Island In The Sun Quotes

#1. And I finally understand what she needs to hear and that she's talking about not just me but Elf too and I tell her that my sorrow was not created by her, that my childhood was a joyful thing, an island in the sun, that her mothering is impeccable, that she is not to blame.

Miriam Toews

#2. Though you rise early, yet the day comes at his time, and not till then.

George Herbert

#3. Happiness isn't something this island yields easily; the ground is too rocky and the sun too sparse for it to flourish.

Maggie Stiefvater

#4. A silvery voice chimed, Today a Sun Dragoness is born, first of her kind. Welcome to the Island-World, Riika. The stars sing with you. She is born! Rising,

Marc Secchia

#5. They had reached, she felt, a sunny island where peace dwelt, sanity reigned and the sun forever shone, the blessed island of good boots.

Virginia Woolf

#6. I still remember when my teacher told me that football wouldn't give me anything to eat

Cristiano Ronaldo

#7. It seems to me," said Magid finally, as the moon became clearer than the sun, "that you have tried to love a man as if he were an island and you were shipwrecked and you could mark the land with an X. It seems to me it is too late in the day for all that.

Zadie Smith

#8. Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance.

Oscar Wilde

#9. It was then I thought of Corsica, the place we had discovered together. I craved the wind, the sun and salt, the simplicity of the island.

Lucy Foley

#10. For many years I have been tormented by the certainty that the most extraordinary discoveries await us in the sphere of time . We know less about time than about anything else

Andrei Tarkovsky

#11. Saying thank you is more than good manners. It is good spirituality.

Alfred Agache

#12. If the kingdom of God had departments, we'd want to work in research and development. We felt like Jesus didn't hang out at the synagogue, he hung out at wells. Coffeehouses are postmodern wells. Let's not wait for people to come to us, let's go to them.

Mark Batterson

#13. I flew too near the sun
and my wax wings fell off
pg. 62// A Coney Island of the Mind

Lawrence Ferlinghetti

#14. I was used to driving my sun chariot across the sky, where every lane was the fast lane. I was not used to the Long Island Expressway. Believe me, even at midday in the middle of January, there is nothing express about your expressways.

Rick Riordan

#15. Being her friend was like going to a tropical island for a little fun in the sun, only to be kidnapped by terrorists.

Lauren Beukes

#16. Obama's plan for higher taxes and more spending is a blueprint for perpetual poverty. The last thing America needs is more of the Democrats' class warfare that has left our economy a barren landscape.

Steve Stockman

#17. What I do not accept is the fact that so many people's talents were ripped off.

Ruben Blades

#18. Nights and days came and passed
and summer and winter
and the sun and the wind
and the rain.
and it was good to be a little island
a part of the world
and a world of its own
all surrounded by the bright blue sea.

Margaret Wise Brown

#19. Love is an island in the setting sun

Paul Simon

#20. 'Angus' was my first real film, but I had been acting for about 3 threes before that as well.

Chris Owen

#21. It was a palace, made entirely of gold, sitting on an island of silver snow at the very top of the world. East of the sun, and west of the moon.

Jessica Day George

#22. Edah Amsellah - The Tears of the Dragon

Karen Maitland

#23. I've seen you up close, like this. I remember your eyes. They're the color of the sea -- just inside a coral reef and your freckles are like the stones of a volcanic island scattered along the sand. Your hair is like the sun setting over the water, shooting out orange rays in all directions

Melissa Turner Lee

#24. The first experience can never be repeated. The first love, the first sun-rise, the first South Sea Island, are memories apart, and touched a virginity of sense.

Robert Louis Stevenson

#25. 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 More

#26. I pledge allegiance to the soil
of Turtle Island,
and to the beings who thereon dwell
one ecosystem
in diversity
under the sun
With joyful interpenetratio n for all.

Gary Snyder

#27. Once winter sets in I must have the sun and warmth. I need to be in the sun - I'm a true island baby.

Narciso Rodriguez

#28. He folded into my arms. I buried my face in his hair, and I listened to the sounds of midsummer on my island. Gorse pods were crackling in the sun. When the wind shifted, I could hear the voice of the sea, woven through always with birdsong and mermaids.

Harper Fox

#29. I'm a Christian, but I'm not a puritan. I believe in pleasure and orgiastic pleasure has its place, intellectual pleasure has its place, social pleasure has its place, televisual pleasure has its place [in life].

Cornel West

#30. The secret ingredient to sex is love.

Lars Von Trier

#31. I don't think there's much point in bemoaning the state of the world unless there's some way you can think of to improve it. Otherwise, don't bother writing a book; go and find a tropical island and lie in the sun.

Peter Singer

#32. It now costs more to amuse a child than it once did to educate his father.

Vaughn Monroe

#33. It was an enchanted place, he said, designed to keep kids safe from the monsters, on an island where the sun shined every day and nobody ever got sick or died.

Ransom Riggs

#34. Faith is an island in the setting sun, But proof is the bottom line for everyone.

Paul Simon

#35. The sun was getting up, and mortal white he looked about the cutwater. But, there he was, and the six all dead - dead and buried.

Robert Louis Stevenson

#36. I'd just rather have a really sharp, interesting, smart gay son than some big dumb hetero meathead.

Moby

#37. The Order of the Arrow is a thing of the outdoors rather than the indoors. It was born in an island wilderness. It needs the sun and rain, the woods and the plains, the waters and the starlit sky.

E. Urner Goodman

#38. Hope. Its the most addictive thing you can give someone." - Cade

Alexander Barnes

#39. The sun, coming hard around the world: the island rises from the sea, sinks, rises, holds.

Peter Matthiessen

#40. By the time I retire, I will have fought the best. I will have made my money. Maybe I'll be a boxing commentator. I'll go back to school, definitely. I already have a plan. My life's set. I'll be on an island, married, playing golf in the sun. That will be my life.

Oscar De La Hoya

#41. The girl who'd taken on a Pirate Lord and his entire island, the girl who'd stolen Asterion horses and raced along the beach in the Red Desert, the girl who'd sat on her own rooftop, watching the sun rise over Avery, the girl who'd felt alive with possibility ... that girl was gone.

Sarah J. Maas

#42. The savage, rocky shores of Christmas Island, 200 miles south of Java, in the Indian Ocean. It's November, the moon is in its third quarter, and the sun is just setting. In a few hours from now, on this very shore, a thousand million lives will be launched.

David Attenborough