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Our lives are like islands in the sea, or like trees in the forest. The maple and the pine may whisper to each other with their leaves... But the trees also commingle their roots in the darkness underground, and the islands also hang together through the ocean’s bottom  (Islands Quotes) No doubt these rocky islands have suggested the idea worked out in gardens, and they have been well imitated  (Islands Quotes) In front of us lay a smooth sandy beach, beyond which rose gradually a high wooded country, and behind us was the sea, studded with numerous islands of every variety of form  (Islands Quotes) You have to remember how the islands move. If you forget that, you’re lost  (Islands Quotes) Through the sunset of hope, like the shapes of a dream, what paradise islands of glory gleam!  (Islands Quotes) I thought to live on an island was like living on a boat. Islands intrigue me. You can see the perimeters of your world. It’s a microcosm  (Islands Quotes) I thought I might teach philosophy but the atmosphere of a college faculty repelled me; the few islands of greatness seemed to be washed by seas of pettiness and mediocrity  (Islands Quotes) When I’m not working, my family and I have a house in the San Juan Islands. We’ve been here since 94  (Islands Quotes) It sucks, but no Long Islands or margaritas when you drink. It has to be straight vodka  (Islands Quotes) 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  (Islands Quotes) Our task force put to sea in early January 1942, to attack the Japanese in the Marshall and Gilbert islands, but the mission was called off on the eve of the attack  (Islands Quotes) The good news was that Enterprise and the newly arrived Yorktown had attacked the Marshall and Gilbert islands. Those attacks had a great effect on morale  (Islands Quotes) The Kiril Islands had changed hands more times than a good coin in a whorehouse  (Islands Quotes) Islands are havens and breeding grounds for the unique and anomalous. They are natural laboratories of extravagant evolutionary experimentation  (Islands Quotes) The fact is, we are not islands and we are far more connected than we know  (Islands Quotes) We’re all islands shouting lies to each other across seas of misunderstanding  (Islands Quotes) August for the people and their favourite islands. Daily the steamers sidle up to meet The effusive welcome of the pier  (Islands Quotes) There is a place where the human enters dream and myth, and becomes a part of it, or maybe it is the other way around when the story grows from the body and spirit of humankind. In any case, we are a story, each of us, a bundle of stories, some as false as phantom islands but believed in nevertheless. Some might be true  (Islands Quotes) We need real tax reform which makes the rich and profitable corporations begin to pay their fair share of taxes. We need a tax system which is fair and progressive. Children should not go hungry in this country while profitable corporations and the wealthy avoid their tax responsibilities by stashing their money in the Cayman Islands  (Islands Quotes) I’m not a wide-eyed imperialist who wants to see Americans manning outposts all over the world. Not outposts to freedom in the cold war cliche, but islands of stability and seas of ethnic strife. That is not what anyone should feel comfortable seeing Americans doing.  (Islands Quotes) I grew up in Hawaii and I think those islands are some of the most amazing places on the planet  (Islands Quotes) In my own creations, the earliest influence came from the ancient civilisations of Egypt, China, Africa and Persia. In fact, one of my earlier creations was a range of tunics, made from silk procured from the islands of Madagascar.  (Islands Quotes) Only as far as the masters of the world have called in nature to their aid, can they reach the height of magnificence. This is the meaning of their hanging-gardens, villas, garden-houses, islands, parks, and preserves.  (Islands Quotes) As a child, we visited the San Juan Islands during the summer. Kayaking, big family meals, playing on the beach - great memories!  (Islands Quotes) Who will bear witness to these small islands and oases of wildness as land is divided and sold to become strip malls, housing developments,and parking lots? What happens to the natural history here? We must bear witness.  (Islands Quotes) The Bahamas are gorgeous. The deep trench in the ocean floor called the Tongue of the Ocean, which comes between the islands, is the most beautiful deep indigo colour.  (Islands Quotes) Crime writers adore islands. We love the sense of being trapped within a community apart, where normal codes of behavior, if not ignored, can be allowed to slip.  (Islands Quotes) The Gili Islands gave me some of my best scuba diving experiences, including tons of turtles  (Islands Quotes) My best vacation was renting a boat and motoring along the Adriatic, going along the Croatian coast, before it became so fashionable. I’ve also sailed around the Turkish islands, the Greek islands and Sicily.  (Islands Quotes) The former colonies, in Latin America in particular, have a better chance than ever before to overcome centuries of subjugation, violence and foreign intervention, which they have so far survived as dependencies with islands of luxury in a sea of misery.  (Islands Quotes)
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