R. M. Williams Quotes
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I'd like to be remembered as somebody who set out to raise a family and pay my debts and stay within all the limits of acceptable society and still make some success.
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There’s no need to look at a machine to find what is twelve times twelve. The answer is indelibly there.
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From the outback to the world.
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People I can trust, people who have the same idea that I have about paying their way and having a bit of fun and the sky is still the limit and trees still grow and the seasons come and go and all of the beautiful things we've got around us, they're still here.
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In times of drought water brings us a major problem despite its essentiality, and this especially so where dams are the chief watering points, because as the waters recede the cattle have to tread over ground that is ever wetter and boggier and more difficult to cross. In their weakened condition cattle go down in this deep mud. Every day it is necessary to ride out and check these boggy dams and try to pull the cattle out.
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We used to grind our own wheat and cook rabbits and kangaroos.
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On purchasing a gold mine whilst debt in debt and getting lucky – ‘Nobles Nob becoming one of the richest small gold mines in Australia’ We made many, many millions.
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There were blacksmith shops on every corner, something like petrol stations now.
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In plaiting, one of the most intricate artifacts I know is the watch pouch, made from a single stand of leather, that Dollar Mick taught me in the camp at Ettalowie. Based on a knot of great detail, it is always a prized possession of its owner. Over the years I have made a number of these and given some to my sons as Christmas presents, together with special watches.
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My father’s people were Welsh, and the oppression of the burdened miners also shaped my genes.
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We give them a good product.
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Make sure you use Scobie whips…
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If I didn't do this I'd sit back and die. I was a prisoner in my own castle.
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I bet John Elliott can't make a glass of beer… [Whereas R M Williams can make his own products.
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We contain our past. Unknown it might be, but it persists alive and urging.
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I just wanted to see the wide world.
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[In Adelaide] I was born here on 24 May 1908, in the coldest part of the State, at the start of a particularly cold winter that registered ten heavy snowfalls between June and September.
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Before I was fourteen I planned to leave school forever, and trust to fortune to get an education. At that time it did not occur to me that I would need to study the English language and acquire a knowledge of geography, history and other subjects so necessary to understanding the modern world. That was to come many years later…
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In all my writings I have always tried — how far successfully I know not — to advance the cause of Truth and Right and to induce my readers to put their trust in the love of God our Saviour, for this life as well as the life to come.
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No man can judge before the end.
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I have seen lightning light fires in the long grass ahead of me as I have ridden. No wonder the Aborigines tremble when the sky rumbles!
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It's a long hard struggle from nothing to something if you're starting off with nothing, especially if you're raising a family.
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When you're living in the bush as a child, there's no television or no telephone, there's no neighbours and there's no talk much between people so you do, I suppose, develop to be more an individualist than probably you would now.
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We are sculptures in the making, just begun by the great Artist; not yet formed but indicative of what is to come.