"Who says Australia offers not a home for every poor Englishman, or any other countryman that finds his way to our shores? And what sort of thanks do we get for it?"

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Source : Henry Lawson, Colin Arthur Roderick (1972). “Collected Prose: Autobiographical and other writings, 1887-1922”, Angus & Robertson

Henry Lawson

#Home Quotes #Australia Quotes #Way Quotes

“The voice of Nature loudly cries,And many a message from the skies,That something in us never dies.”

Source : Robert Burns (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Robert Burns (Illustrated)”, p.412, Delphi Classics
“Surfing makes me happy, so that's just what I'm going to keep doing.”
“We are all experts in our own little niches.”
“When you're on the yard, prisoner politics dictate that you only socialize with your own race. If you fraternize with other races, you can get taught a painful lesson. And there are inmates with a level of consciousness who feel it's their duty to enforce this segregation.”
“A mobile is an abstract sculpture made chiefly out of sheet metal, steel rods, wire and wood. Some or all of these elements move, propelled by electric motors, wind, water or by hand.”
“Men are not the enemy, but the fellow victims. The real enemy is women's denigration of themselves.”
“Theres two tiers of science fiction: the McDonalds sci-fi like Star Trek, where they have an adventure and solve it before the last commercial, and there are books that once youve read, you never look at the world the same way again.”
“I've worked with the great and the not-so-great. But mostly I've worked with men and women who loved their profession, and who like me, had kids to raise and houses to pay for.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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