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Island Quotes

There is more treasure in books than in all the pirate’s loot on Treasure Island.

– Walt Disney

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

– Theo Rossi

The Long Island Sound is an environmentally unique estuary that needs to be protected.

– Tim Bishop

There was the joke about Switzerland being an island surrounded by land. This was never true.

– Samuel Schmid

In this first testing ground of the atomic bomb I have seen the most terrible and frightening desolation in four years of war. It makes a blitzed Pacific island seem like an Eden. The damage is far greater than photographs can show.

– Wilfred Burchett

I grew up on a tiny little island.

– Samantha Barks

I think anything I do will have an island feel, but I don’t want it to be just that; I don’t want to be put in a box.

– Tessanne Chin

You know, I’m a modern day Harry Belafonte; I got the swagger of the island.

– Wyclef Jean

I did not use a Cayman Island entity to avoid paying taxes for myself.

– Steve Mnuchin

I had to say no to ‘Fantasy Island’ back when I was doing ‘Bosom Buddies.’

– Tom Hanks

My mother came from St. Thomas. I heard that melody and all I did was actually adapt it. I made my adaptation of sort of an island traditional melody. It did become sort of my trademark tune.

– Sonny Rollins

We need to get serious about combating gang violence on Long Island, and the entire nation.

– Tim Bishop

‘Rescue From Gilligan’s Island’ was the first of the so-called reunion shows on the networks, getting a 54 share. With numbers like that, everybody else started to have reunion shows.

– Sherwood Schwartz

It wasn’t Ginger’s Island, it was Gilligan’s Island.

– Sherwood Schwartz

According to the IRS, the wealthiest 400 Americans, who earned an average of roughly $270 million in 2008, paid an average tax rate of just 18.2 percent that year. That’s about the same rate paid by a single truck driver in Rhode Island. It’s not right, and we need to restore fairness to our tax code.

– Sheldon Whitehouse

Rhode Island works hard to reduce air pollution in our communities. We passed laws to prohibit cars and buses from idling their engines and to retrofit school buses with diesel pollution controls. But there is only so much a single state can do, particularly against out-of-state pollution.

– Sheldon Whitehouse

The final cover for ‘Heroes Are My Weakness’ feels exactly right. It reflects the cold, wintry setting of an isolated island off the coast of Maine and the feisty spirit of a heroine who refuses to give up, even when the odds are stacked against her.

– Susan Elizabeth Phillips

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.

– William Blackstone

The sight of the first woman in the minimal two-piece was as explosive as the detonation of the atomic bomb by the U.S. at Bikini Island in the Marshall Isles, hence the naming of the bikini.

– Tom Waits

I don’t like it to be compared to ‘Survivor.’ The idea of ‘Survivor’ is to kill each other off to win the prize. There’s no killing in Gilligan’s Island.

– Sherwood Schwartz

On an island, anything can happen. In a crime novel, it usually does.

– Sharon Bolton

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

– William Dampier

The Staten Island Ferry remains a potential terrorist target.

– Vito Fossella

Five states – Ohio, Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Illinois and North Carolina – have been identified by the EPA as contributing significantly to Rhode Island pollution. As of 2010, 284 tall smokestacks – stacks over 500 feet – were operating in the United States: needles injecting poison into the atmosphere.

– Sheldon Whitehouse

I went to University of Victoria on Vancouver Island and their theater program.

– Thomas Middleditch

We shouldn’t be encouraging people to set up Cayman Island funds.

– Steve Mnuchin

The Romans held Britain from the invasion of Julius Caesar till their voluntary withdrawal from the island, A.D. 420,- that is, about five hundred years.

– Thomas Bulfinch

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