Zealand Quotes

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.

When I was a child in the 1940s and early 1950s, my parents and grandparents spoke of Britain as home, and New Zealand had this strong sense of identity and coherence as being part of the commonwealth and a the identity of its people as being British.

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

That was the big effect Lord of the Rings had on me. It was discovering New Zealand. And even more precious were the people- not at all like the Australians.

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

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

I think it's inevitable that New Zealand will become a republic and that would reflect the reality that New Zealand is a totally sovereign-independent 21st century nation 12,000 miles from the United Kingdom.

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?

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

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

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

Well, there have been periods in the past when prime ministers of Australia and New Zealand were at each others' throats publicly and frequently. That's not productive at all.

There's a real purity in New Zealand that doesn't exist in the states. It's actually not an easy thing to find in our world anymore. It's a unique place because it is so far away from the rest of the world. There is a sense of isolation and also being protected.

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

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

It feels like it's just starting in America and the UK. It's great to have a loyal fanbase in Australia and New Zealand. People in America say how polished our band are, but that didn't happen overnight; that came from doing all this touring back home.

Well, we don't think for a moment that either the U.S. or Australia are out to damage the New Zealand economy, but if there were a sustained period in which they had a free-trade agreement and New Zealand didn't have that same arrangement with the States, that could be both trade- and investment-distorting.

New Zealand is a country of thirty thousand million sheep, three million of whom think they are human.

I myself prefer my New Zealand eggs for breakfast.

On many occasions New Zealand has spoken about the need to ensure that women's concerns are fully integrated into all aspects of the United Nations' activities and structures, not marginalised in one part of the Secretariat.

New Zealand's been pretty quiet on human rights issues, which we will be taking rather more interest in, and in international labor issues.

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.

I'd move to Los Angeles if New Zealand and Australia were swallowed up by a tidal wave, if there was a bubonic plague in England and if the continent of Africa disappeared from some Martian attack.

And that was what I was asking to happen and I was told that the indictment would be signed, but I was coming to the end of my one-year contract, I had to return to New Zealand for personal reasons.

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

Fortunately New Zealand doesn't have land borders so we are able to be somewhat more rigorous on who gets in and out of our country than perhaps some people.

If I have the choice of traveling to Russia, India or New Zealand alone for a week for preliminary discussions or to spend that week with my family, I routinely choose my family.

I moved from New Zealand to Melbourne when I was 17. I'd planned to go to university to study French, but I was offered a contract to write and record an album that was too good to pass up. Looking back now I think that was pretty young but, at the time, I was ready to have an adventure.

Well of course New Zealand isn't anti-American.

I see the great continuities in New Zealand history as being decency and common sense and up until now when we've confronted these things we've been able to talk them through, and I'm sure we will with this issue as well.