Bahamas Quotes:

I'd like to be the ambassador to the Bahamas.

- Eleanor Mondale

topic: Bahamas, Ambassadors

I love to fish offshore for billfish, and have fished all over for them from the Bahamas, St. Thomas, Venezuela, Panama, Costa Rica, Mexico to the Texas gulf. I haven't made it to Australia yet, but someday I'm going.

- George Strait

topic: Texas, Australia, Bahamas, Costa Rica, St Thomas

I managed to take a family trip to the Bahamas and it was quite lovely.

- Jackie Collins

topic: Lovely, Bahamas, Funny Travel

The Bahamas is headed for unprecedented economic activity.

- Perry Christie

topic: Bahamas, Economic

Anna [Nicole Smith] was very firm that the Bahamas was her home, it's where she wanted to raise Dannielynn and she wanted Daniel to be near her.

- Howard K. Stern

topic: Home, Bahamas, Anna

The way that I Am is designed, it becomes a kind of archipelago, which the Bahamas are.

- Tavares Strachan

topic: Bahamas, Way, Kind

From space, the Bahamas is the most beautiful place on Earth.

- Chris Hadfield

source: Source: www.telegraph.co.uk

topic: Beautiful, Space, Bahamas, Beautiful Places

Why not the Bahamas? Or the Corn Palace?

- Richelle Mead

source: Richelle Mead (2010). “Last Sacrifice: A Vampire Academy Novel”, p.117, Penguin

topic: Bahamas, Why Not, Corn

There are a lot of music startups that don't have anything to do with anyone's love for music. It has to do with them having a glorious IPO and then retiring to the Bahamas somewhere. It's important to keep that in mind.

- DJ Shadow

source: Source: pitchfork.com

topic: Mind, Important, Bahamas

My mother's side of the family is from the Bahamas, and I spent time there on and off when I was growing up. It's the place where I feel at peace.

- Lenny Kravitz

source: Interview with Raphael Saadiq, www.interviewmagazine.com. February 14, 2012.

topic: Mother, Growing Up, Bahamas

Harbour Island in the Bahamas is beautiful, with turquoise water and pink sand.

- Diane von Furstenberg

topic: Beautiful, Islands, Water, Harbour, Bahamas

The heavy spacesuits are spectacular to look at but very hot. Putting one on was like going from chilly London winter weather to the Bahamas in just minutes.

- Kathleen Quinlan

source: Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

topic: Winter, Weather, London, Winter Weather, Chilly

I don't want to go to the Bahamas on holiday. I hate islands. I want to go to Brittany, where it's cold and raining, and there's nothing fancy about it.

- Julie Delpy

topic: Hate, Rain, Holiday, Bahamas, Brittany

The Bahamas are gorgeous. The deep trench in the ocean floor called the Tongue of the Ocean, which comes between the islands, is the most beautiful deep indigo colour.

- Chris Hadfield

source: Source: www.telegraph.co.uk

topic: Beautiful, Ocean, Islands, Indigo, Bahamas

Is that not ridiculous that people thought that Justin Bieber and I were on a vacation together, on a romantic vacation, in the Bahamas, and I just happened to wear a gown as my swimsuit and red lips and he's dressed in a suit in the ocean? Seriously who would walk to the beach like that?

- Kim Kardashian

topic: Beach, Ocean, Vacation, Swimsuits, Bahamas

Harbour Island in the Bahamas is a wonderful little island with beautiful beaches, a great restaurant culture and friendly, welcoming atmosphere.

- Helena Christensen

topic: Beautiful, Beach, Islands, Bahamas, Beautiful Beach

My dad really wanted to learn how to sail and, when I was 16, he became a quarter partner in this small, 24-foot trimaran.Three weeks a year, I'd go with him and we'd sail from Florida out around the Bahamas.

- Travis Rice

source: Source: www.outdoorjapan.com

topic: Dad, Feet, Florida, Bahamas

It was on this day that the Bahamas declared independence. Before that they were a British colony. The British Empire lost Canada and the Bahamas, to name just a couple. Britain's been dumped more times than Taylor Swift. But did they go writing whining songs about it? No.

