Top 100 Quotes About Australia
#1. I'm responsible for a hundred thousand people across Australia as well and I want to keep them gainfully employed. I want to give them opportunity to grow, I want to give them opportunity to develop.
Ian McLeod
#2. If I was in a refugee camp somewhere on the Pakistani border, of course I'd want to come to Australia.
Tony Abbott
#3. (backpacker having conversation with Lizzie the Australian main character)
Backpacker: 'What's the drinking age in Australia?'
'eighteen'
'is that enforced'
Lizzie thought for a second before answering seriously, 'yes, they make us drink
Catherine Deveny
#4. We were living in California, and it just wasn't conducive for the lifestyle that we wanted with kids. Los Angeles is tricky to get around, there's paparazzi to deal with, and I had this feeling that I just wanted to move back to Australia.
Chris Hemsworth
#5. I have never seen any place on Earth as beautiful, improbable, and beautifully ridiculous as Australia. Whatever god or devil first conceived of the place deserves some sort of award, and possibly a smack in the head.
Seanan McGuire
#6. My first heartbreak was extreme. I went to Australia for 10 months when I was at school and told the girl I was madly in love with not to come out to see me - and of course, when I came back, she met me at the airport to tell me she'd met someone else.
Greg Wise
#7. There is no place in the world like Australia. Not even its beautiful neighbor New Zealand.
Henry Rollins
#8. Some societies are also more optimistic than others: the U.S. and Australia are my two picks Tell a European you think there's a housing bubble and you'll have a reasonable discussion. Tell an Australian and you'll have World War III. Been there, done that!
Jeremy Grantham
#9. I'm the guy who'll drive 250 miles tonight and be at the gym tomorrow at 10 A.M., when people are still sleeping in. I'm the guy who'll fly to Australia and find a gym. Fly back and first thing I do off the plane is work out before I shower or eat.
John Cena
#10. Americans are the most generous country on the planet. I've worked in Europe, I've worked in Australia. There is no where else where you get absolutely no attitude for being a foreigner. If you do your job well, they embrace you.
Hugh Jackman
#11. I live in a town called Beerwah, right in the middle of Australia Zoo. It's not hustle and bustle and busy, so that's helpful. We travel all over the world, but I've always been able to come home and run around in the middle of the Australian outback.
Bindi Irwin
#12. Australia, to the rest of the world, is just far away, and Australia in the Thirties was the faraway of the faraway.
Baz Luhrmann
#13. I actually did my research and tried to get kind of like a working visa for Australia. It always seemed like it was a land of opportunities. The same size as the United States with one-tenth of the population.
Rick Nielsen
#14. In Australia, kids play in American accents.
Yael Stone
#15. South Australia has transformed. There has been a range of changes to our economy over the past 10 years in which we have genuinely set ourselves up for the future. I think we have to start behaving like that's real and project a quiet confidence in the future of our state.
Jay Weatherill
#16. The greatest thing that can happen to the state of Queensland and the nation of Australia would be if and when we get rid of the media. Then we would live in peace and tranquility - but no one would know anything!.
Johannes "Joh" Bjelke-Petersen
#17. I used to feel an obligation to invent things. I felt I was a failure because I didn't do massive great novels about Australia or the outback or something. I just don't feel that any more.
Helen Garner
#18. Tax can be structured in a way that actually encourages investment in infrastructure and encourages investment in Australia from overseas.
Andrew Forrest
#19. I suppose I was very disappointed that I was injured during training for Korea. In fact, I had an argument with a grenade and it won, and consequently I was forced to come back to Australia for twelve months.
Peter Scott
#20. The thing about home is that it's a tough place to sustain a career, just by dent of the size of the place. I had about as good a run there as anybody, but it's still a tough ask. I mean, the person I think with the best career in Australia is Ray Meagher, in 'Home and Away.'
Ben Mendelsohn
#21. In Australia, I can just say to my mom, 'I'm going down the street.' And I can walk around pretty much all the places I know.
Kodi Smit-McPhee
#22. One day we were sitting in our little classroom in the middle of Australia Zoo, and Dad bursts in and says, 'OK, today we're going to go climb a mountain,' - the Glass House Mountains are about 20 minutes away - so we packed up all our math work and ran out the door and climbed Mount Tibrogargan.
