Top 132 Melbourne Quotes & Sayings

I've always been in love with Melbourne. When I was 12, I was taken into the city by my grandmother to go to the ballet for the first time.

When I was 16 I had a table at home in Melbourne and I hardly ever practised.

I just love the culture of Melbourne.

I'm Australian, so I love the stores near Crowne Plaza Melbourne, on the banks of the Yarra River.

It's absolutely essential that Melbourne, and Victoria, has a rail link to the airport.

I really miss Melbourne food; Melbourne is very snobbish about their caffe culture, and I feel like I've become a snob, too.

Melbourne is the kind of town that really makes you consider the question 'Is there life after death?

I grew up in Melbourne.

He's very, very well-known. I'd say he's world-famous in Melbourne.

Melbourne is wonderfully altered since I last saw it. There are some very fair buildings in it now, and things are a little cheaper than they used to be.

I have to fit holidays around tournaments, particularly the grand slams, in Melbourne, Paris, London and New York.

The great thing about coming to Melbourne is that people talk about Sydney being the food capital but Melbourne is a lot more; it has that residential feel, a feeling of homeliness. When you go to restaurants, it's known as a creative, artistic city. That's what you get with the food.

I like the fact that Melbourne always seems to support their chefs and promote them in ways I find really admirable.

I would love to do well one last time in Melbourne and my dream would be to win Wimbledon and play in the London Olympics.

Sydney has taken my money, Melbourne has my respect, but Adelaide has taken my heart; I shall return.

I love Melbourne and South Yarra's perfect for high tea.

Surprisingly enough, I haven't had a letter from Amateur Boxing Scotland bosses offering their congratulations for my Melbourne medal win.

The AAC at Royal Melbourne was a wonderful memory for me. I had a slightly disappointing finish, but I gained a lot of experience by playing in the last group.

I love cities. New York, Montreal, London, Amsterdam, Tokyo, Hong Kong, Singapore, Sydney, Melbourne, Toronto, L.A... but, I do choose to live in Vancouver. It's home.

Melbourne has great eateries and you can go birdwatching.

I'm pleased to announce that my government will build the much-needed Melbourne airport rail link.

My niece is - her name is Sasha, is currently learning Russian at Melbourne University and I look forward to the day when I can talk to her about Pushkin.

Norm Smith personally came and signed me up to the Melbourne Football Club. The fact that I then played cricket for Melbourne Cricket Club - the footy club didn't like it that much.

I have visited Australia several times, and I always try to make a point of going to Melbourne because it's almost my favorite city there, Melbourne and Sydney. But I shouldn't say that because I haven't been everywhere-and I'm very fond of Perth too!

My old songs used to take place in Gothenburg; then, when I lived in Melbourne, the songs just naturally took place more in Melbourne.

And always Melbourne, Melbourne, Melbourne, over and over the same photo in glaring greens and reds, of a tram, huffy, blunderous, manoeuvring itself with pole akimbo round the tight corner where Bourke Street enters Spring.

When I went to the Victorian College of the Arts in Melbourne to study drama, I felt I'd finally found my place in life.

Our very first gig in Melbourne was a confrontation.

Melbourne is a fantastic place to work, but it's not the centre of the world.

I was good at football and cricket at school. My dad said, 'Son, be an architect,' and I came to Melbourne passionate about becoming an architect.

Melbourne is my type of city, much more so than Sydney.

I came from the outer suburbs of Melbourne, so you do learn how to survive in that environment.

On New Year's Eve, 2000, my friends and I were going to a party in Melbourne and I decided to do it in drag. It was the happiest night of my life.

I'm an Australian - I grew up in Melbourne and Sydney - but as a kid you don't learn much about the Kimberley.

Then we went across the line, and I was like 'Oh my god, we just won the Melbourne Cup.'

Ian Carroll grew up in Melbourne, went to Carey Grammar and then studied political science at Monash University during the turbulent years of anti-Vietnam rebellion.

While Melbourne and Sydney fight about who wears Australia's cultural crown, Canberra just gets on with it.

Almost everything I operated was in Melbourne and Perth, but in the end, I just couldn't bear the thought of leaving. Sydney is my home.

If you can play at a higher level, it's great. But Melbourne City, the club's growing, it's got everything now with the facilities and the professionalism here is first class so it's not a bad place to be at all.

Israel is not the safest place in the world for Jews. Melbourne in Australia is better. Teaneck, New Jersey, is safer.

You have a character who is wearing a scarf on her head on a billboard in LA, New York, Sydney and Melbourne. That's how I would face barriers being thrown at me.

The real kudos need to go to my family, who have supported my crazy filmmaking dreams - from Melbourne, to L.A., England and the wider world - by supporting my projects and passions over the past years.

I didn't see much besides Melbourne and a quick trip down to the Twelve Apostles, but all the Aussies I encountered were good-spirited and had a fine sense of humor.

Melbourne is where the Crown story started. It's a testament to the vision and work of Lloyd Williams and Jeff Kennett - our resort helped transform Melbourne and put the city on the map for international tourists.

we sent a troupe to Edinborough, and then in Edinborough, there was a producer from the Melbourne Comedy Festival, so we went to Melbourne. So it's one of these shows that kind of organically developed and it started developing momentum way before I even thought there was a show here.

The most special Slam is Wimbledon, of course. But where I feel the best is Melbourne. And you're happy that you're playing. When you get to the middle of the season, everything is week after week, and it's all routine. But when it's Melbourne in January, you are fresh and you want to play. It's nice.

Chicago's like Melbourne - there's a city center, there's public transport, and there's more of a cultural scene.

One of the stock Sydney jokes is of the census-taker who enquires: 'How many children have you, ma'am?' 'Two living and three in Melbourne.'

Even when you feel as though everything is 100% it can still go wrong on the night (like in Melbourne!) so you never know for sure that you're going to do the performance you expect.

I'm happy to go into Melbourne, one of my favourite tournaments there.

I grew up close to Melbourne, about two hours outside, on Phillip Island. It's really small; it's kind of a little summer beach town.

All through university years, I used to come up to Melbourne, go to Pizza Napoli with my friends and then to a movie.

At 17 I was graduating and didn't know what to do. I was seriously contemplating going to Melbourne to play Aussie football.

The first time I ever wore a shoe was in 1955 during the trials for the Melbourne Olympics.

I guess I've been fortunate in having an ongoing film career while being based in Melbourne. I'm happy to commute. A day on a plane. Come on. It's easy.

At first I moved from Sydney to Melbourne, because most of the comedy was shot in Melbourne, and then from Melbourne to Los Angeles - and you have to sacrifice stuff.

I do not like Melbourne in its present state.

So far, my trip in Australia has been absolutely lovely - wonderful country, wonderful people... And then there's Melbourne.

Melbourne is a great city and one of the favorites place on tour for many players.

I definitely love Australia. I've been to Sydney and Melbourne a couple of times, and I love those places.