
Islands are known to differ in the food supply available to ground finches, mainly seeds.
In the Caribbean islands, especially in Jamaica, have I found a country similar to South Africa plus the racial freedom I had sought so long.
No nation as rich as ours should have so many people isolated on islands of poverty in such a sea of material wealth.
The Kiril Islands had changed hands more times than a good coin in a whorehouse.
I'm an avid sailor, and my first time exploring the Dalmatian Coast and the Croatian islands was very special.
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.
My usual trick with the Irish plays is to set things on islands I've never been to.
When ghettos become the mainstream of society, islands of individuality cannot help but harbor an elite.
We built everything - toilets included. I think those islands in the middle of nowhere are quite poetic. It's kind of an Oriental Atlantis.
The Senkaku islands are inherently Japanese territory. I want to show my strong determination to prevent this from changing.
I'd like to visit the Faroe Islands and at some point take a boat trip along the Caledonian Canal in Scotland.
