Islands Quotes

My father used to run auctions. He's now a singer in the Canary Islands.

My boyhood saw Greek islands floating over Harvard Square.

I love travelling, and had the pleasure of being in the most developed country in the world and then parts of two of the most pristine natural areas of the world: the Galapagos islands and the Equador Amazon jungle. The contrast was incredible.

I grew up in the Cayman Islands. I didn't play video games or watch TV. I would basically come home from school, throw down my backpack, grab my machete, and go hike and chop down trees to make a fort.

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

A nice pop star would do you nice on one of those deserted islands.

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.

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

The advice I am giving always to all my students is above all to study the music profoundly... music is like the ocean, and the instruments are little or bigger islands, very beautiful for the flowers and trees.

I feel we are all islands - in a common sea.

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

I don't want to go to the Bahamas on holiday. I hate islands. I want to go to Brittany, where it's cold and raining, and there's nothing fancy about it.

I love giving gifts and I love receiving them. I really like giving little kids extravagant gifts. You see their little faces light up and they get excited. If it's a really good gift, I love receiving it, like jewels, small islands.

I discovered Musha Cay and the islands around it in the Exumas.

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.