100+ Australian Quotes | InspiringQuotes.us

source: Alex Carey, Andrew Lohrey (1997). “Taking the Risk Out of Democracy: Corporate Propaganda Versus Freedom and Liberty”, p.18, University of Illinois Press

topic: Wisdom, Political, Growth, Australia Day, 20th Century

I'd like to be seen as an average Australian bloke. I can't think of... I can't think of a nobler description of anybody than to be called an average Australian bloke.

- John Howard

topic: Thinking, Average, Australia Day, Australian

I love food, all types of food. I love Korean food, Japanese, Italian, French. In Australia, we don't have a distinctive Australian food, so we have food from everywhere all around the world. We're very multicultural, so we grew up with lots of different types of food.

- Hugh Jackman

source: As quoted in "Hugh Jackman Calls Daughter "White Foods Girl", OK Magazine, June 2, 2011.

topic: Italian, Korean Food, Australia Day, I Love Food, Food Love

I wasn't aware of the impact that I had made on the lives of Aboriginal people until I did a bit of travelling and visited various communities throughout Victoria. To see the way that my people looked at me and to know that I made a difference to them was an honour.

- Lionel Rose

topic: Sports, Differences, Impact, Aboriginal, Positive Impact

We as Aboriginal people still have to fight to prove that we are straight out plain human beings, the same as everyone else. You know, I grew up, born on a government blanket under a palm tree. I lived under lantana bushes, I've seen more dinner times than I've seen dinners, I've known discrimination, I've known prejudice, I've known all of those things... but some of that is still with us... and it's got to be changed...

- Neville Bonner

topic: Leadership, Fighting, Government, Aboriginal, Palm Trees

All of a sudden, there are great Japanese films, or great Italian films, or great Australian films. It's usually because there are a number of people that cross-pollinated each other.

- Francis Ford Coppola

source: "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Italian, Numbers, People, Australian Films, Australian

Kylie Minogue is the greatest thing that has happened to Australian music.

- Nick Cave

topic: Precedence, Australia Day, Australian

I do notice that when I come in to meet casting people, they love that I'm Australian. Maybe it's our good work ethic.

- Rebel Wilson

topic: People, Work Ethic, Casting, Good Work Ethic, Australian

I'm in love with the city. You can impress an Australian with a city, but you can't impress them with a beach.

- Rose Byrne

source: "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Beach, Cities, Impress, Australian

There's a sense of humor within the Australian culture that prevails when one is in a rather difficult situation.

- Guy Pearce

source: Source: www.aboutfilm.com

topic: Difficult Situations, Culture, Sense Of Humor, Australian Culture, Australian

New Zealand is a pretty no-nonsense place to work, like Australia. I mean it doesn't falter to anyone.

- Dustin Clare

topic: Mean, Australia, Nonsense, No Nonsense, Banter

It's a fun day, a day which kicks off the start of our tour, it's got great tradition - Australian cricketers just love tradition - and it's been a really pleasant day.

- Matthew Hayden

source: Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

topic: Fun, Journey, Tradition, Pleasant Day, Fun Day

The ideas and practices of Franz Anton Mesmer, an 18th-century Australian healer, had spread to the United States and, by the 1840s, held the country in thrall. Mesmer proposed that everything in the universe, including the human body, was governed by a 'magnetic fluid' that could become imbalanced, causing illness.

- Karen Abbott

topic: Country, Practice, Ideas, 18th Century, Australian

I'm not sure (whether Demetriou did anything wrong). I wouldn't have thought so ... but I'm not the ACC (Australian Crime Commission), I'm not ASADA. I'm a football coach trying to coach a game.

- James Hird

topic: Football, Games, Trying, Australian

I do think Australians as a rule have a very good sensibility to them, and I think most people, if they were given the option, wouldn't choose to rip off a filmmaker or an artist - I don't think its part of the Australian psyche.

- John Polson

topic: Rip, Artist, Thinking, Australian

All cities have one key resource: the special abilities of the people who live in them. You just have to find out what they are. In the Australian city of Adelaide, for example, which is overshadowed by Sydney and Melbourne, I discovered a number of experts in the penal system. I advised them to work with these special skills.

