Zealand Quotes

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.

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.

The most scared I'd ever been was the first time I sang at a rugby match, Australia versus New Zealand, in front of one hundred thousand people. I had a panic attack the night before because people have been booed off and never worked again... just singing one song, the national anthem.

New Zealand is not a small country but a large village.

By and large, women in New Zealand are fortunate compared with some other countries, including many in our own region. But there is still progress to be made.

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

New Zealand's Daniel Vettori is a very good bowler.

I'd come back after having served as ambassador to New Zealand and found that I had real concerns about the direction in which this country was headed.

I've played such good golf, and it was hard coming up and it wasn't easy in any matches or any shots. It means a lot. I think hopefully it will mean a lot to New Zealand because I'm the next winner of the U.S. Amateur after Danny Lee.

I've been round Japan, Hong Kong, Korea, and China in the last few months and the message that I've been taking is that New Zealand is building an up market dynamic into a connected economy. And that we are not the old-fashioned, ship mutton kind of product the people associate their export in work.

It was always something I knew I was capable of and from an early age my mother was involved in the film industry. She used to work at a production company. So I was exposed to a renaissance period of films in New Zealand back in the early 80's.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.