I love giving gifts and I love receiving them. I really like giving little kids extravagant gifts. You see their little faces light up and they get excited. If it's a really good gift, I love receiving it, like jewels, small islands.
Ireland is a small but insuppressible island half an hour nearer the sunset than Great Britain.
There will be no support in the island of Ireland for building a nuclear power station.
You, the Spirit of the Settlement!. . . Not understand that America is God's crucible, the great melting-pot where all the races of Europe are melting and re-forming! Here, you stand, good folk, think I, when I see them at Ellis Island, here you stand in your fifty groups, with your fifty languages and histories, and your fifty blood hatreds and rivalries.
Metaphorically these essays move as a quiet but observant coast-guard cutter among the rocks and islands up and down the littoral of our life.
Lobster is not going to be as tasty with ice tea unless that ice tea is from Long Island.
Lake George is without comparison, the most beautiful water I ever saw; formed by a contour of mountains into a basin. . . finely interspersed with islands, its water limpid as crystal, and the mountain sides covered with rich groves. . . down to the water-edge: here and there precipices of rock to checker the scene and save it from monotony.
Yet, Puerto Ricos economic convergence and political integration with the rest of the nation is in a state of arrest - even though the island has been within the national borders, political system and customs territory of the U. S. for a century.
Sailing to an island unknown Failing to find your way home you walk under a sea leagues beneath us
Through vigilance, restraint and control the wise will construct and island that no flood will overcome.
I read about this hotel that was great, down in the south of the island, not in a touristy area. I had no particular desire ever to go to Jamaica, but I thought, what the hell? Sounds nice. Let's go!
The conductor's stand is not a continent of power, but rather an island of solitude.
I would not be cured if the price of the cure was that I must leave the island and give up my work I am perfectly resigned to my lot. Do not feel sorry for me.
Hy gododin catann hue Hud a lledrith mal wyddan Gaunce ae bellawn wen cabri Varigal don Fincayra Dravia, dravia Fincayra (Talking trees and walking stones, Giants aare the island's bones. While this land our dance still knows, Varigal crowns Fincayra. Live long, live long Fincayra.
Today people live to work rather than work for a living. They have forgotten their true goal in life. Subsequently they have forgotten their dharma. There is no communication between hearts, there is no sharing. Having lost contact with other's hearts, we become totally isolated. But in truth we are not isolated islands, we are links that form one chain.
The Staten Island Ferry remains a potential terrorist target.
To give a name to a thing is as gratifying as giving a name to an island, but it is also dangerous: the danger consists in one's becoming convinced that all is taken care of and that once named, the phenomenon has also been explained.
Sometimes, if you want to be happy, you've got to run away to Bath and marry a punk rocker. Sometimes you've got to dye your hair cobalt blue, or wander remote islands in Sicily, or cook your way through Mastering the Art of French Cooking in a year, for no very good reason.
The truth is, until you know any different, the island is enough. Actually, I know different. And it's still enough.
find your eternity in each moment