Picture of Koi Fish Tattoo

RANDOM TATTOO QUOTE: In Tahiti, not all Europeans responded with the enthusiasm that had been exhibited by the British Admiralty's Captain James Cook, his Science Officer and Botanist, Sir Joseph Banks - who received a traditional Polynesian tattoo - and dozens of the ordinary sailors and seamen aboard Cook's ships. Missionaries who arrived in Tahiti at the end of the 18th century, turned tattooing from a standard practice into an embarrassing and punishable act of Paganism. King Pomare II was converted to Christianity in 1812 and he immediately put force behind a severe, regulated code that had been laid out by the missionaries. The death certificate for traditional tattoos was essentially signed in 1823 with the passage in the code that stated: "No one shall be tattooed and this practice should be completely abolished. This is an old and bad habit. Men or women who get tattooed will be judged and punished... The punishment for men will be work on ten measures of road for the first tattoo and 20 measures for the second tattoo... The punishment for women will be to make two big coats; one for the king and the other for the governor."


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 RANDOM TATTOO QUOTES:

You have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition. What you’ll discover will be wonderful. What you’ll discover will be yourself." ----Alan Alda


My body is a journal in a way. It's like what sailors used to do, where every tattoo meant something, a specific time in your life when you make a mark on yourself, whether you do it yourself with a knife or with a professional tattoo artist. -- Johnny Depp


RANDOM TATTOO QUOTES:

I have this huge lion tattoo embossed on my arm. I was a little worried as to how we would cover it up. But my makeup man covered the tattoo with makeup. It took close to two hours. ----Sanjay Dutt


Just remember, the sweet is never as sweet without the sour. And I know sour, which allows me to appreciate the sweet. -"Vanilla Sky"

Picture of Koi Fish Tattoo

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RANDOM TATTOO QUOTE: "Not one great country can be named, from the polar regions in the north to New Zealand in the south, in which the aborigines do not tattoo themselves." Charles Darwin, The Descent of Man, 1871


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 RANDOM TATTOO QUOTES:

What's funny is my husband doesn't have any tattoos at all, so he must be the very conservative one. ----Ashley Scott

Reason #7 For Not Getting a Tattoo: People will know you are running your own life, instead of listening to them! Sailor Jerry Collins, tattoo artist

Whenever missionaries encountered tattooing they eradicated it. Gilbert, Steve


RANDOM TATTOO QUOTES:

Everybody wants to see the pictures, and yet nobody wants to see them. ---Ray Bradbury -- The Illustrated Man


Do not go where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail. -Ralph Waldo Emerson

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RANDOM TATTOO QUOTE: "With the Haidas, however, every mark has its meaning ?" - James Swan, Tattoo Marks of the Haida, 1878.


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 RANDOM TATTOO QUOTES:

Love the life you live, don't live the life you love. -"Chicago"


The universality of tattooing is a curious subject for speculation. ~James Cook, 1779


May I be forever grateful that at times, I did not receive that which I truly deserved.


RANDOM TATTOO QUOTES:

It’s only his outside; a man can be honest in any sort of skin. ----- Herman Melville -- Moby-Dick

Tattoos can denote the transition from childhood to young adulthood. It can denote the transition to reproductive availability or the transition from adolescent to warrior. ANTHONY NAPOLEON

To many people dramatic criticism must seem like an attempt to tattoo soap bubbles.
- John Mason Brown

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RANDOM TATTOO QUOTE: "The universality of tattooing is a curious subject for speculation"
Captain James Cook - 1779


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Tribal Tattoo on Male Back

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 RANDOM TATTOO QUOTES:

The perfect tattoo... the one I believe we are all struggling toward... is the one that turned the jackass into a zebra. ----Raven, Cliff


My body is a journal in a way. It's like what sailors used to do, where every tattoo meant something, a specific time in your life when you make a mark on yourself, whether you do it yourself with a knife or with a professional tattoo artist. ---- Johnny Depp


RANDOM TATTOO QUOTES:

Tattooing is often a magical rite in the more traditional cultures, and the tattooist is respected as a priest or shaman." ---- Michelle Delio, Tattoo: The Exotic Art of Skin Decoration, p. 73


Tattoos are like stories - they're symbolic of the important moments in your life. Sitting down, talking about where you got each tattoo and what it symbolizes, is really beautiful. ----Pamela Anderson

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