Quotes About Aboriginal Life

#1. Why isn't the fact that 100,000 women choose to end their pregnancies regarded as a national tragedy approaching the scale, say, of Aboriginal life expectancy being 20 years less than that of the general community?

Tony Abbott

#2. When I started school in 1958 there were no books written by Aboriginals in the school system and everything about Native life was written by white people through their eyes.

Now, Aboriginal writers can tell their stories. They have always been our narratives to tell, not others.

Rick Revelle

#3. No doubt these rocky islands have suggested the idea worked out in gardens, and they have been well imitated.

Robert Fortune

#4. I should advise you not to stop there, but set fire to his house, too, and sell his children to pirates. That is the only way he will learn

Zen Cho

#5. I have a great time with my life, and I wanna share it.

Will Smith

#6. The spirit of man is nomad, his blood bedouin, and love is the aboriginal tracker on the faded desert spoor of his lost self; and so I came to live my life not by conscious plan or prearranged design but as someone following the flight of a bird.

Laurens Van Der Post

#7. A hundred suspicions don't make a proof.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#8. It was my dream that I had clenched in a fist of discontent and wouldn't release. But time had now pried every finger open. There is peace in an open and upraised hand that isn't grasping for anything.

Laurel Lea

#9. I had spent some time in the outback, but to meet Aboriginals and work with them was wonderful. It gave me a great appreciation of how tough life is and about the indomitable spirit that the Aboriginal people have always possessed.

Hugh Jackman

#10. This strange business of what it is to be a writer is this increasingly insane world in which we live, in which surrealism, it seems, is the new realism.

Salman Rushdie

#11. You can be fat and love yourself. You can be fat and have a great damn personality. You can be fat and sew your own clothes. But you can't be fat and healthy.

Susan Powter

#12. He that is taken and put into prison or chains is not conquered, though overcome; for he is still an enemy.

Thomas Hobbes

#13. We all have to lead double lives, not just celebrities. The face we put on publicly with our jobs and certain situations. I think that's part of the human condition.

Greg Kinnear

#14. If you can rhythmically slow down your breath to four breaths a minute, you can indirectly control your mind and slow it down from its obnoxious behavior.

Harbhajan Singh Yogi

#15. The sticks break, the stones crumble, The eternal altars tilt and tumble, Sanctions and tales dislimn like mist About the amazed evangelist. He stands unshook from age to youth Upon one pin-point of the truth.

Robert Louis Stevenson

#16. To have a healthy culture, you have to have stable health care financing and stable arts financing and stable sports financing, and if you don't have that, your culture becomes a parking lot.

Douglas Coupland

#17. For Aboriginal leaders, the social and moral obligation that comes with community leadership is life-long. Those who lead, who have authority, must care for and look after those who come behind.

Patrick Dodson

#18. i race you ryles

K. Bromberg

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

Jan Hawkins

#20. The concepts of community and community life, have since the Dreaming, always held special significance for Aboriginal people because both provided the physical, cultural, spiritual and social environments, which supported children, young people, families and the aged.

Ken Wyatt

#21. Everybody likes to indulge in a bit of ice-cream and junk food. If you want to be a top player you've got to be sensible in terms of what you eat.

Filo Tiatia

#22. Look at the Afghans, during the time of the Soviet invasion. They were among the poorest Muslims in the world, yet they were sustained by their faith in God, and God alone.

Abu Bakar Bashir