Top 1200 Long Island Quotes & Sayings

Every great group is an island... but an island with a bridge to the mainland.

Long Island has a great boxing tradition.

When the ship is sinking and you're forced to choose sides, the new solution is to jump from island to island to island. You don't have to pick.

Hunan Taste is definitely my favorite restaurant in Long Island.

In the light of what Proust wrote with so mild a stimulus, it is the world's loss that he did not have a heartier appetite. On a dozen Gardiner's Island oysters, a bowl of clam chowder, a peck of steamers, some bay scallops, three sauteed soft-shelled crabs, a few ears of fresh picked corn, a thin swordfish steak of generous area, a pair of lobsters, and a Long Island Duck, he might have written a masterpiece.

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.

California is an island, and New York's an island. Maybe it's time for me to change islands.

I'm from Long Island. Strong Island.

As a teenager, I spent my days at the beach and nights cooking in Long Island restaurants.

You were a stone wall, a fort in high, unreachable trees, an island, my own island, that no boat could reach.

I was raised on Long Island. There were a lot of cops and firefighters who lived there.

I'm writing songs about New York. A lot of them carry the names of neighborhoods in Long Island. Maspeth, Montauk. I'm getting into the idea of a F. Scott Fitzgerald-esque Long Island back when New York was...New York.

It's like turning the space program over to the Long Island Railroad.

Rick Rubin's undulating face hair is just as famous as his body of work. In homage to the yogis he read about as a boy on Long Island, Rubin hasn't shaved since he was 23. It's long been his registered trademark.

I'm still blue collar in my heart. It comes from strong Long Island family roots.

My family lives on Long Island.

It's amazing. Long Island, I don't know really. It's quite a fascinating area.

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

Long Island for me, it's producing more chefs coming out of there than Paris.

In my district, the budget scales back and eliminates several long-term shore protection projects important to the safety and economic security of Long Island.

This is our island. It's a good island. Until the grownups come to fetch us we'll have fun.

Every island to a child is a treasure island.

I hang out with everyone from Long Island. I'm friends with everyone from Long Island.

I'm sure you're used to hearing that when people get to Long Island for the first time, it's a bit of a shock to the system. But I found Long Island people very endearing.

Long Island always seems to be the hardest place for some reason. There are always excuses. People will say, "Well, there's a lot to do in Long Island..." but you know what, if Jim Gaffigan was here, tickets would be gone a month ago, if Chelsea Handler was at the Barclays Center, gone.

People who are visiting Long Island find it's very beautiful, and they are quick to try Long Island foods, wines and other products.

The city of Cork - the urban center, where all the shops and bars and everything are - is actually an island, a river island.

I live on a lonely culinary island, built on (very thin) bedrock consisting of things I know, or believe, my family will eat. It is a small island. Fortunately, nachos are on that island with me, and nothing gets my family fired up like nachos for lunch.

As a teenager, I went to Bali a lot, but it's a long, long way from England. Which is why, when we bought Necker Island, we made it like a mini Bali.

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

I have a lot of love for Long Island.

I've never even been to Long Island

Mainly I've been back to my books and writings and being nice and quiet and lazy. As I'm writing this, the radio says there's a foot of snow falling on Long Island. I really love snow and wish I could take a long walk in it right now.

I hated Long Island, and I had to get out.

No man is an island, but some of us are long peninsulas.

My father was the Formica King of Long Island, and my mother was the daughter of a Bengal Lancer in India.

Burn the boats as you enter the island and you will take the island.

Almost everything looks better from a distance, Long Island included.

Gleason used to rack balls for me when he was a kid in Brooklyn and in Long Island.

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

As the son of a Cuban refugee and cousin and nephew to many Cubans on the island, I cringe when Americans visit Cuba for a fun island vacation.

"You are so close." "To whom? Margravine, not even to himself. This place, this island: all his life he's done nothing but hop from island to island. Is that a reason? Does there have to be a reason? Shall he tell you: he works for no Whitehall, non conceivable unless, ha, ha, the network of white halls in his own brain: these featureless corridors he keeps swept and correct for occasional visiting agents."

Thus sharply did the terrified three learn the difference between an island of make-believe and the same island come true.

'Strong Island' is slang for Long Island, New York. And it really grew out of - what may surprise people, it really grew out of the very vibrant hip-hop scene that, you know, is located and still generates artists out of Long Island.

Long Island is shaped the way it is largely because of Robert Moses. Long Island is a perfect example of how political power shapes people's lives every day.

When I was a kid, I did martial arts because boxing wasn't really available on Long Island. I think now kids are able to begin boxing earlier. So it's great and whatever can promote the sport on a whole is a good thing. And if we can do it on Long Island, where I am from, it's a beautiful thing.

I'm from Long Island, which is a very cookie-cutter place.

Most humans were on one big island, to the fairies, and that island was adrift on a sea called I Totally Don’t Care.

I really am a chick from Long Island who's just learning along with everyone.

I think that’s a mercy of this island, actually, that it won’t give us our terrible memories for long, but let us keep the good ones for as long as we want them.

My story is so boring: Long Island Jewish parents take their daughters to Broadway.

[Long Island] is buoyant, it's on the outskirts of Manhattan, and so they have access to phenomenal restaurants.

I grew up in Far Rockaway and then Long Island.

I grew up on Long Island. It was pretty normal.

Harbour Island in the Bahamas is a wonderful little island with beautiful beaches, a great restaurant culture and friendly, welcoming atmosphere.

It's strange, because Long Island is still New York, but the farther you go out on Long Island, the more creepy it gets.

Life is an island. People come out of the sea, cross the island, and return to the sea. But this short life is long and beautiful. In getting to know nature man exalts the wonder and beauty of life.

I was born in a small clapboard house on an island, but I also have certain privileges that I didn't have when I was on the island. So that dichotomy again is actually really crucial.

I'm from New York. I was born in Long Island.

My wife and I live in Brooklyn, N.Y., not too far from where my Long Island childhood happened.