Australia Quotes

• Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It is already tomorrow in Australia.

  Charles M. Schulz

  Inspirational, Funny, Life

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• Most Indians go into education. Their parents just push them into education like parents in Australia push them into sports.

  Mahesh Bhupathi

  Sports, Pregnancy, Parent

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• Alone of all the races on earth, they seem to be free from the 'Grass is Greener on the other side of the fence' syndrome, and roundly proclaim that Australia is, in fact, the other side of that fence.

  Douglas Adams

  Funny, Humor, Race

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• Australia is about as far away as you can get. I like that.

  Andre Benjamin

  Travel, Australia Day, Far Away

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• I wasn't aware of the impact that I had made on the lives of Aboriginal people until I did a bit of travelling and visited various communities throughout Victoria. To see the way that my people looked at me and to know that I made a difference to them was an honour.

  Lionel Rose

  Sports, Winning, Differences

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• Australia is an outdoor country. People only go inside to use the toilet. And that's only a recent development.

  Barry Humphries

  Funny, Country, Humor

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• In Australia, not reading poetry is the national pastime.

  Phyllis McGinley

  Reading, Australia Day, Pastime

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• There are many non-intellectual countries; Australia is one of the few anti-intellectual ones.

  George Mikes

  Funny, Country, Humor

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• To win in Australia, for me, has to be the ultimate success because the Aussies live for sport

  Ian Botham

  Sports, Winning, Ultimate Success

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• Australians are decent people with the right instincts and they wish everybody well; but if all is not well, it is none of their business and they will not lose too much sleep over it. The shrug of the shoulders has become - only temporarily, I daresay - the national gesture of Australia.

  George Mikes

  Funny, Humor, Sleep

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• Shoot straight, you bastards! Don't make a mess of it!

  Breaker Morant

  Wisdom, Military, Mess

  Quoted in Bill Hornadge, The Australian Slanguage (1980)

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• South Australia was the first community to give the secret ballot for political elections.

  Catherine Helen Spence

  Giving, Community, Political

  Catherine Helen Spence “An Autobiography”, Library of Alexandria

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• That great America on the other side of the sphere, Australia.

  Herman Melville

  America, Sides, Spheres

  Herman Melville (2008). “Moby-Dick”, p.121, Velvet Element Books

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• If I'd been a housemaid I'd have been the best in Australia - I couldn't help it. It's got to be perfection for me.

  Nellie Melba

  Art, Women, Perfection

  Said to the conductor Fritz Hart. Quoted in John Thompson On Lips of LivingMen (1962).

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• Australia is a huge rest home, where no unwelcome news is ever wafted on to the pages of the worst newspapers in the world.

  Germaine Greer

  Home, News, World

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• A few years ago we colonised this place with some of our finest felons, thieves, muggers, alcoholics and prostitutes, a strain of depravity which I believe has contributed greatly to this country's amazing vigour and enterprise.

  Ian Wooldridge

  Funny, Country, Believe

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• Australia as a nation, as a set of cities and some regional centres, that project died a death and we didn't get it up, but I still think there's merit in that.

  Susan Oliver

  Thinking, Cities, Merit

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• I'm a big goofball, you know. Don't tell anyone that, but I'm a big goofball. In Australia we call it a dag.

  Hugh Jackman

  Bigs, Knows

  FaceBook post by Hugh Jackman from Jun 27, 2011

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• I've always been asked the question, "What is it with Australian men?" It's weird because most of my friends here [in the United States] are American men. I think there's cultural differences. It's a really American thing to kind of wax your chest. As a man it's like, "Get rid of that unsightly hair!" In Australia it's like, "Mate, what are you doing? Why would you do that? Doesn't that hurt?" So there's a few little differences that keep us.

  Jennifer Lopez

  Hurt, Men, Thinking

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• I just think Australia tends to make very good movies, so if someone hands me an Australian or an American film script I would guess the Australian film would be more intriguing.

  Barbara Hershey

  Thinking, Hands, Good Movie

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• In a way Australia is like Catholicism. The company is sometimes questionable and the landscape is grotesque. But you always come back.

  Thomas Keneally

  Catholic, Landscape, Way

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• The Labour Party of today has fits of horrors of the very thought of somebody like me might saying that they bought in white Australia. But I believe they did.

  Colleen McCullough

  Party, Believe, White

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• I knew she was from Australia and I knew that is where she started but I didn't know if she was still popular there. I hope people understand we aren't making fun of Kylie.

  Wayne Coyne

  Fun, Halloween, People

  Interview with Paul Cashmere, www.noise11.com. April 23, 2016.

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• And where I grew up in Australia, surfing was a part of culture.

  Marc Newson

  Surfing, Culture, Grew

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• My parents and my grandfather on my mom's side would travel the earth. They went to Australia and China, and they went to probably every soccer game I ever played.

  Brandi Chastain

  Soccer, Mom, Travel

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