There are at least two islands named Santa Rosa Island:
- Santa Rosa Island, California, one of the Channel Islands
- Santa Rosa Island, Florida
- Battle of Santa Rosa Island, a battle of the American Civil War
Famous quotes containing the words santa, rosa and/or island:
“On the Atchison, Topeka and the Santa Fe.”
—Johnny Mercer (1909–1976)
“We are all dead men on leave.”
—Eugene Leviné, Russian Jew, friend of Rosa Luxemburg’s lover, Jogiches. quoted in Men in Dark Times, “Rosa Luxemburg: 1871-1919,” sct. 3, Hannah Arendt (1968)
“I should like to have seen a gallery of coronation beauties, at Westminster Abbey, confronted for a moment by this band of Island girls; their stiffness, formality, and affectation contrasted with the artless vivacity and unconcealed natural graces of these savage maidens. It would be the Venus de’ Medici placed beside a milliner’s doll.”
—Herman Melville (1819–1891)