Adelaide Quotes

I had seen Adelaide the dearest and the cheapest place to live in. (Catherine Helen Spence)
I don't really remember the day we lost our home in the floods, but looking back I can understand how devastating it was for my parents. I was only six, so I remember us having to move to Adelaide - but not much of the actual day and night of the flood. We had to start all over again and my parents opened a café.
Samantha Stosur
We are eager to tunnel under the Atlantic and bring the Old World some weeks nearer to the New but perchance the first news that will leak through into the broad, flapping American ear will be that the Princess Adelaide has the whooping cough.
Henry David Thoreau
Adelaide is becoming a hub for higher education.
Geoff Mulgan
When I was a kid in Adelaide, I dreamed of becoming No. 1 in the world, winning a grand slam and the Davis Cup for Australia.
Lleyton Hewitt
The last thing I stole was a box of Coca Cola from a parked truck in Adelaide. I was nice and drunk. It was New Year's Eve. And that was about 28 years ago.
Ronald Biggs
I had the best of both worlds when I was a kid. I'd spend a quiet week with my mum, then I'd go to my dad's property in the Adelaide Hills, where there were all these kids and animals running around.
Teresa Palmer
I'd always dreamt of acting but, in Adelaide, we don't have exposure to the opportunities that make stardom a possibility.
Teresa Palmer
Adelaide has so little going for it that it should be shut down.
Robert Doyle
I was surprised to learn that Adelaide had television.
Robert Doyle
Even though I live in America more, I feel like when I go to Adelaide, that's when I get to go home. (Ben Folds)
Outside Adelaide, Australia: "...they showed us some of the native aborigines at a wayside station in the great plain yesterday afternoon though they are the most revolting form of living creatures I've ever seen!! They are the lowest known form of human beings & are the nearest thing to monkeys I've ever seen"
Edward VIII of the United Kingdom