Diemen's Quotes

#1. My ancestors came from Co Roscommon, transported to Van Diemen's Land for stealing food.

Richard Flanagan

#2. There was no question that in our house doing well, doing it the right way, school, sports - there was an expectation. One of the things I've taken away from that is that I'm unafraid to expect a fair amount from people. It makes them so much better - you're doing them a disservice if you don't.

James McNerney

#3. Having a baby is like suddenly getting the world's worst roommate.

Anne Lamott

#4. I heard someone say he [Carl Sandburg] was the kind of writer who had everything to gain and nothing to lose by being translated into another language.

Robert Frost

#5. How often have not the demons called 'Nix,' drawn women and girls into the water, and there had commerce with them, with fearful consequences.

Martin Luther

#6. I haven't changed my mind. That's the point! I want to spend my life with you even though it's totally irrational. And you have short earlobes. Socially and genetically there's no reason for me to be attracted to you. The only logical conclusion is that I must be in love with you.

Graeme Simsion

#7. Christ bears with the saints' imperfections; well may the saints one with another.

William Gurnall

#8. The sensual man conforms thoughts to things;
the poet conforms things to his thoughts.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#9. Know'st thou the land where the lemon-trees bloom, Where the gold orange glows in the deep thicket's gloom, Where a wind ever soft from the blue heaven blows, And the groves are of laurel and myrtle and rose!

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

#10. Everything that occurs in the world, in every epoch, has something that corresponds to it in ancient times.

Niccolo Machiavelli