Georges Island

Georges Island, or George's Island, may refer to:

  • Georges Island (Massachusetts) - offshore from the city of Boston, Massachusetts
  • Georges Island (Nova Scotia) - offshore from the community of Halifax in the Halifax Regional Municipality, Nova Scotia.

Famous quotes containing the words georges and/or island:

    “America is the only nation in history which, miraculously, has gone directly from barbarism to degeneration without the usual interval of civilization.”
    —Attributed to Georges Clemenceau (1841–1929)

    “The island dreams under the dawn
    And great boughs drop tranquillity;
    The peahens dance on a smooth lawn,
    A parrot sways upon a tree,
    Raging at his own image in the enamelled sea.”
    —William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)