New Zealand Quotes: top 100 famous quotes about New Zealand

New Zealand Quotes & Sayings

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We prepared to go ashore to publish for the first time in New Zealand the glad tidings of the gospel. — Samuel Marsden

Maoris now own over half the commercial fishing industry in New Zealand. — Malcolm Fraser

I definitely miss New Zealand. Mainly friends and family. — Bret McKenzie

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? — Orlando Bloom

Pete Bethune is a hero in New Zealand. He's a hero worldwide to people who want to see the end of whaling. — Paul Watson

New Zealand has a great reputation in America for golf. — Hale Irwin

I am not very happy the way things are going out there in New Zealand, — Sanath Jayasuriya

An interesting thing about New Zealand, you know, literature is that it really didn't begin in any real sense until the 20th century. — Eleanor Catton

I'm an officer in her Majesty's Royal New Zealand Navy. I'm a public relations officer in the Royal New Zealand Navy. Sounds good, doesn't it? — Mark Hadlow

I want to be in New Zealand SO BADLY. I've dreamt about coming to New Zealand ever since I was a kid. — Alana Haim

In dividing the light, things are seen. And we notice ourselves. — John Allison

My dad was my hero when I was a young boy. And then it's a toss-up between Han Solo, the New Zealand All Blacks Rugby team, and Marlon Brando. — Martin Henderson

Lake Taupo is on the north island of New Zealand and in the countryside. I absolutely fell in love with it. — Juan Pablo Galavis

In the end, there will always be a fundamental difference of perspective between New Zealand and Australia on defense, whoever is in government. — Helen Clark

New Zealand was colonised initially by those Australians who had the initiative to escape. — Robert Muldoon

If the people of New Zealand want to be part of our world, I believe they should hop off their islands, and push 'em closer. — Lewis Black

Until I can feel as ecstatic about having a baby as I felt about going to New Zealand to search for giant squid, I cannot have a baby. — Elizabeth Gilbert

New Zealand looks like the future to me — Paula Scher

The pa system has broken down. Society has broken down. — Theresa Sjoquist

I grew up in the New Zealand countryside. We didn't have television until I was 14, so sing-alongs were our only entertainment. — Kiri Te Kanawa

I've had a quiet fascination with New Zealand for most of my life. — Richard Dean Anderson

I was in the New Zealand army for like four years, the exact period of when it was on the air, so I never saw it. — Rhys Darby

I think the main message is that world rugby needs New Zealand and New Zealand needs world rugby. — Mike Miller

I've always had the dream of going to New Zealand and meeting a lovely New Zealander in a bar. — Jack Barakat

No-one has the right to terminate a person's life with a gun, a knife, or a makutu (spell). — Theresa Sjoquist

Altogether too many sheep — George Bernard Shaw

New Zealand, by the way, where I was ambassador, has had two women prime ministers - one from either party. — Carol Moseley Braun

New Zealand's taken some very significant decisions in relation to defence in the last two years. — Jenny Shipley

When I was fifteen or eighteen, I never even imagined I would be in a band, let alone being able to travel to places like Australia and New Zealand. — Sean Mackin

I want to get down to the nuts and bolts of what is actually going to change to lift New Zealand's economic performance. — David Cunliffe

New Zealand totally rejects Japan's proposals to double the number of whales slaughtered in the Southern Ocean — Chris Carter

I think that generally New Zealand is respected for the positions it takes because it thinks them through. — Helen Clark

Knowledge is addictive. Keep it up. — Theresa Sjoquist

I know that people from New Zealand don't ever wanna be confused with being Australians. — Sydney Sierota

Now, they say that New Zealand is beautiful and I do not know
because after 22 hours on a plane any landmass would be beautiful. — Lewis Black

Now it looks like I'll be known as the musical comedy guy. Which is good news for me. Or I'll be known as the New Zealand idiot. — Bret McKenzie

You don't necessarily have to go a long way in New Zealand to be in some pretty dense and scary bush. — Sam Neill

'Heavenly Creatures' was really the idea of Fran Walsh. It was a very famous New Zealand murder case, but not one that people knew much about. — Peter Jackson

Definitely, I'd love to do more in New Zealand if it was the right time. — Martin Henderson

I remember the snow in Canada and the lovely weather in New Zealand. And I slightly remember going to school there. — Robin Trower

It was hard to get jobs on farms doing wool-classing, but I got them. They had to learn to like a female wool-classer. — Theresa Sjoquist

Try and fit in in a New Zealand playground with an Armagh accent - it doesn't work. — Sam Neill

I've got some real diehards down in New Zealand; I look after them and make sure they always get tickets. — Gin Wigmore

Not one great country can be named, from the polar regions in the north to New Zealand in the south, in which the aborigines do not tattoo themselves. — Charles Darwin

If Northern Ireland had better weather, it would be like New Zealand. It's an immensely beautiful country. — Ian Beattie

New Zealand has incredible global recognition for grass-fed livestock. — Joel Salatin

I've been to New Zealand, like, 25 or 30 times. — Toby Emmerich

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The endangered Kiwi is aptly New Zealand's icon. There is so much promise to lay a large egg but without the ability to get it off the ground. — Grant McLachlan

