Fiji Quotes

• Fiji had experienced the ordeal of two military coups.

  Kamisese Mara

  Military, Two, Ordeals

  Report to President Ganilau, May 15, 1992.

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• Thanksgiving Day - Let all give humble, hearty, and sincere thanks, now, but the turkeys. In the island of Fiji they do not use turkeys, they use plumbers. It does not become you and me to sneer at Fiji.

  Mark Twain

  Food, Humble, Islands

  Pudd'nhead Wilson ch. 18, "Pudd'nhead Wilson's Calendar" (1894)

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• In the Fiji islands, it appears, cannibalism is now familiar. They eat thier own wives and children. We only devour widows' houses, and great merchants outwit and absorb the substance of small ones, and every man feeds on his neighbor's labor if he can. It is a milder form of cannibalism.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Children, Men, Islands

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• And what's with the shirt? You think you're in Fiji?" "It's like being on vactaion. all of the time.

  Gerard Way

  Thinking, Shirts

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• We went to a church that had missionaries who'd come back once a year from Fiji & give talks. I remember one of them saying it was very hard work telling people they were going to lose their everlasting souls if they didn't shape up. I pictured people sitting on the beach listening to this sweaty man all dressed in black telling them they were going to burn in hell & them thinking this was good fun, these scary stories this guy was telling them & afterwards, they'd all go home & eat mango & fish & they'd play Monopoly & laugh & laugh & they'd go to bed & wake up the next day & do it all again.

  Brian Andreas

  Beach, Fun, Hard Work

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• India and Fiji have many shared values, and it is the responsibility of both the countries to strengthen those values.

  Narendra Modi

  Country, Motivation, Responsibility

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• People here always said to me, Why would you leave civilization to go to a place like Fiji? Fiji is a far more civilized place than California or New York City.

  Raymond Burr

  New York, Civilization, Cities

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• The only thing I really love is Fiji water. That's like the only crazy request - I don't like any other water.

  Kelly Rowland

  Crazy, Love Is, Water

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• Can you cite one speck of hard evidence of the benefits of "diversity" that we have heard gushed about for years? Evidence of its harm can be seen — written in blood — from Iraq to India, from Serbia to Sudan, from Fiji to the Philippines. It is scary how easily so many people can be brainwashed by sheer repetition of a word.

  Thomas Sowell

  Blood, Years, Iraq

  Thomas Sowell (2011). “Dismantling America and Other Controversial Essays (Large Print 16pt)”, p.397, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• I remember surfing in Fiji, Samoa, Tonga, even Madeira, when local fishermen had never seen a surfboard before, and refused to believe that we could ride a wave on one.

  William Finnegan

  Believe, Surfing, Remember

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• When James Calvert went out as a missionary to the cannibals of the Fiji Islands, the ship captain tried to turn him back, saying, "You will lose your life and the lives of those with you if you go among such savages". To that, Calvert replied, "We died before we came here". Believers who have the Gospel keep mumbling it over and over to themselves. Meanwhile, millions who have never heard it once fall into the flames of eternal hell without ever hearing the salvation story.

  K.P. Yohannan

  Fall, Islands, Flames

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• I grew up near the sea in British Columbia and San Francisco, and lived in Malibu and Fiji for years. I get uncomfortable being too far inland.

  Raymond Burr

  Years, Sea, San Francisco

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• Sean Óg ó Hailpín.... his father's from Fermanagh, his mother's from Fiji, neither a hurling stronghold.

  Micheal O Muircheartaigh

  Mother, Father, Hurling

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• When they took TV to Fiji they found that after 3 years nearly 12 girls out of 100 were over the toilet bowls with bulimia because they felt inferior.

  Susie Orbach

  Girl, Years, Tvs

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• We need university education in Fiji and must seriously think about starting post secondary education in Fiji. In the near future we hope to see a university college in Fiji and ultimately a fully fledged university

  A. D. Patel

  College, Thinking, Needs

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• The thing about impressing your girlfriend is that when you do something like a private island in Fiji, it's all downhill from that point.

  Kevin Hart

  Girlfriend, Islands, Impress

  The Many Sides of Kevin Hart's Heart" by Mickey Rapkin, www.elle.com. January 16, 2014.

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• Communal franchise is wrong in principle and harmful in practice; the time has come in Fiji for all races to get out of the thin water-tight compartments and start thinking in terms of residents of Fiji.

  A. D. Patel

  Thinking, Race, Practice

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• If you could use the Internet somehow to see how a Fiji sailor is doing, rather than having to read a text version of it somewhere a day later, that would be great.

  Dennis Miller

  Would Be, Use, Sailor

  "Analysis: Internet media banned from the Olympics" by Bernhard Warner, www.cnn.com. August 15, 2000.

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• One other thing: at the meeting in Canada, [there was] the coup in Fiji. This comes to an important part of the Commonwealth: the role of the Queen [Elizabeth II]. I had absolutely just enormous respect for her as leader of the Commonwealth. You could talk to her about any of the fifty-one countries of the Commonwealth and you could have an intelligent conversation with her about the economics, the politics. She really immersed herself in the Commonwealth.

  Bob Hawke

  Country, Queens, Intelligent

  Source: www.commonwealthoralhistories.org

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• I dive all over the world: Fiji, Australia, the Caribbean, Hawaii, and many other places.

  Frederick Lenz

  Australia, Hawaii, World

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• Remarriage is or is not approved in shastra; I have no authority to speak on this subject. But I surely cannot go on without saying this much, that remarriage has helped a great deal in stopping crime in Fiji.

  Totaram Sanadhya

  Stopping, Goes On, Speak

  Totaram Sanadhya, John Dunham Kelly, Uttra Kumari Singh (1991). “My twenty-one years in the Fiji Islands ; and, The story of the haunted line”

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• The religious situation of our people is very unstable. This is because of the lack of religious teachers and other dedicated people. As a result Fiji Indians are like an unsteady boat in a whirlpool.

  Totaram Sanadhya

  Teacher, Religious, People

  "My Twenty-One Years in the Fiji Islands". Book by Totaram Sanadhya, 1991.

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