#island

The United States is a giant island of freedom, achievement, wealth and prosperity in a world hostile to our values. ↗

— Phyllis Schlafly

#freedom #giant #hostile #island #our

The advice I am giving always to all my students is above all to study the music profoundly... music is like the ocean, and the instruments are little or bigger islands, very beautiful for the flowers and trees. ↗

— Andres Segovia

#above #advice #always #am #beautiful

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

— Paul Simon

#bottom line #everyone #faith #island #line

My parents moved to American Samoa when I was three or four years old. My dad was principal of a high school there. It was idyllic for a kid. I had a whole island for a backyard. I lived there until I was eight years old and we moved to Santa Barbara. ↗

— Eric Stoltz

#backyard #barbara #dad #eight #four

I have a massage when I want to relax. I love being pampered. I love island massages when you're outside in the fresh air. ↗

— Angie Stone

#being #fresh #fresh air #i #i love

If I read not amiss, this powerful race will move down upon Mexico, down upon Central and South America, out upon the islands of the sea, over upon Africa and beyond. And can any one doubt that the results of this competition of races will be the "survival of the fittest?" ↗

— Josiah Strong

#america #amiss #any #beyond #central

We lived on the Key West Army Base. Key West for me was a tropical island paradise. ↗

— Gloria Swanson

#base #island #key #lived #me

They were all intensely excited, and all overflowing with noisy expressions of their loyalty to the Law. Yet I felt an absolute assurance in my own mind that the Hyena-Swine was implicated in the rabbit-killing. A strange persuasion came upon me that, save for the grossness of the line, save for the grotesqueness of the forms, I had here before me the whole balance of human life in miniature, the whole interplay of instinct, reason, and fate in its simplest form. ↗

— H.G. Wells

#life

In every island of the Aegean Sea are found abundant traces of a vast prehistoric empire. ↗

— James Theodore Bent

#empire #every #found #island #prehistoric

I gladly accepted the commission but was uncertain about what the end result would be. On the one hand, Cuban music was conquering the world; being heard everywhere, and our small island was already producing one of the popular musical genres of the 20th century. ↗

— Alejo Carpentier

#about #accepted #already #being #century