South Australia Quotes:

Even before the discovery of copper South Australia had turned the corner.

- 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.49, Wakefield Press

topic: Discovery, Australia, Copper, South Australia

As we grew to love South Australia, we felt that we were in an expanding society, still feeling the bond to the motherland, but eager to develop a perfect society in the land of our adoption.

- Catherine Helen Spence

source: Catherine Helen Spence “An Autobiography”, Library of Alexandria

topic: Love, Land, Australia, South Australia, Perfect Society

South Australia was the first community to give the secret ballot for political elections.

- Catherine Helen Spence

source: Catherine Helen Spence “An Autobiography”, Library of Alexandria

topic: Australia, Giving, Community, South Australia, Political Election

I had learned what wealth was, and a great deal about production and exchange for myself in the early history of South Australia - of the value of machinery, of roads and bridges, and of ports for transport and export.

- 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.49, Wakefield Press

topic: Australia, Bridges, Wealth, South Australia

South Australia has transformed. There has been a range of changes to our economy over the past 10 years in which we have genuinely set ourselves up for the future. I think we have to start behaving like that's real and project a quiet confidence in the future of our state.

- Jay Weatherill

topic: Real, Past, Thinking, South Australia, Quiet Confidence

A child came up to me and asked 'am I dreaming?' I had a similar experience coming to the Art Gallery of South Australia when I was a child. My mum had done a workshop here and it stayed with me. It's an important formative time.

- Patricia Piccinini

source: Source: www.lucyreesart.com

topic: Dream, Art, Children, South Australia, Art Galleries