Maui Island Quotes

We've searched our database for all the quotes and captions related to Maui Island. Here they are! All 76 of them:

After the arrival of Europeans, the Big Island’s King Kamehameha I rapidly proceeded with the consolidation of the largest islands by purchasing European guns and ships to invade and conquer first Maui and then Oahu.
Jared Diamond (Guns, Germs, and Steel)
The door opened and the seven of them came out of the conference room. Alexander walked out last. He saw Tatiana struggle up from her chair, but she couldn’t stand without holding on to it, and she looked so alone and forsaken, he was afraid that she would break down in front of half a dozen strangers. Yet he wanted to say something to her, something to comfort her, and so slightly nodding his head, he said, “We are going home.” She inhaled, and her hand covered her mouth. And then because she was Tatiana and because she couldn’t help herself, and because he wouldn’t have it any other way, she ran to him and was in his arms, generals or no generals. She flung her arms around him, she embraced him, her wet face was in his neck. His head was bent to her, and her feet were off the ground.   Though much is taken, much abides; and though we are not now that strength which in old days moved earth and heaven, that which we are, we are— Unyielding. Barrington, Leningrad, Luga, Ladoga, Lazarevo, Ellis Island, the mountains of Holy Cross, their lost families, their lost mothers and fathers, their brothers in arms and brothers are etched on their souls and their fine faces and like the mercurial moon, like Jupiter over Maui, like the Perseus galaxy with its blue, imploding stars they remain, as the stellar wind whispers over the rivers all run red, over the oceans and the seas, murmuring through the moonsilver skies… Tatiana… Alexander… But the bronze horseman is still.
Paullina Simons (Tatiana and Alexander (The Bronze Horseman, #2))
At Ma’alaea
JoAnn Bassett (Maui Widow Waltz (Islands of Aloha Mystery, #1))
There is a large stone on the sea coast of North Kohala on the island of Hawaii which the Hawaiians point out as the place where Maui's magic hook caught the island and pulled it through the sea.
Brien Foerster (Hawaii: From Origins To The End Of The Monarchy)
advertising.” It started when Google introduced the AdSense network in 2003. When Google’s web crawler began to scan tens of millions of pages of content, matching ads to content by targeting keywords, contextual advertising was born. If you search for flights to Maui, for example, you might receive an ad for a nice deal on a place to stay. However, if after you returned you were looking up the name of the wonderful little shop you discovered up-island, you might see the same offer. In the former situation the ad is relevant; in the latter it’s worthless. Sometimes such ads are beneath worthless; they are downright tasteless. When
Robert Scoble (Age of Context: Mobile, Sensors, Data and the Future of Privacy)
Despite everything, life continues to be amazing. We need to breathe in that amazing.
Kellie Coates Gilbert (Under the Maui Sky (Maui Island, #1))
Our happiness does not depend on the actions of others.
Kellie Coates Gilbert (Under the Maui Sky (Maui Island, #1))
Lahaina was lost to a wildfire on 8th August 2023.
Steven Magee
The August 2023 Maui wildfires stranded thousands of vacationers.
Steven Magee
The August 2023 Maui wildfires were among the most devastating disasters to hit the Hawaiian islands.
Steven Magee
People were jumping into the ocean to escape the August 2023 Maui wildfires!
Steven Magee
The August 2023 Maui wildfires took down the communication systems in the area.
Steven Magee
The August 2023 Maui wildfires took down large parts of the electrical grid.
Steven Magee
There were numerous fatalities, burn and smoke inhalation victims in the August 2023 Maui wildfires.
Steven Magee
The August 2023 wildfire caused extreme devastation in the historic Lahaina town.
Steven Magee
Many people lost their homes, their possessions and their jobs in the August 2023 Maui wildfires.
Steven Magee
Many people were rendered homeless in the August 2023 Maui wildfires.
