#new zealand

If I have the choice of traveling to Russia, India or New Zealand alone for a week for preliminary discussions or to spend that week with my family, I routinely choose my family. ↗

— Olafur Eliasson

#choice #choose #discussions #family #i

We prepared to go ashore to publish for the first time in New Zealand the glad tidings of the gospel. ↗

— Samuel Marsden

#first #first time #glad #go #gospel

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

I've played such good golf, and it was hard coming up and it wasn't easy in any matches or any shots. It means a lot. I think hopefully it will mean a lot to New Zealand because I'm the next winner of the U.S. Amateur after Danny Lee. ↗

— Lydia Ko

#amateur #any #because #coming #danny

That was the big effect Lord of the Rings had on me. It was discovering New Zealand. And even more precious were the people- not at all like the Australians. ↗

— Ian Mckellen

#big #discovering #effect #even #had

Unlike New Zealand, which has nothing especially predatory, Australia is full of spiders and crocodiles and all kinds of animals that will eat you and sting you. ↗

— Brian Cox

#crocodiles #eat #especially #full #kinds

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