Australia Quotes · Page 46

Australia has a very big history of incarceration. What does that mean to us? What does it mean that we came over…

— Yael Stone

As a woman and as a feminist, I am very well aware of how women have been oppressed and segregated for a…

— Jacques Myard

If you asked someone who was a Maori about how they felt about how they were treated in Australia or New Zealand,…

— Laurence Fishburne

We know that a large majority of the Australian society is extremely comfortable with a multicultural society, that we accept that living…

— Tim Soutphommasane

Yet the small house, probably more than anything else that man has done, has made the face of Australia and to an…

— Robin Boyd

I was not happy as a traveller, I did not feel really at home anywhere I went, even in Spain which was…

— Richard Meale

“Antipathies, I think--' (she was rather glad there WAS no one listening, this time, as it didn't sound at all the right…

— Lewis Carroll

Singing at the Opening Ceremonies of the Sydney Olympics in 2000 was amazing and, probably the highlight of this decade is the…

— Olivia Newton-John

It's true: one of the things that I've always thought about American society is that you never get the sort of natural…

— Peter Carey

I wonder if it is Australia's great distance from more populated land masses that allows its inhabitants to be left to their…

— Henry Rollins

Sometime, it will be found that people can be changed only by changing their surroundings. It is alleged that, at least ninety-five…

— Robert Green Ingersoll

I also think that there is a huge failure in the American education system to educate Americans about where we, our system,…

— Michael Scheuer

A universal sound is about having everybody be able to relate to it whether you're in New York, LA, London or Australia.…

— Mario

I do think that there's a special connection between Australia and America. It's kind of unexplainable. It's just one of those things.…

— Reuben Morgan

I very much was inspired by Bill Bryson. He does cover science, but more often, it's a mixture of science and travel,…

— Mary Roach

“Much of Australia's history had been shaped by the contradiction that it depended intimately and comprehensively on a country which was further…

— Geoffrey Blainey

“I can't stand it. I said I wouldn't do this, but I can't help myself. Please, come home with me. I know…

— Georgia Cates

We are already experiencing the symptoms of climate change, especially with a hotter and drier climate in southern Australia - the rush…

— Malcolm Turnbull

I've been to India, Jordan, South Africa, Namibia, Senegal, Australia, Madagascar, Oman, The States, and a lot of countries in Europe, just…

— Jain

42% of our management team are women. So we've reset the goal to 50% by 2017. Because that's when Westpac becomes 200…

— Gail Kelly

If a special economic zone worked as I do believe it would in the North, then hopefully we could extend it further…

— Gina Rinehart

I had a tryout in Australia when I was 17 years old. The WWE contacted my trainers and asked who would be…

— Rhea Ripley

It is a matter of public shame that while we have now commemorated our hundredth anniversary, not one in every ten children…

— Henry Lawson

It is the misfortune of contemporary leaders, across the whole spectrum of Australian life, that the community's demand for strong leadership is…

— Hugh Mackay

In Australia, a deaf person attending an interview must take their own interpreter at their own expense, or ask the employer to…

— Stella Young

I was 14 in Barcelona, and when I initially went there, I didn't see my mum for six months and my dad…

— Johanna Konta

I want to be here for my family. I want to make stuff in Australia. I want to take what I've learned…

— Tim Minchin

When I was a kid, it was thought I would do something in the visual arts because I was always drawing, but…

— Michel Faber

New Zealanders are so chill. I know they say Australians are chill, and I feel like Australians are chill, but I keep…

— Hari Kondabolu

I've always noted with some awe the reading habits of the Australian public. Australians read more newspapers and magazines per head of…

— Felix Dennis

On the same line of reasoning, if Australians were to be Australians, or rather if Australians were as separate from any other…

— Henry Lawson

The the relationship between the prime minister and the monarch is very much a personal one and when it comes to the…

— Tony Abbott

When I went to Australia on the India A tour in 2014, I played on flat pitches against batsmen, some of whom…

— Jasprit Bumrah

England is my home, but Australia is my land and my country. This is where my heart is and where my family…

— Jason Donovan

I'm the guy who'll drive 250 miles tonight and be at the gym tomorrow at 10 A.M., when people are still sleeping…

— John Cena

What people don't understand is... because I became captain of Australia, I have no say in who gets a contract. Simon Katich…

— Michael Clarke

I came to The United States to see what would happen in 2000 after working for 20 years in Australia and asked…

— Alan Dale

Knowing who you are and what guns you own was indeed the key to the massive gun theft by government in Australia…

— Wayne LaPierre

Australians want progression, Australians want equal rights, they want safer, more compassionate, more harmonious communities, and we're not allowing it to progress…

— Jessica Origliasso

My family is involved in the arts; my auntie is a director back in Australia, so that was my 'in' into the…

— Madeleine Madden