"It is quite time that our children were……" — Henry Lawson
"It is quite time that our children were taught a little more about their country, for shame's sake."
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Henry Lawson
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14 Quotes by Henry Lawson
Henry Lawson has 14 quotes on this site.
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In a land where sport is sacred, Where the labourer is God, You must pander to the people, Make a…
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We shall never be understood or respected by the English until we carry our individuality to extremes, and by asserting…
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It is a matter of public shame that while we have now commemorated our hundredth anniversary, not one in every…
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I’ve never seen anyone rehabilitated by punishment.
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It is the same with revolution; so long as the proper spirit is spreading amongst our young men, we are…
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The children are taught more of the meanest state in Europe than of the country they are born and bred…
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Who says Australia offers not a home for every poor Englishman, or any other countryman that finds his way to…
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Beer makes you feel the way you ought to feel without beer.
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Oh, my ways are strange ways and new ways and old ways, And deep ways and steep ways and high…
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On the same line of reasoning, if Australians were to be Australians, or rather if Australians were as separate from…
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And opposite the bench, the dock, divided by a partition, with the women to the left and the men to…
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Why on earth do we want closer connection with England? We have little in common with English people except our…
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Having been a child actor, I remember how directors would trick me to get good performances out of me. I…
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Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them…
— Aristotle
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Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own.
— Aristotle
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There's love, and certainly children you care about more than yourself. But nevertheless, we're alone in our heads.
— Paul Auster
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Three groups spend other people's money: children, thieves, politicians. All three need supervision.
— Dick Armey
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Children are supposed to help hold a marriage together. They do this in a number of ways. For instance, they…
— Richard Armour
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If you have children, you don't want to have drugs and drinks in the house. It's just not good.
— Billie Joe Armstrong
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To suggest that God specifically created a worm to torture small African children is blasphemy as far as I can…
— David Attenborough
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Little girls are cute and small only to adults. To one another they are not cute. They are life-sized.
— Margaret Atwood
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I didn't go to school for a full year until I was 12. In the summer I was a wild…
— Margaret Atwood
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The countenances of children, like those of animals, are masks, not faces, for they have not yet developed a significant…
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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A true conservationist is a man who knows that the world is not given by his fathers, but borrowed from…
— John James Audubon
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