Australia Quote by Angelos Postecoglou

I was eight when we came to Australia. It was five amazing weeks onboard this ship - it was the Northern Star.

— Graeme Base

Australia is an island surrounded by water. My fondest memories growing up were trips to the beach, walking around the harbor and playing in…

— Tammin Sursok

I kind of was shoveled onto a boat at 11 and went to England. I didn't have any parent watching over me. It was…

— Michael Ondaatje

I'm from London and I had never seen the sea until I was about 15, when I went on a trip to Littlehampton.

— Paterson Joseph

When I was four years old, we lived in the Fiji islands, but I don't remember much.

— Nyjah Huston

Mine wasn't a lakes-and-boats kind of childhood. I grew up on a Glasgow council estate with a single mother. For our holidays, we went…

— Kelly Macdonald

I grew up sailing in the North Sea.

— Laura Dekker

A trip to the mainland was a big event and happened maybe once a year, although now you can get across in a speed…

— Jeremy Irons

When I was 11 years old, my parents wanted me to do something besides get in trouble. So they enrolled me in sailing classes…

— David Crosby

I was 12-13 years old, nobody knows the sort of life I had. We came to Australia with basically nothing. It was tough.

— Bernard Tomic

When my brother and I were 11, our father designed a 17-foot boat for sailing around the world. He'd never ventured more than a…

— Glenn Kelman

My first memory is on a ship from California back to Sydney. Water is just a natural place of home and not home.

— Jane Alison