Hawaiians Quotes:

I will never understand the appeal of the Hawaiian pizza.

- Judd Winick

topic: Appeals, Hawaiians, Pizza

Kaohinani is a Hawaiian word meaning “gatherer of beautiful things.

- Rob Brezsny

topic: Beautiful, Beautiful Things, Hawaiians

Ooo ahe-e, I aya oa a," she said in yawnspeak, a language - not unlike Hawaiian - known for its paucity of consonants.

- Christopher Moore

source: Christopher Moore (2009). “Fluke: Or, I Know Why the Winged Whale Sings”, p.118, Hachette UK

topic: Language, Said, Hawaiians, Consonants

You know what I learned about Hawaiians? They're just blown up Mexicans!

- Gabriel Iglesias

topic: Hawaiians, Knows

If you don’t have at least a working knowledge of the Hawaiian language… you can’t chant well. You cannot… receive the images of poetry paints for you. It’s like having peas and no pod.

- Keali'i Reichel

topic: Hawaii, Language, Paint, Hawaiians

There's a beautiful forgiveness practice I love which is quite simple. It's called "Ho'oponopono" (pronounced: ho-o-pono-pono) and it's a lot easier to do than it is to say. It's a Kahuna Hawaiian technique, which involves repeating four phrases internally toward yourself or the person whom you're having a hard time forgiving.

- Marci Shimoff

source: Source: theindiespiritualist.com

topic: Beautiful, Hard Times, Simple, Hawaiians, Having A Hard Time

When we got to the hotel, the Hawaiian Village, there were 500 screaming women there. The police were trying to keep the crowd back. It was very dangerous.

- Minnie Pearl

topic: Police, Trying, Village, Hawaiians

As it has for America's other indigenous peoples, I believe the United States must fulfill its responsibility to Native Hawaiians.

- Daniel Kahikina Akaka

topic: Believe, Responsibility, America, Indigenous People, Hawaiians

In my nostrils still lives the breath of flowers that perished twenty years ago.

- Mark Twain

source: Mark Twain (1976). “Mark Twain's Notebooks & Journals, Volume I: (1855-1873)”, p.105, Univ of California Press

topic: Flower, Years, Twenties, Hawaiians, Still Life

Hawaii is not a state of mind, but a state of grace.

- Paul Theroux

topic: Grace, Mind, Hawaii, Hawaiians

Ancient Hawaiians say: When you're itching for the waves, the only lotion is the ocean.

- Josip Broz Tito

topic: Hate, Ocean, Ancient, Hawaiians, Itching

That's why we sail. So our children can grow up and be proud of whom they are. We are healing our souls by reconnecting to our ancestors. As we voyage we are creating new stories within the tradition of the old stories, we are literally creating a new culture out of the old.

- Nainoa Thompson

topic: Children, Growing Up, Healing, Hawaiians, Navigators

In Hawaii, we greet friends, loved ones or strangers with Aloha, which means love. Aloha is the key word to the universal spirit of real hospitality, which makes Hawaii renowned as the world's center of understanding and fellowship. Try meeting or leaving people with Aloha. You'll be surprised by their reaction. I believe it and it is my creed. Aloha to you.

- Duke Kahanamoku

topic: Real, Believe, Mean, Hawaiians, Renowned

Hawaiian to me is a feeling of getting somewhere, without stepping on anybodys toes, without causing friction with anybody.

- Israel Kamakawiwo'ole

topic: Feelings, Musician, Toes, Hawaiians

The people to whom your fathers told of the living God, and taught to call 'Father,' and whom the sons now seek to despoil and destroy, are crying aloud to Him in their time of trouble; and He will keep His promise, and will listen to the voices of His Hawaiian children lamenting for their homes.

- Liliʻuokalani

topic: Children, Father, Home, Hawaiians, Times Of Trouble

This force is unlimited. It is always moving and always flowing. The ancient Hawaiians, the Kahunas, used the metaphor of the flow of a running stream to represent the divine force.

- Wayne Dyer

topic: Running, Spiritual, Moving, Hawaiians, Always Moving

Even though it's still the United States, I think on many levels they feel separate, especially the true Hawaiians - who are not necessarily thrilled to be a part of the United States. But I just love the whole spirit.

- Natalie Maines

source: Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

topic: Thinking, Levels, United States, Hawaiians

The cause of Hawaii and independence is larger and dearer than the life of any man connected with it. Love of country is deep-seated in the breast of every Hawaiian, whatever his station.

- Liliʻuokalani

topic: Country, Men, Independence, Hawaiians

An evening up on the Empire State roof-the strangest experience. The huge tomb in steel and glass, the ride to the 84th floor and there, under the clouds, a Hawaiian string quartet, lounge, concessions and, a thousand feet below, New York-a garden of golden lights winking on and off, automobiles, trucks winding in and out, and not a sound. All as silent as a dead city-and it looks adagio down there.

