Daisy Bates (author)

“By this time I was a confirmed wanderer, a nomad even as the aborigines. So close had I been in contact with them, that it was now impossible for me to relinquish the work. I realized that they were passing from us. I must make their passing easier. Moreover, all that I knew was little in comparison with all there was yet to learn. I made the decision to dedicate the rest of my life to this fascinating study.”

“The Australian native can withstand all the reverses of nature, fiendish droughts and sweeping floods, horrors of thirst and enforced starvation—but he cannot withstand civilization.”

“No man or woman, who tries to pursue an ideal in his or her own way, is without enemies.”

“There are a few fortunate races that have been endowed with cheerfulness as their main characteristic, the Australian Aborigine and the Irish being among these.”

“Your true gentlewoman does not sit down and weep and say "I've never done such things"—she simply "does" and no more about it.”

“Surely the world we live in is but the world that lives in us?”

“Our road is the Road of Yesterday and the Road of Today, for Yesterday and Today are still the same.”