Quotes About Australian History

#1. Inside the myth of Australia's economic superheroes."

We're living through the second longest boom in Australian history. You can't move for talk of the budget surplus.

Andrew Charlton

#2. Australian History:
... does not read like history, but like the most beautiful lies.

Mark Twain

#3. The 2007 Labor campaign was the most presidential in Australian history, with a slogan - Kevin07 - exceeded in its banality only by its success.

Richard Flanagan

#4. Hostility towards China distorted Australia's international affairs for 20 years until 1972, but reconciliation with China 30 years ago had produced a quarter century of constructive bipartisan relations with our region and the world, unmatched in Australian history.

Gough Whitlam

#5. In primary school, I was bored witless by Australian history.

Catherine Jinks

#6. For me, Brett Emerton is the heart and soul of the Australian team. Him signing for Sydney FC, it has to be the biggest catch in the history of Australian football. He's a machine and he's probably the best pro I've ever trained and worked with.

Tim Cahill

#7. CompUSA was a bad decision. We stayed too much with CompUSA, and we stayed too short with Apple.

Carlos Slim

#8. The sweetest of all sounds is praise.

Xenophon

#9. Perfection is an unattainable goal. It isn't going to be perfect. Just get words down on paper, and when you stumble to what you think is the end of the book, you will have hundreds of pages of words that came out of your head. It may not be perfect, but it looks like a book.

Laurell K. Hamilton

#10. The image of the frontier is probably one of the oldest images of mankind, and it is not surprising that we should find it hard to get rid of.

Kenneth E. Boulding

#11. I haven't frequented a nail salon in a long time.

Hope Davis

#12. My mother and my father were very nurturing and wonderful examples of how to live your life. I really had a cool foundation.

Jeff Bridges

#13. And how much more do we need Korzybski's consciousness of abstracting at a time when so much of our lives are spent absorbed in the highly abstracted and mediated maps rendered by our digital technologies, new media, and online communications?

Alfred Korzybski

#14. Bow down, peons," Lincoln said. "I'm a king among men." "Where are you coming up with this?" Cole asked him. Lincoln pointed at Jackson. "Um, hello - Jackson Burke knows my name.

Lauren Layne

#15. Why do I love the thought of you old? That first twinge of arthiritis in your knee is a thing I imagine with all the tenderness I felt when you showed me your loose tooth. I wish I could help you carry the weight of many years. But the Lord will have that fatherly satisfaction.

Marilynne Robinson

#16. I didn't learn much about writing at Sarah Lawrence, but I learned a lot about the sources of poems - dreams, myth, history - from the really great teachers, Joseph Campbell, Charles Trinkhaus, Bert Loewenberg, and a young Australian anthropologist named Harry Hawthorne.

Carolyn Kizer

#17. The masters and grandmasters can be divided into three groups - the inveterate time trouble merchants, those who sometimes get into trouble, and those for whom the phenomenon is a very rare occurence.

Alexander Kotov

#18. Wicked People Love Wickedly, Violent People Love Violently, Weak People Love Weakly, Stupid People Love Stupidly, But The Love Of A Free Man Is Never Safe ...

Toni Morrison

#19. Sure, stories can be like a fire on a cold night. But they can burn too. There ain't nothin' can cut deeper or sting with more poison than words can.

Ellery Adams

#20. The Labor Party has always - always been praised as leaders. In fact, there's probably more books written about ALP leaders and the ALP people than the Libs or anyone else in Australian's history, but there was substance to it.

Warren Mundine

#21. The Church must send or the church will end.

Mendell Taylor

#22. I want to make love, but my hair smells of war and running and running.

Warsan Shire