Ohana Family Quotes

Ohana means family. Family means nobody gets left behind or forgotten

Ohana means family. Family means no one gets left behind or forgotten.

Ohana means family - no one gets left behind, and no one is ever forgotten.' <3

O'hana means family and family means nobody gets left behind or forgoten

Ohana means family, family means nobody gets left behind or forgotten.

She learned what 'ohana truly meant, and that she was a part of it. She began to understand that none of this could replace or usurp the family she had always known, but only enriched what she already possessed. With wonder and a growing absence of fear she realized: I am more than I was an hour ago.

I am here for readers to see parts of themselves during my dark days, but also for a better way of living in my triumphs and gained wisdom.

No one has family in Hawaii. Everyone is family in Hawaii.

The Hawaiians have gifted us with the lovely knowledge that when the breeze stirs in a wedding, as it’s doing lightly at this very moment in this garden, it’s the presence of their ohana, or family, who are physically absent but are surrounding the brides at this moment with their love, support and blessing.

A family means nobody is left behind or forgotten.

Ohana means family. Family means fishing a dead rat out of a pool to keep things running smoothly for everyone else.

In Hawaii, you are corporate ‘ohana’ until it becomes ‘inconvenient’.

Some companies, like the British product development agency ustwo, make their desire to foster a family-like culture explicit. “Our focus has always been on building what we refer to as a ‘fampany’—a company that feels like a family,” reads the company’s “cultural manifesto.” Airbnb employees refer to each other as “Airfam.” Salesforce defines its corporate culture using the Hawaiian word “ohana,” which means “chosen family.

Ohana isn’t just your blood, Tess. It’s the family you choose for yourself. Family isn’t just the people who made you; it’s the people who love you.

The foundation for security and well being of a family is often built from a parent going extra miles to achieve it, doing mundane tasks to ensure it, standing up to injustice to protect it, and having the heart to listen and then express through embrace and action to each member of that sacred ohana how much they are deeply valued, unconditionally. And all the while, from birth, encouraging the other members to do the same. And often, from that foundation you have a home, well founded.

Ohana means family, and family means no one gets left behind.

Does childhood really happen? Do we imagine it? Everyone remembers something else....

Ohana means family. Family means no one gets left behind or Forgotten.

The second theory of what ohana meant in ancient Hawaiʻi is that it was not a genealogically driven concept but merely a kindred network. This relaxed definition of a family meant that a group system of cooperation was prioritized and also allowed for shifting access to the land as needs arose. This theory is further supported by the fact that maintaining genealogical lines among the commoners was forbidden by the aliʻi. Allowing inheritances and rigid notions of the family to take root would have led, and indeed did lead to, conflict and wars.

Early on in Hawaiʻi’s development, blood ties would have been the main factor in determining ohana. In time, however, only high chiefs and rulers would be allowed genealogical titles of great importance, making marriage within their own families a frequent practice. As time went on, power would be determined by marriages and warfare. Commoners would have little to no property rights that were linked to bloodlines and family possession. The makaʻainana would be moved about by war and conquest, maintaining loose ties to extended families. The redistribution of land and reallocation of land stewardship, which would happen after new bouts of conquest, unavoidably shifted these groups around.

When I worked at the W. M. Keck Observatory in Hawaii, the management team were always saying that everyone was part of the ohana (family). When I got sick and needed essential surgery, they outcast me from the ohana. I concluded that the company ohana was a sham.