R. M. Williams Quotes
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If you make something good, people will make a track to your door.
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Superior craftsmen in any trade will never be short of work.
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You’d better come early son because I’ve got a lot of work to do on the property and don’t want to get behind.
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I could see no place for myself in the halls of learning; all I wanted to do was get back to the land.
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We give them a good product.
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If you make something good, people will make a track to your door. We made simple things that people wanted and kept them simple.
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When you're living in the bush as a child, there's no television or no telephone…
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I think it's very important that we should pass on to our future generations… the things we've learnt.
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Don’t make your story too big. I don’t want you big-noting me.
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Land was bringing six shillings an acre, travelling dentists charged a shilling an extraction – but in Caltowie the local draper pulled them out as a free service to customers.
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Bush boots being made by a bushman for bushmen.
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The smithy was also used for welding. Everything was hot-welded in those days; there was no such process as oxy-welding.
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I used to stagger down the street to the bank with these bags of gold, a shotgun each side, and thinking I was pretty important.
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I didn't do a Bondy. We didn't produce anything new, just things that were in the Australian tradition - but better and stronger. Beyond the ideas I can't take any credit for the growth of the business. The kids were responsible. I was too busy with cattle and gold.
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Teams being the main source of Dad’s income he had numbers of the big quiet horses with their heavy feet and their long silken manes.
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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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I've raised nine children, of which I'm very proud, but it's a long struggle to reach, shall we say, financial stability. I've been a bit lucky there.
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I felt at once that the job was not for me, and stayed in it less than a week…
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Sunday should be a day of rest? Dad did manage to stop the waste of a day. He would make church day the day for taking out the colts, and I noticed that he always washed them down carefully and handled them before he put them away. On Sundays the buggy too had a cleaning that other days did not warrant.
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[On Mao Tse-tung] Mao, he had the right idea but just got bushwhacked.
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Haulage of one sort or another was the biggest business of the time.
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The school itself was a small stone building, big enough to seat about twenty people. The dozen pupils ranged from beginners like us to those in Grade Five, the top…
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We are sculptures in the making…
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The way a man rolls his swag tells the discerning much about him. It must be rolled to fit a pack-saddle, the right length, not too bulky, neatly strapped and the canvas clean of burrs. A man becomes very proud of his swag, for in a new camp it is his mark of identification.