Quotes About Australian Troops

#1. Australian troops had, at Milne Bay, inflicted on the Japanese their first undoubted defeat on land. Some of us may forget that, of all the allies, it was the Australians who first broke the invincibility of the Japanese army.

William Slim, 1st Viscount Slim

#2. The wisest man preaches no doctrines; he has no scheme; he sees no rafter, not even a cobweb, against the heavens. It is clear sky.

Henry David Thoreau

#3. The goal for me is to be as expansive as possible, and the Library of Congress offers so many resources.

Juan Felipe Herrera

#4. No sane person resists the smell of the soil when sprinkled with water,
Especially the smell of the intercourse between earth and rain.

Nomthandazo Tsembeni

#5. Leadership is about what's right for the organization, not what feels right for the leader.

Liz Weber

#6. I love seeing the people that I have worked with reach new career heights.

Tone Bell

#7. Quick!! Act as if nothing has happened!

Dorothy Parker

#8. Who reflects too much will accomplish little.

Friedrich Schiller

#9. I certainly hadn't expected to walk away from today's trip with joint custody of a miniature dragon.

Richelle Mead

#10. The man who is content to live alone is either a beast or a god.

Brent Weeks

#11. I wanted to prove that I could do something, so I made a short film. That was in fact my main concern, to be able to show that I could do one.

Luc Besson

#12. In Plato's republic, poets were considered subversive, a danger to the republic. I kind of relish that role. So I see my present role as a gadfly, to use my soapbox to promote my various ideas and obsesions.

Lawrence Ferlinghetti

#13. History is full of delightful reversals, where the opposite of what one predicts comes true.

Edmund Snow Carpenter

#14. I don't get the whole getting drunk thing.

Sarah Michelle Gellar