Australia Quotes - Page 18

• The boomerang is Australia's chief export (and then import).

  Demetri Martin

  Boomerang, Chiefs, Imports

  Demetri Martin (2011). “This Is a Book”, p.40, Hachette UK

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• I've been lucky to travel through quite a bit of Europe and Australia, but I would love to do Asia and South America and South Africa.

  Dianna Agron

  Europe, America, Lucky

  "Exclusive with Alex Pettyfer & Dianna Agron". Interview, www.seventeen.com. February 15, 2011.

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• Being from Australia, I've never even touched a gun. It's so not a part of our culture.

  Emily Browning

  Gun, Culture, Touched

  "Emily Browning On Set Interview SUCKER PUNCH". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. March 11, 2011.

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• Im not a big fan of the gym, I do lots of outdoor aerobics - yoga, swimming, running - but I kinda hate talking about it. We have a term in Australia, it makes you sound like a wanker.

  Ryan Kwanten

  Running, Hate, Yoga

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• I LOVE Australia! Its like my second home.

  Christopher Atkins

  Home

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• I do not apologize for the takeover of the region by the Jews from the Palestinians in the same way I don't apologize for the takeover of America by the whites from the Red Indians or the takeover of Australia from the blacks. It is natural for a superior race to dominate an inferior one.

  Winston Churchill

  Race, America, Red

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• Sir Joh Bjelke-Petersen has been the Queensland premier the whole time we've been in Australia, and the state is a national joke for having a Deep North government thats said to resemble governments of a generation or more ago in some parts of the US Deep South - governments that always talk about getting things done and never talk about rights.

  Nick Earls

  Rights, Government, Generations

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• The aim of English cricket is, in fact, mainly to beat Australia.

  Jim Laker

  Facts, Beats, Cricket

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• Here in Australia we do get impacted by global economic events. But we should have some confidence that our economy has got strong underlying fundamentals.

  Julia Gillard

  Strong, Should Have, Events

  Interview with Peter Dick and Mary Collier, 4BC, pmtranscripts.pmc.gov.au. August 1, 2011.

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• If this Government cannot get the adjustment, get manufacturing going again, and keep moderate wage outcomes and a sensible economic policy, then Australia is basically done for. We will end up being a third rate economy... a banana republic.

  Paul Keating

  Government, Done, Republic

  Interview with John Laws, Radio 2GB, May 14, 1986.

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• I am happy to be a regional writer. My region is the American West, old Mexico, West Virginia, New York, Europe, Australia, the human heart, and the male groin.

  Edward Abbey

  New York, Heart, Virginia

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.30, RosettaBooks

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• Did you know that Christmas Day is absolutely the best day to fly? It is. No crowded airports and crowded planes. I always flew to Australia. That's what Christmas was for me - a plane journey to the next tournament

  Monica Seles

  Christmas, Sports, Travel

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• I was born in Norwich in 1946, and educated in England, Zimbabwe, and Australia, before my family settled in North Wales.

  Philip Pullman

  Zimbabwe, England, My Family

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• What all this tells me is that a large proportion of the people in positions of power across Australia - politicians and media pundits included - just don't consider the beating down of women to be of any consequence. Half the time they won't even acknowledge it, let alone take a stand against it, preferring instead to gaslight women and pretend it's all in their head. Are these the kinds of people we want making decisions for us? The ones who think mockery about women's genitals is bad when it targets no one in particular, but OK when it targets the Prime Minister?

  Clementine Ford

  Women, Thinking, Media

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• I love having my birthday at Australia Zoo.

  Bindi Irwin

  Birthday, Zoos, My Birthday

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• It is a matter of public shame that while we have now commemorated our hundredth anniversary, not one in every ten children attending Public schools throughout the colonies is acquainted with a single historical fact about Australia.

  Henry Lawson

  Anniversary, Children, School

  Henry Lawson (1984). “A Camp-fire Yarn: Henry Lawson Complete Works 1885-1900”

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• This is not the kind of country where you would feel comfortable if you were opposed to democracy, parliamentary law, independent courts and so I would say to people who don't feel comfortable with those values there might be other countries where they'd feel more comfortable with their own values or beliefs.

  Peter Costello

  Country, Business, Believe

  "Respect Australian values or leave: Costello". "Lateline" with Tony Jones, www.abc.net.au. August 24, 2005.

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• A 17-year-old girl in Australia hacked into my e-mail while I was on it, Then a 15-year-old girl in England did the same thing.

  Robert Pattinson

  Girl, Years, Mail

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• OPTIMISM, enthusiasm, confidence against fear, prejudice, conformity - that is his enduring message to the men and women of Australia. Never more than now.

  Graham Freudenberg

  Memorable, Men, Optimism

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• His [Gough Whitlam's] effect on the geo-cultural-political map of Australia is so vast that wherever you stick the pin in you get a wealth of Gough's legacy.

  Cate Blanchett

  Memorable, Political, Legacy

  Cate Blanchett's Speech at the State Memorial Service for Gough Whitlam at Sydney Town Hall, www.smh.com.au. November, 5 2014.

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• When he breathed, he truly was Australia’s greatest white elder and friend without peer of the original Australians.

  Noel Pearson

  Memorable, White, Peers

  "Gough Whitlam's Indigenous and reforming legacy hailed at memorial" by Bridie Jabour, Michael Safi, www.theguardian.com. November 5, 2014.

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• The investment in our mining industry has been very positive for Australia but we need to be doing more if we want, as I do, more revenue for our defence - which I think is under-resourced - our police, our elderly, our hospitals, roads, infrastructure and communication, to be able to repay our debts and enable sustainable job opportunities for existing and future generations.

  Gina Rinehart

  Jobs, Communication, Opportunity

  "The way forward for Australia by Gina Rinehart". Interview with Michael Vincent, www.abc.net.au. November 23, 2012.

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• About the last thing I ever wanted in life was a knighthood, and even today some forty years after the event, I find it difficult to come to terms with a life where old and valued friends insist on calling me 'Sir' instead of Don, simply because they think it is protocol. But I have consciously shouldered these burdens because I felt that I was the medium through which cricket could achieve a higher status and gain maximum support from the people, not only in Australia but throughout the world.

  Donald Bradman

  Sports, Hockey, Thinking

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• The prudential regulation that I have put in place has been absolutely critical. The fiscal policy which we have put in place has been absolutely critical and if people looked at Australia now turn its back on economic reform, which of course industrial relations rollback or throwback would be, let me tell you, that would really start affecting confidence.

  Peter Costello

  People, Reform, Fiscal Policy

  "The World Today" with Chris Uhlmann, ministers.treasury.gov.au. August 16, 2007.

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• Extreme weather like the droughts in Russia, China and Brazil and the flooding in Pakistan and Australia [in 2010] have contributed to a level of food price volatility we haven't seen since the oil crisisof 40 years ago. Unfortunately, this could be just a taste of things to come because in the next few decades the build-up of greenhouse gases already in the atmosphere could greatly increase the risk of droughts, flooding, pest infestation and water scarcity for agriculture systems already under tremendous stress.

  John Beddington

  Stress, Weather, Oil

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