Island Quotes

No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main. If a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe is the less, as well as if a promontory were, as well as if a manor of thy friend's or of thine own were: any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind, and therefore never send to know for whom the bells tolls; it tolls for thee. (John Donne)
I would love to be the poet laureate of Coney Island. View quote
Thornton Wilder
We live on an island surrounded by a sea of ignorance. As our island of knowledge grows, so does the shore of our ignorance. View quote
John Archibald Wheeler
This island is almost made of coal and surrounded by fish. Only an organizing genius could produce a shortage of coal and fish in Great Britain at the same time. View quote
Aneurin Bevan
The royal navy of England hath ever been its greatest defense and ornament; it is its ancient and natural strength; the floating bulwark of our island. View quote
William Blackstone
True friendship multiplies the good in life and divides its evils. Strive to have friends, for life without friends is like life on a desert island... to find one real friend in a lifetime is good fortune; to keep him is a blessing. View quote
Baltasar Gracián
Hawaii has always been a very pivotal role in the Pacific. It is in the Pacific. It is a part of the United States that is an island that is right here. View quote
Dan Quayle
Lighthouses don't go running all over an island looking for boats to save; they just stand there shining. View quote
Anne Lamott
Gradually the magic of the island settled over us as gently and clingingly as pollen. Each day had a tranquillity, a timelessness, about it so that you wished it would never end. But then the dark skin of night would peel off and there would be a fresh day waiting for us, glossy and colourful as a child's transfer and with the same tinge of unreality. View quote
Gerald Durrell
There are several sorts of religions, not only in different parts of the island, but even in every town; some worshipping the sun, others the moon or one of the planets. View quote
Thomas More
Zuleika, on a desert island, would have spent most of her time in looking for a mans footprint. (Max Beerbohm)
Our knowledge is a little island in a great ocean of nonknowledge. View quote
Isaac Bashevis Singer
Happiness is actually found in simple things, such as taking my nephew around the island by bicycle or seeing the stars at night. We go to coffee shops or see airplanes land at the airport. View quote
Andrea Hirata
Flowers heal me. Tulips make me happy. I keep myself surrounded by them as soon as they start coming to the island from Canada, and after that when they come from the fields in La Connor, not far from where I live. View quote
Rebecca Wells
If a man were living in isolation his income would be literally his product. Make him the monarch and owner of an island, and the fruits that he raises and the clothing that he makes constitute, in themselves, his income. This ceases to be true when trading begins. View quote
John Bates Clark
In an age where everything and everyone is linked through networks of glass and air, no one - no business, organization, government agency, country - is an island. We need to do right by all our stakeholders, and that's how you create value for shareholders. And one thing is for sure - no organization can succeed in a world that is failing. View quote
Don Tapscott
No man is an island. No man stands alone. View quote
Dennis Brown
But Connecticut and Rhode Island have originally realized the most perfect polity as to a legislature. View quote
Ezra Stiles
Sometime during the many millions of years that have elapsed since mammalian faunas came into existence, some sort of island crossed from West Africa to South America. View quote
Louis Leakey
We need to get serious about combating gang violence on Long Island, and the entire nation. View quote
Tim Bishop
Wealthy men can't live in an island that is encircled by poverty. We all breathe the same air. We must give a chance to everyone, at least a basic chance. (Ayrton Senna)
Whether our ancestors came here on the Mayflower, on slave ships, whether they came to Ellis Island or LAX in Los Angeles, whether they came yesterday or walked this land a thousand years ago our great challenge for the 21st century is to find a way to be One America. We can meet all the other challenges if we can go forward as One America. View quote
Bill Clinton
Small islands not capable of protecting themselves are the proper objects for kingdoms to take under their care; but there is something very absurd in supposing a continent to be perpetually governed by an island. View quote
Thomas Paine
In order to enter into a real knowledge of your condition, consider it in this image: A man was cast by a tempest upon an unknown island, the inhabitants of which were in trouble to find their king, who was lost; and having a strong resemblance both in form and face to this king, he was taken for him, and acknowledged in this capacity by all the people. View quote
Blaise Pascal
No man is an island, entire of itself. View quote
John Donne