Navigator Quotes

I resolved to abandon trade and to fix my aim on something more praiseworthy and stable; whence it was that I made preparation for going to see part of the world and its wonders.

Those new regions [America] which we found and explored with the fleet .

. . we may rightly call a New World . . . a continent more densely peopled and abounding in animals than our Europe or Asia or Africa; and, in addition, a climate milder than in any other region known to us.

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.

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

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.

We can't care for something we don't understand.

This is the purpose of why we explore and why we voyage.

If I have courage, it is because I have faith in the knowledge of my ancestors.

To be a navigator, you have to be fierce.

We are a blue planet and an ocean world.

To navigate, you must be brave and you must remember.

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

The King can do no wrong; he cannot constitutionally be supposed capable of injustice.

I have laid the stick that connects people together.

Now it is up to you, your generation and the generations to come, to build upon that stick a bridge that will ensure the free sharing of information and teaching between the two peoples until the day we become united again as a single people, as we were once before; before men separated us with their imaginary political boundaries of today's Polynesia and Micronesia.

In the heart of the slaughterhouse -- always -- enough room to nourish the awe.

Listen cousin, the way things are supposed to work out, one day the struggles of all you screwed up little underdogs will forge a permanent rainbow that'll encircle this entire earth, I should live so long.

The uncluttered arena grants every living thing its unique existence. Including me.

As I am from Hawaiʻi, the ocean is part of my culture and who I am.

My ancestors were great ocean explorers.

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

The manner of their living is very barbarous, because they do not eat at fixed times, but as often as they please.