Australia Quotes · Page 12

I want to see an end to sovereign risk questions over Australia.

— Tony Abbott

Australia is a country not so much of fulfillment as of theatrical expectation.

— Jan Morris

Australians have defied global economic gravity.

— Wayne Swan

I always wanted to play abroad, but Ill admit I didnt think it would be Australia.

— Emile Heskey

I wanna make my family proud, I wanna make Australia proud, all of that.

— Rhea Ripley

I do have friends in Australia who now refer to me as 'Hollywood Jack.'

— Jacki Weaver

I like coming to Australia. I feel like people support me in general here.

— Daniil Medvedev

Being in UFC is a great promotion for me because I have more fans from all over Australia.

— Alexander Volkanovski

Residuals from Australia, from the Mission Magic show, saved my butt. So there is a reason for everything.

— Rick Springfield

In Australia you can be a little bit more attacking, in places on the subcontinent you've got to find ways to get…

— Steve Smith

I usually have about 16 pills a day of various descriptions - I also have minerals from Salt Lake City and amino…

— June Brown

I would love to go to England, Europe and especially Australia. I have a real fantasy about playing in Australia; I would…

— Lari White

You know, I'm Australian, and we have got the worst sense of humor. We are cruel to each other.

— Steve Irwin

I say to the young blokes, when you get asked for an autograph, don't knock it back because there'll be a time…

— Brett Kenny

If Australia and England are finding it difficult to sell their broadcasting rights you can't blame BCCI for that.

— Anurag Thakur

I knew I'd been given another chance, another life in Australia by my parents, so I didn't want to hurt them.

— Saroo Brierley

I really love filling out forms - quite fortuitous, really, given that as one of Australia's 4 million-ish disabled people, ticking boxes…

— Stella Young

If I could distil the relevance of Bruce Springsteen's music to Australia it would be this: don't let what has happened to…

— Wayne Swan

Alone of all the races on earth, they seem to be free from the 'Grass is Greener on the other side of…

— Douglas Adams

I taught myself to play guitar and sing. I ended up writing a lot of music and had a band and was…

— Daniel Lissing

I assume the same problem exists in Australia as in America of back-biting and jealousy and parochialism among disciplines - there are…

— Richard Lewontin

With Outlook bikers in Australia, if you've got a little emblazoned thing that's got 'one percent' on it, that means you're one…

— James Frecheville

What I see as specially English is the charm - everyone is so polite. Being restrained is part of the charm. And…

— Danielle de Niese

“The four seasons in Australia consist of "fuck it's hot," "Can you believe how fucking hot it is?", "I won't be in…

— David Thorne

“ASIO turned up on Hamza's doorstep a year ago, after he and his mate, both in their mid-twenties, returned from Yemen. They…

— John Safran

“I recall a podcast featuring American white nationalist Jared Taylor. He claims that every important decision in their lives - where to…

— John Safran

In Western Australia, minerals are being dug up from Aboriginal land and shipped to China for a profit of a billion dollars…

— John Pilger

“The very essence of Australia is our lack of sophistication–our refusal to conform to pretension and superficiality. We ought to be upholding…

— Tim Macartney-Snape

I am happy that we are not favorites. To be very honest it's big pressure of being favorites. We were not favorites…

— Waqar Younis

“[Australia] is the home of the largest living thing on earth, the Great Barrier Reef, and of the largest monolith, Ayers Rock…

— Bill Bryson

When I was in the US, I felt that the discourse there surrounding Muslims as the other, problematising Muslims and Islam as…

— Reza Aslan

“The Aussies have spent so much time basking in the glory of the last generation that they have forgotten to plan for…

— Geoffrey Boycott

We don't have any sailors in Australia, we have rowers.

— Ben Lexcen

I got to travel to Australia and I got to main event at Korakuen Hall.

— Tessa Blanchard

Earth is here so kind, that just tickle her with a hoe and she laughs with a harvest.

— Douglas William Jerrold

In Australia, we cling on to whatever culture we have. We're such a multicultural country.

— Brenton Thwaites

If there's somewhere that in no way resembles Eastern Europe, it's Australia.

— Melissa Leong

Sydney's a beautiful city. It was a great experience.

— Barbara Hershey

“Few landscapes have been so deeply known. And fewer still have been so lightly inhabited.”

— Tim Winton

Australia is breathtakingly beautiful, and I can't wait to visit again.

— Joe Nichols