Island Culture Quotes

Hawaiian music is beautiful and simple.

I'm from the Caribbean, and I love the dance hall sound.

[Describing Hawaii:] ... essentially a part of the American system

Honolulu is a melting pot.

When I was a kid, I loved Elvis, and Harrison Ford as Indiana Jones. But I had no connection to Hollywood - and being a movie star was such a far-fetched idea, growing up in Hawaii.

My mother is Bermudan, so I had a lot of memories when I was a kid, used to go down to Bermuda a lot.

I'm representing the Bahamas; I'm representing a lot of islands - it's a whole nation behind me, on my back.

In Hawaii, some of the biggest radio stations are reggae. The local bands are heavily influenced by Bob Marley.

I am very attracted by the mysterious landscape of Easter Island. Not only because it is a piece of land that is further away from another, but also because of the beautiful statues of Moai that are there. To do a beautiful walk there, I would have to involve the Moai, and the Rapa Nui people who live on the island.

The history of Hawaii may be seen as a story of arrivals.

I'm from an island, so I've always been near the water. I don't think I could live somewhere far from the sea.

I can't even speak Hawaiian, but if you go there and listen to a Hawaiian song, you get captured because it's so beautiful, like the melody is just gorgeous and you know Bob Marley is on the radio every single day. It's very reggae-influenced down there. Basically, you haven't been to paradise if you haven't been to Hawaii.

Being from Miami, you're used to the fact that your home is a vacation spot. But that's what makes Miami one of the best places in the world. We're so rich in different cultures, being so close to Haiti, Cuba, the Dominican Republic, and Puerto Rico, and then you've got people who travel from all over the world just to come visit.

If you live on Nantucket, you can't avoid its history, and 'Moby Dick' is the way most of us get into Nantucket's history.

California is an island, and New York's an island. Maybe it's time for me to change islands.

The Caribbean is such a rich place, and Jamaica, personally, is one of my favorite places in the world. I've been lucky to, on various projects, to have spent a lot of time down there.

The grief of the keen is no personal complaint for the death of one woman over eighty years, but seems to contain the whole passionate rage that lurks somewhere in every native of the island.

Britain's an island; it's always had a constant ebb and flow of immigration - it makes it a better place.

I'm from Long Island. Strong Island.

I was born in New York, but I'm of Cuban heritage. Maybe there's a little island in my blood.

Joining the Islander family and living on the Island has been special.

I am primarily, absolutely a Caribbean writer.

Most people have no idea what Cabo Verde is or even where it is to mention, so I definitely want to make people aware of this beautiful culture.

The first time I ever went to Hawaii, I was listening to island music, thinking, 'I could've been born here, and I'm pretty sure I would never play that.'

Even with, or perhaps, because of, this background, I have over the past few years sensed a very dramatic change in attitude on the part of Prince Edward Islanders towards the on-going rush for so-called modernization.