Top 100 Quotes About Australian
#1. Perhaps the various burnings of the Alexandria Library were necessary, like those Australian Forest Fires without which the new seeds cannot burst their shells and make a young, healthy forest.
William Golding
#2. Even to this day, no native Australian animal species and only one plant species-the macadamia nut-have proved suitable for domestication. There still are no domestic kangaroos.
Jared Diamond
#3. I think everyone's had a brother or a father or a cousin, uncle or grandfather who's had health issues because they've neglected things. I think that's almost been part of Australian culture, which is why I think Movember is really important. We need to change that outlook.
James Magnussen
#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 did not want to put myself on the line, as an Australian playing Britain's greatest comic actor. The fans of Sellers are obsessive, possessive - and aggressive. I did not want to risk their anger - or my own reputation.
Geoffrey Rush
#6. In the United States, there is a restaurant called The Outback Steakhouse, and I could survive in there for several weeks at least, sustaining myself on bloomin' onions and, I'm sure, their legitimate and very Australian cuisine. In the real Outback? I give myself about 14 minutes.
Steve Carell
#7. I've known white Australian girls from wealthy families who were sent to posh private schools, who knew all of that stuff, and I think would recognise much in Jefferson's book. What I related to most strongly was the sexism and misogyny Margo Jefferson had to battle.
Justine Larbalestier
#8. The Australian accent is sort of like going down a step in smartness, you could say, because you guys pronounce things as they're spelled. We add and abbreviate stuff.
Callan McAuliffe
#9. What's the point of being an Australian guy traveling through India if you are going to go to India to meet other Australians?
Alfonso Cuaron
#10. I think we have to keep working enormously hard to see that every single Indigenous child - every Australian child - has true equality of opportunity. We've got to work harder at it. I think, you know, the heartland issue for us is the gap; the gap in life expectancy in this country.
Quentin Bryce
#12. In terms of being Australian, I think a big part of it is the determination to prove yourself, just like Aussie actors.
Keiynan Lonsdale
#13. When you disrespect Australian law, they will tell your firmly. Declare everything when you enter Australia.
Johnny Depp
#14. We are all visitors to this time, this place. We are just passing through. Our purpose here is to observe, to learn, to grow, to love ... and then we return home. - Australian Aboriginal Proverb
A.B. Shepherd
#15. There's a sense of humor within the Australian culture that prevails when one is in a rather difficult situation.
Guy Pearce
#16. If I am wrong and you are right then the democratic process of the Australian community will vindicate you and condemn me.
John Howard
#17. I am beginning to worry that my speech is becoming a rather incomprehensible mixture of a Victorian woman, an Australian Beach Bum and a Laddish city boy
C.S. Woolley
#18. The Canadian-Australian mathematician Norman Wildberger has posted an essay arguing that real numbers are a joke.
Max Tegmark
#19. If government and media and all of us in the Australian tribe got together, and the rock industry, we'd just be the greatest cultural force the world has ever seen - we're such an amazing race.
Yahoo Serious
#20. Carbon capture and storage, its commercial development.. is going to be the key to the future of coal. If it is successful commercially, then the Australian coal sector will be a center of prosperity and growth; if it's not successful then it won't be. I think in the long run it's as simple as that.
Ross Garnaut
#21. His attitude and behaviour was no different from any other Australian high school student and being in the teaching profession she was not entirely unfamiliar with the student culture and their perceptions that academic excellence was not the only gateway to success.
Neetha Joseph
#22. 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
#23. Australian people are dope. They're so fun. They want to just have a good time, and they have a great sense of humour.
Erin Heatherton
#24. Receiving the Newcombe Medal for a third year in a row is an amazing honour. The Newcombe Medal is a great occasion for the Australian tennis community to come together and celebrate our sport, recognise people's achievements and contributions to Australian tennis.
Samantha Stosur
#25. 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
#26. You know, I'm Australian, and we have got the worst sense of humor. We are cruel to each other.
