"Yet the small house, probably more than anything……" — Robin Boyd
"Yet the small house, probably more than anything else that man has done, has made the face of Australia and to an extent the faces of Australians. Australia is the small house. Ownership of one in a fenced allotment is as inevitable and unquestionable a goal of the average Australian as marriage."
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Robin Boyd
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10 Quotes by Robin Boyd
Robin Boyd has 10 quotes on this site.
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When most objects are truly functional, this technological age, which is just beginning, will be truly civilised. When all objects…
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We need better architecture and planning: more imaginatively exciting, more involving, more our own.
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Solemn Australians think that an interest in design is a superficial and trivial interest. This is actually an improvement, they…
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Many new churches, I regret to say, can be described from the design point of view only as holy terrors.
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Australia is, in fact, an old man's bureaucracy.
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The suburb was the major element of Australian society.
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Insects influenced the shape of the Australian house. Some, like the white ant and lthe Lyctus borer, worked quietly and…
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Adelaide was the first city in Australia, if not in the world, to provide for the health and recreation of…
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Australia's is a special kind of philistinism, an immovable materialism which puts art and ideas of any kind deliberately and…
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More Allotment Quotes
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Why be saddled with this thing called life expectancy? Of what relevance to an individual is such a statistic? Am…
— Robert Breault
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This power becomes particularly irresistible when exercised by those who, because they hold and control money, are able also to…
— Pope Pius XI
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Rules are to be initiated for the allotment of scarce raw materials etc; and their use and processing for other…
— Hjalmar Schacht
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Toil is man's allotment; toil of brain, or toil of hands, or a grief that's more than either, the grief…
— Herman Melville
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We have a funny concept of time in this culture. We revere it as we revere money, yet we rarely…
— Jan Phillips
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Many practitioners think there is some giant balance scale, where someone is keeping track, like Santa Claus, and that will…
— Frederick Lenz
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As I get considerably beyond the biblical allotment of three score years and ten, I feel with increasing intensity that…
— Norman Maclean
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. . . why some men choose to fill their brief allotment of time engaging the impossible, others in the…
— Erik Larson
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Beneath the gore and smoke and loam, this book is about the evanescence of life, and why some men choose…
— Erik Larson
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