383 Island Quotes for You to Enjoy

After years of infertility tests, the best decision we ever made was to adopt, and in 1987, we were bestowed a three-month-old baby girl from an island off the south coast of Korea called Cheju Island. Robert M. Parker, Jr.

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What was incredible about the Maldives was that the entire island we were on consisted of sand. There didn't seem to be any dirt. You could walk around for hours barefoot with your white trousers skimming the ground, and they'd still be pristine white. KT Tunstall

For two centuries the English countryside has been an icon of national identity and the loved reminder of our island home. Yet the government is bent on littering the hills with wind turbines and the valleys with high speed railways. Roger Scruton

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Both of my parents were born into poor families on the island of Cuba. They came to America because it was the only place where people like them could have a chance. Marco Rubio

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Over the years, many young actors have approached me: Vusi Kunene, Sello Maake ka Ncube, and Seputla Sebogodi. They all said, 'Hey Bra John, let's do 'The Island and we want you to direct.' But somehow, my heart was not in it or I was busy with something else, so I'd say, 'ja, ja, we'll do it.' John Kani

In the kitchen, go for two tone cabinets. Maybe the island is a complementary color - that generally doesn't cost any more money, but gives you a designer look. Drew Scott

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We have a choice in Silicon Valley. We can either continue to exist as an island to ourselves, focused on wealth creation and innovation... or we can understand that we are in the middle of a software revolution and answer the nation's call to provide economic opportunity and technology to places left behind. Ro Khanna

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Being a Puerto Rican artist, I support all kinds of projects that are developed on my beautiful island that in some way or another put our Puerto Rican flag up. Bad Bunny

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England in a way is lucky. It's an island, so the frontiers are given by the sea. Salman Rushdie

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Sri Lanka is an island off the coast of India. There's two ethnicities there; one the Sinhalese, which is the majority and the government, and the minority, who are the Tamils. That's where I'm from. And my lifetime sort of began there; I spent 10 years, and I was there during when the war started and fled as a refugee to England. M.I.A.

Some of my best memories of growing up on Long Island include spending all day fishing for fluke on Great South Bay. Lee Zeldin

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You're on an island when you're injured. Nobody understands what you're going through. And everybody's different. Some people heal quicker than others. Ken Griffey Jr.

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'Monkey Island 2' was a huge game for me. It kind of taught me all about comedy. Bryan Lee O'Malley

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My mom was a nurse at Rikers Island and she cried to me about not going the wrong route. Shannon Briggs

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