Steven Magee
Many tourists were rendered homeless in the August 2023 Maui wildfires and were vacationing in government shelters.
Steven Magee
Many tourists were stranded at the kahului airport during the August 2023 Maui wildfires.
Steven Magee
Even though hurricane Dora passed 500 miles south of the Hawaiian islands, it devastated Maui island with historic wildfires that destroyed Lahaina!
Steven Magee
Even though hurricane Dora passed 500 miles south of the Hawaiian islands, the air was filled with an obscuring haze that was limiting visibility.
Steven Magee
People could not contact family members during the historic August 2023 Maui wildfires.
Steven Magee
A lot of people refuse to evacuate in disasters. They stay in their homes and hope for the best.
Steven Magee
It is the ‘American Way’ to keep their masses in the dark.
Steven Magee
Historic Maui wildfire disaster, August 2023: Day 3 – 55 officially dead, 1,000 structures destroyed, 12,400 without electricity and 30,000 people evacuated from the island.
Steven Magee
Wind turbine farms are typically installed into areas that have consistently high wind speeds.
Steven Magee
If you are in an area that has wind turbines, you are in an area that has consistently high wind speeds.
Steven Magee
The above ground electrical utility power lines are incompatible with high winds.
Steven Magee
Wind turbines let you know you are in an area that gets high winds for most of the year.
Steven Magee
Electrical utility wildfires are most prevalent in areas near to wind turbines due to the high wind speeds.
Steven Magee
The government has decided that high death tolls are bad for business and does everything it can to keep the numbers artificially low.
Steven Magee
It was clear that a smoke detector and fire extinguisher were not going to save people from the historic August 2023 Lahaina fire.
Steven Magee
Hundreds of homes and businesses were destroyed in the August 2023 Lahaina fire.
Steven Magee
The airline industry was flying empty planes out from the mainland to evacuate Maui during the August 2023 wildfires.
Steven Magee
Many tourists were initially evacuated to Oahu during the August 2023 wildfires on Maui.
Steven Magee
Wildfires turned Lahaina into a clone of a bombed out Ukrianian city.
Steven Magee
High winds, downed power lines, and man-made environmental energy systems will have all contributed to the magnitude of the Maui wildfires.
Steven Magee
The historic town of Lahaina became united with the Hawaiian spirits on 8th August 2023.
Steven Magee
Will Lahaina rebuild or acknowledge that it may be better to build elsewhere in a climate changed Hawaii?
Steven Magee
By day 3 of the Maui wildfire disaster in August 2023, over 1,000 people had been reported missing.
Steven Magee
By day 3 of the Maui wildfires, rumors were circulating that hundreds were believed to be dead in Lahaina.
Steven Magee
High winds typically cause utility electrical equipment to spark which may cause wildfires.
Steven Magee
The high voltage electrical utility system has been causing wildfires ever since it was invented by Nikola Tesla.
Steven Magee
High winds cause electrical power line wildfires.
Steven Magee
Historic Lahaina town demonstrated that high winds and fire are a fatal combination.
Steven Magee
The historic Lahaina town joined the Hawaiian spirits in August 2023.
Steven Magee
The historic Lahaina fire overwhelmed the emergency services.
Steven Magee
I am interested to see how Hawaii’s ‘War On The Homeless’ is going to work out on Maui after the loss of historic Lahaina town.
Steven Magee
You can never believe any death toll number the government releases.
Steven Magee
I would never have thought a hurricane that was 500 miles away could destroy historic Lahaina town.
Steven Magee
Lahaina has a history of wildfires damaging properties.
Steven Magee
Sleeping in cars became popular in Maui after the August 2023 wildfires.
Steven Magee
The increasing radiation environment is linked to drying out the trees and making them increasingly flammable.
Steven Magee
After the deadly Lahaina wildfire in August 2023, there was talk of a blatant cover-up by the government and media. In September 2023 the chatter by some Maui residents was the disaster was far worse than what the world was being told. People on the Hawaiian islands were getting a very different horror story from Maui residents.
