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Honor is like an island, rugged and without a beach; once we have left it, we can never return.

Far clouds of feathery gold, Shaded with deepest purple, gleam Like islands on a dark blue sea.

I just remembered when I was an adolescent girl wanting to leave my island and find my calling.

Ireland is a small but insuppressible island half an hour nearer the sunset than Great Britain.

A two-pound turkey and a fifty-pound cranberry-that's Thanksgiving dinner at Three Mile Island.

Being from Staten Island and Brooklyn, I'm used to eating pasta and meatballs every single day.

You put a guy on a desert island, he'll do it to mud, a chicken, a barrel, anything, a knothole.

We are so many and many within themselves travel to far islands but no one asks for their story.

Zuleika, on a desert island, would have spent most of her time in looking for a man's footprint.

That island of England breeds very valiant creatures; their mastiffs are of unmatchable courage.

Here, beside this great black surface that is my desk, I feel as though I am on a desert island.

I grew up in Hawaii and I think those islands are some of the most amazing places on the planet.

My grandfather was a cop in Long Island. I often try to draw on things that I've heard about him.

Larry Jones with Feed the Children and I are partnering in New York and going into Rikers Island.

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

When I was 16 I discovered this island called cinema and I thought: 'Oh how wonderful, I'm ready.

From sorrow to sorrow love crosses its islands and establishes roots that are watered by weeping.

The coral reef at Bonaire, one of the alphabet islands in the Caribbean, is so alive and healthy.

Life is islands of ecstasy in an ocean of ennui, and after the age of thirty land is seldom seen.

There are no countries in the world less known by the British than those selfsame British Islands.

There are no countries in the world less known by the British than those selfsame British Islands.

Sourmelina's secret (as Aunt Zo put it): 'Lina was one of those women they named the island after.

Sailing to an island unknown Failing to find your way home you walk under a sea leagues beneath us

I know I'm not very popular on Long Island. I don't know who's less popular, me or Joey Buttafuoco.

When people begin to talk about "our island story" my hackles rise. It is deluded and conservative.

We want the people of Japan to know that the people of Hawaii welcome them to the Hawaiian Islands.

My fear is that the whole island will become so overly populated that it will tip over and capsize.

As finite creatures who think and feel, we can create islands of meaning in the sea of information.

The general knowledge of time on the island depends, curiously enough, on the direction of the wind.

COULD I PASS A WEEK IN THE INSANE WARD AT BLACKWELL'S ISLAND? I SAID I COULD AND I WOULD. AND I DID.

The Strokes are one of my favorite bands... And there's this band called Future Islands that I love.

There is so much more to the Philippines than just Manila. The beauty is in the neighboring islands.

When you're on a boat, it is this tiny little island where you have to be completely self-sufficient.

Each of his phrases was rather like a little ancient island, inundated by a miniature sea of whiskey.

There ain't much future for a man who works the sea, there ain't no island left for islanders like me.

My friend told me he was going to a fancy-dress party as an Italian island. I said: 'Don’t be Sicily’.

Best of an island is once you get there - you can't go any farther...you've come to the end of things.

Prime-time network television has become an island without religion in an ever-more-religious America.

But Connecticut and Rhode Island have originally realized the most perfect polity as to a legislature.

[I] read Anne Frank's diary [while imprisoned] on Robben Island and derived much encouragement from it.

I have never been part of a scene. I've always been a bit of an island really, but I am fine with that.

the islands of Italy combine all the elements - fire, water, earth, and air - and that is irresistible.

When ghettos become the mainstream of society, islands of individuality cannot help but harbor an elite.

Through vigilance, restraint and control the wise will construct and island that no flood will overcome.

If I were ever stranded on a desert island, there would be 3 things I’d need: food, shelter, and a grip.

The recipe for success is a tried and true one here in Rhode Island - innovation, reform, public service.

Britain's an island; it's always had a constant ebb and flow of immigration - it makes it a better place.

Don Juan speaks of the island of the tonal as something that's in the middle of the ocean ... the nagual.

Someone asked me, if I were stranded on a desert island what book would I bring... 'How to Build a Boat.'

They were going round and round the island, but they did not meet because all were going at the same rate.

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