#island

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I am a bomb but I mean you no harm. That I still am here to tell this, is a miracle: I was deployed on May 15, 1957, but I didn’t go off because a British nuclear engineer, a young father, developed qualms after seeing pictures of native children marveling at the mushrooms in the sky, and sabotaged me. I could see why during that short drop before I hit the atoll: the island looks like god’s knuckles in a bathtub, the ocean is beautifully translucent, corals glow underwater, a dead city of bones, allowing a glimpse into a white netherworld. I met the water and fell a few feet into a chromatic cemetery. The longer I lie here, listening to my still functioning electronic innards, the more afraid I grow of detonating after all this time. I don’t share your gods, but I pray I shall die a silent death.


Marcus Speh


#humanity #inspirational #literary #pacific-islands #speh

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 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

I discovered Musha Cay and the islands around it in the Exumas.


David Copperfield


#discovered #i #islands

Lest those islands still seem to you too remote in space and time to be relevant to our modern societies, just think about the risks... of our increasing globalization and increasing worldwide economic interdependence.


Jared Diamond


#economic #globalization #increasing #interdependence #islands

No man or woman is an island. To exist just for yourself is meaningless. You can achieve the most satisfaction when you feel related to some greater purpose in life, something greater than yourself.


Denis Waitley


#exist #feel #greater #island #just

The sight of the first woman in the minimal two-piece was as explosive as the detonation of the atomic bomb by the U.S. at Bikini Island in the Marshall Isles, hence the naming of the bikini.


Tom Waits


#atomic bomb #bikini #bomb #explosive #first

The personal vocabulary, the individual melody whose metre is one's biography, joins in that sound, with any luck, and the body moves like a walking, a waking island.


Derek Walcott


#biography #body #individual #island #joins

In a sense, each of us is an island. In another sense, however, we are all one. For though islands appear separate, and may even be situated at great distances from one another, they are only extrusions of the same planet, Earth.


J. Donald Walters


#appear #distances #each #earth #even

General Washington had rather incautiously encamped the bulk of his army on Long Island - a large and plentiful district about two miles from the city of New York.


Mercy Otis Warren


#army #bulk #city #district #general