- Charles Landry

source: Source: www.spiegel.de

topic: Keys, Skills, Cities, Sydney, Adelaide

The Australian film industry has recognised Tropfest as a place to nurture young talent. It's a stepping stone between amateur and professional.

- John Polson

topic: Stones, Talent, Film, Australian Films, Australian

Many years ago, a large American shoe company sent two sales reps to different parts of the Australian outback. A while later, the company received a telegram from each. The first said, 'No business here - the natives don't wear shoes.' The second said, 'Great opportunity here - the natives don't wear shoes.'

- John Capozzi

topic: Opportunity, Two, Years, Telegrams, Australian

I don't consciously seek out Australian projects. I put them on the same table as all the other scripts and I wouldn't ever do a film just because it's been shot at home.

- Eric Bana

source: "The Other Boleyn Girl - Eric Bana interview". Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

topic: Home, Tables, Scripts, Australian

Insects influenced the shape of the Australian house. Some, like the white ant and lthe Lyctus borer, worked quietly and invisibly until a little shower of yellow dust or a sudden collapse indicated their presence. Others, like the mosquito and housefly, were less dangerous and more objectionable. The former type influenced structure in minor ways; the latter affected planning to a major degree.

- Robin Boyd

topic: Dust, Yellow, White, Australian

Yet the small house, probably more than anything else that man has done, has made the face of Australia and to an extent the faces of Australians. Australia is the small house. Ownership of one in a fenced allotment is as inevitable and unquestionable a goal of the average Australian as marriage.

- Robin Boyd

topic: Men, Average, Australia, Allotments, Australian

The suburb was the major element of Australian society.

- Robin Boyd

topic: Elements, Architecture, Australian

Wherever you are in the world, there's always something about the Australian light. There's something about the sharpness of it, something about the clarity of it, something about the colours of Australia. And hopefully, something optimistic about Australian painting too.

- Ken Done

topic: Art, Optimistic, Light, Australian

The provincial intellectual is doomed to arguing at low level... there is still no Australian literary world, not in Sydney, Melbourne, Adelaide. It is some consolation to realise that there is no literary world in Birmingham or Los Angeles either. I have heard there is one in Montreal, but I don't believe it. The literary world is in London and New York, the only cities big enough to sustain magazines which can afford to reject copy.

- Clive James

topic: Art, New York, Believe, Adelaide, Australian

Even Australians who take a very, very hard line about asylum seekers - and unfortunately there are more than I would like to think - are probably a bit uncomfortable with the kind of treatment that has been meted out to children in detention by the Australian Government, in their name.

- Malcolm Fraser

topic: Children, Thinking, Government, Asylum Seekers, Detention

I call on the Australian Government to set out the conditions upon which they will provide a taxpayer funded backing for wholesale term funding for Australian deposit taking institutions. I call on the Government it make clear the conditions upon which taxpayer funds will be used in this way.

- Julie Bishop

source: Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

topic: Government, Way, Used, Australian

The 'black armband' view of our history reflects a belief that most Australian history since 1788 has been little more than a disgraceful story of imperialism, exploitation, racism, sexism and other forms of discrimination. I take a very different view. I believe that the balance sheet of our history is one of heroic achievement and that we have achieved much more as a nation of which we can be proud of than which we should be ashamed.

- John Howard

source: Sir Robert Menzies Lecture, 1996.

topic: Believe, Views, Racism, Different Views, Balance Sheets

I've got a good Barbarians squad including Australian backs who have played together. Gavin Henson would make a fool of himself if he was way off the pace. Not having made a tackle or played a game for so long beforehand would be a disadvantage. It would be ideal if he has a couple of games first, but who with?

- Nick Mallett

topic: Couple, Squad, Games, Australian

The quality of players - the likes of Sam Tomkins, Rangi Chase and Lee Briers - bring an X-factor to the game. It's highly entertaining and it's something probably that the Australian game lacks a bit.

