Best Samoa Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“His fingers painted my skin with ruby red patterns of desire. In Keahi’s kiss I could taste the red burn of chili encrusted in the rich sweetness of melted chocolate. I breathed in his scent and it spoke to me of vanilla. The ink of my malu tattoo began to burn, searing markings of fiery joy.”

Fiction Mythology Fantasy Romance Samoa Young Adult Book Telesa Series

Book:When Water Burns

Source: When Water Burns

“You will be the one chosen to reach out to embrace man once again as the heart. So that all will be as it should. ‘Fatu-ma-le-ele-ele’ You will give your fire so that Man may live. And he will give his heart so that earth may live. Thus it has been spoken.”

Romance Young Adult Mythology Fantasy Romance Samoa Telesa

Book:When Water Burns

Source: When Water Burns

“Her look is all passion No agony There is enough of that on the ground, with the mourners- Mary, all the Marys The slutty one The motherly one The contrary one The queen The queer The virgin All the women looking up, waiting for her resurrection”

Poetry New Zealand Samoa Aotearoa

Book:Big Fat Brown Bitch

Source: Big Fat Brown Bitch

“Hear ye, "It is the minorities who need the protection of free speech" except when it is a poem twisted into a headline in an election year”

Poetry New Zealand Samoa Aotearoa

Book:Big Fat Brown Bitch

Source: Big Fat Brown Bitch

“How do we trace the whakapapa of our symbols when our grandmother is dead and our father is dead and our great uncles and aunties are dead”

Poetry New Zealand Samoa Aotearoa

Book:Big Fat Brown Bitch

Source: Big Fat Brown Bitch

“You don't love someone because they're a dream of perfection. You love them because of the way they meet their challenges, how they struggle to overcome. You love them because together, you bring out the best in each other.”

Young Adult Fantasy Romance Daniel Samoa Telesa The Covenant Keeper

Book:Telesa: The Covenant Keeper

Source: Telesa: The Covenant Keeper

“I have tried to answer the question which sent me to Samoa: Are the disturbances which vex our adolescents due to the nature of adolescence itself or to the civilization? Under different conditions does adolescence present a different picture?”

Doe Different Answers Conditions Civilization Dues Adolescence Disturbance Vex Samoa

Book:Coming of Age in Samoa

Source: Coming of Age in Samoa

“I did not write it [Coming of Age in Samoa] as a popular book, but only with the hope that it would be intelligible to those who might make the best use of its theme, that adolescence need not be the time of stress and strain which Western society made it; that growing up could be freer and easier and less complicated; and also that there were prices to pay for the very lack of complication I found in Samoa - less intensity, less individuality, less involvement with life.”

“As a territory, American Samoa has no representation in the U.S. Senate, and we Samoans lost a respected and powerful ally with the passing of Hawaii Sen. Daniel Inouye.”

Lost Powerful Passing Passings Territory Allies Senate Representation Hawaii Samoa

Author:Troy Polamalu

“All of my Polynesian counterparts in the NFL with roots in American Samoa understand how the values embedded in our South Pacific culture - community, hard work, perseverance, respect - contribute directly to our success.”

Hard Values Culture Community Hard Work Roots South Perseverance Nfl Pacific Embedded Counterparts Samoa Polynesians

Author:Troy Polamalu

“That Monica who's just gonna sit there in mediocrity... That Monica died in Samoa”

Died Mediocrity Monica Samoa

Author:Monica Denise Brown

“My father's a keen sportsman, and so is my mother. My mother's brothers all played international rugby for Samoa. That's where I got my dreams from.”

Dream Mother Father Brother International Rugby Sportsman Samoa

Author:Filo Tiatia

“My parents moved to American Samoa when I was three or four years old. My dad was principal of a high school there. It was idyllic for a kid. I had a whole island for a backyard. I lived there until I was eight years old and we moved to Santa Barbara.”

Years Whole Kids School Three Parent Four Dad High School Moved My Dad Eight Islands Four Years Principal Santa Backyards Barbara Idyllic Santa Barbara Samoa

Author:Eric Stoltz

“I remember surfing in Fiji, Samoa, Tonga, even Madeira, when local fishermen had never seen a surfboard before, and refused to believe that we could ride a wave on one.”

Believe Remember Wave Locals Surfing Fisherman Fiji Samoa

Author:William Finnegan

“Always remember that you are absolutely unique. Just like everyone else.”

“If we are to achieve a richer culture, rich in contrasting values, we must recognize the whole gamut of human potentialities, and so weave a less arbitrary social fabric, one in which each diverse human gift will find a fitting place.”

“Every time we liberate a woman, we liberate a man.”

Men Time Women Feminist Womens Rights Bad Ass Violence Against Women Housework Women Rights Women Equality Liberated Woman Samoa

Author:Margaret Mead

“I was brought up to believe that the only thing worth doing was to add to the sum of accurate information in the world.”

World Believe Truth Information Add Accurate Anthropology Information Age Samoa Accurate Information

Author:Margaret Mead

“It was like in Samoa when they'd put up a movie screen on the beach and show movies and the locals would run behind the sheet to see where the people went. It was pretty grim.”

People Shows Running Behinds Screens Locals Beach Movie Sheets Grim Samoa

Author:Dick Wolf

“What are you doing here?” [ndr prison] Selling Girl Scout cookies,” I said. “Want some? The Samoas are terrific.” (Max II to Max)”

Want Said Girl Prison Selling Cookies Terrific Max Girl Scout Samoa

Author:James Patterson

“As the traveler who has once been from home is wiser than he who has never left his own doorstep, so a knowledge of one other culture should sharpen our ability to scrutinize more steadily, to appreciate more lovingly, our own.”

“Samoa culture demonstrates how much the tragic or the easy solution of the Oedipus situation depends upon the inter-relationship between parents and children, and is not created out of whole cloth by the young child's biological impulses.”

Children Whole Young Science Culture Easy Parent Situation Depends Solutions Impulse Tragic Young Children Children And Parents Oedipus Samoa

Book:Male and female: a study of the sexes in a changing world

Source: Male and female: a study of the sexes in a changing world

“I was playing once with the King of Samoa. I asked him what his handicap was. "Six wives," he said.”

Said Wife Kings Six Golf Handicaps Samoa

Author:Jack Redmond

“On his multi-player injury substitutions against Western Samoa-It was like the Falklands crisis. I was counting them in and counting them out.”

Player Crisis Western Injury Counting Rugby Substitution Samoa Falklands

Author:Jack Rowell