New South Wales Quotes

#1. If there be one man, more than another, who deserves to succeed in flying through the air, that man is Mr. Laurence Hargrave, of Sydney, New South Wales.

Octave Chanute

#2. The year 1826 was remarkable for the commencement of one of those fearful droughts to which we have reason to believe the climate of New South Wales is periodically subject.

Charles Sturt

#3. Who knows but that England may revive in New South Wales when it has sunk in Europe.

Joseph Banks

#4. The staple of our Australian colonies, but more particularly of New South Wales, the climate and the soil of which are peculiarly suited to its production, - is fine wool.

Charles Sturt

#5. I have got to say, I'm a businessman, I work in business, worked with some very large corporations around the world, and I have never seen a better operating machine than what the New South Wales right machine is.

Warren Mundine

#6. One of the greatest objections which families have to New South Wales, is their apprehension of the moral effects that are likely to overwhelm them by bad example, and for which no success in life could compensate.

Charles Sturt

#7. Fun fact: You may hug koalas in the Australian state of New South Wales, but not in Queensland. So ... if you didn't hug your koala nice and tight before you got here to Sydney, you're going to be shit out of luck until we go back to Surfer's Paradise.

Elle Lothlorien

#8. I'm one of five kids and we lived on a massive farm in New South Wales with my mum and dad.

Abbie Cornish

#9. It is to be feared that those who emigrate to New South Wales, generally anticipate too great facility in their future operations and certainty of success in conducting them; but they should recollect that competency cannot be obtained without labour.

Charles Sturt

#10. In this eventful period the colony of New South Wales is already far advanced.

Charles Sturt

#11. Nothing escapes the vigilance of the New South Wales police; their reputation is known the world over.

Joshua Slocum

#12. I was born on 7 September 1917 at Sydney in Australia. My father was English-born and a graduate of Oxford; my mother, born Hilda Eipper, was descended from a German minister of religion who settled in New South Wales in 1832. I was the second of four children.

John Cornforth

#13. In a colony constituted like that of New South Wales, the proportion of crime must of course be great.

Charles Sturt

#14. Part of my childhood was spent in Sydney and part in rural New South Wales, at Armidale.

John Cornforth

#15. They were unable to stand up and say: 'Here's our policy. It's Unite the world against terrorism.'

Chris Matthews

#16. I've done four other films since 'Submarine,' so that's quite cool. It's just good to have people respect your work; I've never had that before. Yeah, my life has changed crazy. I'm a kid from a small town in south Wales, I play my Xbox usually and all that sort of stuff, and it's a whole new world.

Craig Roberts

#17. I just want to have fun.

Victoria Azarenka

#18. I think that music is a very difficult art form in which to be avant-garde. When we sit down to listen to a piece of music, I think our implicit hope is that we're going to find it beautiful, or at least emotional, on some level.

Steven Soderbergh

#19. Some people are in charge of pens who shouldn't be in charge of brooms.

Graham Parker

#20. I couldn't make a real drum'n'bass or dubstep record to save my life. But I can be influenced by them in small ways.

DJ Shadow

#21. Anytime there's an actual grassroots movement that isn't funded by people trying to create a grassroots movement, I find that interesting.

George Clooney