Bindi Irwin
#23. Australia has a very big history of incarceration. What does that mean to us? What does it mean that we came over to a country that's not necessarily ours and filled it with white prisoners?
Yael Stone
#24. We moved to Australia for two years though and that was a little bit tough trying to fit in.
Kelly Preston
#25. When he breathed he truly was Australia's greatest white elder and friend without peer to the original Australians.
Noel Pearson
#26. Disparity is Australia's worst social problem. Thousands of lives are slowly being crushed, while billions are wasted on thousands of little initiatives trying to 'close the gap.'
Andrew Forrest
#27. I believe we have the potential to quadruple Australia's food exports to Asia.
Anthony Pratt
#28. It's always a fine line. If you overdo (aggression) it's 'ugly Australians', but if you have a smile on your face it's Australia being too nice.
Brett Lee
#29. We have a drinking game in Australia, it's called drinking.
Jim Jefferies
#30. Australia is one of my favorite places in the world. I spend a lot of time there. And I find Sydney a lot like LA in some ways, and it's beautiful, great for kids, and I absolutely love it over there.
Nicole Richie
#31. So far, and today, everything felt really great. Now I am good to get on the plane and fly to Australia.
Kim Clijsters
#32. I try to get back to Australia as much as possible.
Teresa Palmer
#33. Like a ship, a car should be named after a girl as it's sexy. My original car was called Kate. But then it got smashed at the opening race in Australia. So we called this one Kate's Dirty Sister because it is more aggressive and faster.
Sebastian Vettel
#34. I started working on a TV show in Australia, straight out of high school, so I missed the whole university experience.
Margot Robbie
#35. I don't feel at home in New Orleans. I don't feel at home in Austin or L.A. And I just felt immediately at home in northern Australia.
Amanda Palmer
#36. Canada, Australia and New Zealand have apologised for their treatment of native peoples.
Stephen Kinzer
#37. There are a few artists that I'm really into. I mean, I'm a big Nick Cave fan. And there's a band from Australia called Big Heavy Stuff that's one of my favorite bands ever.
J. Robbins
#38. We were a Western civilisation, an English speaking civilisation, both NZ and Australia, and we had all these influences coming from both Great Britain and America to us; sending us their culture in the shape and form of movies and television.
Richard O'Brien
#39. I studied writing at university, and I actually majored in screenwriting. Then I went to work as a bookseller and then as a sales rep and publicist and then various editorial jobs until I ended up with HarperCollins in Australia.
Garth Nix
#40. When you disrespect Australian law, they will tell your firmly. Declare everything when you enter Australia.
Johnny Depp
#41. The most scared I'd ever been was the first time I sang at a rugby match, Australia versus New Zealand, in front of one hundred thousand people. I had a panic attack the night before because people have been booed off and never worked again ... just singing one song, the national anthem.
Hugh Jackman
#42. Thick skin is not the thing to have if you are an artist of any kind. It's got to be bulletproof in the sense that it lets the bullet in, and it travels through, and it comes out the other side. I've had everything hurled at me, especially in Australia. Australia is where the tough journalists are.
Clive James
#43. Notoriously, in 1975, Murdoch abused his position as a newspaper owner to support a plot that ousted the democratically elected prime minister of Australia, Gough Whitlam, who had dared to wander away from the mogul's path.
Nick Davies
#44. I tend to use really basic creams, and I like to put an oil on, like an emu oil from Australia. It's from the emu, and it's really nourishing. I prefer an oil to a cream.
Cate Blanchett
#45. The fundamentalist Zionist lobby controls politics and the media in the US and Australia.
Margo Kingston
#46. If you want to appeal to everyone, you can't do a world tour and expect black people to show up at every date - when you're in Australia, when you're in Dubai, when you're in Indonesia.
Kevin Hart
#47. I had had a lot of experience in bringing the Internet to Australia, and I saw that knowledge in the hands of people achieves reform.
Julian Assange
#48. When I have a bad day, I dream about opening up a gelato stand on the streets of Sydney, Australia. Doesn't everyone have a random escape fantasy?
