#new zealand

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

— Barry Humphries

#human #million #new #new zealand #sheep

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. ↗

— Michael King

#been #being #common #common sense #confronted

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. ↗

— Michael King

#britain #british #child #coherence #commonwealth

And that was what I was asking to happen and I was told that the indictment would be signed, but I was coming to the end of my one-year contract, I had to return to New Zealand for personal reasons. ↗

— Tony Greig

#coming #contract #end #had #happen

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. ↗

— Carol Moseley Braun

#after #ambassador #back #come #concerns

New Zealand, by the way, where I was ambassador, has had two women prime ministers - one from either party. ↗

— Carol Moseley Braun

#either #had #i #ministers #new

I think that generally New Zealand is respected for the positions it takes because it thinks them through. ↗

— Helen Clark

#generally #i #i think #new #new zealand

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

— Margaret Mahy

#complications #country #enough #i #know

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. ↗

— Kimbra

#album #back #contract #french #go

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. ↗

— Kimbra

#australia #back #band #came #doing