Quotes About Australian Culture

#1. I celebrated my 18th birthday in Japan, which was quite memorable; I was quite fascinated by the different traditions and the culture; it was so completely different to Australian culture.

Miranda Kerr

#2. There's a sense of humor within the Australian culture that prevails when one is in a rather difficult situation.

Guy Pearce

#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. In Australian culture, people are just more laid back, people aren't as serious, they just take their time with things. It's just like, whatever, if I don't get it done I don't get it done.

Andrew Bogut

#5. I don't see why, if you look at how the Australian culture and psyche is, that we can't be amongst the most generous, from the grassroots up, nations in the world.

Andrew Forrest

#6. I'm a big believer in debate and difference of opinion.

Naomi Wolf

#7. We spend most of our life cooking up all kinds of untrue things. Why? So we won't be afraid. The mind likes to soothe itself with stories, and after they get made up, we run around under their spell.

Deepak Chopra

#8. It's like you are oozing magic." Tari rolled her eyes.
"Yes I am an all-powerful witch," she said sarcastically.
"No. Not a witch, but something. I can't explain it. It's as if magic is your friend," Ivy continued.

S.K. Whiteside

#9. Jealousy - that jumble of secret worship and ostensible aversion.

Emile M. Cioran

#10. Yidaki didgeridoo has been used in every part of Australian regional culture, all around the country. It's become a message stick for the survival of those people, for aboriginal people and aboriginal culture.

Xavier Rudd

#11. It's a song that we sing after we win a Test match. We sing it after every one-day series win. It's been passed down through the generations. It's the culture of the Australian team.

Ricky Ponting

#12. 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

#13. To Jane Austen, every fool is a treasure trove.

Mason Cooley

#14. Has anyone ever noticed that when ethnic Australians excel in sport they are heralded "Aussies"; but when something goes wrong they are thrown the "go back to where you came from" line? WAKE UP RACISTS.

Miya Yamanouchi

#15. George Orwell is a pinnacle writer, for his combination of moral insight and literary writing.

Atul Gawande

#16. I'm not confused. I'm just well mixed.

Robert Frost

#17. [Writers are] the highest paid secretaries in the world.

Joseph L. Mankiewicz

#18. Colonial American and Australian schoolchildren once memorized poems about British skylarks while the blue jays or cockatoos (according to continent) squawked outside, utterly ignored. The dominant culture has a way of becoming more real than the stuff at hand.

Barbara Kingsolver

#19. I am not apologetic. I don't define or defend my philosophical thoughts. You have to feel them, think about them, imagine them, and then try to understand them. My thoughts are my truths. They may not be your truth, and that is fine with me.

Debasish Mridha

#20. You never asked for anything from anyone. But no one ever gave you a chance.

Tahereh Mafi

#21. In one aspect, yes, I believe in ghosts, but we create them. We haunt ourselves.

Laurie Halse Anderson

#22. Long dismissed as children's stories or 'myths' by Westerners, Australian Aboriginal stories have only recently begun to be taken seriously for what they are: the longest continuous record of historic events and spirituality in the world.

Karl-Erik Sveiby

#23. I kind of worry about that a little bit - we lost our film culture for 30 years because the Americans came in and bought up all the cinema chains and wouldn't show any Australian films.

Yahoo Serious

#24. Holy freak show!

Becca Fitzpatrick

#25. My toes are a total wreck, my fingernails worse, and god knows my hair could use a registered nurse.

Jack Bunbury

#26. I'm not too fond of the typical Australian activities or culture. I'm not into surfing.

Jens Lekman

#27. Because nobody goes though life without a scar.

Carol Burnett