- Dawn Powell

source: Dawn Powell (1998). “The Diaries of Dawn Powell: 1931-1965”, Zoland Books

topic: New York, Garden, Clouds, Hawaiians, String Quartets

It is not just the history of the Hawaiian islands but the significance of the ordinary people whose lives - many quite extraordinary - make up that history.

- Alan Brennert

source: Alan Brennert (2015). “The Hawaii Novels: Moloka'i and Honolulu”, p.852, St. Martin's Press

topic: Islands, People, Ordinary, Hawaiians

A lean, loose-jointed Negro had commenced plunking a guitar beside me while I slept. His clothes were rags; his feet peeped out of his shoes. His face had on it some of the sadness of the ages. As he played, he pressed a knife on the strings of the guitar in a manner popularized by Hawaiian guitarists who used steel bars. The effect was unforgettable.

- William Christopher Handy

source: William Christopher Handy (1947). “Father of the Blues: An Autobiography of W. C. Handy”

topic: Sadness, Guitar, Knives, Hawaiians

I was a very quiet, shy child. I grew up in a small town, Louisville, Kentucky, and there weren't too many Hawaiian-Filipino girls, so I stuck out like a sore thumb. I didn't look like everyone else and didn't feel I belonged... But these things only build character and make you stronger. It taught me to grow into the woman I was to become.

- Nicole Scherzinger

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

topic: Girl, Children, Character, Makes You Stronger, Hawaiians

My mother would organize huge parties for my elementary school classmates. To prepare, she would go back to the bakery in her old neighborhood of Inwood and get special shamrock cookies. Hawaiian Punch was served and we had shamrock napkins. It was a lot of fun.

- Christine Quinn

topic: Mother, Fun, Party, Hawaiians, Old Neighborhood

I'll try to communicate, Taylor said. She spoke slowly and deliberately. Hello! We need help. Is your village close? My village is Denver. And I think it's a long way from here. I'm Nicole Ade. Miss Colorado. We have a Colorado where we're from too! Tiara said. She swiveled her hips, spread her arms wide, then brought her hands together prayer-style and bowed. Kipa aloha. Nicole stared. I speak English. I'm American. Also, did you learn those moves from Barbie's Hawaiian Vacation DVD? Ohmigosh, yes! Do your people have that, too?

- Libba Bray

topic: Prayer, Moving, Thinking, Hawaiians, Nicole

The author describes how impressed she was with the detailed storyboards that outlined her movie – "not just sketches, but real art". She then describes a Hawaiian sunset as, "God painting His storyboard on the sky".

- Bethany Hamilton

topic: Art, Nature, Real, Hawaiians

President Obama , I guess, is starting to confess to some of his anxieties. In a recent interview, President Obama said, 'I miss being anonymous.' He said, 'In the old days, I could blend in with all the other Hawaiian Barack Hussein Obamas.'

- Conan O'Brien

topic: Anxiety, Missing, President, Hawaiians

On Easter or Christmas Day, my mother might drag me to church, just as she dragged me to the Buddhist temple, the Chinese New Year celebration, the Shinto shrine, and ancient Hawaiian burial sites.

- Barack Obama

topic: Mother, New Year, Easter, Hawaiians, Audacity Of Hope

It is the fundamental right of every American, as guaranteed by the first amendment of the Constitution, to worship as he or she pleases... This legislation sets forth the policy of the United States to protect and preserve the inherent right of American Indian, Eskimo, Aleut, and Native Hawaiian people to believe, express, and exercise their traditional religions

- Jimmy Carter

source: United States. President (1977-1981 : Carter), Jimmy Carter (1979). “Jimmy Carter”

topic: Believe, Exercise, People, Hawaiians, First Amendment

The "Kumulipo" is an old Hawaiian prayer chant that poetically describes the creation of the world. The word literally means "beginning-in-deep-darkness." Here darkness doesn't connote gloom and evil. Rather, it's about the inscrutability of the embryonic state; the obscure chaos that reigns before germination.

- Rob Brezsny

topic: Prayer, Mean, Writing, Hawaiians, Creation Of The World

I farm taro. I have eight varieties of taro, which is a staple of the Hawaiian people from about 2,000 years ago, and sweet potatoes, and it's a sustainable living, agriculture, off the grid.

- Jason Scott

source: Interview with Todd Gilchrist, www.ign.com. August 29, 2005.

topic: Sweet, Eight, Years, Hawaiians, Grids

My father was a big Bruce Lee fan. He's Chinese-Hawaiian, and my mother is Chinese. He used to take us to all these really fantastical films with martial arts in them. And Bruce Lee was amazing.

- Jason Scott

topic: Mother, Art, Father, Hawaiians

The Census Bureau is thinking of creating a new category because so many kids don't know how to describe themselves using the existing categories. I call these kids the "Keanu Reeves Generation," after the actor who has a Hawaiian father and a Welsh mother.

