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

• 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

• The Church doesn't censor. It tries to guide its faithful through catechism.

  

  Claudio Hummes
  • Church

• When my mother tells me to do something, I'll do my own thing. A strong character can be good, but sometimes it is not good. I hope it's good in my case.

  

  Adelina Sotnikova
  • Good
  • Character
  • Mother

• I've always ridden horses.

  

  Katie Price

• There's no one on the island telling them they're not good enough, so they just go ahead and sing and paint and write.

  

  Eric Weiner
  • Paint
  • Sing
  • Telling

• Stiletto, I look at it more as an attitude as opposed to a high-heeled shoe.

  

  Lita Ford
  • High
  • Attitude

• Everything an Indian does is in a circle, and that is because the power of the world always works in circles, and everything tries to be round. In the old days when we were a strong and happy people, all our power came to us from the sacred hoop of the nation, and so long as the hoop was unbroken the people flourished.

  

  Black Elk
  • People
  • World
  • Long

• There was a period in my late 30s where work slowed down for me, as it does for a lot of women. You're no longer the young, cute thing anymore and maybe you're not quite old enough to play (what others think of) in terms of women in charge.

  

  Barbara Crampton
  • Work
  • Women
  • Play

• 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