Famous quotes containing the words billy, hughes, labor, party, prime and/or minister:
“Waltzing Matilda, Waltzing Matilda,
Wholl come a-waltzing Matilda with me?
And he sang as he watched and waited while his billy boiled:
Wholl come a-waltzing Matilda with me?”
—Andrew Barton Peterson (18641941)
“You never look at the backside of a mirror because when you do, itll affect your future because youre looking at yourself backwards. No, youre looking at your inner self and you dont recognize it because youve never seen it before.”
—Gus Van Sant, U.S. screenwriter and director, and Dan Yost. Bob Hughes (Matt Dillon)
“Learning without thought is labor lost.”
—Confucius (551479 B.C.)
“In order to remain true to oneself one ought to renounce ones party three times a day.”
—Jean Rostand (18941977)
“The prime lesson the social sciences can learn from the natural sciences is just this: that it is necessary to press on to find the positive conditions under which desired events take place, and that these can be just as scientifically investigated as can instances of negative correlation. This problem is beyond relativity.”
—Ruth Benedict (18871948)
“Before any woman is a wife, a sister or a mother she is a human being. We ask nothing as women but everything as human beings.”
—Ida C. Hultin, U.S. minister and suffragist. As quoted in History of Woman Suffrage, vol. 4, ch. 17, by Susan B. Anthony and Ida Husted Harper (1902)