Indigenous Australian Quotes

#1. The scariness of manhood to males may be symbolically seen in the many stories of indigenous Australian boys who ran away and hid in the bush as the time of initiation approached.

Michael Leunig

#2. There is no whit less enlightenment under the tree by your street than there was under the Buddha's bo tree. I invite you to go sit under that tree by your street.

Annie Dillard

#3. Lying on a ring of onion, a tomato slice exposed its seedy smile, one she remembers to this moment.

Toni Morrison

#4. Sometimes we desire absolute nonsense because in our stupidity we see in this nonsense the easiest way of attaining some conjectural good.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

#5. Every day I wake up and decide: today I'm going to love my life.

Carrie Hamilton

#6. These dons, so ponderous, so circuitous, , no sense of time. In a minute they'll be talking about the meaning of meaning.

John Le Carre

#7. I think we have to keep working enormously hard to see that every single Indigenous child - every Australian child - has true equality of opportunity. We've got to work harder at it. I think, you know, the heartland issue for us is the gap; the gap in life expectancy in this country.

Quentin Bryce

#8. Expectations kill relationships - especially with God.

Ann Voskamp

#9. It's not a matter of if . . . it's a matter of when.

Michael Buckley

#10. I only know that I feel tired, antiquated; I feel as though I had been living a long, long time.

Ivan Turgenev

#11. The ancient God created the old man, capable of erring
thus he erred himself.

Yevgeny Zamyatin

#12. Hush now, 'tis time to sleep and dream secrets of long ago.

Jan Reid

#13. You can tell which girls lack mothers by the look of their hair ...

Sue Monk Kidd

#14. Indigenous programs and policy will come within the Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet because Indigenous policy and programs should not be an add - on, they should not be an afterthought, but they should be at the heart of a good Australian Government.

Yitzhak Rabin

#15. Like all successful politicians I married above myself.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

#16. There are some consequences so unacceptable we have to fight against them every day.

Tessa Gratton

#17. Nico enjoyed how nervous the Romans acted around him, even though they were older and bigger and more experienced fighters.

Rick Riordan

#18. life is sad.......when you are living it alone.

Morgan Matson

#19. Homemade sweaters are always itchy.

Mo Rocca