Maroubra Quotes & Sayings

We are like tenant farmers chopping down the fence around our house for fuel when we should be using Nature's inexhaustible sources of energy
sun, wind and tide. I'd put my money on the sun and solar energy. What a source of power! I hope we don't have to wait until oil and coal run out before we tackle that. — Thomas A. Edison

I was shocked when I moved to Sydney how very few indigenous people I came across. And so when I go to places like Maroubra or Redfern or Waterloo or Erskineville, I feel more at home because of the people I'm around - anywhere I can see a face that reflects someone that looks like my family, I feel much more at home. — Shari Sebbens

The more one is able to leave one's cultural home, the more easily is one able to judge it, and the whole world as well, with the spiritual detachment and generosity necessary for true vision. The more easily, too, does one assess oneself and alien cultures with the same combination of intimacy and distance. — Edward W. Said

Luxury may possibly contribute to give bread to the poor; but if there were no luxury, there would be no poor. — Henry Home

Age is nothing but death that is conscious. — Ouida

Missed that? "Del, don't - " "Stop arguing." He just grabbed her hand and — Nora Roberts

My name's Sean, Jem. I'm Sean. — J.A. Belfield

Draw a curve with your each smile & let your happiness be known to the world like a stunning rainbow! — Somya Kedia

Prayer is thinking deeply about something in the presence of God. — Wayne Cordeiro

My brains are falling out of my ears; would someone please pull me together? — Robby Takac

And what a refreshing and happy horror that there was nobody there! Not even we, who walked there, were there ... For we were nobody. We were nothing at all ... We had no life for Death to have to kill. We were so tenuous and slight that the wind's passing left us prostrate, and time's passage caressed us like a breeze grazing the top of a palm. — Fernando Pessoa

Happiness doesn't come from making a fortune and owning lots of possessions. 'Stuff' doesn't bring happiness. Family, friends, good health and the satisfaction that comes from making a positive difference are what really matter. — Richard Branson

I stand for anti-bigotry, anti-Semitism, and anti-racism. — George H. W. Bush

And the Sunday the bishop came you couldn't see Halley's Comet any more and you saw the others being confirmed and it lasted for hours because there were a lot of little girls being confirmed too and all you could hear was mumble mumble this thy child mumble mumble this thy child and you wondered if you'd be alive next time Halley's Comet came round — John Dos Passos

Flies die in so many lonely places. -Roberta Rohbeson — Lynda Barry