- Richard Rodriguez

source: Source: www.teachingbooks.net

topic: Mother, Father, Kids, Hawaiians, Census

The ukulele totally fits that whole hipster community or whatever you want to call it, but then at the same time it works great in nursing homes where senior citizens get together and play, and then as the traditional Hawaiian instrument with people doing the Hula and strumming the ukulele and singing.

- Jake Shimabukuro

source: Source: www.motherjones.com

topic: Senior, Hipster, Home, Hawaiians, Hula

Hula is the art of Hawaiian dance, which expresses all we see, smell, taste, touch, feel, and experience. It is joy, sorrow, courage, and fear.

- Robert Cazimero

topic: Art, Smell, Joy, Hawaiians, Hula

Just the thought of anything Hawaiian gets me high! I appreciate the good cannabis that people have spent years perfecting but I also enjoy the cheap stuff. I guess you could say I like it all.

- Tommy Chong

source: Source: vegascannabismag.com

topic: Years, Appreciate, People, Hawaiians

Wearing a Hawaiian shirt, you don't ever come across as offensive. Nobody sees you as a threat. You see someone in a Hawaiian shirt, and you are like 'this guy is ready to party.'

- Gabriel Iglesias

topic: Party, Guy, Offensive, Hawaiians

Make good the good in you...and you will slowly steal into the Hawaiian heart, which is all of softness, and gentleness, and sweetness.

- Jack London

topic: Heart, Hawaii, Stealing, Hawaiians

Hawaii is the birthplace of surfing, and many Hawaiians or part-Hawaiians surf, but in the rest of the United States it's a pretty white sport.

- William Finnegan

topic: Sports, White, Surfing, Hawaiians

I'm weird - I don't really listen to American music while I'm writing. I do occasionally get an anthem song, but generally speaking, when I write, I only listen to Japanese and Hawaiian music.

- Violet Duke

topic: Song, Writing, Anthem, Hawaiians, American Music

How come the Chinese can go where I can't go in America? Englishmen can come and set up a business in white America and do things I can't do.The Puerto Rican, Hawaiians, just about everybody can do more than black people and are more respected.

- Muhammad Ali

source: Interview with Michael Parkinson, www.mirror.co.uk. October 17, 1971.

topic: White, America, People, Black People, Hawaiians

Hollywood must be the only place on earth where you can be fired by a man wearing a Hawaiian shirt and a baseball cap.

- Steve Martin

topic: Baseball, Men, Hollywood, Hawaiians, Baseball Caps

I'm a Hawaiian shirt guy. I've made that life decision.

- Chris O'Dowd

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

topic: Guy, Decision, Shirts, Hawaiians, Life Decision

I guess this is gonna sound kind of weird, but I'm not scared for myself for dying. Because I believe all these places are temporary. This is just one shell. Because we Hawaiians live in both worlds.

- Israel Kamakawiwo'ole

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

topic: Believe, Dying, Sound, Hawaiians

Moke Kupihea has the strength of conviction necessary to impart to the world a more sensitive account of Hawaiian kahuna heritage, which comes down to him from the priesthood line from which he descends.

- Rubellite Kawena Johnson

topic: World, Lines, Heritage, Hawaiians

I mean, people don't know what race I am. They never know if I'm Hawaiian or Italian or Mexican or Spanish or white. I could play Jewish, I could play anything.

- Tyler Posey

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

topic: Mean, Italian, Race, Hawaiians

It's a blessing to be paid to be in paradise. The Hawaiian people are so friendly.

- Rebecca Mader

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

topic: Blessing, People, Friendly, Hawaiians

I'm half Hawaiian and the haka is a very sacred thing, something your family teaches you - my father taught me.

- Jason Momoa

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

topic: Father, Half, Sacred, Hawaiians, Sacred Things

In Blue Crush , we meet three Hawaiian surfers who work as hotel maids, live in a grotty rental, and are raising the kid sister of one of them. Despite this near-poverty, they look great; there is nothing like a tan and a bikini to overcome class distinctions.

- Roger Ebert

source: Roger Ebert (2004). “Roger Ebert's Movie Yearbook 2005”, p.76, Andrews McMeel Publishing

topic: Crush, Kids, Blue, Hawaiians, Class Distinction

I learned the hula, so now I know how to shake my booty Hawaiian style.

- Sanjaya Malakar

topic: Style, Hula, Booty, Hawaiians

Now to avoid any collision of armed forces, and perhaps the loss of life, I do this under protest and impelled by said force yield my authority until such time as the Government of the United States shall, upon facts being presented to it, undo the action of its representatives and reinstate me in the authority which I claim as the Constitutional Sovereign of the Hawaiian Islands.

- Liliʻuokalani

topic: Loss, Islands, Yield, Hawaiians