Palaeolithic Quotes

#1. We are so fortunate, as Australians, to have among us the oldest continuing cultures in human history. Cultures that link our nation with deepest antiquity. We have Aboriginal rock art in the Kimberley that is as ancient as the great Palaeolithic cave paintings at Altamira and Lascaux in Europe.

Kevin Rudd

#2. What distant ancestors had given me this stupid conscience? Surely they were free of it when they raped and killed m their palaeolithic world.

Graham Greene

#3. Some Palaeolithic heroes survived in later mythical literature. The Greek hero Herakles, for example, is almost certainly a relic of the hunting period.

Karen Armstrong

#4. The situation was primordial. The Man beneath prevailed for a moment over the civilised superstructure, the Draper. He pushed at the pedals with archaic violence. So Palaeolithic man may have ridden his simple bicycle of chipped flint in pursuit of his exogamous affinity.

H.G.Wells

#5. I've always thought my poems told stories.

Douglas Dunn

#6. You can't wait for the perfect situation. Find something you love. People you love. And get out there and you'll discover it.

Tony Robbins

#7. It's practically my subject, my theme: solitude and community; the weirdness and terrors of solitude: the stifling and consolations of community. Also, the consolations of solitude.

Derek Mahon

#8. The thing I didn't see back then is that people can be destroyed by goodness. Damage can be done by hope. If people aren't ready for hope, it's a cruel trick to put it on their doorstep.

Barbara Hall

#9. Seek the path, do not seek attainment, seek for the path within yourself. Do not expect to hear the truth from others, nor to see it, nor to read it in books. Look for the truth within yourself, not without yourself.

P.D. Ouspensky

#10. Your page stands against you and says to you that you are a thief.

Marcus Valerius Martialis

#11. The only difference between him and a lion is that a lion does not laugh.

Ken Macrorie

#12. If I wanted to change the world, the last thing I would do is write a play.

Tom Stoppard

#13. In our human imagination, we so often perceive our Heroes to be something larger than life. We exalt them in ways that do them a disservice ... we convince ourselves that they are or were something essentially different than the rest of us.

Ravi Zacharias

#14. Whenever a youth is ascertained to possess talents meriting an education which his parents cannot afford, he should be carried forward at the public expense.

James Madison

#15. That to begin with; let respect be the foundation, affection the first floor, love the superstructure.

Charlotte Bronte

#16. There is no such thing as a Bollywood hero or Hollywood hero. All you see on the screen is the lead actor's interpretation of the role that has been conceived by the writer.

Dhanush

#17. Family violence is an entrenched epidemic that we've lived with since time began, so we've got a long way to go. But I do believe the tide is turned. It's no longer a subject that only occurs behind closed doors

Rosie Batty