Catherine Helen Spence Quotes
"My pamphlet did not set the Torrens on fire."
- Catherine Helen Spence
(Related: Fire)
"My return to London introduced me to a wider range of society."
- Catherine Helen Spence
(Related: Society, London)
"Nothing is insignificant in the history of a young community, and - above all - nothing seems impossible."
- Catherine Helen Spence
(Related: History, Community, Nothing)
"My brothers went to the parish school, one of the best in the county."
- Catherine Helen Spence
(Related: Brothers, School)
"Probably my mother's life was prolonged beyond that of a long-lived family by her coming to Australia in middle life; and if I ever had any tendency to consumption, the climate must have helped me."
- Catherine Helen Spence
(Related: Family, Life, Mother, Climate)
"South Australia was the first community to give the secret ballot for political elections."
- Catherine Helen Spence
(Related: Community, Elections, First)
"The first issue of The Register was printed in London, and gave a glowing account of the province that was to be - its climate, its resources, the sound principles on which it was founded."
- Catherine Helen Spence
(Related: Climate, First, London, Principles, Sound)
"Even before the discovery of copper South Australia had turned the corner."
- Catherine Helen Spence
(Related: Discovery)
"I think I was well brought up, for my father and mother were of one mind regarding the care of the family."
- Catherine Helen Spence
(Related: Family, Mother, Father, Care, Mind)
"The Town Clerkship, however, was the means of giving me a lesson in electoral methods."
- Catherine Helen Spence
(Related: Giving)
"I had seen Adelaide the dearest and the cheapest place to live in."
- Catherine Helen Spence
"I had only two offers of marriage in my life, and I refused both."
- Catherine Helen Spence
(Related: Marriage, Life)
"I look back to a happy childhood."
- Catherine Helen Spence
(Related: Childhood)
"I count myself well educated, for the admirable woman at the head of the school which I attended from the age of four and a half till I was thirteen and a half, was a born teacher in advance of her own times."
- Catherine Helen Spence
(Related: Age, School, Woman)
"I had learned what wealth was, and a great deal about production and exchange for myself in the early history of South Australia - of the value of machinery, of roads and bridges, and of ports for transport and export."
- Catherine Helen Spence
(Related: History, Wealth, Production, Value)
"Drinking habits were very prevalent among men, and were not in any way disgraceful, unless excessive."
- Catherine Helen Spence
(Related: Men, Drinking, Habits)
"As we grew to love South Australia, we felt that we were in an expanding society, still feeling the bond to the motherland, but eager to develop a perfect society, in the land of our adoption."
- Catherine Helen Spence
(Related: Love, Society, Adoption, Feeling, Land)
"After the break up of the municipality and the loss of his income my father lost health and spirits."
- Catherine Helen Spence
(Related: Health, Father, Income, Loss, Spirits)
"A glass of whisky in Scotland in the thirties cost less than a cup of tea."
- Catherine Helen Spence
(Related: Scotland, Tea)