Being Quote by Monica Galetti

Hawaii was so integral to my journey. I was just there at the right time.

— Janet Mock

I swam in the Great Barrier Reef when I was five months pregnant. I went on the bullet train in Japan, which was so…

— Shanola Hampton

At thirteen, I accompanied my mother to the Hawaiian Islands. There, for the first time, I saw the wonder of a steamship and the…

— Sun Yat-sen

The Hawaiian Islands were discovered by hardy Polynesian sailors, who crossed thousands of miles of open ocean in primitive canoes, braving violent storm-tossed seas…

— Dave Barry

When I was four years old, we lived in the Fiji islands, but I don't remember much.

— Nyjah Huston

The first time I ever went to Hawaii, I was listening to island music, thinking, 'I could've been born here, and I'm pretty sure…

— Chris Cornell

Aged six, I sailed from South Africa to England by steam ship with my family. It was a three-week journey. I remember crying on…

— Prue Leith

My first time coming over to North America was to New York around Christmastime when I was 7. My mom was a flight attendant,…

— Becky Lynch

I was born and raised in Hawaii.

— Keala Settle

My sister and I had a tough childhood, but my mom always said that travelling is the most beautiful thing you can do in…

— Nargis Fakhri

I surfed from Baja California to San Francisco when there were only nine or 10 surfers on the entire Pacific Coast. I spent three-month…

— Jackie Coogan

I was born and raised on a Carolina sea island and I carried the sunshine of the low-country, inked in dark gold, on my…

— Pat Conroy