Island Quotes - page 21

Five states - Ohio, Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Illinois and North Carolina - have been identified by the EPA as contributing significantly to Rhode Island pollution. As of 2010, 284 tall smokestacks - stacks over 500 feet - were operating in the United States: needles injecting poison into the atmosphere. (Sheldon Whitehouse)
Rhode Island works hard to reduce air pollution in our communities. We passed laws to prohibit cars and buses from idling their engines and to retrofit school buses with diesel pollution controls. But there is only so much a single state can do, particularly against out-of-state pollution. View quote
Sheldon Whitehouse
'Rescue From Gilligan's Island' was the first of the so-called reunion shows on the networks, getting a 54 share. With numbers like that, everybody else started to have reunion shows. View quote
Sherwood Schwartz
It wasn't Ginger's Island, it was Gilligan's Island. View quote
Sherwood Schwartz
I'm from an island, so I've always been near the water. I don't think I could live somewhere far from the sea. View quote
Sigrid Agren
I have raised beds, perennial beds, cut flower beds. I have an island on a pond that's just covered in peonies. I have an herb garden, tons of vegetables, raspberries. I have everything. I'm a green guy. View quote
Steve Zahn
That's such a great thing about New York, after growing up in a place and being there for twenty plus years, there's still a whole island to discover. View quote
Steven Strait
Being from Staten Island and Brooklyn, I'm used to eating pasta and meatballs every single day. View quote
Theo Rossi
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. View quote
Thomas Bulfinch
I went to University of Victoria on Vancouver Island and their theater program. View quote
Thomas Middleditch
Ireland, in breadth, and for wholesomeness and serenity of climate, far surpasses Britain; for the snow scarcely ever lies there above three days: no man makes hay in the summer for winter's provision, or builds stables for his beasts of burden... the island abounds in milk and honey. (Venerable Bede)
I represent Staten Island and Brooklyn, and not just that the financial services industry is important to the U.S., but is disproportionately important to New York City. View quote
Vito Fossella
When I started off as an actress, I did at a play at the Taper Too Theatre here in Los Angeles, called 'In The Abyss Of Coney Island.' That was more of a dramatic play. It was a small theater house. This was the first time I was literally on the road, doing a play, for four months. View quote
Vivica A. Fox
Traveling in Europe made me understand that America has an island mentality: No one exists except us. There's a whole other world out there, but most Americans - all they know is America, the marketing plan. View quote
will.i.am
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. View quote
William Bell
The island Mayo is generally barren, being dry, as I said; and the best of it is but a very indifferent soil. View quote
William Dampier
There are good waves not that far from Manhattan - on Long Island, in north Jersey. It's true that the best surf around here tends to happen in winter, so you need a good wetsuit, and the time window of good waves is often pretty short, so you have to stay on top of the forecasts. View quote
William Finnegan
Have any of our friends got off the Island with their families, or what must they submit to? Despotism or destruction, I fear, is their fate. View quote
William Floyd
You will invite Herr Hitler and Signor Mussolini to take what they want of the countries you call your possessions. Let them take possession of your beautiful island, with your many beautiful buildings. You will give all these, but neither your souls, nor your minds. If these gentlemen choose to occupy your homes, you will vacate them. If they do not give you free passage out, you will allow yourself, man, woman and child, to be slaughtered, but you will refuse to owe allegiance to them. View quote
Mahatma Gandhi
We need each other. We need friends in the world, and they need us. The bell tolls for us, my friends, Humanity counts on us, and we ought to take measured pride in that. We have not been an island. We were ‘involved in mankind.‘. View quote
John McCain
There's a certain type of character that you can't help but come in contact with growing up and living in Brooklyn and Long Island. A certain mixture of moxie, heart, and a wise guy sense of humor. (Steve Buscemi)
Britain's an island; it's always had a constant ebb and flow of immigration - it makes it a better place. View quote
John Lydon
I've been asked over the years to compile a list of desert-island discs. I couldn't do that. If I was trapped on a desert island, I don't think I'd want 10 songs to bring with me. View quote
John Lydon
All the time each one of us is hovering above an unfathomable abyss of potential calamities of every kind - sensed in that ever-throbbing pulse deep down in one's heart; as long as this chasm does not open up to devour one, the floating island in any guise whatever must surely be welcome. Wrong notion of God? Asiatic pessimism? View quote
Ida Friederike Görres
We may be a small island, but we are not a small people. View quote
Edward Heath