Time Quote by A.B. Shepherd

We are all visitors to this time, this place. We are just passing through. Our purpose here is to observe, to learn, to grow,…

— Australian Aboriginal Proverb

“When I returned home soon afterwards, it was with a newly awakened sense of what Australian literature was good for: helping us define ourselves…

— George Williamson

The thing we often forget to talk about, or perhaps we take for granted, is our country’s dazzling beauty. Our natural environment is so…

— Quentin Bryce

“We all carry this yearning in our hearts for a place for us to truly belong. Somewhere here we can be ourselves and give…

— Karina Halle

There are people all over Australia who use their homes as hubs that they travel from, and they encourage their indigenous people to continue…

— Andrew Forrest

“If there is something that I have learned from my time on this planet of ours, something that I can share and that I…

— Jellis Vaes

If you're becoming weary and disillusioned with Australian values, Judeo-Christian values or Western civilisation, I recommend strangers - they're such a glorious, redeeming wilderness…

— Michael Leunig

As Aboriginal people we have always retained our resilience, our humour and our cultural integrity - we will always retain our dreams and a…

— Ken Wyatt

Australians don't have a preconceived notion of what things have to be... we can go on a fantastic journey.

— Yahoo Serious

“There is room on this land for all of us and there must also be, after centuries of struggle, room for justice for Indigenous…

— Arthur Manuel

This is an Australia I'm willing to celebrate; an Australia that listens, learns and empathises with our Indigenous people.

— Madeleine Madden

“There’s a common saying among us Inuit, Tamanna Anigutilarmijuq, which means “This too shall pass.” I took solace in this thought. And in the…

— Sheila Watt-Cloutier