"One of the most enjoyable things I do at Government House and when I travel around Australia is to talk with children. I tell them about our parliamentary democracy - and I often do that as I'm walking into an Executive Council meeting next door!"

-- Quentin Bryce

#Children Quotes #Government Quotes #Doors Quotes

“What good it does one to have a hearty, uncontrollable fit of laughter.”

Source : Charlotte Alington Barnard (1877). “Thoughts, verses, and songs, by Claribel”
“All friendship is desirable in itself, though it starts from the need of help”
“Those who criticize the most typically end up solving the least.”
“Some would define a servant like this: 'A servant is one who finds out what his master wants him to do, and then he does it.' The human concept of a servant is that a servant goes to the master and says, 'Master, what do you want me to do?' The master tells him, and the servant goes off BY HIMSELF and does it. That is not the biblical concept of a servant of God. Being a servant of God is different from being a servant of a human master. A servant of a human master works FOR his master. God, however, works THROUGH His servants.”
“Tragedy is that our attention centers on what people are not, rather than on what they are and who they might become.”
“I never watched 'Harper's Island.'”
“They say you are not you except in terms of relation to other people. If there weren't any other people there wouldn't be any you because what you do, which is what you are, only has meaning in relation to other people.”
“In the great flood of human life that is spawned upon the earth, it is not often that a man is born.”

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