Quotes by New Zealander authors

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New Zealand, a land of natural charm, diverse society, and pleasant people. From the looming peaks of the Southern Alps to the sparkling waters of the Bay of Islands, this island nation is understood for its spectacular landscapes and also easygoing way of living. But what truly sets New Zealand apart are the people that call it home. Known for their heat, humor, as well as unique figure of speeches, New Zealanders have a method with words that is all their very own. Right here are some common New Zealander prices estimate that give a glance right into their globe.

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Ernest Rutherford

"Of all created comforts, God is the lender; you are the borrower, not the owner"

Ernest Rutherford, Psychologist

"On embarking to return we could perceive no sign of One Tree Island; and as we swept down towards the sea the leafy top of a tree seen in the clear water under the boat was the only evidence of its existence; though a few hours ago it had formed so prominent an object"

George Grey, Leader

Margaret Mahy

"Anyone interested in the world generally can't help being interested in young adult culture - in the music, the bands, the books, the fashions, and the way in which the young adult community develops its own language"

Margaret Mahy, Author

Margaret Mahy

"I think I am too interested in my own ideas to copy anyone else's, but I find that other people's imagery, the flow of language in the outside world, games with words, and ideas about relationships are all most important to me"

Margaret Mahy, Author

"Well it's a drastic procedure by your standards and mine, but for the people who are living in desperation perhaps the best way to understand it is that it seems no more drastic to them than circumcision"

John Money, Psychologist

Jenny Shipley

"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"

Jenny Shipley, Statesman

"Right-wing media and politicians are looking for any opportunity to be critical of the reporters who are here. Some reporters make judgments, but that is not my style. I present both sides and report what I see with my own eyes"

Peter Arnett, Journalist

"From the first place of liquid darkness, within the second place of air and light, I set down the following record with its mixture of fact and truths and memories of truths and its direction toward the Third Place, where the starting point is myth"

Janet Frame, Novelist

"I think a good song is a good song is a good song"

Tim Finn, Musician

Ernest Rutherford

"All science is either physics or stamp collecting"

Ernest Rutherford, Psychologist

Ernest Rutherford

"If your experiment needs statistics, you ought to have done a better experiment"

Ernest Rutherford, Psychologist

Ernest Rutherford

"You should never bet against anything in science at odds of more than about 1012 to 1"

Ernest Rutherford, Psychologist

"At several such places we landed, but always found the ascent to the interior so covered with large loose rocks that it would have been impossible to have disembarked stores or stock on any"

George Grey, Leader

"I remarked constantly, just at sunset, in these latitudes, that the eastern horizon was brilliantly illuminated with a kind of mock sunset. This in a short time disappeared, to be soon succeeded by another similar in character, but more faint"

George Grey, Leader

"The Slave Trade, though nominally abolished, is actively pursued here, eighty-three slaves having been landed just before my arrival, and another cargo during my stay"

George Grey, Leader

"Sunrise offered a very beautiful spectacle; the water was quite unruffled, but the motion communicated by the tides was so great that, although there was not a breath of air stirring, the sea heaved slowly with a grand and majestic motion"

George Grey, Leader

"Part of my plan was not only to introduce all useful animals that I possibly could into this part of Australia, but also the most valuable plants of every description"

George Grey, Leader

"I mention this fact as tending to support what I have often heard stated, namely, that a shark's sense of smell is so keen that, if men ever bathe in seas where they are found, a shark is almost sure to appear directly afterwards"

George Grey, Leader

"All the principal people in the town are concerned in the slave trade, and their chief wealth consists in the number of slaves they possess; therefore there is little chance of the trade being, for many years, totally abolished"

George Grey, Leader

"To sleep after sunrise was impossible on account of the number of flies which kept buzzing about the face"

George Grey, Leader

"Spanish alone was understood or spoken here; our friend, the countryman, stuck to us most nobly, he understood us not a bit better than the rest but saw that we were in distress and would not desert us"

George Grey, Leader

"This part of Brazil offered the curious spectacle of a great evil, which has been long suffered to exist and is now advancing, gradually yet surely, to that state which must entail inevitable destruction on the existing Government of the country"

George Grey, Leader

"In front of us lay a smooth sandy beach, beyond which rose gradually a high wooded country, and behind us was the sea, studded with numerous islands of every variety of form"

George Grey, Leader

Margaret Mahy

"I've never actually been a fighter myself - fighting tires me out and I'm not an efficient fighter anyway - but I have certainly seen other people have great complicated goes at one another"

Margaret Mahy, Author

Margaret Mahy

"I had to wait for a long time before I could support myself with writing. However, being a writer is what I have most wanted to be, from the time I was a child"

Margaret Mahy, Author

Margaret Mahy

"At this stage I am not involved with young adults as closely as many other writers. My children are grown up and my grandchildren are still quite young"

Margaret Mahy, Author

Margaret Mahy

"My theory is that I decided to be a writer when I was about seven, but of course it is not as simple as that. Like most writers, I had to work at other things to earn a living and wrote mainly in the evenings, often very late at night, for many years"

Margaret Mahy, Author

Margaret Mahy

"Ellis's understanding of himself and the world around him certainly develops because of his adventures, and part of that development comes through recognizing other people for what they are"

Margaret Mahy, Author

Margaret Mahy

"When you are writing, of course, you have to do all that writing and correcting for yourself. When I was a librarian it was expected that I would know about a wide range of books"

Margaret Mahy, Author

Margaret Mahy

"Of course there are big differences in length and character and vocabulary, but each level has its particular pleasures when it comes to the words one can use and the way one uses them"

Margaret Mahy, Author

Margaret Mahy

"I was able to work out all sorts of attitudes to style and event and character, all of which affected the way I came to think about my own writing. I believe that all good writers are original"

Margaret Mahy, Author

Margaret Mahy

"I hope I am not too repetitive. However, coming to terms with death is part of the general human situation"

Margaret Mahy, Author

Margaret Mahy

"In a way, the characters often do take over"

Margaret Mahy, Author

Margaret Mahy

"They are imaginary characters. But perhaps not solely the products of my imagination, since there are some aspects of the characters that relate to my own experience of a wide variety of people"

Margaret Mahy, Author

Margaret Mahy

"The novels take longer to write than the picture book texts, and they do take a different sort of concentration. However, a very short, simple story that works well is just as exciting to me as any longer and more complex book"

Margaret Mahy, Author

Margaret Mahy

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

Margaret Mahy, Author

Margaret Mahy

"I, personally, have found reading a continual support to writing"

Margaret Mahy, Author

Margaret Mahy

"I once knew a house rather like The Land of Smiles - an old house occupied by a varied collection of young people, mainly students. However none of these people were true models for the characters in the book, though their way of life may have been"

Margaret Mahy, Author

Margaret Mahy

"By the time ordinary life asserted itself once more, I would feel I had already lived for a while in some other lifetime, that I had even taken over someone else's life"

Margaret Mahy, Author

Margaret Mahy

"Writing for young children I find I often use particular jokes with words and exaggerated, funny events, but some of these haunt the more complex stories for older children too"

Margaret Mahy, Author

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