- Craig Ferguson

topic: Song, Couple, Writing, Bahamas

ʺWhere is it?ʺ I asked. ʺLexington, Kentucky.ʺ ʺOh for Godʹs sake,ʺ I moaned. ʺWhy not the Bahamas? Or the Corn Palace?ʺ Dimitri tried to hide a smile. It might have been at my expense, but if Iʹd lightened his mood, I was grateful. ʺIf we leave right now, we can reach him before morning.ʺ I glanced around. ʺTough choice. Leave all this for electricity and plumbing?ʺ Now Sydney grinned. ʺAnd no more marriage proposals.ʺ ʺAnd weʹll probably have to fight Strigoi,ʺ added Dimitri. I jumped to my feet. ʺHow soon can we go?ʺ

- Richelle Mead

topic: Morning, Grateful, Fighting, Marriage Proposal, Lexington

When you're in [ Bahamas], it feels like a bunch of islands, with keys and things like that. It's an existential archipelago. It's funny, you try to escape who you are and where you're from, but it's always part of your social DNA.

- Tavares Strachan

topic: Islands, Keys, Dna, Bahamas

I've got two shirts still missing from the Bahamas. I'm sure they are part of a youth camping programme somewhere in Tanzania by now.

- David Lange

source: "Sunday Herald" Newspaper, August 7, 2005.

topic: Two, Missing, Tanzania, Bahamas, Programmes

I wanted to be a marine biologist my whole life until I graduated high school. And even now, I'm still like, 'Maybe I'll just quit the biz and go to Santa Cruz and study marine biology and have my own research center in the Bahamas.' Yeah, I'm sure it would be just that smooth.

- Cobie Smulders

topic: School, Marine, Would Be, Marine Biology, Biologist

I love the Bahamas, and I used to go there all the time with my friend who passed away, Henry. And I love it there, especially that island [Grand Exuma], so I've been there a lot over the twenty years.

- Pam Houston

source: Source: therumpus.net

topic: Bahamas

I hate Nassau and the Bahamas. It's one of those places I'd always wanted to visit since reading Ian Fleming but it was full of casinos with Americans in shorts.

- Tony Parsons

topic: Bahamas

I have a bunch of islands in the Bahamas that we made into this amazing, magical place. And we have these birds; they're trained to do certain things on the island, which is awesome. These toucans had a baby toucan, and the baby toucan, every hour that you'd look at this toucan, he would change.

- David Copperfield

source: Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

topic: Baby, Islands, Bird, Magical Places, Bahamas

If you take a flower to Mars, for example, the hostility of Mars probably won't allow the flower to live without oxygen. The process of being an artist, for someone who wasn't born in an arts-centric environment - I came from the Bahamas, where there's not a historic tradition of art-making, at least from the Western prospective - in a way is kind of an alien concept.

- Tavares Strachan

topic: Art, Flower, Oxygen, Bahamas, Art Making

A federal grand jury is investigating allegations that David Copperfield raped, assaulted and threatened a woman he took to his private island in the Bahamas in July. What happened to the good old days when a guy would just saw you in half?

- Chelsea Handler

topic: Islands, July, Guy, Bahamas, Good Old Days

We're actually trying to develop an iPhone app, now that the Droid is out, we'll do it for that as well, if we ever learn how to program on this thing. But the idea is that to make money concrete. So, you can do this app, and it's not out there, but you can do the app. And you say, "I like vacation in the Bahamas, shoes, lattes, and books." And now, when you are tempted to buy something, that thing translates in terms of the things you are interested in.

- Dan Ariely

source: "A conversation with Dan Ariely, Author of Predictably Irrational". Big Think Interview, bigthink.com. November 18, 2009.

topic: Book, Vacation, Iphone, Lattes, Bahamas

They fought their first action in March of 1775. Embarked on eight small ships, they sailed to the Bahamas and captured a British fort near Nassau, seizing gunpowder and supplies. Later, during the Revolutionary War, Marines fought several engagements in their distinctive green coats, such as helping George Washington to cross the Delaware River, and assisting John Paul Jones on the Bonhomme Richard to capture the British frigate Serapis during their famous sea fight.

- Tom Clancy

source: "Marine". Book by Tom Clancy, 1996.

topic: War, Marine, Fighting, Bahamas, Revolutionary War

For nine miles along a submerged ridge, the corals rise in lumpy hillocks that spread out 100 yards or more, resembling heaped scoops of rainbow sherbet and Neapolitan ice cream. The mounds, some 100 feet tall, sprout delicate treelike gorgonians that sift currents for a plankton meal. Fish, worms and other creatures dart or crawl in every crevice. This description could apply to thousands of coral reefs in shallow, sun-streaked tropical waters from Australia to the Bahamas. But this is the Sula Ridge, 1,000 feet down in frigid darkness on the continental shelf 100 miles off Norway's coast.

- James Dwight Dana

topic: Nature, Australia, Ice Cream, Frigid, Crevice