Quotes with island

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  • Ban Kimoon Planet Earth is our shared island, let us join forces to protect it.
    Ban Kimoon
    South Korean politician and diplomat (1944 - )
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  • Steven Wright Someone asked me, if I were stranded on a desert island what book would I bring... 'How to Build a Boat.'
    Steven Wright
    American stand-up comedian, actor, and writer (1955 - )
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  • Buzz Aldrin The beauty of Hawaii probably surpasses other places. I like the Big Island and the two mountains, Mauna Loa and Mauna Kea, where you can look out at the stars.
    Buzz Aldrin
    American former astronaut, engineer and fighter (1930 - )
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  • Carol Moseley Braun The Islamic community today is faced with a new version of an old struggle. My late mother used to say it doesn't matter whether you came to this country on the Mayflower or on a slave ship, through Ellis Island or the Rio Grande. We're all in the same boat now.
    Speech, September 2004
    Carol Moseley Braun
    American diplomat, politician, and lawyer (1947 - )
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  • Brendan I. Koerner The most spectacular anti-lava effort in history occurred on the Icelandic island of Heimaey in 1973.
    Brendan I. Koerner
    American author (1974 - )
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  • Burton Richter The reason why Three Mile Island makes such a big impact is because of a Jane Fonda movie called 'The China Syndrome.'
    Burton Richter
    American physicist (1931 - 2018)
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  • Sir William Blackstone 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.
    Sir William Blackstone
    English jurist, judge and politician
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  • Thomas Moore There are several sorts of religions, not only in different parts of the island, but even in every town; some worshipping the sun, others the moon or one of the planets.
    Thomas Moore
    Irish poet (1779 - 1852)
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  • Walt Disney There is more treasure in books than in all the pirates loot on Treasure Island and best of all, you can enjoy these riches every day of your life.
    Walt Disney
    American producer (1901 - 1966)
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  • Aneurin Bevan This island is made mainly of coal and surrounded by fish. Only an organizing genius could produce a shortage of coal and fish at the same time.
    Aneurin Bevan
    British Labor politician (1897 - 1960)
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  • Woody Guthrie This land is your land, this land is my land, from California to the New York Island. From the redwood forest to the Gulf Stream's waters. This land was made for you and me.
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  • H. P. Lovecraft We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far.
    H. P. Lovecraft
    American writer (1890 - 1937)
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  • Winston Churchill We shall defend our island whatever the cost may be, we shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender.
    Winston Churchill
    English statesman (1874 - 1965)
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  • Bill Buford What is New York? A straightforward answer: seven million people crushed onto an island originally settled by the Dutch. But it's more than that. These are seven million who were, mainly, not even born here.
    Bill Buford
    American author and journalist
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  • Brin-Jonathan Butler Where the 'Bay of Pigs' invasion failed, undoubtedly the tourist invasion will succeed in forever changing the landscape of island. What comes next in Cuba? The answer is that many Cubans aren't waiting around to find out.
    Brin-Jonathan Butler
    American journalist and filmmaker
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