New Zealand

"Can a free government possibly exist with the Roman Catholic religion?"

🇳🇿John Hall (Presbyterian pastor)

Literature

1829–1898

"The minister is to be a live man, a real man, a true man, a simple man, great in his love, great in his life, great in his work, great in his simplicity, great in his gentleness."

🇳🇿Roger Smith (executive)

Business

1925–2007

"We hope this car will be less labor intensive, less material intensive, less everything intensive than anything we have done before."

🇳🇿Edmund Hillary

Business

1919–2008

"TIME : "The Greatest Adventures of All Time - The Race to the Pole"

🇳🇿Ernest Rutherford

Science

1871–1937

"I must confess it was very unexpected and I am very startled at my metamorphosis into a chemist."

🇳🇿Ray Comfort

Politics

b. 1949

"Only humans have the ability to know that God exists, yet still deny His existence."

🇳🇿Jacinda Ardern

Politics

b. 1980

"leader of a party knows their people best."

🇳🇿Russell Crowe

Entertainment

b. 1964

"I went shopping with Danielle yesterday, and we were in a bookstore. And this woman actually said, "Look, Russell Crowe reads— who'd have known?"

🇳🇿Charles Bowen

Politics

1830–1917

"Most businesses require liberal dealing."

🇳🇿George Savile

Politics

1551–1622

"There is Reason to think the most celebrated Philosophers would have been Bunglers at Business ; but the Reason is because they despised it."

🇳🇿John Moffat (physicist)

Science

1819–1894

"To physicists such as myself, the huge amount of invisible dark matter needed to make Einstein's theory fit the astrophysical data is reason enough for exploring modified gravity theories."

🇳🇿Lucy Lawless

Entertainment

b. 1968

"They either overcompensate for the way they feel and are incredibly sycophantic or incredibly brusque in order to prove they don't think you're superior."

🇳🇿David Lange

Politics

1942–2005

"And I'm going to give it to you if you hold your breath just for a moment … I can smell the uranium on it as you lean towards me."

🇳🇿Cameron Duncan

Entertainment

1986–2003

"The one thing I don't wanna be is, I don't wanna be forgotten. And I think I've done a pretty good job of that."

🇳🇿Alan Wallace

Sports

1891–1915

"'Righteous hatred' is in the same category as 'righteous cancer' or 'righteous tuberculosis'. All of them are absurd concepts."

"There is no hope, as far as I can see, of pushing the postulates of economic theory back to a set of irreducible axioms."

🇳🇿Katherine Mansfield

Literature

modernist literature

1888–1923

"When we can begin to take our failures nonseriously, it means we are ceasing to be afraid of them. It is of immense importance to learn to laugh at ourselves."

🇳🇿Arthur Desmond

Literature

social Darwinism

1859–1929

"The reason there are no great poets and writers now is because there are no great deeds or heroes to write about. The world is becoming tame and sad and dreary."

🇳🇿Brooke Fraser

Music

b. 1983

"Now that I have seen I am responsible, faith without deeds is dead."

🇳🇿Anne Murray

Music

b. 1935

"was a wonderful man and he was so good to me. Every time that I ever asked him to do anything, he was here for me always."

🇳🇿Winston Peters

Politics

b. 1945

"We are being colonised without New Zealanders having some say in the numbers of people coming in and where they are coming from. This is a deliberate policy of ethnic engineering and re-population."

🇳🇿Robert Muldoon

Politics

1921–1992

"They can't promise anything because I've spent it all."

🇳🇿Malcolm Rutherford

Economics

1941–1997

"Malcolm Rutherford, University of Victoria Victoria"

🇳🇿William Joyce

Literature

b. 1957

"A Note on the Mid Back Slack Unrounded Vowel in the English of Today"

"And beauty immortal awakes from the tomb."

"We have entered a new reality where fossil fuel companies have lost their legitimacy and social license to operate."

🇳🇿Anthony Powell

Literature

1905–2000

"here is no greater sign of innate misery than a love of teasing."

🇳🇿Trevor Loudon

Politics

anti-communism

"Trevor Loudon's articles at the Epoch Times"

"I am about passion. And the thing that I would like to share with people is that it’s really important to have something that you’re passionate about in your life. And follow it."

🇳🇿Sonny Bill Williams

Sports

b. 1985

"Every sport has helped me excel in another. Boxing has given me the mental strength to know that I can face anything on the field, without a doubt."

"A certain ambiguity of rhythm is one of the beauties of a poem"

"I got the rebound and he tackled me. I know this is Sunday, but this is the wrong field."

"Lancashire have brought in a player with a great reputation in the format who will add firepower to our top order. He is an exciting player and excellent fielder, just what we need for Twenty20 cricket."