Steven Magee
It was interesting to watch the Lahaina disaster victims getting an education on how their government really is!
Steven Magee
Hawaiian Electric has turned into the new Pacific Gas and Electric Company.
Steven Magee
Life for electrical utilities in Hawaii forever changed in the August 2023 Maui wildfires.
Steven Magee
Why is a private utility company that is linked to destroying Lahaina being given $95,000,000 in taxpayer money?
Steven Magee
How much has the government spent on the Ukraine war and how much has it spent on the Lahaina disaster in Hawaii?
Steven Magee
In August 2023, Maui became the Hawaii poverty island.
Steven Magee
The Maui wildfire disaster turned into a sad story about government incompetence.
Steven Magee
Our battle is against the evil one and his wicked ways, and all the lies he whispers. That serpent of old would like to fill us with fear. Remember…only God gives life and only God takes it away. I am in His hands. Let’s not forget that.
Kellie Coates Gilbert (The Last Aloha (Maui Island #4))
There were eight main islands: Ni‘ihau, Kaua‘i, O‘ahu, Moloka‘i, Lana‘i, Maui, Kaho‘olawe, and Hawai‘i.
Sara Ackerman (The Uncharted Flight of Olivia West)
With this, Kamehameha finally felt strong enough to invade and take over the island of Maui.
Captivating History (History of Hawaii: A Captivating Guide to Hawaiian History (U.S. States))
1795, due to infighting between Kahekili’s eldest son, Kalanikupule, and other family members, Kamehameha saw that the time had now come to conquer the other islands. Mustering up all his arms and men, Kamehameha commanded what was probably the largest and best-equipped army that the Hawaiian archipelago had seen at that time. Kamehameha’s war party would sail to Lahaina, Maui, and raze the west coast. The commanding chief, Koalaukane, had fled to Oʻahu without putting up any resistance. Kamehameha would then move on Molokaʻi. His battle with the troops on Oʻahu would be fierce, but Kamehameha would prevail, making him master of all the islands except Kauaʻi and Niʻihau.
Captivating History (History of Hawaii: A Captivating Guide to Hawaiian History (U.S. States))
Land of Sugar The incredibly fertile lands and stable, warm climate of Hawaiʻi proved to be ideal for the growth of sugarcane, which would eventually lead to the dominance of sugarcane over Hawaiian agriculture and sugar exports’ iron-clad hold on the Hawaiian economy and overseas interests. Beginning in the 1820s onward, sugar plantations cropped up on the islands of Oʻahu, Maui, Kauaʻi, Molokaʻi, Lanaʻi, and the Big Island of Hawaiʻi itself. Over the next one hundred years, sugar production from Hawaiʻi would grow from under fifty thousand tons of sugarcane to well over half a million tons. This had several effects. The first was a huge influx of immigrant labor to help cope with the demands of a rising sector, especially since growing, harvesting, and processing sugarcane was a labor-intensive process. Tens of thousands of laborers were contracted from Japan, China, the Philippines, Puerto Rico, and Korea. Hawaiʻi’s population swelled by over 300,000 people over this time and resulted in the percentage of Native Hawaiians dropping to about 10 percent of the total population by the 1900s. It
Captivating History (History of Hawaii: A Captivating Guide to Hawaiian History (U.S. States))
After the destruction of Lahaina, I will not be voting Democrat in the next election.
Steven Magee
I expect the Maui wildfires that destroyed Lahaina to be remembered as one of the biggest tourism disasters in history.
Steven Magee
battered Balinese desk. There were supposed to be three piles—those I could pay right away; those I’d pay by the end of February; and those that would never
JoAnn Bassett (Maui Widow Waltz (Islands of Aloha Mystery, #1))
the real estate office across the street—marking the spot. The door to my shop creaked open and a pale female face peeked around the jamb. In the space above her head I saw the shimmer of wind-whipped rain.
