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)
“When the inhabitants of some sequestered island first descry the “big canoe” of the European rolling through the blue waters towards their shores, they rush down to the beach in crowds, and with open arms stand ready to embrace the strangers. Fatal embrace! They fold to their bosoms the vipers whose sting is destined to poison all their joys; and the instinctive feeling of love within their breasts is soon converted into the bitterest hate.”
—Herman Melville (1819–1891)