Hawaiians Quotes

• 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

  Hawaii, Language, Paint

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• 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

  Beautiful, Hard Times, Simple

  Source: theindiespiritualist.com

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• 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

  Police, Trying, Village

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

  Daniel Kahikina Akaka

  Believe, Responsibility, America

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

  Mark Twain

  Flower, Years, Twenties

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

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

  Paul Theroux

  Grace, Mind, Hawaii

  Observer, London, October 29, 1989.

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

  Josip Broz Tito

  Hate, Ocean, Ancient

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• 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

  Travel, Children, Growing Up

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• 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

  Love, Real, Believe

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

  Israel Kamakawiwo'ole

  Feelings, Musician, Toes

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• 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

  Children, Father, Home

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

  Rob Brezsny

  Beautiful, Beautiful Things

  Rob Brezsny (2005). “Pronoia Is the Antidote for Paranoia: How the Whole World Is Conspiring to Shower You with Blessings”, p.90, Frog Books

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• 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

  Running, Spiritual, Moving

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• 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

  Thinking, Levels, United States

  Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• 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

  Country, Men, Independence

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

  Christopher Moore

  Language, Said, Consonants

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

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• I will never understand the appeal of the Hawaiian pizza.

  Judd Winick

  Appeals, Pizza

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• 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

  New York, Garden, Cities

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

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• 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

  Islands, People, Ordinary

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

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• 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

  Sadness, Guitar, Knives

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

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• 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

  Girl, Children, Character

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

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• 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

  Mother, Fun, Party

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• 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

  Prayer, Moving, Thinking

  Libba Bray (2011). “Beauty Queens”, p.20, Scholastic Inc.

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• 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

  Art, Nature, Real

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• 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

  Anxiety, Missing, President

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