Tricolor Australian Quotes

#1. [A]s a graduate student at Columbia University, I remember the a priori derision of my distinguished stratigraphy professor toward a visiting Australian drifter [a supporter of the theory of continental drift]. [ ... ] Today [ ... ] my own students would dismiss with even more derision anyone who denied the evident truth of continental drift a prophetic madman is at least amusing; a superannuated fuddy-duddy is merely pitiful. #Quote by Stephen Jay Gould

#2. I've never been one to bow down to people who try to question my identity because I don't fit their mould of what an Aboriginal Australian is supposed to be or look like. #Quote by Shari Sebbens

#3. Am I conservative? Yes, I am. I would have thought conservative is very much middle of the road, representative of the aspirational values of the Australian people. The extreme right has connotations with it that I would never seek to identify with. #Quote by Eric Abetz

#4. I think some of my favorite Australian films were shot by people that are not Australian. And I think when Dean Semler did 'Dances with Wolves,' for instance, that's a very different-looking Western than what you've seen much of before. It's very rich, color-wise. But we've got our own very proud thing going on. #Quote by Ben Mendelsohn

#5. When you disrespect Australian law, they will tell your firmly. Declare everything when you enter Australia. #Quote by Johnny Depp

#6. When we penetrate the smokescreen of controversies regarding false accusations, 'recovered memories', 'recanters', references to 'satanic ritual abuse' and the incorporation of elements of cultural myths into some accounts, we are left with the reality that in the vast majority of cases it is not the over-reporting or exaggeration of trauma that is the principal problem. Rather it is society's unwillingness to know, the perpetrators' strongly motivated efforts to hide their criminal acts, and the relative ease they are often afforded by societal institutions and practices in doing so. - The Australian Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse (Viewpoint) #Quote by Warwick Middleton

#7. Spiders frighten me. In response to the spider alerts for Australia, please can the Australian government remove all spiders from Australia and blow them into outer space. #Quote by Eddie Izzard

#8. You never want an Australian with his back against the wall. You put any 12 blokes together and you'll get a job done. Whether it's getting a bogged four-wheel-drive off the beach or standing in front of a cricket wicket and making sure we're in a dominant position. It's the same dog, different leg action, so to speak. #Quote by Matthew Hayden

#9. Meeting Australian mountaineer and author Tim Macartney-Snape when I was 16 in 1994 had a big impact on me. His ascent of Everest from sea to summit captured my imagination. #Quote by Tim Cope

#10. If a bloke gave you a hundred quid for a book you can bet your life it's his way, but if all the poor and suffering people raise their hats to you for writing it - that's different; it makes it worthwhile then. #Quote by Alan Marshall

#11. I am very good with dialects, but the two that I can't do for some reason are the South African and Australian. #Quote by Liev Schreiber

#12. The author says the earliest Australian aborigines devoted extraordinary amounts of energy to enterprises no one now can understand. #Quote by Bill Bryson

#13. I do greatly admire Australian artists. #Quote by Jeffrey Archer

#14. To the north the Indonesian Air Force strafed Australian ships that were attempting to repel refugees from Indonesia and Timor and Papua. In #Quote by James Bradley

#15. I also love Australian movies. I love Muriel's Wedding - I've seen in six times. Baz Luhrmann's best movie is strictly ballroom ... without question. #Quote by Ridley Scott

#16. I'm never there enough to really keep up with what's going on in the Australian film industry. I just try and be part of it as much as I can. #Quote by Guy Pearce

#17. If government and media and all of us in the Australian tribe got together, and the rock industry, we'd just be the greatest cultural force the world has ever seen - we're such an amazing race. #Quote by Yahoo Serious

#18. Australian weather's amazing! You notice that when you go overseas. #Quote by Flume

#19. The problem is that after two centuries of conflict about just who was wanted in the Australian nation the term 'Australia' both includes and excludes. There are still people for whom 'Australian' means predominatly Anglo-Celtic white people whose parents were born here before 'New Australians' came as migrants after the Second World War. A common alternative to 'white people' (who from an Aboriginal perspective might be more genially called 'whitefellas') is 'Europeans'. This makes an incongruous appeal to history. Politically the colonisers were British, but they includes people of many nationalities. It's an odd usage, as when you see a sign in a national park telling you 'Europeans' brought the invasive weeds and pests. They brought the sign and the concept of a park too, and 'they', in a complex sense, are 'us'. #Quote by Nicholas Jose

#20. Behind every drama is a good story ... behind every tear is the person who wrote it. #Quote by Faye Hall

#21. In terms of being Australian, I think a big part of it is the determination to prove yourself, just like Aussie actors. #Quote by Keiynan Lonsdale

#22. 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. #Quote by John Howard

#23. It has been said that the Opening Ceremony of the Olympic Games is something that an athlete will remember for the rest of their life. It is true. That moment when you walk into the Olympic Stadium as part of the Australian Olympic Team, is a moment that I will never forget. #Quote by Jeff Fenech

#24. The Australian Open attracts one of the most competitive line-ups in the world and I'm looking forward to putting the heat on some of my old on-court rivals. #Quote by Mark Philippoussis

