Island Quotes

The United States' flag should only fly in Cuba when the island is free, when dissent is embraced, and when democracy is restored.

Bob Menendez

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'Island of the Blue Dolphins' by Scott O'Dell had a huge impact on me.

Kate DiCamillo

BlueMeImpactIslandDolphinsHad

There was a pizza delivery robot from 2008, where I built a Prius to deliver pizza from downtown SF to Treasure Island.

Anthony Levandowski

PizzaTreasureIslandRobotDelivery

We used two Princess Cruise ships. The Island Princess and The Pacific Princess. They were identical ships.

Gavin MacLeod

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We shall defend our island, whatever the cost may be, we shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender.

Winston Churchill

FightWarSurrenderIslandNever

Puerto Rico is a powerful island.

Fat Joe

PowerfulPuerto RicoIslandPuerto

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.

Phil Lord

SonVacationFunNephewIslandCuba

My priority always has and will continue to be the people of Staten Island and Brooklyn who sent me to Congress to represent them. Their interests come before Washington, always.

Dan Donovan

PeopleMeBrooklynWashingtonIsland

The design of those commissioners, frigates and warlike force is directed rather against Long Island and these your Honors' possessions, than to the imagined reform of New England.

Peter Stuyvesant

DesignLongNewIslandPossessions

As a Senator from Rhode Island, I wish that once - just once - the fossil fuel industry and their paid-for PR machine would concede that burning their product causes real harm to other people.

Sheldon Whitehouse

PeopleWishIslandI WishRealJust

On an island, anything can happen. In a crime novel, it usually does.

Sharon Bolton

IslandCrimeHappenAnythingNovel

Puberty for me was graduating from Thousand Island salad dressing to Caesar salads. It was like going from hot dogs and hamburgers to beef stroganoff, or from ice cream in a cone to creme brulee.

Richard Simmons

MeIceIce CreamIslandSaladHot

The conductor's stand is not a continent of power, but rather an island of solitude.

Riccardo Muti

PowerSolitudeStandIslandRather

The U.K. is fortunate in its geographical position. We're an island. But we are living in a completely interconnected world where disruptions in countries far away will have major impacts.

Mark Walport

WorldFar AwayLivingIslandWill

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

Ken Howard

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I grew up at a time in Singapore - the '70s and '80s - where it was still possible to go riding around the island barefoot. And I was one of these kids that was just climbing trees and running around the neighbourhood.

Kevin Kwan

TimeTreesGoIslandPossibleUp

If I had taken 'Gilligan's Island,' I would never have gotten 'Coach' because I would have been established as Gilligan.

Jerry Van Dyke

IslandNeverCoachBecauseBeenHad

My grandparents, they came through Ellis Island in 1923, and you know, I'd heard all the stories.

James Gray

YouKnowIslandGrandparentsThrough

We live on an island surrounded by a sea of ignorance. As our island of knowledge grows, so does the shore of our ignorance.

John Archibald Wheeler

LiveKnowledgeSeaIgnoranceIsland

We lived on the Key West Army Base. Key West for me was a tropical island paradise.

Gloria Swanson

MeKeyArmyParadiseIslandLived

At first I threw my weight upon my heels, as one does naturally in a boot, and was a good deal bruised, but after a few hours I learned the natural walk of man, and could follow my guide in any portion of the island.

John Millington Synge

GoodWalkManIslandFollowFirst

Long Island has a great boxing tradition.

Gerry Cooney

GreatTraditionLongBoxingIsland

I guess I will always be known as a designer who references Ibiza, even though I've only been to the island a couple of times in my early twenties.

Matthew Williamson

EarlyIslandWillAlwaysOnlyBeen

And I've shot in Prince Edward Island winters, I mean, I've shot in some intense, intense temperatures.

Ellen Page

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