JoAnn Bassett (Maui Widow Waltz (Islands of Aloha Mystery, #1))
continued through January, sending visitors fleeing back to the mainland like snorkelers
JoAnn Bassett (Maui Widow Waltz (Islands of Aloha Mystery, #1))
She seemed sad and wise beyond her years. All the giddy experimentation with sex, recreational drugs, and revolutionary politics that was still approaching its zenith in countercultural America was ancient, unhappy history to her. Actually, her mother was still in the midst of it—her main boyfriend at the time was a Black Panther on the run from the law—but Caryn, at sixteen, was over it. She was living in West Los Angeles with her mother and little sister, in modest circumstances, going to a public high school. She collected ceramic pigs and loved Laura Nyro, the rapturous singer-songwriter. She was deeply interested in literature and art, but couldn’t be bothered with bullshit like school exams. Unlike me, she wasn’t hedging her bets, wasn’t keeping up her grades to keep her college options open. She was the smartest person I knew—worldly, funny, unspeakably beautiful. She didn’t seem to have any plans. So I picked her up and took her with me, very much on my headstrong terms. I overheard, early on, a remark by one of her old Free School friends. They still considered themselves the hippest, most wised-up kids in L.A., and the question was what had become of their foxy, foulmouthed comrade Caryn Davidson. She had run off, it was reported, “with some surfer.” To them, this was a fate so unlikely and inane, there was nothing else to say. Caryn did have one motive that was her own for agreeing to come to Maui. Her father was reportedly there. Sam had been an aerospace engineer before LSD came into his life. He had left his job and family and, with no explanation beyond his own spiritual search, stopped calling or writing. But the word on the coconut wireless was that he was dividing his time between a Zen Buddhist monastery on the north coast of Maui and a state mental hospital nearby. I was not above mentioning the possibility that Caryn might find him if we moved to the island.
William Finnegan (Barbarian Days: A Surfing Life)
April 2012 Dear Oscar, I’m delighted to hear from you after more than 42 years’ absence. I am happy to know that you are in a loving relationship with Scott and the kids. I look forward to meeting them one day. Walter and I are happily “married” although we haven’t officially tied the knot. We met through a personal ad while I was on a scholarship program at the University of Hawaii, pursuing my 2nd Master Degree in Theatre Costuming. Three months into my studies, I found myself on the beautiful island of Maui, living with the man I had known a few months earlier.
Young (Unbridled (A Harem Boy's Saga, #2))
When I was studying for my 2nd Master Degree in Theatre Costuming at the Fitzgerald Theatre at The University of Hawaii, I met my life partner, Walter Bissett, a successful realtor and, also ‘God!’ An Andy archetype! We have been together for nineteen years. We currently reside on the beautiful island of Maui, Hawaii.
Young (Initiation (A Harem Boy's Saga Book 1))
Intriguing. Illuminating. An investing primer on some of the most notable role on Maui. Anyone who has been on the island 24 hours will find this a handy guide. Maui Time Weekly I could not put it down. John T., Maui Friends of the Library.
Norman Bezane
In a story from Manihiki, the hero Maui brings back fire from Havaiki; in tales from the Marquesas, men follow their dead wives to Hawaiki or travel there in search of lost sons. A homeland and a source, it is both a paradisal land of plenty and, like Te Pō, a land of spirits and of generations waiting to be born. In most stories, Hawaiki is described as lying somewhere in the west—the direction associated in Polynesia with the passage of the dead to their last resting place—though sometimes it is said to be in the east or in the sky, or even underground. But there are also a number of real islands in the Pacific that go by the name of Hawaiki (or one of its cognates), most obviously the Big Island of Hawai‘i and the Samoan island of Savai‘i, but also the island of Ra‘iatea, in the Society Islands, which was formerly known as Havai‘i.
Christina Thompson (Sea People: The Puzzle of Polynesia)