South Australia Quotes

• Even before the discovery of copper South Australia had turned the corner.

  Catherine Helen Spence

  Discovery, Australia, Copper

  Catherine Helen Spence, Susan Magarey, Maryan Beams (2005). “Ever Yours, C.H. Spence: Catherine Helen Spence's An Autobiography (1825-1910), Diary (1894) and Some Correspondence (1894-1910)”, p.49, Wakefield Press

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• As we grew to love South Australia, we felt that we were in an expanding society, still feeling the bond to the motherland, but eager to develop a perfect society in the land of our adoption.

  Catherine Helen Spence

  Love, Land, Australia

  Catherine Helen Spence “An Autobiography”, Library of Alexandria

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

  Catherine Helen Spence

  Australia, Giving, Community

  Catherine Helen Spence “An Autobiography”, Library of Alexandria

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• I had learned what wealth was, and a great deal about production and exchange for myself in the early history of South Australia - of the value of machinery, of roads and bridges, and of ports for transport and export.

  Catherine Helen Spence

  Bridges, Australia, Wealth

  Catherine Helen Spence, Susan Magarey, Maryan Beams (2005). “Ever Yours, C.H. Spence: Catherine Helen Spence's An Autobiography (1825-1910), Diary (1894) and Some Correspondence (1894-1910)”, p.49, Wakefield Press

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• 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

  Real, Past, Thinking

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• A child came up to me and asked 'am I dreaming?' I had a similar experience coming to the Art Gallery of South Australia when I was a child. My mum had done a workshop here and it stayed with me. It's an important formative time.

  Patricia Piccinini

  Dream, Art, Children

  Source: www.lucyreesart.com

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