#island

…I once found a list of diseases as yet unclassified by medical science, and among these there occurred the word Islomania, which was described as a rare but by no means unknown affliction of spirit. There are people…who find islands somehow irresistible. The mere knowledge that they are on an island, a little world surrounded by the sea, fills them with an indescribable intoxication. These born “islomanes”…are direct descendents of the Atlanteans ↗

— Lawrence Durrell

#science

Give us this day our daily Faith, but deliver us, dear God, from Belief. ↗

— Aldous Huxley

#inspirational #island #metaphysical-beliefs #metaphysics #faith

I grew up on a tiny little island. ↗

— Samantha Barks

#i #island #little #tiny #up

We live in a state with a wonderful climate and plenty of natural beauty, from the shores of Cumberland Island to the Chattahoochee River to the Blue Ridge Mountains. ↗

— Roy Barnes

#blue #climate #island #live #mountains

I think the water dictates how food will taste in a country. In England the apples taste unlike apples grown in any other place. England is an island, there's a lot of salt in the air and in the water. I think that has something to do with it. ↗

— Gael Garcia Bernal

#any #apples #country #dictates #england

This island is made mainly of coal and surrounded by fish. Only an organizing genius could produce a shortage of coal and fish at the same time. ↗

— Aneurin Bevan

#could #fish #genius #island #made

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

— Tim Bishop

#combating #entire #entire nation #gang #gang violence

It's like turning the space program over to the Long Island Railroad. ↗

— David R. Brower

#like #long #long island #over #program

I was a choir boy for 3 years in high school at St. George's in Newport, Rhode Island. ↗

— Billy Bush

#choir #george #high #high school #i

I was a small kid from Huntington, Long Island. I never imagined that anything like that would happen to me. ↗

— Gerry Cooney

#happen #i #imagined #island #kid