Quotes About Hawaiian Culture

#1. Exploitation was rampant before statehood, and various factions actively tried to eradicate the roots of Hawaiian culture in the process of converting the natives to European religious beliefs. Some of the results can never be undone. We try to honor what is left.

Todd Rundgren

#2. At the cross a world of sin is absorbed by the love of God and recycled into grace and mercy. This is what the cross is about! This is what Christianity reveals. Christianity

Brian Zahnd

#3. Never try to make anyone like you: you know, and God knows, that one of you is enough.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#4. None of it lay fallow and neglected, none of it under another's control; for being an extremely thrifty guardian of his time he never found anything for which it was worth exchanging. So he had enough time; but those into whose lives the public have made great inroads inevitably have too little.

Seneca.

#5. Sometimes sexuality was more compelling when it was not overt.

Mary Balogh

#6. If there is any religion that could respond to the needs of modern science, it would be Buddhism.

Albert Einstein

#7. I think actually that the speech work I do is fine. It's important, because I try to help people think about what's going on and organize their lives accordingly.

William J. Clinton

#8. We, the Hawaiian people, who are born from the union of Papahanaumoku and Wakea, earth mother and sky father, and who have lived in these islands for over 100 generations, will always have the moral right to the lands of Hawai'i now and forever, no matter what any court says.

Lilikala K. Kame'eleihiwa

#9. Emotions are like muscles. Most of them go highly unattended, it's usually the weaker, undefined ones that cause injury to the rest, and there is most certainly memory response in play.

Erica Goros

#10. Other people can talk about how to expand the destiny of mankind. I just want to talk about how to fix a motorcycle. I think that what I have to say has more lasting value.

Robert M. Pirsig

#11. The revolution of 1893 and the annexation that followed undermined a culture and ended the life of a nation. Compared to what such operations have brought to other countries, though, this one ended well.

Stephen Kinzer

#12. My style icons were Gwen Stefani, when she was in No Doubt, and then Shirley Manson in Garbage.

Katy Perry

#13. So they're your favorite lines, then?" I press my lips to her forehead. "My dear baby blue. Both of those quotes are about you." I pause while she looks shocked. "Hey, see I'm a poet too.

Karina Halle