Quotes About Maori

Kiwis, we love a good one out. We love a good fight. This is part of the culture. Straight up. We're a country of a warrior race, the Maori.

But the wireless, asked Momulla. What has the wireless to do with our remaining here? Oh yes, replied Gust, scratching his head. He was wondering if the Maori were really so ignorant as to believe the preposterous lie he was about to unload upon him. Oh yes! You see every warship is equipped with what they call a wireless apparatus. It lets them talk to other ships hundreds of miles away, and it lets them listen to all that is said on these other ships.

Gray is to Berliners what white is to Eskimos and red is to the Maori.

cat came toward him, paced away, then returned. Its dark face was as fierce as a Maori. The fur on its spine was spiked like a Mohawk warrior. Pike

My priority in life is my whanau, followed by my work as an artist, which has blessed me with the ability to provide opportunities working with others to advance the well-being of Maori.

Give me the Maori Battalion and I will conquer the world

Ngata Sir Apirana Turupa (1874–1950), New Zealand Maori leader and politician. As Minister for Native Affairs he devoted much time to Maori resettlement, seeking to preserve the characteristic elements of Maori life and culture.

Maori get pigeonholed into the idea they're spiritual and telling stories like 'Whale Rider' and 'Once Were Warriors,' quite serious stuff, but we're pretty funny people, and we never really have had an opportunity to show that side of ourselves, the clumsy, nerdy side of ourselves, which is something I am.

A film like 'Whale Rider' is equally truthful, perhaps more so, to the Maori experience; Maori people respond to 'Whale Rider' because it's a world that they understand.

My mother's Maori, and my father's Australian. I take my strength from both my ancestors, and I'm really privileged.

I've been fascinated with Maori culture since I was a kid.

When I found out more about the Maori culture, I fell in love with it, and with the people, too.

I'm part Maori. My mum's Maori, and she raised me. And my grandma, she's Maori.

In Maori culture there's a lot of humor and just as quickly we are able to express grief.

Pretty much all my mother's side is Kiwi, and we have a strong Maori heritage.

He motions to what looks like a sharpened steel paddle at his side.] "Pouwhenua"—got it from a Maori brother who used to play for the All Blacks before the war. Bad motherfuckers, the Maori. That battle at One Tree Hill, five hundred of them versus half of reanimated Auckland.

I went to a boarding school with a strong Maori tradition, where we were taught all about the haka.

If popular mythology is to be believed, the discoverer of New Zealand was a Polynesian voyager named Kupe. Oddly, this myth was Pakeha in origin rather than Maori. Maori came to embrace it solely as a result of its widespread publication and dissemination in New Zealand primary schools between the 1910s and the 1970s.

martial people, however, it was not long before Maori began to use muskets in inter-tribal

I love living in New Zealand.

Everybody recommends New Zealand. I really want to learn this haka, the traditional dance - I love it; it's so cool.

I'm quite proud of growing up in New Zealand where, from quite early on in primary school, you're learning to count in Maori, Maori mythology and dances and colours and history, and I think that gives a child a really good grounding.

Although I didn't spend much time in New Zealand at all, I feel really privileged to have that Maori blood and link to my past. I got my tattoo out of respect to that.

At one stop in New Zealand, an Englishman bartered for sex. He was presented with a boy; when he complained, he was presented with another. The English related this incident with amusement, as a cruel joke. But the Maori may have supposed that homosexuality was the English norm. How else to account for the absence among them of women and children?