Island Nights

Famous quotes containing the words island and/or nights:

“An island always pleases my imagination, even the smallest, as a small continent and integral portion of the globe. I have a fancy for building my hut on one. Even a bare, grassy isle, which I can see entirely over at a glance, has some undefined and mysterious charm for me.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

“Time flies like an arrow; the days and nights alternate as fast as a weaver’s shuttle.”
—Chinese proverb.