Hard Yakka Quotes & Sayings

It is unlikely that God's plan for the universe includes making you rich. — Max Gunther

There is no other place on earth even remotely like New Orleans. Don't even try to compare it to anywhere else. — Anthony Bourdain

Nobody here could ever talk about a heaven on earth. Heaven remained rigidly in its proper place on the other side of death, and on this side flourished the injustices, the cruelties, the meanness that elsewhere people so cleverly hushed up. Here you could love human beings nearly as God loved them, knowing the worst: you didn't love a pose, a pretty dress, a sentiment artfully assumed. — Graham Greene

Rick and Scotty, who had heard Australian slang before from Digger Sears, one-time mate of the Tarpon, broke into chuckles.

"I'd better translate," Scotty said, "'Lord stone the crows' is just an expression. Oscar Ashe is hard cash. Yakka is hard work. And dinkum oil is gospel truth. — John Blaine

I'm twenty years old and look at me
there isn't a thing I want to do — Markus Zusak

I have a necklace with a golden key, given to me by my sisters, which I always wear. — Karlie Kloss