Honolulu Quotes:

Honolulu, it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother.

- Ken Dodd

topic: Family, Mother, Children, Honolulu

Hawai‘i Pacific University's new use of the iconic Aloha Tower Marketplace will continue its historic role of welcoming visitors, and now students, to the heart of Honolulu in a modern, vibrant mixed-use space.

- Kirk Caldwell

topic: Heart, Space, Towers, Aloha, Honolulu

I just sold a farm in Missouri, and I own a ski lodge in Colorado with some Honolulu partners.

- James MacArthur

topic: Agriculture, Colorado, Skis, Lodges, Missouri

Unlike most major American cities, Honolulu is geographically insulated from the rest of the country. When disaster strikes we cannot call on neighboring states for assistance.

- Daniel Kahikina Akaka

topic: Country, Cities, Disaster, Scientism, Honolulu

I was born and raised in Honolulu, Hawaii

- Steve Case

topic: Hawaii, Born, Raised, Honolulu

The band would play on the night off for the local hotel bands and we'd back all the different acts. So I'd been advised by good friends of mine to come back to Hawaii. Oh, I loved Honolulu, playing at a place right on the beach at Waikiki!

- Martin Denny

topic: Beach, Good Friend, Night, Waikiki, Honolulu

Creating a city for successful aging involves incorporating age friendly values into everything we do - every plan, every project, every design. I'm excited to be leading Honolulu in this effort, and I believe that it will be one of the most rewarding things I do as Mayor.

- Kirk Caldwell

topic: Believe, Successful, Cities, Incorporating, Honolulu

But there are people who take salt with their coffee. They say it gives a tang, a savour, which is peculiar and fascinating. In the same way there are certain places, surrounded by a halo of romance, to which the inevitable disillusionment you experience on seeing them gives a singular spice. You had expected something wholly beautiful and you get an impression which is infinitely more complicated than any that beauty can give you. It is the weakness in the character of a great man which may make him less admirable but certainly more interesting. Nothing had prepared me for Honolulu.

- W. Somerset Maugham

topic: Beautiful, Coffee, Character, Savour, Honolulu

If he takes the option of dropping behind the point where the ball rests, keeping in line with the pin, his nearest drop is Honolulu.

- Jimmy Demaret

topic: Golf, Balls, Lines, Honolulu

My parents used to park us kids at the public library in downtown Honolulu every Saturday. They'd leave us there at 8 A.M. and pick us up at 4 P.M. - so between those hours, you'd better find something to do! I sat upstairs in the picture room and went through opera, ballet, and theater books. I loved the photographs of people wearing elaborate makeup and costumes - they really pulled at me inside. I was in that library every week for years, until I was about 13. I had a rich interior life, because I didn't have much of a social life.

- Bette Midler

topic: Book, Kids, Makeup, Honolulu

I grew up in Honolulu. It's not the ballet cultural mecca by any stretch of the imagination. People are much more familiar with hula than they are with ballet.

- Joan Chen

source: Source: collider.com

topic: Hula, Honolulu

Barack Obama II is born in the Kapiolani Medical Center in Honolulu. His birth is recorded in two local newspapers.

- Dinesh D'Souza

topic: Two, Medical, Birth, Honolulu

We were just floored by the kindness of the people here. The minister of the Unitarian Church in Honolulu invited my family over to his office the day we arrived and told us to make it our headquarters while we looked for a permanent residence. When we couldn't find a place for about a week, he let us live in the church; that's ironic, isn't it? But it points up the vastly different intellectual atmosphere that prevails here in Hawaii.

- Madalyn Murray O'Hair

topic: Kindness, Unitarian Church, Office, Headquarters, Unitarian

Obama wouldn't have been voted president if he weren't black. Somebody asked me over the weekend why does somebody earn a lot of money have a lot of money, because she's black. It was Oprah. No, it can't be. Yes, it is. There's a lot of guilt out there, show we're not racists, we'll make this person wealthy and big and famous and so forth.... If Obama weren't black he'd be a tour guide in Honolulu or he'd be teaching Saul Alinsky constitutional law or lecturing on it in Chicago.

- Rush Limbaugh

topic: Stupid, Teaching, Weekend, Lecturing, Constitutional Law

Dr. Margaret Oda, a true trailblazer in education, served as Honolulu school district superintendent and was the driving force behind the middle-school concept and the first chairwoman of the Japanese American National Museum.

- Colleen Hanabusa

source: "Our Commitment to Women’s Success Continues" by Rep. Colleen Hanabusa, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 31, 2014.

topic: School, Museums, Drs, Superintendents, Trailblazers

You're really spread out now, you've got stuff all over the WORLD! You've got stuff at home, stuff in storage, stuff in Honolulu, stuff in Maui, stuff in your pockets...supply lines are getting longer and harder to maintain.

- George Carlin

topic: Home, Pockets, World, Maui, Honolulu

Honolulu is a melting pot.

- Bruno Mars

topic: Melting, Melting Pot, Pot, Honolulu

In terms of talking with my collaborators as they came onboard - Jeannine Oppewall, our production designer, Dante Spinotti, our cinematographer, and so forth - I said to them, "Let's pretend that this is a place like Honolulu. Let's ignore the fact that all these other movies have been made here for decades and try to come at it with a fresh eye, as if it were an exotic city that people aren't that familiar with. And let's present our own view of it, create a world that's unique to this movie [L.A Confidential].

- Curtis Hanson

source: Source: www.avclub.com

topic: Eye, Unique, Views, Confidential, Collaborators

My dark comic edge is the end result of trying to use humor to maintain my sanity growing up in a dysfunctional family in Honolulu.

- Kirby Wright

source: "Hawaii, Mortuaries, And Saving Kurt Vonnegut: An Interview With Kirby Wright". Interview with Jane Ormerod, www.greatweatherformedia.com. September 5, 2013.

topic: Growing Up, Dark, Trying, Dysfunctional Family, Honolulu

Not only are Puerto Ricans citizens by birth, but one would be hard-pressed to find a Puerto Rican without a sister in New York or a son in Chicago, a cousin in Orlando or a daughter in Honolulu or Oklahoma City.

- Luis A. Ferre

source: "Luis A. Ferré Dies at 99; Pushed Puerto Rican Statehood" by Douglas Martin, www.nytimes.com. October 22, 2003.

topic: Daughter, Cousin, New York, Orlando, Oklahoma City

The borrowers of America and all the world turn to New York....It is to the quotations on the New York Stock Exchange that men of affairs from Penobscot to Honolulu turn each morning to find how beats the pulse of prosperity and enterprise.

- Charles A. Beard

topic: Morning, New York, Men, Stock Exchange, Borrowers