Australia Quotes and Sayings

Don’t worry about the world ending today; its already tomorrow in Australia.

After going to Australia, it’s hard to go anywhere after that. I want to move there. I’m obsessed with it.
– Nina Dobrev

AUSTRALIA, n. A country lying in the South Sea, whose industrial and commercial development has been unspeakably retarded by an unfortunate dispute among geographers as to whether it is a continent or an island.
– Ambrose Bierce

It’s always a pleasure on a personal note for me to come back to Australia.
– Nick Cave

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

In Australia, not reading poetry is the national pastime.
– Phyllis McGinley

God bless America. God save the Queen. God defend New Zealand and thank Christ for Australia.
– Russell Crowe

Earth is here so kind [Australia], that just tickle her with a hoe and she laughs with a harvest.
– Douglas Jerrold

To live in Australia permanently is rather like going to a party and dancing all night with one’s mother.
– Barry Humphries

There’s an ease that I have living in Australia. The best things about Sydney are free: the sunshine’s free, and the harbour’s free, and the beach is free.
– Russell Crowe

One place I haven’t made it to – mainly because it’s so far away – is Australia, so I’d love to go there. I’ve heard great things about Australia and New Zealand.
– Stephen Pagliuca

I think Melbourne is by far and away the most interesting place in Australia, and I thought if I ever wrote a novel or crime novel of any kind, I had to set it here.
– Peter Temple

Before I left China, I was educated that China was the richest, happiest country in the world. So when I arrived Australia, I thought, ‘Oh my God, everything is different from what I was told.’ Since then, I started to think differently.

To the former child migrants, who came to Australia from a home far away, led to believe this land would be a new beginning, when only to find it was not a beginning, but an end, an end of innocence – we apologise and we are sorry. To the mothers who lost the maternal right to love and care for their child – we apologise, and we are sorry.
– Malcolm Turnbull

Once people come to Australia, they join the team.
– Tony Abbott