Islands Quotes

You're going to anger all the people who live on the islands. You've already angered me. - Mel Brown

Your life is an island separated from all other islands and continents. Regardless of how many boats you send to other shores or how many ships arrive upon your shores, you yourself are an island separated by its own pains, secluded in its happiness. - Kahlil Gibran

You have to be mindful it is not the individuals, it is the structure of the PSC that is failing the people of the Virgin Islands... I think the solution is for us as policymakers to bring legislation that will change the structure to make it work. - Michael Malone

You don't have to cling to nothing and nobody actually. Life has oceans of pain and islands of happiness you can at any time slip away from... - Mariana Fulger

Working with Andre is consistent with our company's previous efforts to boost economic development in the Hawaiian islands. - Jonathan Roth

With this designation, we can maintain these islands as they are, guaranteeing they will not be developed. - Jim Doyle

While there will be a reduced military presence, the Australian government remains committed to the people of the Solomon Islands and continues to provide specialist support to advance reforms in policing, justice, finance and governance. - Robert Hill

While 2005 witnessed a decrease from 2004, the yearly average is still very high in the Marshall Islands when compared both to its own history and to prevalence data from other countries. The Marshall Islands is averaging 14 suicides per year this decade (since 2000). - Michael Jenkins

When the war started, this group was sent to the Aleutian Islands near Siberia. - Phillip Levine

When the islands became a state in 1959... there was a broad consensus in Congress that Native Hawaiians would not be treated as a separate racial group, and that they would not be transformed into an 'Indian tribe.' - John Fund