90 Islands Quotes for You to Enjoy

Keep a copy of 'Islands in the Stream' by Ernest Hemingway on the left hand side of your desk. Keep Fitzgerald's 'The Crack Up' on the right. When you get stuck, pick them up and pretend that they are having a fight, like you used to do with your GI Joes. Lynn Coady

You Fight Stream Side Pretend Having Stuck Pick Like Islands Ernest Hemingway Hand Left Up Fitzgerald Crack Get Them Your Used Hemingway Keep Right Copy Desk

The 1898 annexation of the Hawaiian Islands merely formally recognized what had long been American domination. Margaret MacMillan

Long Recognized Hawaiian Had Merely Islands Been Domination American

The Lowcountry traditionally is a logical place where the big ships stopped and brought new things in from the ocean, and the islands have a mystical tradition. It is such a visual place, too, with these iconic villages with the Spanish moss and the village and historical homes and the coast. Margaret Stohl

Logical Big Ocean New Things Too Visual Brought Mystical New Moss Islands Tradition Historical Ships Stopped Where Place Spanish Iconic Coast Village Villages Homes Things

The most beautiful destination I've been to was the Seychelles Islands, and the most culturally inspiring place was Mumbai, India. Martha Hunt

Beautiful Destination Most Beautiful India Inspiring Most Islands Been Place Mumbai

My usual trick with the Irish plays is to set things on islands I've never been to. Martin McDonagh

Trick Never Islands Been Irish Usual Things Set Plays

I mainly cook British food with a few things I've had on my holidays. I went to the Canary Islands a few years ago, and we had all sorts of different mushrooms on brioche with pancetta on top, and it was delicious. I had it most days for lunch, so I thought, 'I'll do that when I get back,' and now it's in my cookbook, an absolute favourite. Mary Berry

Food Thought Few Lunch Mushrooms Back Top Favourite Absolute Delicious Had Mainly Days Most Sort Islands Years Years Ago Canary Get Few Things Different Holidays Cook Cookbook Now Things British

The rain, which had continued yesterday and last night, ceased this morning. We then proceeded, and after passing two small islands about ten miles further, stopped for the night at Piper's landing, opposite another island. Meriwether Lewis

Morning Rain Yesterday Further About Ten Small Had Another Island Islands Passing Opposite Continue Piper Stopped After Which Landing Then Miles Last Night Two Last Night

The Maldives, a string of islands off the coast of India whose highest point above sea level is eight feet, may be the first nation to drown. In Alaska, entire towns have begun to shift in the loosening permafrost. Michael Specter

At school, if I was ever bored in class, I would draw maps of islands or detailed interior of boats or lists of provisions and equipment I would need when I went camping in the summer. Michelle Magorian

Class Interior School Summer Draw Would Detailed Bored Islands Equipment Provisions Camping Lists Boats Maps Ever Need

The Gili Islands gave me some of my best scuba diving experiences, including tons of turtles. Natalie Dormer

Best Me Gave Some Diving Islands Experiences Scuba Including Tons

My goal is to be living back in Canada as soon as I can, hopefully somewhere in the Gulf Islands. Nicholas Lea

Somewhere Living Back Hopefully Gulf Soon Islands Goal Canada

Future Past Changes Analysis Has-Been Threaten Rise Recorded Scenarios Small Disastrous Most Islands Undertaken Been Target Either Centuries Sea Popular Flooding Actual Level Present Careful

Traditionally, historians thought in terms of invasions: the Celts took over the islands, then the Romans, then the Anglo-Saxons. It now seems much more likely that the resident population doesn't change as much as thought. The people stay put but are reculturalized by some new dominant culture. Norman Davies

Northern Ireland must, in future, be absorbed into the Irish republic. Wales and Scotland must advance from devolution to full independent status. The four nations of these islands must commit themselves absolutely to the project of a United Europe. Norman Davies

Future Project Independent Must Status Absolutely Advance Absorb Islands Ireland Irish Wales Scotland Commit Northern Northern Ireland Nations Republic Themselves Full Europe United Four

California is an island, and New York's an island. Maybe it's time for me to change islands. Paul Mazursky

Time Me Change New California Island Islands York Maybe

My love for traveling to islands amounts to a pathological condition known as nesomania, an obsession with islands. This craze seems reasonable to me, because islands are small self-contained worlds that can help us understand larger ones. Paul Theroux

Love Me Worlds Seems Small Self-Contained Obsession Known Because Understand Islands Condition Pathological Us Help Reasonable Traveling Larger Amount

Islands are known to differ in the food supply available to ground finches, mainly seeds. Peter R. Grant

Food Seeds Food Supply Supply Mainly Known Islands Differ Available Ground

I got space from Travis Air Force Base, went back to the Philippine Islands and made it a point to meet the only American casting director in the Philippines. I was off and running. R. Lee Ermey

Director Air Force Space Philippines Made Meet Back Air Running Only Casting Point Force Islands Got Off American Base

At any given time, there are a lot of million-dollar luxury charter boats cruising around the Mentawai Islands finding the most incredible waves. And yet the people on shore are suffering. The whole scene is wrong. As a surf community, we have to do something. Rob Machado

Time Suffering People Luxury Community Incredible Waves Finding Something Given Scene Charter Wrong Most Around Islands Surf Lot Any Shore Any Given Time Boats Whole

The north coast of Brittany is eaten into bays from which the sea retreats to considerable distances, and is fringed with reefs and islands. It is a favourite resort of Parisians throughout its stretch, from Dinard to Plestin. Sabine Baring-Gould

Resort Brittany Considerable Distances Favourite Eaten Throughout Retreats Islands North Which Sea Coast Stretch

My first novel, 'Sacrifice,' was set on the Shetland Islands. Sharon Bolton

Sacrifice First Islands Novel Set

The Senkaku islands are inherently Japanese territory. I want to show my strong determination to prevent this from changing. Shinzo Abe

Determination Strong Changing Prevent Territory Islands Want Japanese Inherently Show

My father is from the West Indies, the St. Thomas Virgin Islands. Stephen A. Smith

Father Thomas Indies Islands West

Is there any nation on earth that has more natural attractions, from the scenic coastal towns of Maine to the volcanic islands of Hawaii and the natural beauty of our majestic national parks? Stephen Moore

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