Steve Irwin
#27. And I grew up watching all the British ones so when you hear that from an early age, it makes it much easier than you guys who don't grow up with Australian television or British television.
Rachel Griffiths
#28. I see it as my duty in some way is to be out in the world as an Australian putting forward what I consider to be authentic Australian music.
Nick Cave
#29. (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
#30. The rise of the global middle class will pave the way for a new golden age in Australian society.
Asher Judah
#31. When the Australian Government looked at how to meet the challenges, and the opportunities, presented by our ageing population, it saw that an all-encompassing approach was a prerequisite.
Julie Bishop
#32. Tony Abbott might think coal's good for humanity, of course it was an important driver in the story of the Australian nation. But when we're talking about the 21st Century and those industries that are gonna take us forward, it won't be coal.
Richard Di Natale
#33. The problem with the Australian practice of abortion is that an objectively grave matter has been reduced to a question of the mother's convenience.
Tony Abbott
#34. I am an Australian citizen, and I miss my country a great deal.
Julian Assange
#35. When I was 18 years old, I had never before seen Australian film on the big screen.
Gillian Armstrong
#36. I'm a proud Australian, a very, very proud Australian.
Steve Irwin
#37. It is time Australian Muslims stop being treated as negotiable citizens in their own country. It is time people stop 'tolerating' us, presuming some right to decide if we have a place in our own home.
Randa Abdel-Fattah
#38. You see, before I became prime minister, the Australian prime minister only attended ever two meetings in the world: the British Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting and the South Pacific Forum.
Paul Keating
#39. I don't think any Australian will ever forget, there will never be a Carbon Tax under a government I lead.
Nigel Scullion
#40. I like the sensibility of Australian film a lot and the crews are fantastic. Great characters, wonderful people and no line between - I think in Hollywood they have this line between actors and crew a lot, and that just didn't exist, which I really appreciated.
Barbara Hershey
#41. I played football when I was little. I didn't want to be an actress at all, I wanted to be a majorette in an Australian circus. That was my ambition.
Emmanuelle Beart
#42. I accept you, and you get the same respect from me whether you are black, white, gay straight, Asian, bisexual, Australian, tall, fat, whatever it is. We are all people, and I look at the people of the world the same way, as my brothers and sisters.
Nash Grier
#43. I believe in immigration. But I feel people think it would be better if there was an Australian-style points based system so we could actually get a good system.
Boris Johnson
#44. Riley swings the door open and grins at me. "G'day mate!"
I frown at him. "What the hell was that?"
"Me," he says, "trying to speak your language."
I push past him and plonk myself down on his sofa. "That was Australian.
Beckie Stevenson
#45. If we are to celebrate the giants in Australian public life, then Robert Garran must be among them. A lawyer and passionate advocate of Federation, Garran was one of several hands that drafted our constitution.
Anthony Albanese
#46. I'd have to fight for an Australian role over an American actor, and I already have to do that overseas, so why would I have to do it back at home?
Bojana Novakovic
#47. Supposedly I've got traces of an English accent, though I can't hear it. I must have inherited it from my mother, who's English, and then I think it was exacerbated by the fact that I live with an Australian.
Lev Grossman
#48. There's a bunch of directors that I really admire, and Australian ones as well. It would be nice to do a film at home.
Mia Wasikowska
#49. If you wish to understand me at all (and to write an autobiography is only to open a window into one's heart) you must understand first and foremost, that I am an Australian.
Nellie Melba
#50. We need more drama on Australian TV. We've actually dropped the ball on that.
Gillian Armstrong
#51. I made my first Australian senior team when I was 16, first Olympics when I was 19, and I retired. I'm 32, I retired four years ago, so a good third of my life or nearly a third of my life has been all about running.
Cathy Freeman
#52. But perhaps his outstanding contribution to Australian politics was that, after a lifetime of switching sides, he put in place the basic two-party structure we have today: Labor versus anti-Labor. The anti-Labor parties have had many names, but always the same policy: to keep Labor out of office.
