Happy Aboriginal Day Quotes

Those who stop dreaming are lost. ~ Australian Aboriginal

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

One of my earliest memories is being backstage at 'Bran Nue Dae' in Darwin when I was about eight. It's such a fun, happy show and a real celebration of being Aboriginal ... it felt really great and achievable as a career. It all felt normal. ~ Shari Sebbens

Writing about Aboriginal themes means joining the dots from the colonial policies of the past to the problems faced by First Nations, Métis, and Inuit today. It means acknowledging the wrongs and the pain. ~ Lynda A. Archer

In 1995, the Paul Keating Labor government commissioned an inquiry into the forcible removal of Aboriginal children. ~ Richard Flanagan

When I started school in 1958 there were no books written by Aboriginals in the school system and everything about Native life was written by white people through their eyes.

Now, Aboriginal writers can tell their stories. They have always been our narratives to tell, not others. ~ Rick Revelle

What is important is that I have been able to demonstrate to other women and also to Aboriginal people generally that Aboriginal people are capable of doing these things and women are capable of doing these things and Aboriginal women are capable of doing these things. ~ Pat O'Shane

We also shot at a location that was an Aboriginal sacred ground for the shots coming up the cliff. ~ Christopher Atkins

Kids my age never left California. And here I was, going to school with Aboriginal kids in a dream-like location. ~ Dylan Penn

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

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

I'm getting offered roles that aren't designed for aboriginal people; they're designed for anybody. It's pretty surreal and mind-blowing. ~ Bronson Pelletier

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

A mind always employed is always happy. This is the true secret, the grand recipe, for felicity. ~ Thomas Jefferson

My father is Indonesian Timorese, my mother Aboriginal Australian. ~ Jessica Mauboy

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

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. ~ Kathy Lette

Valentines Day is the day we celebrate real love. A love so strong that two hearts become one. And when she's happy, you're happy. And when she's angry, you can still choose to be happy, 'cos, what's her deal ? You know, I'm happy. Why is she bringing me down, you know ? Oh great, now look, I'm getting all mad. I hope she's happy. Happy Valentines Day. ~ Christopher Titus

Happiness consists of living each day as if it were the first day of your honeymoon and the last day of your vacation. ~ Leo Tolstoy

People look at me and they don't see what they think is a typical Aboriginal. ~ Shari Sebbens

These people who were used to walking around the desert without clothing could not understand why or what covering one's nakedness had to do with the seeking and the acceptance of food and sanctuary. ~ Doris Pilkington

I grew up partially in Switzerland but mostly in Australia. I lived in Kakadu for a short time - it's an Aboriginal community. My best friend growing up was Aboriginal. She taught me so much. ~ Isabel Lucas

My best friend was Aboriginal. ~ Isabel Lucas

If ever a place had a karma of damnation, it's Rottnest. And all those slick galleries selling Aboriginal art were eroding away my will to live. It's as if Germans built a Jewish food hall over Buchenwald. ~ David Mitchell

When I read the Bhagavad-Gita and reflect about how God created this universe everything else seems so superfluous ~ Albert Einstein

Genius ... arises in the natural, aboriginal concern for the conscious unity of all phenomena. ~ Mary Hunter Austin

Start your day with the end of the day in mind...HAPPY ~ Sotero M Lopez II

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. ~ Yitzhak Rabin

It's always a happy day when YYZ appears on our luggage tags. ~ Neil Peart

Happiness is a choice; we can choose to be happy or choose otherwise. Choose to be happy. Day in and day out, choose to be happy. ~ Marcus Condit

That man lives happy and in command of himself, who from day to day can say I have lived. Whether clouds obscure, or the sun illumines the following day, that which is past is beyond recall. ~ Horace

It is labour indeed that puts the difference on everything. ~ John Locke

Father is Everyone's First Preceptor.
Happy Father's Day! ~ Mohith Agadi

Throughout his life the memory of that happy day stayed locked secretly in (his) heart. ~ Brian Jacques

I try to find a reason to laugh each day. Somehow, if you can incorporate laughter into your day, every day, it really helps. It's the little things in life that make me happy. ~ Faith Hill

Being truly happy in life involves you feeling more in control of the direction your life is going. ~ Deborah Day

At the close of my visit, my Hawaiian friends urged me strongly to publish my impressions and experiences, on the ground that the best books already existing, besides being old, treat chiefly of aboriginal customs and habits now extinct, and of the introduction of Christianity and subsequent historical events. ~ Isabella Bird

