Australia Quote by Helen Garner

Melbourne is my type of city, much more so than Sydney.

— Morris Gleitzman

“Unlike New York or Chicago, once you were inside Boston, any point in the city was fairly convenient to any other.”

— Matthew Pearl

“Regional interests and loyalties are even stronger among Australians than among Americans - in that in social life they exist almost without challenge. Canberra…

— Donald Horne

“Traveling, you realize that differences are lost: each city takes to resembling all cities, places exchange their form, order, distances, a shapeless dust cloud…

— Italo Calvino

Actually, Sydney is my second favourite city on earth, I love Sydney, but this is the greatest.

— Jeffrey Archer

“For an American, though, Australia seems pretty familiar: same wide streets, same office towers. It’s Canada in a thong, or that’s the initial impression.”

— David Sedaris

There's parts of Sydney totally indistinguishable from West London. It's exactly the same - the sense of capitulation, discouraging assimilation.

— Gavin McInnes

Australia is one of the few places that I can think of where the cities, at least those I've been to, seem to have…

— Michael Bierut

“If London was an alien city, Edinburgh was another planet”

— Jess Walter

“Life in Australia is more equal and less competitive than in America; but there are dozens of similarities...migrations to a new land, the mystique…

— Donald Horne

“I swear on Peter Stuyvesant’s peg leg that the country that became the U.S. bears a closer family resemblance to the devil-may-care merchants of…

— Sarah Vowell

“There was one thing no one considered, however: Australia was populated by Australians. While the rest of us were trying to adapt to a…

— Mira Grant