Goannas Quotes & Sayings

How many senators have taken their conception of what America can do from what they've seen on the American movie screen? — Zia Haider Rahman

Golf is supposed to be fun, but I don't think anything is fun if you're not doing it reasonably well. — Fred Couples

Born in iniquity and conceived in sin, the spirit of nationalism has never ceased to bend human institutions to the service of dissension and distress. — Thorstein Veblen

My mom has always been very open, very liberal. So I grew up with that, and I can appreciate everything that she did and went through and was exposed to. — Ione Skye

The old dead trees are the most fascinating - the countless trees lying in the gullies and up the hills that fell perhaps a century ago, pulling up their roots from the earth as they toppled. The great upheavals left rocks in their huge tentacles and, as they slowly rot, the trunks are home to populations of creatures, from goannas to wild pigs. As grey as tombstones in a cemetery they lie there, having outlasted generations of farmers, as they'll outlast me. In their own way they are as beautiful, more beautiful, than living trees. — Phillip Adams

Sophie Kruger had worked in a house herself, up in Middle Swan. But now she pretended she was quality. There were none so self-righteous as those who rewrote their past. — Sandra Dallas