Australian Aboriginal Sayings

#1. We are all visitors to this time, this place. We are just passing through. Our purpose here is to observe, to learn, to grow, to love ... and then we return home. - Australian Aboriginal Proverb

A.B. Shepherd

#2. Long dismissed as children's stories or 'myths' by Westerners, Australian Aboriginal stories have only recently begun to be taken seriously for what they are: the longest continuous record of historic events and spirituality in the world.

Karl-Erik Sveiby

#3. With all the efforts made by modern society to nurture and educate the young, how stupid it is to permit the mothers of young children to spend themselves in the coarser work of the world!

Jane Addams

#4. Usually, ordinary histories don't get the emotional feel of a period. That's what a novel can do.

Alix Kates Shulman

#5. The celebrated Aboriginal painter Albert Namatjira loved the Ghost Gums of the Northern Territory ... They are evocatively Australian, their white trunks contrasting with the red earth and the deep blue sky of the Dreamtime region that has for centuries sustained Namatjira's Aranda people.

Richard Allen

#6. Yidaki didgeridoo has been used in every part of Australian regional culture, all around the country. It's become a message stick for the survival of those people, for aboriginal people and aboriginal culture.

Xavier Rudd

#7. In general,' Voss replied, 'it is necessary to communicate without knowledge of the language.

Patrick White

#8. My father is Indonesian Timorese, my mother Aboriginal Australian.

Jessica Mauboy

#9. Shades of Harry the deserter, I thought furiously. What in God's name is the British army coming to? Glorious traditions, my aunt Fanny.

Diana Gabaldon

#10. Those who stop dreaming are lost.

Australian Aboriginal

#11. I felt the most effective way to change people's perception was through the power of images.

Alix Smith

#12. Australian History:
... does not read like history, but like the most beautiful lies.

Mark Twain

#13. Not a cruel cold, more like wounded, like a warning to stay away; a broken cold.

B.N. Toler

#14. Mind is prison of one's potential
which can be freed by his dreams.

Toba Beta

#15. We can and should investigate and learn from the wisdom in other religions.

Peter Kreeft

#16. It (Life) is constantly changing, and yet it remains the same.

Jan Hawkins

#17. I've never been one to bow down to people who try to question my identity because I don't fit their mould of what an Aboriginal Australian is supposed to be or look like.

Shari Sebbens

#18. Writers perform an extremely important role: they make others dream, those who are unable to dream for themselves. And everyone needs to dream. Could there be any more important job in life than that?

Felix J. Palma

#19. Cojones: testicles; a valorous bull fighter is said to be plentifully equipped with these. In a cowardly bullfighter they are said to be absent.

Ernest Hemingway,

#20. That's what hell must be like, small chat to the babbling of Lethe about the
good old days when we wished we were dead.

Samuel Beckett