Don Dunstan Quotes & Sayings

Start a program for gifted children, and every parent demands that his child be enrolled. — Thomas A. Bailey

You can live for years next door to a big pine tree, honored to have so venerable a neighbor, even when it sheds needles all over your flowers or wakes you, dropping big cones onto your deck at still of night. — Denise Levertov

I would love to fight whoever is the best. I want to test myself on how much I can achieve ... — Tomoki Kameda

I think that's what happens when you get scared, and you're rushing, and you don't have time. Rather than cut things out and take a chance, and build things up you think are working, you cut everything down a little bit, and everything sort of suffers. — Tom Noonan

I am all for contraception. And I am all for preventative measures that are legal and safe, and should be taken. — Sarah Palin

Good dental care doesn't make you a good student, but if your tooth hurts, it's hard to be a good student. — Geoffrey Canada

There's too much - I don't know what the word is - scientology in the game. — David Pleat

Without marriage there will be no renunciation, Buddha would not have left the world - for what? His wife, Yashodhara, must have created the situation - Mahavira would not have escaped to the mountains. Without marriage there would have been no Buddha, no Mahavira. Just think: the history would have been very flat, without any salt, tasteless. Marriage keeps this whole "sorry-go-round" on and on. People call it "merry-go-round" ... — Rajneesh

A bond price, for example, will grow with accrued interest between two coupon cuttings. That growth in its value is not income but increase of capital. Only when the coupon is detached does the bond render, or give off, a service, and so yield income. The income consists in the event of such off-giving, the yielding or separation, to use the language of the United States Supreme Court. If the coupon thus given off is reinvested in another bond, that event is outgo, and offsets the simultaneous income realized from the first bond. There is then no net income from the group but only growth of capital. If the final large payment of the principal is commonly thought of not as income (which it is if not reinvested) but as capital it is because it is usually and normally so reinvested. — Irving Fisher

I do think if you aim for quality, it's not so much about consumerism. The idea is 'Buy less, choose well, make it last,' — Vivienne Westwood

It takes twenty years of hard work to become an over night success. — Joe C. Combs II

People in the age of [President] Obama don't dress like they did in the age of [Lyndon] Johnson. That's for sure. — Al Sharpton

Don't talk to me about the world needing cheerful stuff! What the person out of Belsen physical or psychological wants is nobody saying the birdies still go tweet-tweet, but the full knowledge that somebody else has been there and knows the worst, just what it is like. — Sylvia Plath

Everybody know that condom and birth control was white man scheme to kill off black people, but he don't care. — Marlon James