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Some quotes about New Zealand by some famous
personalities:
A great number of these quotes about
this isolated nation can be quite insulting and
derogatory.
American writer and author of “Jonathan Livingston
Seagull”, Richard Bach, born in 1936 said:
“Anyone desperate enough for suicide...should be
desperate enough to go to creative extremes to solve
problems: elope at midnight, stow away on the boat
to New Zealand and start over, do what they always
wanted to do but were afraid to try.” |
Said Robert Muldoon: “New Zealand was colonized
initially by those Australians who had the
initiative to escape”An anonymous quote went this way: “If an English butler and
an English nanny sat down to design a country, they would
come up with New Zealand”
But some can be quite complimentary:
English actor, Orlando Bloom, born in 1977 said: “I got to
dress up in funny clothes and run around New Zealand with a
bow and arrow for 18 months, how bad could that be?”
The Queen of the United Kingdom and New Zealand, Elizabeth
II has been quoted as saying: “I myself prefer my New
Zealand eggs for breakfast.”
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It would appear though that those born or at least
have spent a considerable amount of time in New
Zealand have a more favorable, almost nationalistic,
impression of the country.
Australian actor, Russell Crowe, born in 1964 in
Wellington, North Island, New Zealand was quoted
saying: “God bless America. God save the Queen. God
defend New Zealand and thank Christ for Australia.”
He also said, “I'd move to Los Angeles if New
Zealand and Australia were swallowed up by a tidal
wave, if there was a bubonic plague in England and
if the continent of Africa disappeared from some
Martian attack.”
And of course, how could anyone not talk about how
prolific the sheep of New Zealand are and how they
outnumber the New Zealanders? |
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Quoted from Irish playwright, essayist, literary critic, and
Nobel Prize Winner for Literature, George Bernard Shaw,
“When George Bernard Shaw visited New Zealand a reporter
asked him his impression of the place and, after a pause,
Shaw is said to have replied: "Altogether too many sheep”
Writer, comic, and actor Barry Humphries, born in 1934 said:
“New Zealand is a country of thirty thousand million sheep,
three million of whom think they are human.”
And still a few more can be a bit cryptic:
Quoted from Madeleine Albright, “I've never been to New
Zealand before. But one of my role models, Xena, the warrior
princess, comes from there.”
Quoted from Francis X. Clines:“Peter Utley, the newspaper's
obituary editor cheerfully checked with Primrose Palmer, his
assistant, on the day's soul traffic. The late archbishop
from New Zealand sounded promising, it was agreed, but then
again it was lunch time, and who knew what had been
happening in some now-ending life.”
Quoted from Thomas Babington:“When some traveler from New
Zealand shall, in the midst of a vast solitude, take his
stand on a broken arch of London Bridge to sketch the ruins
of St Paul's.”
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