Quotes About Auckland

#1. I've been diving for about 30 years, and I can honestly say that I've had some amazing encounters with sharks, squids, and other whales. But the encounter with the right whales in the Auckland Islands was probably the best thing I've ever done. It was just that amazing.

Brian Skerry

#2. I'm a Kiwi. I'm from a beach suburb called Takapuna, which is on the north shore of Auckland in New Zealand.

Lorde

#3. My mother was a schoolteacher and very keen that I go to a city school, so although it was fairly impoverished times, I traveled every day to the Auckland Grammar School.

Edmund Hillary

#4. This is the first time I've been in a WTA final so it's really great to make it here in Auckland. I'm so tired I can't stand on my feet any more. Today the key was to run and run and finally I put a lot of pressure on her and she started to miss on the big points.

Marion Bartoli

#5. I've watched so-called 'New Order' playing in Auckland, and Tom Chapman is miming along to my bass on tape ... He's got his fingers on the low, and you can hear my high bass in the background. So he's miming.

Peter Hook

#6. I want to go to New Zealand so bad! I have amazing memories of being in that country, of jumping off of a building in Auckland and having so much fun.

Sean Mackin

#7. I'd love to come to Middle Earth! Apparently Auckland is an amazing city, one of the best to live in too.

Coeur De Pirate

#8. When I see someone from Beijing owning 50 houses in Auckland I don't think that's neo-racist

Winston Peters

#9. I think I drunk e-mailed the Auckland Philharmonic last night.

Antonia Murphy

#10. I was in a band in Auckland, and I remember they all hated me. They had a big intervention. They said, basically, 'Gin, we think you suck.' I was miserable. I cried and cried. But looking back, that taught me about social skills and how to communicate with musicians.

Gin Wigmore

#11. We have now reached the point where you can wander down Queen Street in Auckland and wonder if you are still in New Zealand or some other country.

Winston Peters

#12. My relationship with the mountains actually started when I was 16. Every year, a group used to be taken from Auckland Grammar down to the Tangariro National Park for a skiing holiday.

Edmund Hillary

#13. I'd done stage musicals for quite a few years, starting with 'Grease' in Auckland.

Russell Crowe

#14. I would love to come to Auckland. That's a place I've been quite a lot with my band so I'm very much looking forward to it.

Tom DeLonge

#15. I've been melted into something
too easy to spill. I make more
and more of myself in order
to make more and more of the baby.
He takes it, this making. And somehow
he's made more of me, too.

Brenda Shaughnessy

#16. The trend in China is toward tighter and tighter control. They are basically improving their censorship mechanisms.

Rebecca MacKinnon

#17. Society judges political parties based on the results that they give. When they don't meet the population's needs, when they are not up to expectations, that leaves society free to pick other parties.

Enrique Pena Nieto

#18. I had never really done something that was more of a horror film, and its funny, because those are the kind of movies that I like probably more than any other genre. The script had images in it that I liked.

Tim Burton

#19. This was the threshold to the place of the dead.

Terry Goodkind

#20. God offers his protection to sinners," Ceolnoth said unctuously. "Especially to sinners," Ceolberht said. "I'll remember that," I said, "when I've finished sinning.

Bernard Cornwell

#21. Let us proceed under the assumption that the fairy folk do exist, and that I am not a gibbering moron.

Eoin Colfer

#22. Our fathers founded the first secular government that was ever founded in this world. Recollect that. The first secular government - the first government that said every church has exactly the same rights and no more; every religion has the same rights, and no more.

Robert Green Ingersoll

#23. What is right is not always popular.

Allison Tolman

#24. All History is current; all injustice continues on some level, somewhere in the world.

Alice Walker

#25. He learned through the way that my father and I felt about his songs, his country songs, that they were great songs. And then he went out and sang them for the audiences that we found, and he found a tremendous reaction to that.

Alan Lomax

#26. Within legal enforcement of "morality," there is no sense of how to morally, ethically, or fairly help people live safer lives. It's all about banishment or punishment or forced destitution - all of which creates more desperation, and more social risk-taking by people in moments of crisis.

Terre Thaemlitz

#27. A dog is a liberal ... He wants to please everybody.

William Kunstler

#28. The moment when one thing turns into another is the most beautiful moment. A combination of sounds turns into music. And that applies to everything.

Vik Muniz