quotations about Hawaii
You don't have to live in Hawai'i -- or even be Hawaiian to embrace the Aloha Spirit.
MARK ELLMAN
Practice Aloha: Secrets to Living Life Hawaiian Style
In Hawaii, family showed itself in the way that my siblings never dared to call one another "half" anything. We were fully brothers and sisters. Family appeared in the pile of rubber slippers and sandals that crowded the entrance to everyone's home; in the kisses we gave when we greeted one another and said good-bye; in the graceful choreography of Grandma hanging the laundry on the clothesline; in the inclusiveness of calling anyone older auntie or uncle whether or not they were relatives.
JANET MOCK
Redefining Realness
A slight breeze cooled the Hawaiian spring air, swaying the branches of palm trees, which cast black silhouettes against the purple and orange colors of the twilight sky.
VICTORIA KAHLER
Capturing the Sunset
When she backtracked to his Hawaiian-sky blue eyes, she swayed under the impact and abruptly sat down. Any stair step would do.
SHARON K. GARNER
Pele's Tears
Hawaii is at once like everything you dreamed it would be and totally unlike anything you imagined. It is both a tropical paradise and a cosmopolitan boom town, a place where the old island gods still hold sway and where speculators and builders and real-estate men have been riding high. It is one of the most fascinating paradoxes of old and new, of beauty and razzle- dazzle, of serenity and show business anywhere.
GEORGE MCDONALD
Frommer's Guide to Hawaii
Hawaii once had a rat problem. Then, somebody hit upon a brilliant solution. Import mongooses from India. Mongooses would kill the rats. It worked. Mongooses did kill the rats. Mongooses also killed chickens, young pigs, birds, cats, dogs, and small children. There have been reports of mongooses attacking motorbikes, power lawn mowers, golf carts, and James Michener. in Hawaii now, there are as many mongooses as there once were rats. Hawaii had traded its rat problem for a mongoose problem. Hawaii was determined nothing like that would ever happen again.
TOM ROBBINS
Still Life with Woodpecker
Fairly suddenly, I passed from lushness into a parched and brittle landscape. Hawaii is like that. Each island is like a miniature continent with extremes of sunshine and rainfall within a very short distance. One moment I would be pedalling in torrential rain through a wildly overgrown tropical rainforest. Then, turning the corner, I would find myself in searing heat among desertscape and cactus. Maui is a prime example of such oddities: Lahaina has a mere 17 inches of annual rainfall, while only seven miles away Mount Puu Kukui receives a very wet 40 feet.
JOSIE DEW
Travels In A Strange State: Cycling Across the USA
Hawaii is a paradise--and I can never cease proclaiming it; but I must append one word of qualification: Hawaii is a paradise for the well-to-do.
JACK LONDON
My Hawaiian Aloha
People should know that Hawaii is a country and should be respected as such. Because it was forcibly annexed to the United States does not mean that it is the U.S., except by conquest.
ALICE WALKER
The World Has Changed: Conversations with Alice Walker
Incredible as it might seem, Hawaii is like a gigantic raft, drifting slowly with the centuries.
TERENCE BARROW
Incredible Hawaii
Being in Hawaii, it's almost impossible not to be fit, I think.
HENRY IAN CUSICK
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