- Brett Finch

topic: Player, Games, League, Rugby League, Australian

We cheer everyone who goes off to Hollywood and tells American stories but telling Australian stories is the greatest thing you can do.

- Yahoo Serious

source: Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

topic: Cheer, Stories, Hollywood, Australian

There are a thousand weird untold stories in the Australian film industry, this has been one of them.

- Yahoo Serious

source: Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

topic: Untold Stories, Stories, Film, Australia Day, Australian Films

Now both my films have been number one at the Australian box office and it took about two years just to get the finance for this film, so if it's hard for me then God help everyone else.

- Yahoo Serious

source: "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Years, Two, Numbers, God Help, Australian

Australian schools have cool uniforms. I wish I had to wear a woven straw hat for maths.

- Harry Styles

source: Twitter post from Oct 23, 2013

topic: School, Math, Wish, Straw Hats, Australian

It is tragic that we have lost one of our nation's finest actors in the prime of his life. Heath Ledger's diverse and challenging roles will be remembered as some of the great performances by an Australian actor.

- Kevin Rudd

source: "In quotes: Heath Ledger tributes", news.bbc.co.uk. January 23, 2008.

topic: Lost Ones, Challenges, Roles, Great Performance, Australian

Indigenous programs and policy will come within the Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet because Indigenous policy and programs should not be an add - on, they should not be an afterthought, but they should be at the heart of a good Australian Government.

- Yitzhak Rabin

source: Source: www.sbs.com.au

topic: Heart, Government, Add, Afterthought, Australian

'Bloody' has now become an important indicator of Australianness and of cultural values such as friendliness, informality, laid-backness, mateship - and perhaps even the Australian dislike and distrust of verbal and intellectual graces

- Kate Burridge

topic: Grace, Intellectual, Important, Informality, Indicators

The Labor Party has always - always been praised as leaders. In fact, there's probably more books written about ALP leaders and the ALP people than the Libs or anyone else in Australian's history, but there was substance to it.

- Warren Mundine

topic: Party, Book, People, Alps, Australian

Before becoming an Australian you will be asked to subscribe to certain values. If you have strong objections to those values, don't come to Australia.

- Peter Costello

source: Peter Coleman, Peter Costello (2009). “The Costello Memoirs”, p.379, Melbourne Univ. Publishing

topic: Strong, Australia, Becoming, Australian

I noticed - and this is one of the people don't understand of Tony [Abbot] - he grew. To me he grew as opposition leader. He come in - he wasn't really good at the beginning when he was opposition leader. He won the confidence of the Australian people and got the job as Prime Minister. He grew in Indigenous affairs. To me, we just totally disagreed in it, but now we're very much one on one on it.

- Warren Mundine

topic: Jobs, People, Leader, Australian

Our commitment to defence goes beyond this. It's a long-term commitment to make SA the home for Australian defence. It's a commitment to providing the right infrastructure and the right people.

- Jay Weatherill

topic: Home, Commitment, Long, Australian

Our South Australian farmers left their holdings in the hands of their wives and children too young to take with them, but almost all of them returned to grow grain and produce to send to Victoria.

- Catherine Helen Spence

source: Catherine Helen Spence, Susan Magarey, Maryan Beams (2005). “Ever Yours, C.H. Spence: Catherine Helen Spence's An Autobiography (1825-1910), Diary (1894) and Some Correspondence (1894-1910)”, p.61, Wakefield Press

topic: Children, Hands, Wife, Victoria, Australian

Muslims are not compatible with the Australian way of life because they have a different region code

- Pauline Hanson

topic: Different, Way, Code, Compatible, Australian

It is only now and then, in a jungle, or amidst the towering white menace of a burnt or burning Australian forest, that Nature strips the moral veils from vegetation and we apprehend its stark ferocity.

- H. G. Wells

topic: Nature, White, Burning, Starks, Ferocity

As an English player you are lifted when the crowd gets behind you. The atmosphere over here can be unsettling for the Australian players and I hope all our fans get behind us.

- Gareth Ellis

topic: Player, League, Atmosphere, Rugby League, Australian

The only time an Australian ever walks is when his car runs out of petrol.

- Barry Richards