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Voyaging great distances -- through forests, from island to island, across plains and into the mountains -- is all about finding ourselves.
The island is in Kenya, the water is in Uganda... But the [Luos, a Kenyan ethnic group] are mad, they want to fish here but this is Uganda.
A child raised on a desert island, alone, without social interaction, without language, and thus lacking empathy, is still a sentient being.
I did with my wife a comic book for the Raynham Hall Museum in Long Island. They sell the book every single time a busload of kids comes in.
[Madame Nhu was] the Sandra Dee of South Vietnam. If I were cast on a desert island with her, I would quickly make friends with the natives.
Often it's just a short swim from the shipwreck of your life to the island paradise of your dreams, assuming you don't drown in the metaphor.
I have to think that somewhere on some little island in the Pacific, there's someone's who's great, but I'm probably never going to hear him.
...we shall board our imagined ship and wildly sail among sacred islands of the mad till death shatters the fabulous stars and makes us real.
In the Caribbean islands, especially in Jamaica, have I found a country similar to South Africa plus the racial freedom I had sought so long.
I'd go to Coney Island to hang out, and I saw a magician doing a rope trick on the boardwalk. I was fascinated. I guess that's how it started.
Metaphorically these essays move as a quiet but observant coast-guard cutter among the rocks and islands up and down the littoral of our life.
Who rules East Europe commands the Heartland; who rules the Heartland commands the World-Island; who rules the World-Island controls the world.
Poverty is such a relative thing; but no man is really poor till life becomes a desert island that gives him neither food nor shelter nor hope.
If you choose not to live self-responsibly, you count on others to make up your default. No one abjures self-responsibility on a desert island.
The ego is an island in the ocean of Hell. You want to get rid of the Hell but you don't want to get rid of that island. Then there is trouble.
I consulted a Chinese herbalist and spent two weeks on an island off the coast of Zanzibar. I was away from any kind of contemporary technology.
It was a palace, made entirely of gold, sitting on an island of silver snow at the very top of the world. East of the sun, and west of the moon.
When the ship is sinking and you're forced to choose sides, the new solution is to jump from island to island to island. You don't have to pick.
An island Utopia in a modern, busy, everyday world. A land where there are neither rich nor poor. A heaven on earth - without a fence around it.
Harbour Island in the Bahamas is a wonderful little island with beautiful beaches, a great restaurant culture and friendly, welcoming atmosphere.
Islands are havens and breeding grounds for the unique and anomalous. They are natural laboratories of extravagant evolutionary experimentation.
Faith is an island in the setting sun, But proof is the bottom line for everyone.
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.
Don Juan speaks of the island of the tonal as something that's in the middle of the ocean ... the nagual.
Pacific Islands are among those that contribute least to global warming, yet suffer most.
Through vigilance, restraint and control the wise will construct and island that no flood will overcome.
This is our island. It's a good island. Until the grownups come to fetch us we'll have fun.
I come from a very warm island, where colors are very important, very vibrant, and obviously the color has been an influence on my work.
I did a 'Love Boat!' And based on my trip on the 'Love Boat,' I said, 'I'd just as soon not do 'Fantasy Island.''
The recipe for success is a tried and true one here in Rhode Island - innovation, reform, public service.
It's amazing. Long Island, I don't know really. It's quite a fascinating area.
And there was a beutiful view But nobody could see Cause everybody on the island Was saying Look at me! Look at me.
A big island of library, in the middle of an ocean, away from all the fools of the world, would this place not be a real paradise?
We need to get serious about combating gang violence on Long Island, and the entire nation.
We want the people of Japan to know that the people of Hawaii welcome them to the Hawaiian Islands.
The truth is, until you know any different, the island is enough. Actually, I know different. And it's still enough.
The insane asylum on Blackwell’s Island is a human rat-trap. It is easy to get in, but once there it is impossible to get out.
Thus sharply did the terrified three learn the difference between an island of make-believe and the same island come true.
Jace suggested that the cast of "Gilligan's Island" could go do something anatomically unlikely with themselves.
If this long island story of ours is to end at last, let it end only when each one of us lies, choking in his own blood upon the ground.
The Senkaku Islands are an integral part of Japanese territory based on international law as well as in the context of our history.
This is only a small part of the totality. From this island earth we see only a fragment of creation and its knowledge.
The candle-buds opened their wide white flowers....Their scent spilled out into the air and took possession of the island.
[Long Island] is buoyant, it's on the outskirts of Manhattan, and so they have access to phenomenal restaurants.
Happiness isn't something this island yields easily; the ground is too rocky and the sun too sparse for it to flourish.
Your reason is your friend. It defends the island of your awareness. But you don't want your reason to rule everything.
I can't say, maybe it's something in the ingredients, but again, we have a couple of contestants from Long Island and a phenomenal array of chefs.
In no way can words convey the nagual. But they open up the possibility. They allow an admission on the island of the tonal.
When you sit, you've put a place on the island of the tonal for the possibility of your thoughts stopping for a short period of time.
You'll find that you will be able to reorder the island of your tonal so that it's in good shape - logical, orderly, neat, and well-defined.