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

  Struggle, Decision, Forever

  77 Copy quote

• 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

  Teaching, Men, Two

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

  13 Copy quote

  Show source

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

  Joe Quirk

  Age, World, Maps

  Source: www.abc.net.au

  6 Copy quote

  Show source

• 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

  Dance, Couple, Dancing

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

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• 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

  Reading, Ideas, People

  Source: www.slashfilm.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source