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Island Quotes

No place stands entirely alone.

This page brings together quotes about islands as places of memory, transit, and story, from a call to bear witness for a community to a documentary that resisted familiar crime-film conventions. Related themes continue in the First collection.

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I like to read in the bathtub. Ideally, that bathtub would be located on a small Greek island.

Quotes by Adam Mansbach

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Judging is a lonely job in which a man is, as near as may be, an island entire.

Quotes by Abe Fortas

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Through the years, I found we had Native American blood in us. My great-grandmother came from the island of Martinique, and they hooked up with the Native Americans of Louisiana.

Quotes by Aaron Neville

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No one person is an island.

Quotes by Yehuda Berg

About Quotes

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'Strong Island' is not your typical true-crime film. It's not actually about the uncovering of evidence or following leads that hadn't been seen before or any of that stuff.

Quotes by Yance Ford

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My favorite play that I did was at Yale. It's called 'The Island.'

Quotes by Winston Duke

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The island Mayo is generally barren, being dry, as I said; and the best of it is but a very indifferent soil.

Quotes by William Dampier

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The Royal Navy of England hath ever been its greatest defense and ornament; it is its ancient and natural strength; the floating bulwark of the island.

Quotes by William Blackstone

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The people of Butler Island spoke to me and demanded I bear witness for them.

Quotes by Wendy Robie

Ellis Quotes

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The Staten Island Ferry remains a potential terrorist target.

Quotes by Vito Fossella

One classic line reframes island imagery to argue that no person truly stands apart from others. Browse further under About or Every.