Mungo MacCallum
#53. Australian Aboriginees say that the big stories - the stories worth telling and retelling, the ones in which you may find the meaning of your life - are forever stalking the right teller, sniffing and tracking like predators hunting prey in the bush.
Robert Moss
#54. I still listen to a lot of the classics from Bob Dylan and John Martin, but I love electronic music as well. I'm a big fan of an Australian DJ and producer called Flume, who I think is incredible. He should be more successful in the U.K.!
Gabrielle Aplin
#55. The Australian Open attracts one of the most competitive line-ups in the world and I'm looking forward to putting the heat on some of my old on-court rivals.
Mark Philippoussis
#56. Money is tighter now, with the advertising dollar spread a lot more thinly across a whole range of media because of the Internet. It means the television networks have less power to produce shows, and TV is where most Australian actors make their money.
Grant Bowler
#57. The Prime Minister seems now to be basing his re-election campaign on this plot line. He is saying to the Australian people, look out, the baddies behind you - hiss, boo and whatever you do, don't vote Labor. This political parody of pantomime is looking and sounding desperate.
Julia Gillard
#58. I was offered and accepted a part in 'A Few Best Men,' and then the Australian actor's union argued that there were too many British actors. And the director decided to lose me.
Noel Clarke
#59. I'm an Australian, and when I grew up much of my influences were American - blues music and country music, all that sort of thing.
Nick Cave
#60. Now both my films have been number one at the Australian box office and it took about two years just to get the finance for this film, so if it's hard for me then God help everyone else.
Yahoo Serious
#61. I'm obviously coming out of the Australian summer with amazing momentum, knowing I can pretty much hang in there with anybody and even beat some of the best players. So for me, it's definitely a good feeling, I think.
Sloane Stephens
#62. The Australian people want to help build this country into a great nation. This budget ... has not realized the capacity of the Australian people. It has underestimated them. It has let us down.
Lionel Murphy
#63. The Australian backyard was once built for tradesmen and outdoor toilets. As suburbs spread, it became a playground and source of pride ...
Pete Munro
#64. There's something intrinsically Australian about a bunch of brothers and school friends getting together as a band at a very young age and all pulling together as a band at a very young age and all pulling together as mates to make something happen.
Michael Hutchence
#65. I will always come back to do Australian films. I think it matters. I think we can make films that people go and see. And I don't think it's too much to ask that films in this country make a profit and that we embrace them.
Josh Lawson
#66. There are a thousand weird untold stories in the Australian film industry, this has been one of them.
Yahoo Serious
#67. Technology is a cross-curriculum perspective running through the new Australia curriculum, and there are a number of technology subject areas as well which include coding which has not previously been part of the Australian Curriculum.
Susan Mann
#68. We start the year on the other side of the world, at the Australian Open, and then just chase the sun.
Andre Agassi
#69. MPU was a great platform for emotional drama and Australian stories.
Michael A. Healy
#70. Sport is an important part of the Australian psyche. Anybody who thinks that sport is not part of the fabric of Australian life misunderstands this country quite dramatically.
John Howard
#71. Everyone tells me I have a funny accent. It's because I copy people. I learned English at school but have best friends who are French, Australian, English and American; a very weird mix.
Caroline Winberg
#72. Wherever you are in the world, there's always something about the Australian light. There's something about the sharpness of it, something about the clarity of it, something about the colours of Australia. And hopefully, something optimistic about Australian painting too.
Ken Done
#73. In 1957, which is now 57 years ago, my grandfather and then-Prime Minister Nobusuke Kishi welcomed Prime Minister Menzies as the first Australian Prime Minister to visit Japan after World War II and drove the conclusion of the Japan-Australia Agreement on Commerce.
Shinzo Abe
#74. 'You've got mail!' exclaims the cheery automaton at America Online. The flag on the mailbox icon waves invitingly on my computer screen. For a second, I'm 10 years old again, waiting for the postman's whistle to slice the stillness of an Australian afternoon.
Geraldine Brooks
#75. I'm black. I'm Latina. My mom is Cuban. Afro-Cuban. My dad is white and Australian.
