Best Hula Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Kate had thought hula was something for tourists, girls in plastic skirts dancing to will songs about tiny bubbles in the champagne. Mehana's hula was different-a way of telling stories without words, a kimd of body poetry.”

Dancing Story Tourists Hula

Book:Dance For The Land

Source: Dance For The Land

“We used to grow taro, bananas, sweet potato. Now we grew headstones. The only remaining place where Hawaiians were still a majority was in the cemetery. We were a species on the brink of extinction.”

History Theft Hula Hawai I

Book:Hula

Source: Hula

“She would move around the kitchen, humming the words and dancing with her hands. The music was moving through her, filling an emptiness she hadn't known was so deep.”

Music Dancing Dance Hula

Book:Dance For The Land

Source: Dance For The Land

“The music started up. Mehana called out the verse, and Kate glided into the first kaholo, losing her self in the dance.”

Dancing Dance Hula

Book:Dance For The Land

Source: Dance For The Land

“There's less violence in the world when people are using Hula-Hoops.”

People World Violence Hula

Author:Mikey Way

“I learned the hula, so now I know how to shake my booty Hawaiian style.”

Knows Know How Style Shakes Booty Hawaiians Hula

Author:Sanjaya Malakar

“Baby, I have no idea how this will end. Maybe the equator will fall like a hula hoop from the earth's hips and our mouths will freeze mid-kiss on our 80th anniversary or maybe tomorrow my absolute insanity combined with the absolute obstacle course of your communication skills will leave us like a love letter in a landfill. But whatever, however, whenever this ends I want you to know that right now, I love you forever.”

“I think when people talk about improvising it turns into this silly thing like, "Oh there's like a hula hoop there and I'm like 'Oh what's going on here? Is this a really big ring?'"”

People Thinking Bigs Turns Rings Silly Improvising Silly Things Hula

Author:Aziz Ansari

“The ukulele totally fits that whole hipster community or whatever you want to call it, but then at the same time it works great in nursing homes where senior citizens get together and play, and then as the traditional Hawaiian instrument with people doing the Hula and strumming the ukulele and singing.”

“I grew up in Honolulu. It's not the ballet cultural mecca by any stretch of the imagination. People are much more familiar with hula than they are with ballet.”

People Imagination Grew Grew Up Familiar Ballet Mecca Honolulu Hula

Author:Joan Chen

“I have a lot of friends who have hula-hoops, it's like a mixture of dance and athletics and exercise, meditation. It's a healthy hobby I think. I can do a few tricks, I can hoop from my neck and shoulders, and I can do a few moves, a few tricks! I can walk through the hoop whilst it's spinning. I feel like there's definitely an interest in promoting the hula-hoop as an important pastime!”

Thinking Feels I Can Important Moving Interest Can Do Walks Meditation Exercise Healthy Tricks Shoulders Necks Hobbies Mixtures Promoting Spinning Athletics Pastime Lots Of Friends Hula

Author:Sufjan Stevens

“My first song was Hula Hoop Song, in 1955. It was a novelty song. I had to find someway to reach out and it was with a novelty song. Now, all of my recording obligations have been taken care of. I made 14 albums for Warner Brothers. Five for United Artist before that.”

Firsts Has Beens Made Care Artist Song United Taken Five Brother Albums Obligation Reach Out Novelty Warner Brothers Hula

Author:Gordon Lightfoot

“Hula is the art of Hawaiian dance, which expresses all we see, smell, taste, touch, feel, and experience. It is joy, sorrow, courage, and fear.”

Feels Art Joy Sorrow Taste Smell Hawaii Hawaiians Hula

Author:Robert Cazimero

“Scary monsters are like Hula Hoops. They come in and out of fashion.”

Fashion Scary Monsters Hula

Author:John Malkovich

“My father moved to Hawaii from Brooklyn and my mother came there as a child from the Philippines. They met at a show where my dad was playing percussion. My mom was a hula dancer.”

Children Shows Mother Father Mom Dad Mets Moved My Dad My Mom Dancer Hawaii Brooklyn Philippines Percussion Hula

Author:Bruno Mars

“But whatever However Whenever this ends I want you to know That right now I love you forever”

Knows Want Ends Forever Love You Right Now I Want You Love You Forever Hula I Love You Forever

Author:Andrea Gibson

“The computer is the most extraordinary of man's technological clothing; it's an extension of our central nervous system. Beside it, the wheel is a mere hula-hoop.”

Men Technology Computer Mere Extraordinary Nervous Wheels Clothings Technological Extensions Nervous System Central Nervous System Hula

Author:Marshall McLuhan

“Yes, I backed the hula hoop. And I had a lot of other people come to me with ideas that turned out well”

People Wells Ideas Hula

Author:Art Linkletter

“Hula is the language of the heart, therefore, the heartbeat of the Hawai'ian people.”

People Heart Language Heartbeat Hula

Author:Kalakaua

“When I was a kid I used to hate getting picked for team sports. It would be the fit and sporty guys over there. And me and the fat kids over here. Those kids were fat! One girl had to be cut out a hula hoop.”

Would Be Kids Funny Used Guy Hate Girl Sports Comedy Cutting Team Fit Fats Sports Team Fat Kid Hula

Author:Alan Carr

“Mankind has invested more than four million years of evolution in the attempt to avoid physical exertion. Now a group of backward-thinking atavists mounted on foot-powered pairs of Hula-Hoops would have us pumping our legs, gritting our teeth, and searing our lungs as though we were being chased across the Pleistocene savanna by saber-toothed tigers. Think of the hopes, the dreams, the effort, the brilliance, the pure force of will that, over the eons, has gone into the creation of the Cadillac Coupe de Ville. Bicycle riders would have us throw all this on the ash heap of history.”

Source: Republican Party Reptile: The Confessions, Adventures, Essays and (Other) Outrages of P.J. O'Rourke

“I'm obsessed with hula-hooping. I do it for 20 minutes a day. I don't use the old-fashioned hollow plastic kind we had when we were kids, but I discovered a new one at Danskin that's smaller and weighted.”

Kind Use Kids Minutes Obsessed Plastic Old Fashioned Hollow Hula

Author:Catherine Zeta-Jones

“We try to make the name longer and longer every year. First, it was 'Larry the Cable Guy's Christmas Spectacular.' Then it was 'It's a Very Larry Christmas.' Now it's 'Larry the Cable Guy's Hula-palooza Christmas Luau.' I'll tell you what it is: It's funny. That's what it is. Who cares what the name of it is? It is a funny special.”

Trying Years Firsts Care Guy Names Special Who Cares Spectacular Cables Larry Hula

Author:Larry the Cable Guy