Australia Quotes - page 3

Although my father is English, I was brought up in Australia. (Adelaide Clemens)
Labor is at its best when we are the party of ideas and action - ideas that empower the powerless and actions that build a better Australia for the long term. View quote
Bill Shorten
I just think Australia tends to make very good movies, so if someone hands me an Australian or an American film script I would guess the Australian film would be more intriguing. View quote
Barbara Hershey
My parents and my grandfather on my mom's side would travel the earth. They went to Australia and China, and they went to probably every soccer game I ever played. View quote
Brandi Chastain
Australians have a free spirit and an ability to think outside the box, and that is why I like Australia so much. View quote
Brian Schmidt
In Australia, they set up a special fund to kick films off. It was quite an enlightened sort of move. You could go to this government bureau with scripts and and get finance for films. View quote
Bruce Beresford
When I was 24 I went to Nigeria and it was such a culture shock, growing up in Australia and suddenly being the only white man in this unit full of black men. View quote
Bruce Beresford
I think women across Australia, particularly, are a bit fed up with this constant attack and belittling of women in politics, and particularly the role of a female as a Prime Minister. View quote
Christine Milne
I want to be really proactive in working with the progressive business community in Australia and also reaching out to rural and regional Australia in order to assist in the sustainability crisis and the food security crisis. View quote
Christine Milne
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. View quote
Catherine Helen Spence
South Australia was the first community to give the secret ballot for political elections. (Catherine Helen Spence)
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. View quote
Catherine Helen Spence
Even before the discovery of copper South Australia had turned the corner. View quote
Catherine Helen Spence
Some books claim I have already clocked up a century of Grands Prix, but let me put the record straight. Australia will be my 100th start, and I aim to mark the milestone with a cracking performance. It could even be celebrated with a victory. View quote
Damon Hill
My father died in 1930, but if you told him or anybody almost in that time that you'd be able to sit back in England and watch a cricket game in Australia, they'd have you put in the loony bin. View quote
Desmond Llewelyn
I had a place in England and was commuting from England to Australia, which is pretty stupid, but after two years I sort of knew what I wanted to do, more or less. View quote
Diane Cilento
New Zealand is a pretty no-nonsense place to work, like Australia. I mean it doesn't falter to anyone. View quote
Dustin Clare
There's a lot of exaggerated talk about CAFTA, but it's actually a fairly routine trade agreement. Although it involves fairly small nations, they're still more important trade partners than places like Australia or many other larger nations. View quote
Ernest Istook
I think we are going to see exciting cricket all the way. We are watching the two best teams in the world-and I think England will eventually go on to pip Australia by a single Test. View quote
Ian Botham
There are no real guidelines or maps in Australia as to how to write a show, whereas in Hollywood it's where the TV industry is created and there's a lot of work that goes into development. View quote
Jason Gann
Australia is the only island continent on the planet, which means that changes caused by planet-warming pollution - warmer seas, which can drive stronger storms, and more acidic oceans, which wreak havoc on the food chain - are even more deadly here. (Jeff Goodell)
I want to go to Australia and take the same goofy picture of me holding a koala that everyone else takes. View quote
Jessi Klein
We shouldn't be put out to pasture just because we've reached somebody's idea of retirement, which was certainly happening in Australia, and I think elsewhere as well. View quote
John Noble
It's not a country of articulate people, sophisticated people. There's too little subtlety. Men and women don't enjoy each other very much in Australia. I don't find very many men sexy in Australia. Of course, I'm married and out of it, but still. View quote
Judy Davis
The strongest initiative that government can take to ensure Australia is prepared for population ageing, is to maintain a strong economy, and a secure nation. View quote
Julie Bishop