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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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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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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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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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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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'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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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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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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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

Mother, New Year, Easter

Barack Obama (2007). “The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream”, p.204, Canongate Books

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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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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

Believe, Exercise, People

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

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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

Prayer, Writing, Mean

Rob Brezsny (2005). “Pronoia Is the Antidote for Paranoia: How the Whole World Is Conspiring to Shower You with Blessings”, p.194, Frog Books

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