Top 20 Nainoa Quotes: Famous Quotes & Sayings About Nainoa

#1. We can skip through a lot of the stuff people might ask about the writing of the book, and so their comments always start well, well down into the nitty-gritty.

Chang-rae Lee

#2. As I am from Hawai'i, the ocean is part of my culture and who I am. My ancestors were great ocean explorers.

Nainoa Thompson

#3. We can't care for something we don't understand. This is the purpose of why we explore and why we voyage.

Nainoa Thompson

#4. A lot of professional dancers become professional when they turn 15 or 16 years old, when they're still children. So you've trained every single waking moment up until that point for a career that could maybe only last 10 years, maybe longer if your body holds up, if your injuries are kept at bay.

Amanda Schull

#5. Heaven, envious of our joys, is waxen pale;
And when we whisper, then the stars fall down
To be partakers of our honey talk.
(Dido, Queen of Carthage 4.4.52-54)

Christopher Marlowe

#6. We cannot talk to God strongly when we have not lived for God strongly. The closet cannot be made holy to God when the life has not been holy to God.

Edward McKendree Bounds

#7. We are a blue planet and an ocean world.

Nainoa Thompson

#8. Applause is a receipt, not a note of demand.

Artur Schnabel

#9. Life on our planet is defined by the health of our ocean.

Nainoa Thompson

#10. I sometimes suffer from insomnia. And when I can't fall asleep, I play what I call the alphabet game.

Roz Chast

#11. 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

#12. Gavin thought of Adante and how she was like a blue flame, so mesmerizing, so beautiful and as much as he wanted to touch her, he knew it would only hurt them both in the end.

Jasmine Angell

#13. When people come together around common vision, they can accomplish great things. We need the instruments that pull our people together, not apart.

Nainoa Thompson

#14. Someone 'big' will get thrown out of their Trials or at the Olympics. I would bet my house on it.

Ato Boldon

#15. Wealth is also defined by family, connection to our ancestry, and our best vision of the future. All of these find their inner spirit, their constancy, and their strength in the values that shape our thinking and our actions.

Nainoa Thompson