Australia Quotes - Page 2

• Who says Australia offers not a home for every poor Englishman, or any other countryman that finds his way to our shores? And what sort of thanks do we get for it?

  Henry Lawson

  Home, Way, Thanks

  Henry Lawson, Colin Arthur Roderick (1972). “Collected Prose: Autobiographical and other writings, 1887-1922”, Angus & Robertson

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• My point was that the war was intrinsically wrong, and as a result of our participation we haven't improved Australia's security but created a greater danger at home and abroad.

  Bob Hawke

  War, Home, Danger

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Through the Young Men's Christian Association and principally in Australia and North America, as well as in South America, I came into contact with families of these countries.

  Fritz Sauckel

  Christian, Country, Men

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• Since I've been in Playboy myself in Australia, I love it, and I think it's really empowering and positive towards women, which is not a view that many women hold.

  Dannii Minogue

  Thinking, Views, Empowering

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• I want to give my compliments to Australia. Ever since your government paid a few million dollars for a Jackson Pollack painting, I figure that it must be a marvellous country

  Morton Feldman

  Country, Government, Giving

  Morton Feldman (2006). “Morton Feldman Says: Selected Interviews and Lectures 1964-1987”

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• It so happened that I was on a German sailing vessel on the way to Australia when the ship was captured, and on the high seas I was made prisoner by the French.

  Fritz Sauckel

  Inspirational, Funny, Sea

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• But although Australia was also involved in the Vietnam conflict, I can remember my dad telling us that if we were in Australia, we wouldn't be drafted until we were 20.

  Mel Gibson

  Dad, Vietnam, Remember

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• I suffer much less than many of my colleagues. I am perfectly able to go to Australia and film within three hours of arrival.

  David Attenborough

  Suffering, Three, Able

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• When I left school I went to Australia for a year and worked in the drama department of a school in Perth.

  James D'arcy

  Drama, School, Years

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• In Japan, Australia, and England there is such a strong youth culture.

  Marc Newson

  Strong, Japan, Europe

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• I loved Australia. I was very successful there

  Todd Barry

  Successful

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• People forget that a huge proportion of our jobs still depend on agricultural production in Australia so of course there are exports. That's easily overlooked.

  John Anderson

  Jobs, Agriculture, People

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• It's Australian to do such things because, however uncivilised they may seem, it's human to do them.

  Hugh Mackay

  Wisdom, Australia Day, May

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• I think we are going to see exciting cricket all the way. We are watching the two best teams in the world-and I think England will eventually go on to pip Australia by a single Test

  Ian Botham

  Team, Thinking, Two

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• I did well as an actor in Australia, and then Paramount invited me over... to have a look at me.

  Rod Taylor

  Looks, Actors, Look At Me

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• I love Australia. My dream would be to have a place to live there and be able to commute back and forth

  Sarah Michelle Gellar

  Dream, Would Be, Able

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• You can be tops in Australia and be unheard of everywhere else

  Barry Gibb

  Unheard

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• We absolutely believed in Heaven and Hell, Purgatory, and even Limbo. I mean, they were actually closer to us than Australia or Canada, that they were real places.

  John McGahern

  Real, Mean, Heaven

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• Italy is definitely where I feel most at home, or alternatively, living in total wilderness, in the bush in Australia.

  Noah Taylor

  Home, Individualism, Wilderness

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• In Australia we have a government actively undoing what little progress had been made on climate change and stripping money from all the important institutions such as the ABC, CSIRO and SBS.

  Justine Larbalestier

  Government, Progress, Important

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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• Each Australian is a Ulysses.

  Christina Stead

  Ulysses, Australian

  Christina Stead (1945). “For Love Alone”, p.255, The Miegunyah Press

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• The Art of Conversation could not die in Australia; it never lived. Television did not kill it; there was nothing there to kill.

  George Mikes

  Funny, Art, Humor

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• Nationalism is both a vital medicine and a dangerous drug

  Geoffrey Blainey

  Wisdom, Medicine, Drug

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• AUSTRALIA, n. A country lying in the South Sea, whose industrial and commercial development has been unspeakably retarded by an unfortunate dispute among geographers as to whether it is a continent or an island.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Funny, Country, Lying

  Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.16, 谷月社

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• One gets tired of the role critics are supposed to have in this culture: It's like being the piano player in a whorehouse; you don't have any control over the action going on upstairs.

  Robert Hughes

  Music, Tired, Player

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