Islands Quotes

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My father used to run auctions. He`s now a singer in the Canary Islands.

- Jason Statham

Little islands are all large prisons: one cannot look at the sea without wishing for the wings of a swallow.

- Richard Burton

A nice pop star would do you nice on one of those deserted islands.

- Tom Felton

I don`t want to go to the Bahamas on holiday. I hate islands. I want to go to Brittany, where it`s cold and raining, and there`s nothing fancy about it.

- Julie Delpy

The Nature Conservancy has most of its barrier islands open to the public, free of charge, ... It is not appropriate for somebody to turn around and charge the public for access to the same places for their own personal gain.

- Steve Parker

The wind pattern is almost identical to the one we had when we broke the record on Lakota. We should have a fast run up the north sea to coincide with a low pressure arriving in the Shetland Islands.

- Brian Thompson

Tim and the Spurs are going to the Virgin Islands. Tim said he had nothing to do with it. Yeah right, he just happens to be from the islands. But hey, Richmond will be just fine. We`re there to work anyway.

- Antonio Daniels

The same thing is happening on the barrier islands, like Longboat Key and Anna Maria, when you have a red tide in the area, ... But the data is not at a fine enough resolution to tease out the economic impact.

- Chuck Adams

More varied than any landscape was the landscape in the sky, with islands of gold and silver, peninsulas of apricot and rose against a background of many shades of turquoise and azure.

- Cecil Beaton

The Connected Services Framework offers broadcast and film companies a sophisticated and competitive way to create, manage and deploy content over multiple channels, ... Simply by connecting together digital islands, the potential impact for the business in terms of improved performance and new market opportunities is irresistible.

- Dave Brown

It is tragically ironic that while Lydia nests on one the world`s most remote and pristine islands, she makes her living in some of the most degraded seas on the planet. Fishing pressure is huge and marine pollution is severe.

- David James

We have the forces and can get there quickly, ... We know what kind of stocks we have. We know there are 150,000 MREs (Meals Ready to Eat) right here. We have water. And all those things can move very quickly by military air both by National Guard and active forces, to any place around the islands.

- John Kelly

We`re giving kids the opportunity to come to Melbourne, from across Australia, from the cape to Shepparton in Victoria and from the Kimberleys to the Tiwi Islands - this is part of an initiative from Qantas and the AFL and we`re looking at the new Adam Goodes or Andrew McLeod.

- Michael Long

Our task force put to sea in early January 1942, to attack the Japanese in the Marshall and Gilbert islands, but the mission was called off on the eve of the attack.

- Jack Adams

The Japanese invaded Tulagi, in the Solomon Islands, on May 4.

- Jack Adams

The good news was that Enterprise and the newly arrived Yorktown had attacked the Marshall and Gilbert islands. Those attacks had a great effect on morale.

- Jack Adams

On December 5, 1941, Chicago led a task force built around the carrier Lexington to Midway Island, at the western end of the Hawaiian Islands, about 1,000 miles from Pearl Harbor.

- Jack Adams

Right now we are in sort of a lull in the action. We have a weak upper ridge over the Hawaiian islands and that is helping to keep things relatively quiet now. We will get a chance to dry out a little bit before things turn wetter later in the weekend.

- Bob Ballard

The other exception where we did not at all restore the place to its original condition is the Surrounded Islands. Before we installed our fabric, we had our workers remove 42 tons of garbage off the beaches of those islands. We never brought the garbage back.

- Christo

People had already settled the islands in the Mediterranean and around Great Britain long before the first pharaoh built the pyramids in Egypt.

- Thor Heyerdahl

We`ve seen bookshelves, drawers and open shelving in the islands.

- Rebecca Jones

It`s time for RFK Jr. to lead the Cape and islands towards a clean energy revolution. It`s about a vision for healthy oceans, not the view from the Kennedy compound.

- Chris Miller

Many of the undocumented immigrants from the Caribbean islands have been living, working and making vital contributions to our country for many years.

- Charles Rangel

Much of our quiet time is spent boating and generally loafing at our second home in the 1,000 Islands on the St. Lawrence River.

- Brock Yates

I cannot lead you into battle. I do not give you laws or administer justice but I can do something else - I can give my heart and my devotion to these old islands and to all the peoples of our brotherhood of nations.

- Alberto Vilar

There are no countries in the world less known by the British than those selfsame British Islands.

- Alex Langwenya

In a sense, each of us is an island. In another sense, however, we are all one. For though islands appear separate, and may even be situated at great distances from one another, they are only extrusions of the same planet, Earth.

- Alfonzo Surrett

Lest those islands still seem to you too remote in space and time to be relevant to our modern societies, just think about the risks... of our increasing globalization and increasing worldwide economic interdependence.

- Ali Aoun

If I read not amiss, this powerful race will move down upon Mexico, down upon Central and South America, out upon the islands of the sea, over upon Africa and beyond. And can any one doubt that the results of this competition of races will be the "survival of the fittest?"

- Alle Fister

Northwest was our first code share partner and this exclusive new agreement ensures their customers will continue to receive the very best service available when traveling between the islands.

- Asad Rehman

I am disappointed that Lord Birt did not find a job elsewhere, because he will continue to give his third-rate and amateurish advice to the prime minister. Why could he not be appointed governor of the Falkland Islands?

- Augustin Chicarro

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.

- Barry Simon

I cannot lead you into battle. I do not give you laws or administer justice but I can do something else - I can give my heart and my devotion to these old islands and to all the peoples of our brotherhood of nations.

- Elizabeth II