Quotes of: Rhode-island Keyword

You must pay the penalty of growing-up, Paul. You must leave fairyland behind you.

Anne of the Island

Anne was always glad in the happiness of her friends; but it is sometimes a little lonely to be surrounded everywhere by happiness that is not your own.

Anne of the Island

I wouldn't want to marry anybody who was wicked, but I think I'd like it if he could be wicked and wouldn't.

Anne of the Island

That doesn't sound very attractive," laughed Anne. "I like people to have a little nonsense about them.

Anne of the Island

When you've learned to laugh at the things that should be laughed at, and not to laugh at those that shouldn't, you've got wisdom and understanding.

Anne of the Island

The Amish are islands of sanity in a whirlpool of change.

Almost Amish: One Woman's Quest for a Slower, Simpler, More Sustainable Life

Funny that. We live in islands of Hours and we never seem to have time enough for anything...

Absolute Midnight

A library is like an island in the middle of a vast sea of ignorance, particularly if the library is very tall and the surrounding area has been flooded.

Horseradish

It was one thing to talk about ghosts, quite another to have them messing around with things in the physical world.

Island of the Forbidden

As Sancho said, money does not buy happiness but it does buy nearly everything else.

Island Beneath the Sea

A daughter without her mother is a woman broken. It is a loss that turns to arthritis and settles deep into her bones.

Summer Island

It seems wisest to assume the worst from the beginning...and let anything better come as a surprise.

The Mysterious Island

We're all islands shouting lies to each other across seas of misunderstanding.

The Light That Failed

Gradually the magic of the island [Corfu] settled over us as gently and clingingly as pollen.

My Family and Other Animals

It is time I came back to my real life After this voyage to an island with no name, Where I lay down at sunrise drunk with light.

Selected Poems

The island is ours. Here, in some way, we are young forever.

We Were Liars

She flipped through the pages of her apps, as if Apple made an app for "Escape from a deserted island.

Forbidden Life

I come from a tiny mining town in the rainforest in an island at the end of the world. My grandparents were illiterate.

Richard Flanagan

I don't like it to be compared to 'Survivor.' The idea of 'Survivor' is to kill each other off to win the prize. There's no killing in Gilligan's Island.

Sherwood Schwartz

'Rescue From Gilligan's Island' was the first of the so-called reunion shows on the networks, getting a 54 share. With numbers like that, everybody else started to have reunion shows.

Sherwood Schwartz

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.

Thomas Bulfinch