Deserted Island

Famous quotes containing the words deserted and/or island:

“In the morning, while it was still very dark, he got up and went out to a deserted place, and there he prayed.”
—Bible: New Testament, Mark 1:35.

Of Jesus.

“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)