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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.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
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The city of Cork - the urban center, where all the shops and bars and everything are - is actually an island, a river island.
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No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent.
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A self does not amount to much, but no self is an island; each exists in a fabric of relations that is now more complex and mobile than ever before.
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'Rapa Nui' is about the conflict in the 1600s on Easter Island. It's about the clash of the royal clan and the working class.
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In every island of the Aegean Sea are found abundant traces of a vast prehistoric empire.
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Growing up in Rhode Island, I dreamed of a career in law enforcement. That hasn't worked out exactly as I had planned, but life seldom does.
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My grandparents, they came through Ellis Island in 1923, and you know, I'd heard all the stories.
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When I first pitched my Navy tent on the island of Espiritu Santo to the north of Vila, the natives on nearby Malakula were cannibals. Today, they have representation in the United Nations.
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I am extremely privileged to serve Rhode Island in the United States Senate, and that is my only goal and aspiration.
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On December 5, 1941, Chicago led a task force built around the carrier Lexington to Midway Island, at the western end of the Hawaiian Islands, about 1,000 miles from Pearl Harbor.
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I haven't been on very many vacations, but I like Coronado Island, and Disney World was fun.
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