The status quo is unacceptable, and it is costly. Whatever money the province may feel it is losing with revenue sharing will be more than paid off by the revitalization and empowerment of Aboriginal communities. To put matters of dignity in blunt economic terms: healthier communities cost less to taxpayers. ~ Bob Rae

Dad, wherever you are, you are gone but you will never be forgotten. ~ Conrad Hall

The largely hidden key to the symbolic world is time; indeed it is at the origin of human symbolic activity. Time thus occasions the first alienation, the route away from aboriginal richness and wholeness. ~ John Zerzan

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. ~ Terence McKenna

Our mothers always remain the strangest, craziest people we've ever met. ~ Marguerite Duras

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. ~ Tony Abbott

I am happy today - completely happy - because I died twenty years ago; furthermore I'm happy because I die daily. Every day, at eleven o' clock, I've died twice........After eleven o'clock I'm done with dying for that day. ~ Jens Bjorneboe

It's the ultimate goal every day you wake up, to be happy. At the end of the week, you want to be happy. Happy in love, happy in work, happy in life, happy with yourself. It's pretty simple. ~ Pierce Brosnan

Happy Valentine's day sir! Next year, happy anniversary na yan ha. ~ Toni Gonzaga

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 past. ~ Steve Irwin

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. ~ Manly Hall

The more mistakes, the better the story afterwards. Especially if there's a happy ending. ~ Felicia Day

Have a memorable name day, you deserve to be happy because you are a wonderful person. Happy birthday. ~ Auliq Ice

Happiness is not on my list of priorities. I just deal with day-to-day things. If I'm happy, I'm happy - and if I'm not, I don't know the difference. Knowing that you are the person you were put on this earth to be - that's much more important than just being happy. ~ Bob Dylan

There is no labor a person does that is undignified; if they do it right. ~ Bill Cosby

Looking for the perfect day is not going to make us happy, because that day isn't going to come. ~ Ariel Gore

I live life day by day without seeking the approval of others. I do not care what they think about me. My life is about making me happy. If I am not happy then, who will make me happy? Nobody, because happiness starts within me first. ~ Charlena E. Jackson

The stories that I want to tell, especially as a director, don't necessarily have a perfect ending because, the older you get, the more you appreciate a good day versus a happy ending. You understand that life continues on the next day; the reality of things is what happens tomorrow. ~ Drew Barrymore

It is a happy day when we come to know that with God's help, nothing is impossible for us. ~ Marvin J. Ashton

What makes you so happy? You are always smiling. What is your key to being so happy?

Let's be clear--I'm not always happy. There are days I want to jump off a cliff. But saying that, even on my bad days, I make a conscious decision to be happy. You have to make that decision every day, many times a day. I want to be happy, so I am. ~ Derek Hough

The sadness of the women's movement is that they don't allow the necessity of love. See, I don't personally trust any revolution where love is not allowed. ~ Maya Angelou

The advantage of living your life consistently with determination, purpose and righteousness, every day is a success. There is victory in each good intention that you act upon! - HAPPY BIRTHDAY ~ Carlos Wallace

I think this is one of the problems that we're having in Indigenous affairs. Why we're not confronting the issues that are going to resolve it, the anger and the guilt. The anger on the Aboriginal side; the guilt on the non - Aboriginal side. We have got to deal with that, move on and start doing real work. ~ Warren Mundine

The only person who can say they're happy getting old is someone who isn't actually old yet. Every day, I get less and less happy about that idea. ~ Nick Cave

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. ~ Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

Most of us wake up every day and make decision that will make us happy, and generally decisions that will make us happy right then in the moment or that day. We are not really on a truth quest. ~ Andy Stanley

Happy Father's Day
or as they call it in my family, happy brother-in-law's day. ~ Ronan Farrow

Even when you are feeling down, you have to live your life positively, that way, happy days and happy feelings will come to you some day. ~ Kim Hyun-joong

I don't think you should just do what makes you happy. Do what makes you great. ~ Charlie Day

What I would like to see is sufficiently good education and health services being delivered to Aboriginal people so that they are prepared and ready to leave and join the economic mainstream if that's their choice. ~ Tony Abbott

In Western Australia, minerals are being dug up from Aboriginal land and shipped to China for a profit of a billion dollars a week. In this, the richest, 'booming' state, the prisons bulge with stricken Aboriginal people, including juveniles whose mothers stand at the prison gates, pleading for their release. The incarceration of black Australians here is eight times that of black South Africans during the last decade of apartheid. ~ John Pilger

