"As we grew to love South Australia, we felt that we were in an expanding society, still feeling the bond to the motherland, but eager to develop a perfect society in the land of our adoption."

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Source : Catherine Helen Spence “An Autobiography”, Library of Alexandria

Catherine Helen Spence

#Love Quotes #Land Quotes #Australia Quotes

“Listen, sister. I don't dance and I can't take time out now to learn.”
“Ive learned a tremendous amount over the years by watching designers work. I now have a good understanding of what sits well on the body, not to mention the importance of a great cut and quality.”
“There is in us more of the appearance of sense and virtue than of the reality.”
“A thankful outlook smoothes the rough edges off life.”
“A German sense of humor is an oxymoron.”
“And they beat. The women for having known them and no more, no more; the children for having been them but never again. They killed a boss so often and so completely they had to bring him back to life to pulp him one more time. Tasting hot mealcake among pine trees, they beat it away. Singing love songs to Mr. Death, they smashed his head. More than the rest, they killed the flirt whom folks called Life for leading them on.”
“Now they [the Powers] have started the aggression, and the extinction of our nation is imminent. If we just fold our arms and yield to them, I would have no face to see our ancestors after death. If we must perish, why not fight to the death?”

Source : "The Last Empress: The She-Dragon of China". Book by Keith Laidler, p. 221, January 21, 2005.
“Hey Rid?" She stopped and turned to look at him, almost ruefully. Like she couldn't help what she was any more then a shark could help being a shark, but if she could... "Yeah, Shrinky Dink?" "You're not all bad." She looked right at him and almost smiled. "You know what they say. Maybe I'm just drawn that way.”

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