New Zealand has the cheapest government money can buy. — Grant McLachlan

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

My father is an expatriate American; he fell in love with New Zealand in his youth and never went home. — Eleanor Catton

In the winter, I'm always in Europe. July and September are New Zealand and Chile camps. I'm always on the road. — Lindsey Vonn

I want to go to New Zealand so bad! I have amazing memories of being in that country, of jumping off of a building in Auckland and having so much fun. — Sean Mackin

I've never been to New Zealand before. But one of my role models, Xena, the warrior princess, comes from there. — Madeleine Albright

New Zealand and SA should take this dimension into account, the skills South Africans are presently contributing to New Zealand. — Helen Clark

Even Quinn joined in and took his turn picking obscure items, like a feather cloak that originated in far-off New Zealand. — Alice Wallis-Eton

I grew up watching the 'Muppets.' In New Zealand, the 'Muppets' were as big as anywhere else I think. It was a pretty global phenomenon. — Bret McKenzie

Today, the society called New Zealand is composed of 4.5 million Sapiens and 50 million sheep. — Yuval Noah Harari

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

I'm a Kiwi. I'm from a beach suburb called Takapuna, which is on the north shore of Auckland in New Zealand. — Lorde

Living in New Zealand, it's like a different world - it is a different world. It's very, very cool. — Luke Evans

It's fair to say that, for much of my lifetime, New Zealand certainly was a property-owning democracy and working people, ordinary people, had assets. — Helen Clark

We have now reached the point where you can wander down Queen Street in Auckland and wonder if you are still in New Zealand or some other country. — Winston Peters

I feel like New Zealand's a bit of an unchartered territory for me in a way. — Flume

So the convict establishment, born of poverty and hatred, gave birth to wealth and hope. — Keith Sinclair

I had a good time shooting in New Zealand. I almost bought a home there while I was there, because I loved it so much. — Josh Hartnett

I might be one of the most flamboyant characters New Zealand has ever seen, but my intentions are good, and I would like to see New Zealand flourish. — Kim Dotcom

I have heard that in the New Zealand native tradition, the soul, when it dies, becomes a star. — Eleanor Catton

New Zealand is my favorite country to visit. — Tom Curren

New Zealand as a whole needs to save more, spend less and reduce our reliance on foreign debt. — John Key

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. — Helen Clark

If you can beat New Zealand, then you're probably going to win the World Cup. — Brian O'Driscoll

In New Zealand I think we often take ourselves too seriously, and being able to laugh at yourself is necessary in life without being too precious. — Murray Mexted

I know where I am going now with art. I have found myself. Yvonne Rust 1994, aged 72. — Theresa Sjoquist

I moved out to New Zealand to live as I thought the warmth and peace and quiet would help me. I went away and changed my whole life routine. — Michael Crawford

I would have thought there's no greater country to watch rugby than New Zealand. — Jamie Bamber

I am a New Zealander, but I don't want to swallow New Zealand identity in one gulp. — Eleanor Catton

Australia and New Zealand are now threatened by the might of the Imperial Japanese forces, and both of them should know that any resistance is futile. — Hideki Tojo

I really want to come back! I definitely want to come back. Some of my fondest memories are in New Zealand. — Tom Odell

Canada, Australia and New Zealand have apologised for their treatment of native peoples. — Stephen Kinzer

New Zealand is the only country I know well enough to write about. It can sometimes lead to complications. — Margaret Mahy

New Zealand are the best team in the world - the execution and accuracy of their skills were a lesson in modern rugby. — Josh Lewsey

I find it hard to say, because when I was there it seemed to be shut. — Clement Freud

It's a great challenge to come from little New Zealand and beat the odds in Hollywood. — Martin Henderson

I think it would be impossible not to be an Internet kid, coming from New Zealand, because culturally it's a little barren. — Lorde

Sure I can sit around and do absolutely nothing for the next nine years and I might survive that long but it's not going to take New Zealand anywhere. — John Key

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! — Alana Haim

I put on close to 60 pounds for 'Genesis,' an independent movie from New Zealand. — Cliff Curtis

I really wanted to write an adventure story, a murder-mystery that was set during the gold-rush years in New Zealand. — Eleanor Catton

I really enjoyed working on the 2009 film, 'Aliens in the Attic,' because it was shot in New Zealand and I got to visit there for the first time. — Kevin Nealon

I feel that New Zealand is my second home. — Luke Evans

I think for the most part people are proud of the bicultural foundation New Zealand is built on and the fact that we are a multicultural society. — John Key

My wife and I use a lot of garlic and rosemary with roast lamb. It has to be New Zealand lamb. The domestic variety is too gamy, in my experience. — Alfred Molina

I'm still always a country girl from New Zealand. — Ladyhawke

If it would not look too much like showing off, I would tell the reader where New Zealand is. — Mark Twain

Sometimes I think, 'Why should I care about doing well in New Zealand?' — Paul Cleave

God bless America. God save the Queen. God defend New Zealand and thank Christ for Australia. — Russell Crowe

Doing brings happiness. T
oo much time for discussion - discord. — Theresa Sjoquist

I myself prefer my New Zealand eggs for breakfast. — Queen Elizabeth II