When I'm not working, my family and I have a house in the San Juan Islands. We've been here since '94.

- Elizabeth Pena

In the islands of the Aegean Sea, every island is full of graves.

- James Theodore Bent

The Japanese invaded Tulagi, in the Solomon Islands, on May 4.

- Jack Adams

When you're on a boat, you're going to little islands and stuff. It's not a partying kind of thing.

- Jeff Greene

I thought to live on an island was like living on a boat. Islands intrigue me. You can see the perimeters of your world. It's a microcosm.

- Jamie Wyeth

Any frequent visitor to Hawaii is fixated on mapping how the islands have changed since their last visit.

- Hanya Yanagihara

There are no countries in the world less known by the British than those selfsame British Islands.

- George Borrow

We're performing several shows in the Canary Islands.

- George Duke

I have this weird tropism for islands. Take me to an island as far from New York as I can possibly go.

- Garth Risk Hallberg

The Galapagos Islands provide a window on time. In a geologic sense, the islands are young, yet they appear ancient.

- Frans Lanting

I feel we are all islands - in a common sea.

- Anne Morrow Lindbergh

I was born in Kodiak, and I was raised in a place called Dutch Harbor out on the Aleutian Islands. There's a show called the 'Deadliest Catch' on the Discovery Channel. And they film it on Dutch Harbor where I grew up.

- Darby Stanchfield

I like islands.

- Dominic Monaghan

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

- David Copperfield

The other exception where we did not at all restore the place to its original condition is the Surrounded Islands. Before we installed our fabric, we had our workers remove 42 tons of garbage off the beaches of those islands. We never brought the garbage back.

- Christo

The countries of the American continent and the adjacent islands are for the United States the natural marts of supply and demand.

- Chester A. Arthur

We got orders to strike the Marshall and Gilbert Islands. We had a task force with the Enterprise. We had two or three cruisers and probably eight or 10 destroyers.

- Barney Ross

Pacific Islands are among those that contribute least to global warming, yet suffer most.

- Ban Ki-moon

You must never call it the Shetlands. Islanders are proud and can be prickly about the name: it's either Shetland or the Shetland Islands.

- Ann Cleeves

I sometimes detect that a type of regional divide is setting in, and there is a lack of real Caribbean connection among the islands, and I am concerned about this.

- Anthony Carmona