#25. We cheer everyone who goes off to Hollywood and tells American stories but telling Australian stories is the greatest thing you can do. #Quote by Yahoo Serious

#26. My current fear is that the message being sent by the level of vitriol surrounding Gillard's flawed leadership (but tell me whose wasn't flawed) is being heard by Australian women and girls loud and clear. And the message is: 'Don't aspire to high office,sweetheart, because we'll flay you alive.' #Quote by Jane Caro

#27. If you want to see your life, you have to see through the eyes of another. #Quote by Mark Henshaw

#28. I remember that feeling when I was a young reader: finding books that were set in Sydney with Australian characters was incredibly exciting. #Quote by Justine Larbalestier

#29. If he had given away anything else, he would have been charged with indecent exposure. #Quote by Edmund Campion

#30. He had been always escaping, always rebelling, always fighting against authority, and always being flogged. There had been a whole lifetime of torment such as this; forty-two years of it; and there he stood, speaking softly, arguing his case well, and pleading while the tears ran down his face for some kindness, for some mercy in his old age. 'I have tried to escape; always to escape,' he said, 'as a bird does out of a cage. Is that unnatural; is that a great crime? #Quote by Robert Hughes

#31. Generally speaking, when Australian winemakers try to make delicate, European-styled wines of finesse and lightness, the wines often come across as pale imitations of the originals. One exception is Australian Riesling, delicious, dry wines meant to be consumed in their first two years of life. #Quote by Robert M. Parker, Jr.

#32. On YouTube you can tell what countries are watching and I've definitely noted a strong Australian following. You can plan your tours around where the love is on Twitter and YouTube - before, you couldn't tell. #Quote by Imogen Heap

#33. We discovered that there was a great deal of keen interest in America for the kinds of products that we thought could be produced here. Also there was an interest in Britain for Australian material generally. #Quote by Ann Macbeth

#34. I'm black. I'm Latina. My mom is Cuban. Afro-Cuban. My dad is white and Australian. #Quote by Soledad O'Brien

#35. I had a vocal coach. It's a sad thing, but I had to hire someone so that I could get my Australian accent back. #Quote by Anthony LaPaglia

#36. I like the story about me being pregnant. It was in some Australian magazine, on the front page! I was like, 'Wow, that's just [insane].' And it's not even ironic. I don't even think the article [tried to justify it]; it was just a headline. The article was just like, nothing. #Quote by Robert Pattinson

#37. I think the Australian men and American men are quite different. I feel like Australian men might be a little bit more laid back and a little bit cool whereas American guys are sort of 'boom, boom, boom.' #Quote by Nicky Whelan

#38. Only in sport? The qualification would seem meaningless to many Australians. What also is there that matters as much as sport? It is only in sport that many Australians express those approaches to life that are un-Australian if expressed in any other connection. #Quote by Donald Horne

#39. My father is Indonesian Timorese, my mother Aboriginal Australian. #Quote by Jessica Mauboy

#40. Then Ghana, and the smell of Ghana, a contradiction, a cracked clay pot: the smell of dryness, wetness, both, the damp of earth and dry of dust. The airport. Bodies pushing, pulling, shouting, begging, touching, breathing. He'd forgotten the bodies. The proximity of bodies. In America the bodies were distant. The warmth of it ......
Why had he hated this view? Of this beach, of the backs of these fishermen, glistening brown, of the long wooden boats, evangelical names in bright tricolor paint on their splintering sides, Black Star Jesus, Jah Reign, Christ the Fisher of Men, in the red, yellow, green of the national flag and the national spirit of open-source ethos, this mixing of Anglican, Rastafarian, Ghanaian? What was there to hate in this? There was only openness. As far as he could see. A cheerful openness. An innocence. An innocent beach on the road to Kokrobite at seven A.M. November 1975, little country lurching, cheerful, unaware, to revolution. Little taxi lurching, blasting revolution, to grief. #Quote by Taiye Selasi

#41. I love New York, and I love being here, but I think I'll always be Australian at heart. #Quote by Murray Bartlett

#42. Another big problem with any Australian emissions reduction scheme is that it would not make a material difference to atmospheric carbon concentrations unless the big international polluters had similar schemes. #Quote by Tony Abbott

#43. Perhaps the various burnings of the Alexandria Library were necessary, like those Australian Forest Fires without which the new seeds cannot burst their shells and make a young, healthy forest. #Quote by William Golding

#44. Was there anything cuter than an Australian accent? A baby koala, maybe. #Quote by Lauren Conrad

#45. Reverie by the open window in the sweet futility of a mild evening was yet to strike the Australian male as a requirement. (There would be the question of fly screens, for one thing.) #Quote by Shirley Hazzard

#46. If the states and territories do not sign up to fundamental reform, then my message is equally simple: we will take this reform plan to the people at the next election - along with a referendum by or at that same election to give the Australian Government all the power it needs to reform the health system. #Quote by Kevin Rudd

#47. Generally I'm very supportive of farmers. I think the wider Australian population is also. The animal justice fund is focusing on factory-farmed animals and where they're being mistreated. #Quote by Jan Cameron