Canberra Quotes

• Beautifully Bleak. I likened the hills encircling Canberra to the sea. They, like the sea, could be a sunny beguiling blue, or deep and inky. They could be distant and mysterious, or beautifully bleak as the wind tore across the plains from their snowy peaks. The hills were ever changing like the sea.

  Hazel Hawke

  Nature, Blue, Wind

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• When youre asked/told to come to Canberra by your Prime Minister, in the country I grow up in, you obey that.

  Andrew Forrest

  Country, Growing Up, Prime

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• I want to make it clear as Premier and as local member that I strongly support the Renewable Energy Target. Our message to the Federal Government and to Canberra is stick to the Renewable Energy Target.

  Denis Napthine

  Government, Support, Energy

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• A school out of Canberra sends me a term's worth of work. I sit on the couch by myself and complete it and send it back.

  Callan McAuliffe

  School, Couches, Term

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• Space is about 100 kilometers away. That’s far away—I wouldn’t want to climb a ladder to get there—but it isn’t that far away. If you’re in Sacramento, Seattle, Canberra, Kolkata, Hyderabad, Phnom Penh, Cairo, Beijing, central Japan, central Sri Lanka, or Portland, space is closer than the sea.

  Randall Munroe

  Japan, Sea, Sri Lanka

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• I had some vague memory of visiting Canberra as a lad, when we came up with my father by car. But when I made the long train journey from Sydney to Canberra and arrived at the little stop, I did wonder slightly whether this really was the national capital.

  John Henry Carver

  Memories, Father, Journey

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• Because each are going to blame each other. The thing that Canberra has to really get right is the sharing of the resource. But my problem with people in the government who are there for a short time is that there's no consequences for some of these decisions they make.

  Rex Hunt

  Government, People, Decision

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• You can draw any kind of picture you want on a clean slate and indulge your every whim in the wilderness in laying out a New Delhi, Canberra, or Brasilia, but when you operate in an overbuilt metropolis, you have to hack your way with a meat ax.

  Robert Moses

  Meat, Want, Way

  "The Power Broker" by Robert Caro, (p. 849), 1974.

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• I used to live on the other side of Canberra so it'd take me about 20-25-minutes to come into training. I was so thankful to have a car. Mum was also happy because she had all this extra time instead of driving me to training, waiting around, and then taking me home.

  Melissa Breen

  Home, Waiting Around, Extra Time

  Source: www.smh.com.au

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• After I broke the Australian record in 2014, Audi Centre in Canberra gave me a beautiful black A1 with the number plates AI 1111, because the record I broke was 11.11 in the 100.

  Melissa Breen

  Beautiful, Numbers, Black

  Source: www.smh.com.au

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• Learning to drive in Canberra is pretty easy and I had great teachers in my parents.

  Melissa Breen

  Teacher, Parent, Easy

  Source: www.smh.com.au

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