Thiele Quotes

#1. A magpie can be happy or sad: sometimes so happy that he sits on a high, high gum tree and rolls the sunrise around in his throat like beads of pink sunlight; and sometimes so sad that you would expect the tears to drip off his beak.
This magpie was like that.

Colin Thiele

#2. For a dream to die, something so tragic would have definitely gone wrong! Be careful you don't kill your own dreams.

Israelmore Ayivor

#3. I think hopelessness is the enemy of justice.

Bryan Stevenson

#4. In the shipwreck of life - for life is an eternal shipwreck of our hopes

Alexandre Dumas

#5. Life's values originate in circumstances over which the individual has no control.

Charles Lindbergh

#6. I didn't run from the situation. I didn't hide the ordeal from the reporters like the sissy baseball players. I fought it head-on ... We dealt with it. It's over. And now we're moving on.

James Toney

#7. I set out to be the best umpire of my time. But I don't know what it takes to be great.

Doug Harvey

#8. Dr Piper smiled hugely like a big cherub. 'Of course it's wonderful. The whole world is wonderful. Everything is made to fit into its place. And you and Kirsty are the most wonderful of all. Just look at the way you are made.

Colin Thiele

#9. I look at Ben now. And again I wonder how it is that we can feel so many of the same things and be so utterly different.

Gayle Forman

#10. You may think or tell others that you are a realized person,
You may even convince others or deceive yourself;
But unless you have love for humanity and peace within,
Self-realization will never knock at your door.

Gian Kumar

#11. Solitude is bearable only with God.

Andre Gide

#12. I do not believe there is such a thing as a God.

George Holyoake

#13. I try to focus and compete and do positive things for the sport.

Usain Bolt

#14. There comes a time in every rightly constructed boy's life when he has a raging desire to go somewhere and dig for hidden treasure.

Mark Twain

#15. I was lucky enough to be a child during the renaissance of Australian children's literature, when people like Ivan Southall, Colin Thiele, Lilith Norman and Wrightson were pumping out hugely inspiring stuff.

Catherine Jinks

#16. Joy is immeasurable cheerfulness.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#17. The will to victory may be demonstrated in places other than actual battle.

Steven Pressfield