Nainoa Quotes & Sayings

We can't care for something we don't understand. This is the purpose of why we explore and why we voyage. — Nainoa Thompson

I am always true to myself, that is the problem. Who else could I be true to? — Adam Phillips

Wealth is also defined by family, connection to our ancestry, and our best vision of the future. All of these find their inner spirit, their constancy, and their strength in the values that shape our thinking and our actions. — Nainoa Thompson

I am interested in the size of your intention. It is better to overstate the important than to understate it. — Robert Henri

Life on our planet is defined by the health of our ocean. — Nainoa Thompson

I've always wanted to work with Warren Beatty. — Quentin Tarantino

When people come together around common vision, they can accomplish great things. We need the instruments that pull our people together, not apart. — Nainoa Thompson

Americans long to be united. After 9/11, we all just wanted to be one nation. Not a single American on September the 12, 2001, cared who won the next presidential election. — William J. Clinton

But then, the sky! Blue, untainted by a single cloud (the Ancientes had such barbarous tastes given that their poets could have been inspired by such stupid, sloppy, silly-lingering clumps of vapour). I love - and i'm certain that i'm not mistaken if i say we love - skies like this, sterile and flawless! On days like these, the whole world is blown from the same shatterproof, everlasting glass as the glass of the Green Wall and of all our structures. On days like these, you can see to the very blue depths of things, to their unknown surfaces, those marvelous expressions of mathematical equality - which exist in even the most usual and everyday objects. — Yevgeny Zamyatin

And if I say to you that I am glad of everything we have done together, and sorry that we will not be here together in forty years, laughing at a faded photo of you impersonating a lion, it having withered well, you less so, as we stand fabulously old, in a city that understands what spirit it takes to be old, to be beautiful, to be much looked at, to be itself, to be never quite caught, to have a past, to be content, to have seen much, to have remained, to have continued ... — Jeanette Winterson

You're impossible. Stop worrying about what other women do. Be your own extraordinary self. — Deborah Harkness

That's why we sail. So our children can grow up and be proud of whom they are. We are healing our souls by reconnecting to our ancestors. As we voyage we are creating new stories within the tradition of the old stories, we are literally creating a new culture out of the old. — Nainoa Thompson

We are a blue planet and an ocean world. — Nainoa Thompson

Honestly, Seduction thought that she was a very pretty girl but her attitude made her ugly. — Mesha Mesh

In order to take care of our ocean, we need to be knowledgeable. — Nainoa Thompson

As I am from Hawai'i, the ocean is part of my culture and who I am. My ancestors were great ocean explorers. — Nainoa Thompson

As the saying goes, if what you learn leads to knowledge, you become a fool; but if what you learn leads to action, you can become wealthy. — Anthony Robbins

Man-made fabrics? What provenance do they have? A squirt of gloop into a petri dish? Strands of plastic spun in sterile laboratories? They are but toxins made safe by men in white coats. — Fennel Hudson