Namatjira's Quotes

#1. 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

#2. Why, he wondered, did he have to peddle his difference for their amusement, and yet at the same time temper it, suppress it, make it suitably benign?

Leslie Parry

#3. Its OK to grow up, just as long as you don't grow old. Face it you are young.

Jarvis Cocker

#4. We are all different. We all have different circumstances, and you have to cope with whatever it is, try not to dwell on things.

Theresa May

#5. Death, the real simile for disease - for when we are ill, do we not always feel like we are dying, even if it's only a little? - remains, despite our secularism, the most metaphoricised phenomenon of all.

Will Self

#6. There is a fine line between success and failure; both words translate into opportunities and challenges. Opportunities to be taken advantage of and challenges to be taken head on.

Dwaun S. Cox

#7. Fight not for your own abundance, but for the abundance of others & you'll see how your life will turn around.

Ziad K. Abdelnour

#8. It is a difficult task, O citizens, to make speeches to the belly, which has no ears.

Plutarch