Banjo Paterson Quotes

Once a jolly swagman camped by a billabong, Under the shade of a coolibar tree, And he sang as he sat and waited for his billy-boil, You'll come a-waltzing, Matilda, with me.

Banjo Paterson

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• Captain Cook discovered Australia looking for the Terra Incognita. Christopher Columbus thought he was finding India but discovered America. History is full of events that happened because of an imaginary tale.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • America
  • History
  • Thought

• I am obsessed with proportion, and how proportion is perceived.

  

  L'Wren Scott
  • Obsessed
  • Proportion
  • Perceived

• Fashion isn't something you can buy; you need to have the sense of it, and most people don't.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • People
  • Fashion
  • Need

• I remember growing up always loving the guitar. I used to love to watch the people play on the Country Western shows on TV. My folks told me that when I was just a toddler, I used to pretend I was playing a guitar on a toothpick.

  

  Carl Wilson
  • People
  • Up
  • Country

• Endurance in ministry is rooted in the eternal perspective. The absence of an eternal perspective makes you vulnerable to losing heart.

  

  C. J. Mahaney
  • Heart
  • Perspective
  • Losing

• There is a clear link between illegal migrants coming to Europe and the spread of terrorism.

  

  Viktor Orban
  • Europe
  • Terrorism
  • Link

• For gay people, we learned about our lives in secrecy and a lot of fear.

  

  Ira Sachs
  • People
  • Fear
  • Gay

• The interval between a cold expectation and a warm desire may be filled by expectations of varying degrees of warmth or by desires of varying degrees of coldness.

  

  Samuel Alexander
  • May
  • Desire
  • Cold

• Oh my God, there are so many songs I wish I had written. 'Waters of March,' I wish I had written 'My Baby Just Cares for Me,' I wish I had written 'This Will Be Our Year,' I mean, there's millions of them. 'Wouldn't It Be Nice?'

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • God
  • Nice
  • Wish

• All fatherhood is very important because single mothers shouldn't have to raise sons or daughters; they need that help.

  

  Nas
  • Important
  • Help
  • Single

• There's no wrong time to make the right decision.

  

  Dalton McGuinty
  • Time
  • Decision
  • Right

• I guess I always leaned to the theatrical.

  

  Caitriona Balfe
  • Always
  • Guess
  • Theatrical

• Nobody asked for life to deal us with these bullshit hands we´re dealt. We gotta take these cards ourselves and flip ém, don´t expect no help!

  

  Eminem
  • Life
  • Help

• These rappers are like Hunger Games/One minute, they're mockin' Jay/Next minute, they get their style from Migos or they copy Drake

  

  Eminem
  • Style

• I'm sick of dour faces Staring at me from the T.V. Tower. I want roses in my garden bower; dig?

  

  Jim Morrison The Doors
  • Sick
  • Garden

• To control the breathing is to control the mind. With different patterns of breathing, you can fall in love, you can hate someone, you can feel the whole spectrum of feelings just by changing your breathing.

  

  Marina Abramovic
  • Different
  • Mind
  • Hate

• Not only that, but when I first met Joe, to my intense delight, he showed me that he was a collector. He was collecting some of the early Tarzan pages by Hal Foster, and, later, early Flash Gordons; and I found that we were both absolutely interested in the same type of thing.

  

  Joe Shuster

• Trade, migration, and modern communications have given us networks of friends and associates in other countries. We owe them much, but the social contract with our fellow citizens at home brings unique rights and responsibilities that must sometimes take precedence, especially when they are as destitute as the world's poorest people.

  

  Angus Deaton
  • People
  • World
  • Home

• I met Mr. Hoover socially. I never talked to him about anything connected with his work. We just met him.

  

  John Sherman Cooper
  • Work

• The superior man is not seeking fulfillment through work and woman, because he is already full. For him, work and intimacy are opportunities to give his gifts, and to be vanished in the bliss of giving.

  

  David Deida
  • Work
  • Men
  • Giving

• I'd rather let the song live and, as I get older, I'm less absorbed with the clothing. The older I get, I just wanna write good songs.

  

  Brandon Flowers The Killers
  • Live
  • Song
  • Clothing

• I've been in bands since I was about fifteen, so there are probably quite a lot of terrible teenage songs kicking about somewhere. I'm not sure what it was about to be honest, I think it was probably just something along the lines of teen angst.

  

  Lauren Mayberry Chvrches
  • Thinking
  • Song
  • Honest

• I have tried to write songs quickly that get scrapped. I've also taken a long time on songs that get scrapped because you can over-think something, and you've squeezed the life out of it. As opposed to work of art, it looks like a really great work of craftsmanship.

  

  Boots Riley
  • Thinking
  • Writing
  • Song

• Once a jolly swagman camped by a billabong, Under the shade of a coolibar tree, And he sang as he sat and waited for his billy-boil, You'll come a-waltzing, Matilda, with me.

  

  Banjo Paterson
  • Song
  • Tree
  • Shade