Polynesia Quotes:

I have come to an unalterable decision - to go and live forever in Polynesia. Then I can end my days in peace and freedom, without thoughts of tomorrow and this eternal struggle against idiots.

- Paul Gauguin

topic: Struggle, Decision, Forever, Polynesia

I have laid the stick that connects people together. Now it is up to you, your generation and the generations to come, to build upon that stick a bridge that will ensure the free sharing of information and teaching between the two peoples until the day we become united again as a single people, as we were once before; before men separated us with their imaginary political boundaries of today's Polynesia and Micronesia.

- Mau Piailug

source: "Piailug's greatest lesson is that we are a single people". "Honolulu Star-Advertiser" Newspaper, July 29, 2010.

topic: Teaching, Men, Bridges, Polynesia, Single People

We're going to draw a new map of the world, with French Polynesia as the centre of the Aquatic Age.

- Joe Quirk

source: Source: www.abc.net.au

topic: Age, World, Maps, Polynesia

In many parts of the world-including Polynesia, north Africa & the Middle East-public dancing that focused on a physically linked couple would have been unthinkable, a violation of communal propriety.

- Gerald Jonas

source: Gerald Jonas (1998). “Dancing: The Pleasure, Power, and Art of Movement”, Turtleback Books

topic: Dance, Couple, Dancing, Polynesia, North Africa

It was really John's [Musker] idea to begin with to tell a story set in the world of the South Pacific, Polynesia. He started, he just loved the world and he started reading a lot of mythology, which most people are not that familiar with.

- Ron Clements

topic: Reading, Ideas, People, Polynesia