Nancy Lublin
#50. I like Australia less and less. The hateful newness, the democratic conceit, every man a little pope of perfection.
D.H. Lawrence
#51. The sporting fields where Australia's greats began their careers are built and rebuilt with Commonwealth help, as are the halls and community centres where our most of our well-known stars first felt the magic of the stage.
Anthony Albanese
#52. Camels are still trained in Alice Springs for tourist jaunts and for occasional sale to Australia's zoos.
Robyn Davidson
#53. I was born in Amersham, England on 6/4/58. My family moved to Australia when I was eight, and I went to Box Hill High School and then Melbourne High School. I liked to draw and write at school, and I liked books by J.R.R. Tolkien, A.A. Milne and Kenneth Grahame.
Graeme Base
#54. I don't handle creepy crawlers well. I had a spider problem at a house in Australia, and one of my female friends had to come rescue me from it.
Jai Courtney
#55. I think it displayed what the Australia Council does so well, the awarding of artists who at various steps in their career had been encouraged by the Australia Council.
George Brandis
#56. Even the Australians don't know how beautiful their own country is. Particularly where we were shooting 'The Straits.' Most of my stuff was done on an aboriginal settlement on the south shore, opposite Cairns, which I believe was the site where the last person was eaten in Australia.
Brian Cox
#57. In 1969, we emigrated to Australia. It was a big change. The heat, the flies, and the completely different tinned meats. The shock was so great, I stopped reading books for nearly a year.
Morris Gleitzman
#58. We had to leave Australia to become international stars.
Barry Gibb
#59. It's impossible to imagine what Australia would be like without surfing.
Tim Winton
#60. I wasn't always a novelist. I began my writing career as a journalist, working on an afternoon newspaper in Sydney, Australia, doing the crime beat and court reporting. Having grown up in a small country town, I felt as though I had nothing to write about.
Michael Robotham
#61. Bay in January 1788 under the command of Captain Arthur Phillip. On January 26, now celebrated as Australia Day, they set up camp in Sydney Cove, the heart of the modern city of Sydney.
Daron Acemoglu
#62. If you think about the map of Europe with Italy and Germany and Spain and all the different people and cultures, well, Australia is like that. And the white people from England, they are like a lot of noisy, angry visitors on a holiday that never really ends,' Mary giggles to herself
Anita Heiss
#63. I do think that there's a special connection between Australia and America. It's kind of unexplainable. It's just one of those things. It's all about God's timing. We're thankful to be a part of it.
Reuben Morgan
#64. You are not prime minister of Australia because of some kind of process of divine selection. You are prime minister of Australia through the gift of the Australian people.
John Howard
#65. The cultification of an imperialist invasion of a foreign nation that Australia had no quarrel with is against all ideals of modern society.
Scott McIntyre
#66. With nine degrees of warming, computer models project that Australia will look like a disaster movie. Habitats for most vertebrates will vanish. Water supply to the Murray-Darling Basin will fall by half, severely curtailing food production.
Jeff Goodell
#67. I want to embrace all of this: touring, going to Europe, Canada, Australia. I want to travel the world, just have a great hang, and hopefully, be a messenger.
Meredith Brooks
#68. A large corporation is more like Australia: it's impossible
to see the whole landscape at once and there are so many things
capable of maiming or killing you.
Erika Hall
#69. Australia has a thing where apparently it's fine for me to dress up as an Asian woman. No one has questioned that.
Chris Lilley
#70. What Australia was before is the fullest Australia has ever been ... as created and made and valued by indigenous people. The white man came here and took it away, took it away and replaced it ...
Galarrwuy Yunupingu
#71. I have always had, as I know many people have, a singular passion for Australia. I do love the sunburnt country, its ancient landscapes, its exhilarating reaches of sand and sea.
Peter Garrett
#72. I hope the next time you get a double-decker strawberry ice-cream cone the ice cream part falls off the cone and lands in Australia.
Judith Viorst
#73. Australia is really a lot like Texas if Texas were mad at you and drunk and maybe had a knife.
Jenny Lawson
#74. I did 'Quigley Down Under,' which is quite deliberately placed in Australia, which is a Tom Selleck, Alan Rickman, Laura San Giacomo film from '88, I want to say.
