Great poem.

thanks everyone so far, gonna send all contributors some Karma, hope im not firing blanks!!

Lisa.xx

No blanks on my Karma list; thanks mate!

No probs Vash,

Lisa.xx

I collected quite a few a while ago for a similar reason

Here they are!



Never complain, never explain - personal motto of Kerry Packer - billionaire

A determined soul will do more with a rusty monkey wrench than a loafer will accomplish with all the tools in a machine shop Robert Hughes - art critic and author

Unless you're willing to have a go, fail miserably, and have another go, success won't happen Phillip Adams - Left-wing journalist

A Platypus is a duck designed by a committee - anon

Those who lose dreaming are lost - Australian Aboriginal proverb

Perhaps it is good to have a beautiful mind, but an even greater gift is to discover a beautiful heart. Russell Crowe

God bless America. God save the Queen. God defend New Zealand and thank Christ for Australia. Russell Crowe

I'd move to Los Angeles only if New Zealand and Australia were swallowed up by a tidal wave, if there was a bubonic plague in England and if the continent of Africa disappeared from some Martian attack. Russell Crowe

I'm going to the football this weekend. I think it's almost sacrilegious to call an election while there are a couple of football Grand Finals on. I don't think the Australian people would thank me for that. John Howard

I'd like to be seen as an average Australian bloke. I can't think of... I can't think of a nobler description of anybody than to be called an average Australian bloke. John Howard


MY COUNTRY by Dorothea Mackellar (edited)

I love a sunburnt country,
A land of sweeping plains,
Of rugged mountain ranges,
Of droughts and flooding rains.
I love her far horizons,
I love her jewel-sea,
Her beauty and her terror
The wide brown land for me!

Core of my heart, my country!
Land of the rainbow gold,
For flood and fire and famine
She pays us back threefold.

An opal-hearted country,
A wilful, lavish land
All you who have not loved her,
You will not understand
though Earth holds many splendours,
Wherever I may die,
I know to what brown country
My homing thoughts will fly.


I am / We are - Australian

I came from the dreamtime from the dusty red soil plains
I am the ancient heart, the keeper of the flame
I stood upon the rocky shore
I watched the tall ships come
For forty thousand years I'd been the first Australian.

I came upon the prison ship bowed down by iron chains.
I cleared the land, endured the lash and waited for the rains.
I'm a settler.
I'm a farmer's wife on a dry and barren run
A convict then a free man I became Australian.

I'm the daughter of a digger who sought the mother lode
The girl became a woman on the long and dusty road
I'm a child of the depression
I saw the good times come
I'm a bushy, I'm a battler
I am Australian

We are one, but we are many
And from all the lands on earth we come
We share a dream and sing with one voice:
I am, you are, we are Australian
I am, you are, we are Australian.

I'm a teller of stories
I'm a singer of songs
I am Albert Namatjira
I paint the ghostly gums
I am Clancy on his horse
I'm Ned Kelly on the run
I'm the one who waltzed Matilda
I am Australian

I'm the hot wind from the desert
I'm the black soil of the plains
I'm the mountains and the valleys
I'm the drought and flooding rains
I am the rock, I am the sky
The rivers when they run
The spirit of this great land
I am Australian


Some sad & some even sadder (LOL) but all food for thought!

Claire

LOL, those quotes from Russ are bloody fantastic - think I'll pinch one for my sig!

I Am / We Are - Australian; that's another bloody good song! A real tearjerker!

yeah they are great eh?