Thought for the day

"Bite off more than you can chew and then chew like hell"

- PETER BROCK 1945-2006.

I am only one,
But still I am one.
I cannot do everything,
But still I can do something;
And because I cannot do everything
I will not refuse to do the something that I can do.

~ Edward Everett

At the end of my trial, I was rather hoping the judge would send me to Australia for the rest of my life.


~Jeffrey Archer

Australia and Canada were settled by adventurers, they had to break new ground. I think that is indelibly etched on our cultural spirit.


~Tom Cochrane

Australia is properly speaking an island, but it is so much larger than every other island on the face of the globe, that it is classed as a continent in order to convey to the mind a just idea of its magnitude.


~Charles Sturt

My Country

The love of field and coppice
Of green and shaded lanes,
Of ordered woods and gardens
Is running in your veins.
Strong love of grey-blue distance,
Brown streams and soft, dim skies
I know, but cannot share it,
My love is otherwise.

I love a sunburnt country,
A land of sweeping plains,
Of ragged mountain ranges,
Of droughts and flooding rains.
I love her far horizons,
I love her jewel-sea,
Her beauty and her terror
The wide brown land for me!

The stark white ring-barked forests,
All tragic to the moon,
The sapphire-misted mountains,
The hot gold hush of noon,
Green tangle of the brushes
Where lithe lianas coil,
And orchids deck the tree-tops,
And ferns the warm dark soil.

Core of my heart, my country!
Her pitiless blue sky,
When, sick at heart, around us
We see the cattle die
But then the grey clouds gather,
And we can bless again
The drumming of an army,
The steady soaking rain.

Core of my heart, my country!
Land of the rainbow gold,
For flood and fire and famine
She pays us back threefold.
Over the thirsty paddocks,
Watch, after many days,
The filmy veil of greenness
That thickens as we gaze ...

An opal-hearted country,
A wilful, lavish land
All you who have not loved her,
You will not understand
though Earth holds many splendours,
Wherever I may die,
I know to what brown country
My homing thoughts will fly.

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Dorothea Mackeller

God bless America. God save the Queen. God defend New Zealand and thank Christ for Australia.


~Russell Crowe

Every sunset is also a sunrise.
It all depends on where you stand.

~Karl Schmidt

Every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not,
and often times we call a man cold when he is really only sad.

~Ralph Waldo Emerson

Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.


~Dalai Lama