Island Quotes
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We traveled for science: those three small embryos from Cape Crozier, that weight of fossils from Barkley Island, and that mass of material less spectacular but gathered just as carefully hour by hour, in wind and drift, darkness and cold, was striven for in order that the world may have a little more knowledge, that it may build on what it knows instead of on what it thinks.
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They all want your white body, and they await your reply.But, between you and me, and this Staten Island ferry... so do I...
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I just need to go to like an island or something.
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For us Australians, Singapore also represents sacred soil. Almost 2000 Australians died here in the defense of your island country and our neighborhood.
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I love our shared island, our shared Ireland and its core decency. I love it for its imagination and its celebration of the endless possibilities for our people.
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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.
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I grew up in Rhode Island. Most of my family on both sides is from Rhode Island.
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Reached only by boat, seaplane and, with less surety, telephone-this is Fire Island, a pile of sand beneath a pile of people.
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Nonfiction writers are second-class citizens, the Ellis Island of literature. We just can't quite get in. And yes, it pisses me off.
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Life on this island is slim pickings if you have ambition.
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There's the juiciest music that makes me so happy, music that I need on that deserted island when I'm stranded for the rest of my life, and nobody cares that it's there.
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I was from a town called Manhasset, very nice town out on the North Shore of Long Island, New York, but there was a little area, predominantly black population, and it was a small school. I played on the basketball team when I was a junior, and I was the only white guy on the starting five, the top seven actually, and we were really good.
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Every profession is an island whose inhabitants earn a precarious living by taking in each other’s washing.
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There was the joke about Switzerland being an island surrounded by land. This was never true.
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On an island, anything can happen. In a crime novel, it usually does.
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There ain't much future for a man who works the sea, there ain't no island left for islanders like me.
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And there was a beutiful view But nobody could see Cause everybody on the island Was saying Look at me! Look at me.
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California is an island, and New York's an island. Maybe it's time for me to change islands.
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No, my family is Russian, Georgian, via Ellis Island.
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Not being able to see or interact with children for 20 years was possibly the most difficult thing to endure during my time on the island, there's a poetic justice that children in classrooms all over the world will now be able to visit Robben Island using this technology.
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She is immensely interested in him. She has even secret mischievous moments in which she wishes she could get him alone, on a desert island, away from all ties and with nobody else in the world to consider, and just drag him off his pedestal and see him making love like any common man.
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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.
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Here, beside this great black surface that is my desk, I feel as though I am on a desert island.
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Make an island of yourself, make yourself your refuge; there is no other refuge. Make truth your island, make truth your refuge; there is no other refuge.
