Shoal of Time Quotes

“The tides run, the sun sets, the night passes, and in the morning, just at dawn, the islands come into view again as they did for Cook so long ago, a fresher green breast of the new world than ever the old Atlantic sailors saw, and still a place of gentle, beckoning beauty.”
― Gavan Daws, Shoal Of Time: A History Of The Hawaiian Islands

“Lucky come Hawai‘i.” History”
― Gavan Daws, Shoal Of Time: A History Of The Hawaiian Islands

“For a month Cook sailed along offshore looking for a safe anchorage, with the northern and then the eastern shore on his starboard bow, but he was frustrated at every new turn of the land by winds or currents or pounding surf in the shallows.”
― Gavan Daws, Shoal Of Time: A History Of The Hawaiian Islands

“The appeal of the islands was simple: sun, sea, and sand; surcease from the strain of life in crowded and ugly and violent cities on the American mainland; the illusion that the world was clean and harmless.”
― Gavan Daws, Shoal Of Time: A History Of The Hawaiian Islands

“Daniel K. Inouye, who lost an arm fighting with the 442nd Regiment in Europe, became the first American of Japanese ancestry to win a seat in the House. Inouye,”
― Gavan Daws, Shoal Of Time: A History Of The Hawaiian Islands

“Now we are all haoles.”
― Gavan Daws, Shoal Of Time: A History Of The Hawaiian Islands

“Congress on the state of Hawaii to entitle that state to admission into the Union have been complied with in all respects and that admission of the state of Hawaii into the Union on an equal footing with other states of the Union is now accomplished.” This”
― Gavan Daws, Shoal Of Time: A History Of The Hawaiian Islands

“the pristine virtue of the Roman Republic, asked Representative James G. Donovan of New York, when it started to take in “the senator from Scythia, the senator from Mesopotamia, the senator from Egypt, the senator from Spain, the senators from Gaul; yes, even the senators from England?” What happened to “Roman Culture? What happened to Roman unity? What happened to all the old-fashioned Roman morals and Roman integrity?”
― Gavan Daws, Shoal Of Time: A History Of The Hawaiian Islands

“Portuguese could never make up their minds whether they were haole or not;”
― Gavan Daws, Shoal Of Time: A History Of The Hawaiian Islands

“Filipinos were flighty and given to violence;”
― Gavan Daws, Shoal Of Time: A History Of The Hawaiian Islands

“Alexander Liholiho, deeply concerned with the fate of his people, worked hard to establish Queen’s Hospital at Honolulu, and soon after the hospital opened the legislature passed an act ordering prostitutes to register and submit to medical inspection.”
― Gavan Daws, Shoal Of Time: A History Of The Hawaiian Islands

“Apothecaries did about two-thirds of their business in medications for venereal disease”
― Gavan Daws, Shoal Of Time: A History Of The Hawaiian Islands

“But by Alexander Liholiho’s time some of them at least were ready to let their cables into the earth and accept the kingdom, with all its faults, as home.”
― Gavan Daws, Shoal Of Time: A History Of The Hawaiian Islands

“the drugstores were besieged by people asking for vaccination,”
― Gavan Daws, Shoal Of Time: A History Of The Hawaiian Islands

“and the drugstores were besieged by people asking for vaccination,”
― Gavan Daws, Shoal Of Time: A History Of The Hawaiian Islands

“both a cluster of taro roots and a family group.”
― Gavan Daws, Shoal Of Time: A History Of The Hawaiian Islands

“1978, Hawaiian has had official standing as a state language. So in this edition of Shoal of Time, published in 2015, Hawaiian words are not italicized.”
― Gavan Daws, Shoal Of Time: A History Of The Hawaiian Islands