Boast during the day; be humble at night.
Let someone else sing your praise.
Old canoes can be restored, but youth and beauty cannot.
Who lives in a quiet house has plenty.
New Zealand is not a small country but a large village.
In this world I greet my oldest survivor -- the earth.
Canada, Australia and New Zealand have apologised for their treatment of native peoples.
Never spend time with people who don't respect you.
I'm a Kiwi. I'm from a beach suburb called Takapuna, which is on the north shore of Auckland in New Zealand.
I'm an officer in her Majesty's Royal New Zealand Navy. I'm a public relations officer in the Royal New Zealand Navy. Sounds good, doesn't it?
A house full of people is a house full of different points of view.
The Government has to stop borrowing as much money; if we don't, quite frankly New Zealand will be downgraded and interest rates will go up for all New Zealanders.
A hand that is ready to hit may cause you great trouble.
The prudent embark when the sea is calm -- the rash when it's stormy.
I might be one of the most flamboyant characters New Zealand has ever seen, but my intentions are good, and I would like to see New Zealand flourish.
Turn your face to the sun and the shadows fall behind you.
My family comes from New Zealand, but I'm a London girl. I was born and raised in London, but I've got the blood of a New Zealander, so I always kind of felt like I didn't belong - in a good way.
I moved to New Zealand from Winnipeg when I was almost five. I hated it. It was to a city in the south of New Zealand called Invercargill and there was constant rain. There was a depressing sensation in the air.
The more you ask how much longer it will take, the longer the journey will seem.
Don't lean on your fellow men -- theirs is an ever moving support.
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.
