Haka Quotes & Sayings

Each haka has its own interpretation, but you have to make sure you are in unison with your team-mates; the haka should be a proper war cry. — Jonah Lomu

All the foods that you regularly eat are ones that you learned to eat. Everyone starts life drinking milk. After that, it's all up for grabs. From our first year of life, human tastes are astonishingly diverse. — Bee Wilson

Rebellion to tyranny is obedience to God. — Thomas Jefferson

Vanity occurs when we think we are invincible. Death occurs to tell us we are not. — Vinita Kinra

Not even an advancing All Blacks haka could have dragged him away from the swing of her ass — Amy Andrews

I'm half Hawaiian and the haka is a very sacred thing, something your family teaches you - my father taught me. — Jason Momoa

I'm not an extraordinary worker, I'm an extraordinary daydreamer. I exceed all my fantasies-even that of writing. — Blaise Cendrars

Grace had so many complexities, so many layers and feelings, and thoughts ... he would happily spend his life trying to unwrap her.
Thinking about it, he tore a strip off the hem of her gown.
'What on earth are you going to do with that?'
Without answering, he put a knee forward onto the bed, making certain he knew precisely where she was. The last thing he wanted was to land on her like a felled tree. — Eloisa James

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

Creativity is closely associated with bipolar disorder. This condition is unique . Many famous historical figures and artists have had this. Yet they have led a full life and contributed so much to the society and world at large. See, you have a gift. People with bipolar disorder are very very sensitive. Much more than ordinary people. They are able to experience emotions in a very deep and intense way. It gives them a very different perspective of the world. It is not that they lose touch with reality. But the feelings of extreme intensity are manifested in creative things. They pour their emotions into either writing or whatever field they have chosen (pg 181) — Preeti Shenoy

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

I do think that we have this incredible opportunity because being on-line - the Internet is a relatively new space - we do have this incredible opportunity to change that dynamic, to make sure that women are present in all sorts of spaces, not just women-only spaces. — Jessica Valenti

There are two things in ordinary conversation which ordinary people dislike - information and wit. — Stephen Leacock

She hoped the menfolk were having a nice, relaxing road trip in that souped-up man car they were riding in because as soon as they got to the Roberts' house, she was pawning off the woman formerly known as her sister onto the dude whose sperm had apparently turned her into a she-devil. — Julie James

The other members of your party got here a few hours ago, but they weren't sure if you had made it, she says. — Veronica Roth

A good heart will, at all times, betray the best head in the world. — Henry Fielding

I really do believe most people understand raising tax rates is bad for the economy, it costs jobs. It actually in the long term undermines revenue. — Tom Cole

Folks who only battle the symptoms of stress are losing the battle because the symptoms are sure to return if the causes aren't dealt with. — Gudjon Bergmann

The first and most natural way of lighting the houses of the American colonists, both in the North and South, was by the pine-knots of the fat pitch-pine, which, of course, were found everywhere in the greatest plenty in the forests. — Alice Morse Earle

Effortlessness is the ability to slow down and listen for the spaces between the joints ... Deep within all things there is a natural rhythm, a music of opening and closing, expansion and contraction. — Wayne Muller