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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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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.
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No one person is an island.
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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.
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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.
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The people of Butler Island spoke to me and demanded I bear witness for them.
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I graduated from CUNY College of Staten Island with a 3.9 GPA in three and a half years.
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I went to University of Victoria on Vancouver Island and their theater program.
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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.
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