Quotes About New Zealand

The Prime Minister is head of team but its not a one woman act. I've been called all those things. Intellectual, sharp-tongued, all true. But what New Zealander is like is to know that someone is in charge and in the end the buck stops with the Prime Minister.

Herbert Spencer] was ready in those days to give everything a trial; he even thought of migrating to New Zealand, forgetting that a young country has no use for philosophers. It was characteristic of him that he made parallel lists of reasons for and against the move, giving each reason a numerical value. The sums being 110 points for remaining in England and 301 for going, he remained.

There's a lot of madness in New Zealand because it's a mean and isolated little country. Anyone who feels too much or radiates extremity gets very lonely.

In terms of having views and being prepared to express them, yes, I think New Zealand's had a leadership role in a lot of things.

With the occupation of the Chatham Islands off New Zealand around A.D. 1400, barely a century before European "explorers" entered the Pacific, the task of exploring the Pacific was finally completed by Asians. Their tradition of exploration, lasting tens of thousands of years, had begun when Wiwor's ancestors spread through Indonesia to New Guinea and Australia. It ended only when it had run out of targets and almost every habitable Pacific island had been occupied.

New Zealand is a pretty no-nonsense place to work, like Australia. I mean it doesn't falter to anyone.

Like California . . . contemporary New Zealand had gradually transformed its longstanding tradition of tolerance into a positive fetish for eccentricity.

One of the best things about growing up in New Zealand is that if you are prepared to work hard and have faith in yourself, truly anything is possible.

I've only seen pictures of New Zealand but everything I see is so pretty. Your eyes just... I don't think my eyes could take the beauty!

But since President Obama allowed Colorado and Washington to legalize recreational use and sales of marijuana following initiatives in 2012, the United Stets itself is probably now violating international law. (Because we have traditional been the ones who interpret and enforce these laws, it's hard to know exactly; of course, we say we are not.) And with even federal drug control officials slowly embracing harm reduction officially, we have remained silent on New Zealand's law.

There has always been a lot of criticism of Australia's border protection policies from New Zealand, but it is one of those cases where the Kiwis effectively free ride on our security. As at 2017, NZ had taken in 33,000 refugees since the Second World War. Australia took in that many in 2016 and 2017 alone.

There's not much of a follow-your-dreams kind of vibe in New Zealand or my family.

I was born in New Zealand, so I have a lot of family there.

The accents are really really funny. I think I could convince somebody I was from New Zealand.

The missionaries ate the local food. Sometimes, as in the case of one New Zealand tribe whose favorite recipe called for Anglicans, the locals ate the missionaries.

I got to dress up in funny clothes and run around New Zealand with a bow and arrow for 18 months, how bad could that be?