Ben Mendelsohn
#75. Before becoming an Australian you will be asked to subscribe to certain values. If you have strong objections to those values, don't come to Australia.
Peter Costello
#76. It may seem hard to believe - unless you sit down and taste them - but some of the world's greatest sweet wines are made in the Rutherglen region of Victoria, Australia.
Robert M. Parker Jr.
#77. Until the end of World War II, Argentina and Australia were running in parallel.
Clive James
#78. Dhoni is one of the greatest captain I have ever seen. Dhoni's record is praiseworthy. Twenty-two Test wins is not a small achievement. And the success against Australia has come against the backdrop of the not-so-good times he went through in the last two years
Sourav Ganguly
#79. I've been lucky to travel through quite a bit of Europe and Australia, but I would love to do Asia and South America and South Africa.
Dianna Agron
#80. I live in a country where I'd say nine out of ten people know me when I walk through the streets. There's people taking pictures, there's tabloids trying to make up stories. I'm used to that. The same thing when I'm in Australia or the U.K.: I get stopped.
Trevor Noah
#81. I'd like to see the University of Western Australia and the other four or five universities in Western Australia really excel through having some of the greatest minds in the world attracted to it.
Andrew Forrest
#82. Present governments are encouraging separatism in Australia by providing opportunities, land, moneys and facilities available only to Aboriginals.
Pauline Hanson
#83. As a Latin musician, I understand that there are so many places where people don't know who I am. My albums never came out in Australia or Japan.
Prince Royce
#84. Bangladesh is not India, Pakistan, South Africa or Australia.
Sourav Ganguly
#85. Australia turns out to be a sensational place, albeit one of the most comfortably racist places I've ever been in. They've really settled into their intolerance like an old resentful slipper.
John Oliver
#86. In the end it's the big picture which changes nations and whatever our opponents may say, Australia's changed inexorably for good, for the better.
Paul Keating
#87. I think Melbourne is by far and away the most interesting place in Australia, and I thought if I ever wrote a novel or crime novel of any kind, I had to set it here.
Peter Temple
#88. England, Australia, Israel, a few staunch, important allies internationally. But we have lost a lot of international support.
Tucker Carlson
#89. Australia integrated the - brought on the ships and unleashed in the society the dogs of sectarianism, which had existed in other places - in Glasgow, in Liverpool and of course in Ireland, north and south.
Thomas Keneally
#90. My big break was when I won 'Search for a Supermodel Australia,' and then I came second in the world series, and that was all good, but I was just having fun; it wasn't real to me.
Nicole Trunfio
#91. How comedic are squirrels? We don't have squirrels in Australia. The first time I saw a squirrel was at a meeting at Disney.
Liam Hemsworth
#93. Altogether, if I had to pick one place to hang out anywhere, from New York to Cape Town and Australia to Hong Kong, a bookstore would be it.
Gloria Steinem
#94. The innovation industries are rapidly going global. In five years, more than 50% of venture capital returns will come from markets outside the United States, including China, India, Brazil, and Australia, and AlwaysOn events are on top of these trends.
Jim Breyer
#95. Pick any player of the world. Make him the captain of India. I can assure you that the results will still be the same. MS Dhoni just not lucky enough to have the kind of bowlers that top teams like Australia, South Africa and New Zealand have.
Sourav Ganguly
#96. I was fortunate enough to visit a lot of beautiful places around the world. The most astonishing and memorable experiences were my trips to Africa and Australia.
Karolina Kurkova
#97. That's Australia. She's not dim-witted, she just has trouble remembering to be smart.
Brandon Sanderson
#98. I really hated being the Norwegian girl in every single conversation in Australia, so I tried to make my Norwegian-ness invisible, speaking like whoever was around me.
Jenny Hval
#99. I have visited Australia several times, and I always try to make a point of going to Melbourne because it's almost my favorite city there, Melbourne and Sydney. But I shouldn't say that because I haven't been everywhere-and I'm very fond of Perth too!
Jackie Collins
#100. Yes. I do about 70 shows a year, in the past year I've been to Italy, Australia, Japan, China, just about everywhere. I do it because I love singing. The money is a bonus.
Katherine Jenkins