Soledad O'Brien
#76. My father is Indonesian Timorese, my mother Aboriginal Australian.
Jessica Mauboy
#77. The newspapers were against me. They were telling me that the Australian dream was a home. But that dream became worse and worse as they had to live further away from the city. My dream became better as we could build higher and higher.
Harry Triguboff
#78. The Botanischer Garten in Berlin has one of Europe's finer winter trails, leading in careful order from glasshouses devoted to African-American and Australian desert species, through a fine collection of tropical plants, and on to the orchid house.
John Burnside
#79. Reverie by the open window in the sweet futility of a mild evening was yet to strike the Australian male as a requirement. (There would be the question of fly screens, for one thing.)
Shirley Hazzard
#80. I think stupid people are surprised that I'm Australian. It's a small-minded; we live in a global community, but I suppose some people still are small-minded.
Iggy Azalea
#81. It is Australian innocence to love The naturally excessive and be proud Of a thoroughbred gelding who ran fast.
Peter Porter
#82. The coal industry is an even larger part of the Australian economy than it is of the American, and it has an enormous amount of political power.
Jeff Goodell
#83. As a card-carrying space nerd and NASA's chief scientist, I love space movies, from 'Star Trek' to 'Star Wars' to my all-time favorite - 'The Dish', an Australian comedy that celebrates that first moment when Neil Armstrong stepped down onto the surface of our moon.
Ellen Stofan
#84. I've been voted one of Australia's 50 national treasures. I've even had my face on an Australian stamp - the only non-Australian to do so, apart from the Queen, of course.
Russell Crowe
#85. My mum was a children's librarian, so I spent a lot of time in the library. My reading life, because of my mum's work, was evenly split between American, Canadian, Australian and British authors.
Eleanor Catton
#86. We discovered that there was a great deal of keen interest in America for the kinds of products that we thought could be produced here. Also there was an interest in Britain for Australian material generally.
Ann Macbeth
#87. You have to remember that I was an Australian girl of the Fifties and Sixties. For Australians at that time, it was imperative to get out of the country and discover the world.
Robyn Davidson
#88. Vast skies in the Australian desert
waves that don't move
we slide surf glide like condors
Martin Stepek
#89. If you're becoming weary and disillusioned with Australian values, Judeo-Christian values or Western civilisation, I recommend strangers - they're such a glorious, redeeming wilderness to wander into.
Michael Leunig
#90. Australian schools have cool uniforms. I wish I had to wear a woven straw hat for maths.
Harry Styles
#91. Ksubi' - the Australian jean brand, they're one of my favourite brands of just clothes and stuff, and the Swedish brand 'Acne', but other than that, not at this point in time designing. I wouldn't mind collab'n with those guys though.
ASAP Rocky
#92. I don't know, maybe Australian humour isn't supposed to be funny. It's as dry as the Sahara, and I think people miss that.
Nick Cave
#93. We have lost all our big Australian industries and icons, including Qantas when it sold 25 % of its shares and a controlling interest to British Airways.
Pauline Hanson
#94. The Australian temper is at bottom grim. It is as though the sun has dried up his nature.
Neville Cardus
#95. If I was whisked away ... I think I could put up with anything, except not seeing the Australian landscape. It would be a torture to have it cut off.
Arthur Boyd
#96. Across the board, Australian films need to have a lot more money spent on selling them.
Hugo Weaving
#97. I am very good with dialects, but the two that I can't do for some reason are the South African and Australian.
Liev Schreiber
#98. There is a very special place in the Australian psyche for sport. It is one of the pillars of the Australian way of life. You don't really understand what makes the Australian nation tick unless you understand the great affection Australians have for sport.
John Howard
#99. I'd like to be seen as an average Australian bloke. I can't think of ... I can't think of a nobler description of anybody than to be called an average Australian bloke.
John Howard
#100. I'm never there enough to really keep up with what's going on in the Australian film industry. I just try and be part of it as much as I can.
Guy Pearce
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