Quotes About South Pacific

#1. 'South Pacific' - I really learned a lot. I swear I like to say that during 'South Pacific,' I went from being a girl to being a woman.

Laura Osnes

#2. All of my Polynesian counterparts in the NFL with roots in American Samoa understand how the values embedded in our South Pacific culture - community, hard work, perseverance, respect - contribute directly to our success.

Troy Polamalu

#3. You're not a real Texan till you've been kicked out of every decent state in America.

Joe Bob Briggs

#4. The new prime minister, Malcolm Turnbull, while a vast improvement on his predecessor is not doing much, if anything, to slow that process done.

Justine Larbalestier

#5. I met some people who help in an archeological project in the South Pacific, between sailing to the Marquesas, which is an island group not too far from Tahiti, and I think, Wouldn't that be great? I have such a fascination with history and especially history in my own country.

Robert Plant

#6. Why do we shave? It doesn't seem like a natural activity. There are no examples of shaving in nature. The only creature that comes close is the male South Pacific Groping Beetle, which sometimes, just before mating, will slap on a little Aqua Velva. But we think this resulted from atomic testing.

Dave Barry

#7. Through relationship with God, man is finally capable of doing that which he was incapable of doing on his own. That's what walking in the Spirit is all about.

Lysa TerKeurst

#8. It's easier for China to assert its maritime power by creating artificial islands in the South China Sea than by defying the U.S. Pacific Fleet with an aircraft carrier.

David Ignatius

#9. If I had to pick one tribe to go back and live with permanently - and I hate doing this, it's not a contest - it would be the people of Anuta, in the South Pacific. It's got white beaches, blue seas, good food and gentle, friendly people who have a wonderful philosophy of sharing. And it's warm.

Bruce Parry

#10. If they can fight and die on Okinawa, Guadalcanal (and) in the South Pacific, they can play ball in America.

Happy Chandler

#11. I don't think the real America is in New York or on the Pacific Coast; personally, I like the Middle West much better, places like North and South Dakota, Minneapolis and Saint Paul. There, I think, are the true Americans

Charlie Chaplin

#12. It may seem contradictory, but in the languid tropics one spends more time contemplating those great good things of sound and sight and smell.

James A. Michener

#13. In some South Pacific cultures, a speaker holds a conch shell as a symbol of temporary position of authority. Leaders must understand who holds the conch that is, who should be listened to and when.

Max De Pree

#14. At the end of October 4 in 1957, when I was coming back from sea duty in the South Pacific, Sputnik went up. I realized that humans would be right behind robot aircraft or spacecraft even though I really had no plans of being in aviation or a professional aviator and certainly not in the military.

Edgar Mitchell

#15. [Donald Trump] suggestions that the United States should leave the Pacific and let Japan, South Korea, or whoever else wants to develop nuclear weapons. These are incredibly dangerous ideas that need to be confronted.

Hillary Clinton

#16. There's a small island, inhabited in the South Pacific that I will try to swim to.

Peter Arnett

#17. There are big surfing communities in every country with an ocean coast that I know in Central and South America. Same with Mexico, Bali, and nearly every island nation that gets waves in the Pacific and Indian Oceans. But that's a relatively recent development in most places.

William Finnegan

#18. Really, there is no infidelity, nowadays, so great as that which prays, and keeps the Sabbath, and rebuilds the churches. The sealer of the South Pacific preaches a truer doctrine.

Henry David Thoreau

#19. You see, before I became prime minister, the Australian prime minister only attended ever two meetings in the world: the British Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting and the South Pacific Forum.

Paul Keating

#20. The decision by France to resume nuclear testing in the South Pacific has destroyed this hope and raised a storm of protest at home, in the South Pacific and thankfully around the world.

Jenny Shipley

#21. I don't have a gym membership. I usually do a bit of basic yoga or stretches at home or in my dressing room before the show. I've done plank for 60 seconds almost every day since 2009, when I had to wear a bikini onstage in 'South Pacific.'

Laura Osnes

#22. Sometimes I like to play the soundtracks to famous musicals so we can all sing along. South Pacific is one of my favorites. Our neighbors must hate us.

Louise Brown

#23. I mean, it's never too late to decide to do something else. Becoming an adult doesn't mean that you suddenly have all the answers.

Emma Straub

#24. I have often been mildly amused when I think that the great American novel was not written about New England or Chicago. It was written about a white whale in the South Pacific.

James A. Michener

#25. But every tomorrow has led to today - to us being alone, hungry, and cold on an unknown island somewhere in the South Pacific.

Jennifer Arnett

#26. God had mercy, he knew. The Mongols had none.

Conn Iggulden

#27. I married an American. He was from the Pacific Northwest but went to law school in the South, so I was living in Virginia and North Carolina.

Sarah Hall

#28. All things in Fiji are paid for in blood.

Lance Morcan

#29. It's a tough life being a pop star. You know, at the end of the day when you've paid all the bills and put the kids through college and that, you know, there's only enough left for a small island off the South Pacific.

Larry Mullen

#30. With the complete lack of shame of the extremely deaf and the complete lack of grammar of the extremely inbred.

Lauren Willig

#31. You can talk about teamwork on a baseball team, but I'll tell you, it takes teamwork when you have 2,900 men stationed on the U.S.S. Alabama in the South Pacific.

Bob Feller

#32. I enjoy a four-seasonal climate and wide-open spaces, so being on an island 2,500 miles into the South Pacific made me feel a little claustrophobic.

Matthew Fox

#33. 'South Pacific' has a definite heaviness that people don't realize. It's got a seriousness and a message.

Kelli O'Hara

#34. In the South Pacific, because of their size, mosquitoes are required to file flight plans.

Erma Bombeck