Aboriginal Quotes

Aboriginal Quote of the day

I'm going to win it for my country. I'm the first Aboriginal to win this. Isn't that something? I wish my Dad was alive to see it. He'd be as proud as I am.

Aboriginal people are key because they have a different sense of where we belong and how we interact with nature.

As Aboriginal people we have always retained our resilience, our humour and our cultural integrity - we will always retain our dreams and a vision for the future for our people.

For Aboriginal leaders, the social and moral obligation that comes with community leadership is life-long. Those who lead, who have authority, must care for and look after those who come behind.

The coast of British Columbia was one of the three chief centers of aboriginal America.

Australia's treatment of her Aboriginal people will be the thing on which the world will judge Australia and Australians - Not just now, but in the greater perspective of history.

We have copped a lot of ignorant abuse in the past, but it makes you wonder when a former state coroner openly attacks Aboriginal families who have been through hell.

The adoration of the sun was one of the earliest and most natural forms of religious expression. Complex modern theologies are merely involvements and amplifications of this simple aboriginal belief.

My dad taught me from my youngest childhood memories through these connections with Aboriginal and tribal people that you must always protect people's sacred status, regardless of the pest.

Genius . . . arises in the natural, aboriginal concern for the conscious unity of all phenomena.

If you are sitting on the title of any block of land in New South Wales you can bet an Aboriginal person at some stage was dispossessed of it.

Aboriginal people have much to celebrate in this country's British heritage

It's an old Aboriginal word meaning 'Let's get together and have fun'. They gave us the word because they had no further need for it.

Wherever the European has trod, death seems to pursue the aboriginal.

There may not be a great job for [Aboriginal people] but whatever there is, they just have to do it, and if it’s picking up rubbish around the community, it just has to be done.

It is my hope that I could be not just a Prime Minister, but a Prime Minister for Aboriginal affairs, the first I imagine that we've ever had.

In every civilized society there is found a race of men who retain the instincts of the aboriginal cannibal and live upon their fellow-men as a natural food.

Yes, I am Aboriginal but I have the right to be avant-garde like any white artist.

Conscience is the aboriginal Vicar of Christ.

A lot of my identity as an Aboriginal person is about family.

Aboriginal Australia is a tough place to work, rough and tough.

Unlike aboriginal hunters, commercial seal hunters leave the carcasses on the ice to rot.

People look at me and they dont see what they think is a typical Aboriginal.

Within the context of the alchemical vocabulary, the psychedelic experience, as brought to us through plants long in the possession of Aboriginal people, appears to be the identical phenomena.

I've got tonnes of aboriginal and Native American art, but I'd like even more.

We still have disgraceful policies on asylum seekers and Aboriginal Australians continue to die in custody.

The name Kylie can be used for Scrabble, as it is an aboriginal word for boomerang. Which is why Ms Minogue is so good at comebacks.

In many traditions, the world was sung into being: Aboriginal Australians believe their ancestors did so. In Hindu and Buddhist thought, Om was the seed syllable that created the world.

My best friend was Aboriginal.

We must start understanding other cultures, such as the Aboriginal culture. They have a harmony with the Earth and from that harmony has grown a certain spirituality.

This bird sees the white man come and the Indian withdraw, but it withdraws not. Its untamed voice is still heard above the tinkling of the forge... It remains to remind us of aboriginal nature.

Pull back the curtain and jump down the rabbit hole.

There was a feeling in him like waiting for a punishment.

In general, ' Voss replied, 'it is necessary to communicate without knowledge of the language.

Sometimes the more you try to focus on something, the less you really see it's beauty. - Burnum (Aboriginal Guide)

When you think of somebody all the time it means one of two things - either you hate their guts or you like them a lot.

Fall into the cavern of my mind, and together there, we will dine.