383 Island Quotes for You to Enjoy

I always like to sing barefoot, but when I first started doing these dates with the symphonies, I of course thought I should clean up my act, being a Jewish girl from Long Island with a little bit of a trucker mouth. So I wore a gown and some high heels. Idina Menzel

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My story is so boring: Long Island Jewish parents take their daughters to Broadway. Idina Menzel

Long Parents Broadway Boring Daughters Long Island Take Island Story Jewish

Other lands may have their charms, and the sunny skies of other climes may be regretted, but it is with pride and gladness that the wanderer sets foot again on British soil, thanking God for the religion and the liberty which have made this weather-beaten island in a northern sea to be the light and glory of the world. Isabella Bird

God Religion World Liberty Pride Light Soil Made Sets Other Sunny Charms Gladness Foot Glory Island Thanking Northern May Wanderer Which Again Skies Regretted Lands Sea British

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. J. Donald Walters

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

The situation in the West Bank and Gaza involves a military occupation amid urban guerrilla warfare, analogous to the British security measures in Northern Island, that hopefully will end with a cease-fire. Jack Schwartz

Growing up in Rhode Island, I dreamed of a career in law enforcement. That hasn't worked out exactly as I had planned, but life seldom does. James Langevin

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In the islands of the Aegean Sea, every island is full of graves. James Theodore Bent

Every Island Islands Full Sea Graves

With Barack Obama as president and the super-happening Michelle Obama as First Lady, you would think a new tone, a new tune, a kicky new jazzitude, would have entered Washington discourse, but it remains a landlocked island unto itself, held captive by its tribal fevers. James Wolcott

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I took four years off after 'In the Cut' because I wanted to see who I'd be without work. I even tried being a hermit in the wilderness in New Zealand. I stayed in a warden's hut two-and-a-half hours off the Routeburn Track through the fjords on the South Island. It was early winter, so there was no electricity or running water. Jane Campion

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If somebody writes a review of a dry cleaner, that piece of content is not wildly viral. It's not like a viral video that can spread across the world in a matter of minutes, so as a result, each market is almost an island unto itself. Jeremy Stoppelman

Almost everything looks better from a distance, Long Island included. Jerry Della Femina

Better Long Distance Everything Long Island Almost Almost Everything Looks Island Included

We just did a show in Providence, Rhode Island, and we got three puppy shots before we even got on the air, which was great. Although sometimes you get flashed by some puppies that you'd rather not see. They're more like mongrels. Jerry Lawler

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

Would Never Had Taken Because Island Gotten Been Established Coach

I never turned down anything but 'Gilligan's Island.' Jerry Van Dyke

Down Never Island Anything Turned

I grew up in Long Island City. When I was growing up, my parents owned a women's clothing store in Queens. It was for older women. I got my bras there, until I realized I didn't want those huge, taupe bras. Everything was beige, with massive amounts of hooks. Jessica Valenti

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This story is based on a gentleman who indeed did... used to come to my parents' house in 1971 from Bangladesh. He was at the University of Rhode Island. And I was four, four years old, at the time, and so I actually don't have any memories of this gentleman. Jhumpa Lahiri

I'm from Kingston, R.I., sort of on the University of Rhode Island campus - on the margins of that, actually. Jhumpa Lahiri

Sort Island Campus Rhode Rhode Island Actually Margins University

I came from Long Island, so I had a lot of experience at the stick. I played in junior high school, then I played in high school. The technical aspect of the game was my forte. I had all that experience, then I had strength and I was in good condition. Jim Brown

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Places I've lived since then had to have some kind of uniqueness and character about them. And logically Key West, and then Down Island. So, all of that stuff sort of had it's roots in New Orleans and went crazy. Jimmy Buffett

When I was 18, I took it for granted and was eager to move on to the bigger cities like Boston and then New York. But I've been to enough places to have gained a greater appreciation for the beauty and rich culture of all of Rhode Island. I am grateful for all that it offered during my childhood. Joanna Going

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