Another day.
How long are you gonna scroll down?
Semicolon
Smile ~ Sanhita Baruah

Prayers never bring anything ... They may bring solace to the sap, the bigot, the ignorant, the aboriginal, and the lazy - but to the enlightened it is the same as asking Santa Claus to bring you something for Xmas ~ W.C. Fields

We owe the Aboriginal peoples a debt that is four centuries old. It is their turn to become full partners in developing an even greater Canada. And the reconciliation required may be less a matter of legal texts than of attitudes of the heart. ~ Romeo LeBlanc

Keep working hard and you can get anything that you want. ~ Aaliyah

Enjoy Your Day! BEE Happy! ~ Kathy Elstad

If you want to be happy in life, consider yourself a student. Every day of your life, think: how can I improve? ~ Nick Offerman

When you rise in the morning, form a resolution to make the day a happy one for a fellow creature. ~ Sydney Smith

It's a very Aboriginal thing to do, to give younger people greater responsibilities within the community as they become able to take those responsibilities on. It is a culturally appropriate transfer of roles that involves respect in both directions.. from the younger to the older and the older to the younger. ~ Jackie Huggins

Was it the happiest day of our lives? Probably not, if only because the truly happy days tend not to involve so much organisation, are rarely so public or so expensive. The happy ones sneak up, unexpected. ~ David Nicholls

Not every day can be an easy one, nor every day fully happy; but even a day of tough going and difficulty can be a good day. ~ Norman Vincent Peale

No burden is so heavy for a man to bear as a succession of happy days. ~ Max Planck

I'm happy to report that 'The New Press' is still in business to this day. But not thanks to me. I was a really bad publishing intern. ~ Lev Grossman

Some say romance novels are pure fantasy because of that happy ending, but the truth is that romantic love is everyday magic and happy endings happen every minute. Falling in love is one of the core elements of the human condition; it touches us all. ~ Sylvia Day

Unfortunately for many Aboriginal people, of course, they've been in the situation of being herded on government reserves. Their own responsibility's been assumed by Protectors of Aborigines and by government officials and if you become part of that system, it's always difficult to break out of it. ~ Lowitja O'Donoghue

Not everyone who sleeps, wakes up the next day. You are blessed.Be happy. ~ Manoj Arora

Labor Day is devoted to no man, living or dead, to no sect, race or nation. ~ Samuel Gompers

I am waiting for the day; when my soul will be happy for the breath i take ~ Wrushank Sorte

Jesus came down in flesh and solved both of them. So for me, my household - I just think that we would all be better off if we loved God and loved each other. At the end of the day you will be happy, happy, happy. ~ Phil Robertson

The more transparent you are about, you know, the not so happy times, or the happy times, or the things that you're embarrassed or ashamed of or proud of, it's all in Kicker, and all in my music. I'm just inspired by life in general and what it's bringing to me. ~ Zella Day

For one swallow does not make a summer, nor does one day; and so too one day, or a short time, does not make a man blessed and happy. ~ Aristotle.

If you start each day happy and treat people with more kindness, it determines the way you live your day. It's all about your choices! ~ Wesam Fawzi

Here we are at another blessed day & a beautiful new beginning. This day will be filled with positivity, good news & much love. Happy day to you wonderful people! LK ~ LaNina King

Treat every day like it's a new year because it is. ~ TemitOpe Ibrahim

I exercise every day. It's what makes me happy. ~ Andie MacDowell

I'm happy every day. ~ Bruce Willis

When you wake up each morning, you can choose to be happy or choose to be sad. Unless some terrible catastrophe has occurred the night before, it is pretty much up to you. Tomorrow morning, when the sun shines through your window, choose to make it a happy day. ~ Lynda Resnick

I'm pretty darn happy with my day job. ~ Rick Santelli

We have happy days, remember good dinners. ~ Charles Darwin

Make one person happy each day and in forty years you will have made 14,600 human beings happy for a little time at least. ~ Charles Wiley

If Solomon counts the day of one's death better than the day of one's birth, there can be no objection why that also may not be reckoned amongst one's remarkable and happy days. ~ John Aubrey

I was asked to sing with Mavis Staples on a gospel compilation called 'Oh Happy Day.' And, you know, other than being totally intimidated at the prospect of singing with Mavis, I was honored. I don't really have much of a background in gospel music. ~ Patty Griffin

I like joy; I want to be joyous. I want to smile and I want to make people laugh. And that`s all I want. I like being happy. I want to make others happy. ~ Doris Day