Top 36 Zealanders Quotes
#1. As New Zealanders, we've been in on the United Nations from the very beginning, played a role in the drafting of the charter - it means a lot to us that those processes are followed.
Helen Clark
#2. If I had to take hell, I would use the Australians to take it and the New Zealanders to hold it.
Erwin Rommel
#3. New Zealanders remain polite,hard-working, superficially cheerful, and unnervingly compliant and complaisant. And we remain dismissive of anyone who makes a fuss about anything
Gordon William McLauchlan
#4. I support a constitutional conversation, as the Labour Party does, which will allow New Zealanders to evolve a more mature and stable constitutional form, but that's not something that I, as Labour Party, would want to impose, either on the party or on the public.
David Cunliffe
#5. I don't know that you're ever going to persuade New Zealanders that they're not going to own their own homes and I'm not going to try.
Helen Clark
#6. I think that's what all New Zealanders who are fair-minded want - a good chance for everybody to get ahead, whether it's education or housing.
David Cunliffe
#8. New Zealanders who leave for Australia raise the IQ of both countries
Robert Muldoon
#9. When you think about going back to the States you start to become more aware of the violence there and how we pollute the Earth more than the New Zealanders.
Renee O'Connor
#10. If you just compare South Africans to the rest of the world, I think that white South Africans, and especially English-speaking white South Africans, are exactly the same as Brits or Australians or New Zealanders or Canadians or Americans.
Neill Blomkamp
#11. We are being colonised without New Zealanders having some say in the numbers of people coming in and where they are coming from. This is a deliberate policy of ethnic engineering and re-population.
Winston Peters
#12. We have been given the trust and goodwill of New Zealanders. I do not take that trust for granted, and I never will.
John Key
#13. It's not ok when around 1 million New Zealanders don't vote.
Metiria Turei
#14. I feel very lucky to be able to make movies in New Zealand, and I will always be grateful for the support I have received from so many New Zealanders.
Peter Jackson
#15. The Government has to stop borrowing as much money; if we don't, quite frankly New Zealand will be downgraded and interest rates will go up for all New Zealanders.
John Key
#16. We don't tell New Zealanders we can stop the global recession, because we can't. What we do tell them is we can use this time to transform the economy to make us stronger so that when the world starts growing again we can be running faster than other countries we compete with.
John Key
#17. I do think of myself very strongly as a New Zealander, but when I moved out to the States, I was aware that I didn't want to just live in a satellite community of only other New Zealanders.
Rose McIver
#18. Coming from New Zealand, all the music I listen to is not made by New Zealanders. People never come to New Zealand to play a show because it's in the middle of nowhere.
Lorde
#19. The Australian divisions and the New Zealanders had become what they were to remain for the rest of the war the spearhead of the British Army
John Terraine
#20. I think the world's a little smaller these days. With the Internet and the availability of people, the pool of English speaking actors - not just American actors, but Brits, Australians, New Zealanders, Irish. We're all up for grabs.
Sonya Walger
#21. Osama Bin Laden was responsible for the deaths of thousands of people, including New Zealanders, in several different parts of the world.
John Key
#22. So I think that we're in a very heightened and somewhat unusual period of politics and polling around the countries that New Zealanders take close interest in.
Jim Bolger
#23. I really enjoyed working with New Zealanders as crew members, as teammates. They're great, and it's a beautiful country. It's one of the most beautiful places I've ever been, and I've traveled quite a bit.
Viggo Mortensen
#24. Can we render ourselves extinct? Possibly. Perhaps total nuclear war, 1980s style, would do it, although even a horrible nuclear winter might simply mean that New Zealanders inherit the globe.
Frank Landis
#25. New Zealanders have conventions and pleasantries, but we are direct. We are encouraged to be transparent with our behavior and not to employ passive aggression.
Daniel Gillies
#26. When you think of famous New Zealanders, there aren't many.
Bret McKenzie
#27. People divorced from community, occupation, and association are first and foremost among the supporters of extremism.
Robert D. Putnam
#28. By one fact, the Self [Soul] is the creator [of new karma]. From another fact, the Self [Soul] is not the creator.
Dada Bhagwan
#29. Every world forms its own people, and every person his own world. The two live within one another as best they can.
Menyhert Lakatos
#30. We're fifteen to twenty years out of date in how we think about renewables.
Eric Martinot
#31. And since the gospel does not come as a disembodied message, but as the message of a community which claims to live by it and which invites others to adhere to it, the community's life must be so ordered that it "makes sense" to those who are so invited.
Lesslie Newbigin
#32. Even if you are a pianist, your concerto repertoire is very limited compared to what your chamber repertoire would be if you were a chamber music pianist.
David Finckel
#33. Wisdom, Happiness, and Courage are not waiting somewhere out beyond sight at the end of a straight line; they're part of a continuous cycle that begins right here. They're not only the ending, but the beginning as well.
Benjamin Hoff
#34. You arranged everything according to your own taste, and so I got the same tastes as you - or else I pretended to. I am really not quite sure which - I think sometimes the one and sometimes the other.
Henrik Ibsen
#35. In conformity with these designs on the city of Washington, and notwithstanding the disastrous results of the invasion of 1862, it was determined by the Rebel government last summer to resume the offensive in that direction.
Edward Everett
#36. Painting for a whole morning gives one as excellent an appetite for one's dinner, as old Abraham Tucker acquired for his by riding over Banstead Downs.
William Hazlitt
