383 Island Quotes for You to Enjoy

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

War Surrender Fight Never Surrender Whatever Our Cost Beaches Shall Never Hills Island May Fields Landing Grounds Streets Defend

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. Baltasar Gracian

Life Friendship Good Blessing True Friendship Evils Strive Find Divides Lifetime True Like Him Without Island Real Real Friend Friend Friends Fortune Desert Desert Island Keep Good Fortune

No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent. John Donne

Man Every Entire Piece Island Continent Itself Every Man

Our knowledge is a little island in a great ocean of nonknowledge. Isaac Bashevis Singer

Great Knowledge Brainy Ocean Our Island Little

There is more treasure in books than in all the pirate's loot on Treasure Island. Walt Disney

Books More Island Than Pirate Treasure

Is 'The Wind in the Willows' a children's book? Is 'Alice in Wonderland?' Is 'Treasure Island?' These are masterpieces which we read with pleasure as children, but with how much more pleasure when we are grown-up. A. A. Milne

Book Wind Alice Pleasure More Read Masterpieces Island How How Much Wonderland Children Which Much Grown-Up Treasure

Perfect happiness would be knowing that all my family and friends were happy and safe. Then I'd go to a tropical island with my husband where it was gorgeous and fun all day long and interesting and fun all evening. Good food and dancing would be nice, too, and weekly visits from those safe and happy family and friends. Plus world peace. Suzanne Weyn

Happiness Good Food Day Family Peace Happy World Gorgeous Be Nice Husband Long Nice World Peace Too Dancing Those All Day Visits Would Would-Be Plus Perfect Tropical Weekly Safe Knowing Island Go Were Friends Family And Friends Where Interesting Then Fun Evening Good Food

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. Andrea Hirata

No man or woman is an island. To exist just for yourself is meaningless. You can achieve the most satisfaction when you feel related to some greater purpose in life, something greater than yourself. Denis Waitley

Life You Man Woman Yourself Achieve Related Some Something Purpose Feel Most Greater Island Exist Than Just Meaningless Satisfaction

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

Knowledge Ignorance Live Our Island Does Surrounded Shore Sea Grows

Stood off and on during the night, determining not to come to anchor till morning, fearing to meet with shoals; continued our course in the morning; and as the island was found to be six or seven leagues distant, and the tide was against us, it was noon when we arrived there. Christopher Columbus

Morning Meet Our Seven Distant Anchor Fearing Determining Leagues Come Tide Course Island Till Arrived Continue Noon Off Stood Six Against Us Found Night

We may be a small island, but we are not a small people. Edward Heath

People Small Small People Island May

If September 11th has taught us anything, it's certainly that the world has never been so interdependent. It is impossible now to be an island of prosperity in a sea of despair. Bono

World Prosperity Impossible September Despair Never Island Been Taught Anything Interdependent Us Sea Certainly September 11th Now

My dream is to be on my boat. Or on an island. Or in my house in the country. That's my dream. Cameron Mackintosh

Country Dream House Island Boat

Geographically, Ireland is a medium-sized rural island that is slowly but steadily being consumed by sheep. Dave Barry

Sheep Medium-Sized Rural Slowly Steadily Consumed Island Saint Patrick's Day Ireland Being

Beetles and butterflies are sometimes restricted to small areas. Each mountain in a range, and even the different zones of a mountain, may have its own peculiar species. But the house-fly seems to be everywhere. I wonder if any island in mid-ocean is flyless. John Muir

My favourite place in South Korea is Jeju Island: it's a tropical paradise with sandy beaches, turquoise waters, and the magnificent Geomunoreum lava tube system of underground caves. Lee Hyeon-seo

Paradise Waters System Favourite Favourite Place Beaches Magnificent Tropical Underground Island Korea South Caves South Korea Tube Place Sandy Turquoise

In 1952, when I was 15 and living on Governors Island, which was then First Army Headquarters, I encountered the newly-published 'The Catcher in the Rye.' Of course, that book became the iconic anti-establishment novel for my generation. Lois Lowry

Army Generation Book First Living My Generation Catcher Catcher In The Rye Headquarters Course Became Island Encountered Governors Which Iconic Then Novel

I would love to be the poet laureate of Coney Island. Thornton Wilder

Love Poet Would Laureate Poet Laureate Island

Island Quotes

No more island quotes