Top 263 Australians Quotes & Sayings

We are moving toward recognition of the first Australians in the Australian constitution.

Australians have defied global economic gravity.

Australians want progression, Australians want equal rights, they want safer, more compassionate, more harmonious communities, and we're not allowing it to progress in that way. It's very disappointing, knowing Tony Abbott's conservative views, he's clearly not the person to be leading Australia in the present or the future.

I think Australians like a bit of vulgarity.

I don't have anything against Canadians or Australians.

The [Maicolm] Turnbull government's position on this is perfectly clear. We believe that there should be a plebiscite so that all Australians can have their say, and that is what Australians want.

I have been told many times that when I win I make my people proud to be Australian. I am Aboriginal, I am one of them and every time I win or am honoured like this it should be an example to Aboriginal people who may think they have nowhere to go but down. But more importantly I am an Australian and I would like to make all Australians feel proud to be Australian. Ours is a truly multicultural society and should be united as such. I would like to believe that my successes are celebrated by all Australians, bringing our nation together.

As nations we should also commit afresh to righting past wrongs. In Australia we began this recently with the first Australians - the oldest continuing culture in human history. On behalf of the Australian Parliament, this year I offered an apology to indigenous Australians for the wrongs they had suffered in the past.

It's my mission to tell the Australians from abroad in my work that Australia is a wonderful place.

There is a real sense of family when you're around Australians, even if you don't know them.

There hasn't been that many indigenous Australians who have made it in the pop industry.

Fair-goes are not only for oneself, but for underdogs. Even in international sporting matches Australians have been known to switch from their own side to that of a gallant challenger. Australians love a 'battler', an underdog who is fighting the top dog, although their veneration for him is likely to pass if he comes out from under.

Sydney has such a cosmopolitan feel to it. The food is great and Australians are so friendly.

I know that people from New Zealand don't ever wanna be confused with being Australians.

I think most Australians would favor what I did. At least I hope they do.

Australians are particularly competitive.

On the world stage, Australians are very good short filmmakers.

I think Canadians support their athletes a little better than the Australians do.

It only takes a room of Americans for the English and Australians to realise how much we have in common.

New Zealanders are so chill. I know they say Australians are chill, and I feel like Australians are chill, but I keep thinking, "If they get drunk, they would commit a hate crime." Now that is an extreme position to take, but it's just a feeling I get. New Zealand people, I don't see that.

This game is something Australians really look forward to.

Australians are gypsies by nature. I've been fortunate enough to experience different regions of the world.

For Australians to make it in the NBA, it's very hard, and for Australians to make it and win an NBA championship is even harder.

These Australians hear the whispering in their heart and know it can only be silenced by coming to terms with the original owners of this beautiful and bounteous land. Many Australians of goodwill sense that a moment for national leadership has slipped past us and is gone.

We say less things about Australians than Australians say about us, calling me a dictator, authoritarian government.

On the same line of reasoning, if Australians were to be Australians, or rather if Australians were as separate from any other nation as Australia from any other land, there would be no jealousy between them on England's account.

If Australians give you a hard time, then they respect you.

Jamie Keehn, our second Australian punter. Again, you have to learn the language. You just can't speak to those guys. You have to know how to speak Australian. ... Australians have a higher voice. When you just speak regular English, it doesn't quite get across. Of course, we've had experience with our Australians, so we're pretty comfortable with adjusting our dialect so that it fits the ability to communicate.

Citizenship has not delivered Indigenous Australians the same quality of life other Australians expect. Basic human rights involve health, housing, education, employment, economic opportunity, and equality before the law, and respect for cultural identity and cultural diversity. These human rights must be capable of being enjoyed otherwise they are empty gestures.

I always found myself in the company of Australians, who were like a reminder that I'd touched bottom.

All Australians are an uneducated and unruly mob.

Australians are geniuses with a good sense of humour.

Australians don't have a preconceived notion of what things have to be... we can go on a fantastic journey.

What Australians expect of leaders is a bit of integrity.

I have always been attracted to Australians and Australia.

I think all the Australians have that. They're willing to give up a bit of their own glory for the better of the group.

Texans have in common with Australians, in that they are quite strong, hardy people.

Australians are pretty blunt and we say things how they really are.

Australians are a fantastic bunch of people but the attention can be overwhelming for someone like me.

We are building together a nation in which there are no second-class Australians.

With increasing frequency and growing vehemence, you hear people saying they are ashamed to be Australians.

At the last census it indicated that about 22 per cent of Australians were born overseas.

I am libertarian, and Americans generally are, more than, say, Canadians and Australians.

For Indigenous Australians, equal rights and citizenship have not always translated into full participation in Australian society. All Indigenous Australians have only been counted in the census since the 1967 Referendum. Even so, State protection and welfare laws continued to control the lives of Indigenous Australians and denied them equal rights, well into the 1970's.

These are important reforms. Infrastructure, education, health, hospitals, closing the gap with indigenous Australians. Also the Apology to the first Australians. As Prime Minister of the country I am proud of each and every one of these achievements.

That was an extremely unhelpful thing for Bill Shorten to say because those of us - and as the Attorney-General I've been closely involved in this along with my colleague Nigel Scullion, the Minister for Indigenous Affairs - what we have been trying to do for some years now, throughout the life of the Coalition Government in fact, is to bring the Australian people on a journey with us - conservative Australians as well as more progressive Australians, to persuade them that it is a seemly and fitting and decent and appropriate thing to recognise the first Australians in the Constitution.

Australians are hungry for sport. They love it. They're addicted to it.

The idea of having Australians upset at me is just awful.

The road ahead may be difficult for all Australians, but we need not be divided on partisan lines.

Most Australians live in the cities on the east coast, where contact between black and white occurred as much as 200 years earlier than on the west coast - and where 95 percent of Australians are able to live 95 percent of their lives without ever seeing an Aboriginal face.

I think probably Australians have just a little more taste than most people.

What's fascinating about the Australians is they have this quality that they are impervious to majesty. They're not awed.

I'd desperately love England to beat the Australians.

I think Australians like a bit of vulgarity

New Zealand was colonised initially by those Australians who had the initiative to escape.

I've always been an ambassador for Australians, non-Indigenous Australians and Indigenous Australians... I let people know about who I am and that I'm not just a basketballer, I'm a person who comes from a very rich heritage.

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.

I think Americans are probably getting sick of us Australians trying to take their jobs.

If you're playing against the Australians, you don't walk.

Australians always want everyone to be average, as if the best thing you can do is fit in.