Top 1200 South Australia Quotes & Sayings - Page 18

I keep my Scottish connection. I know where I was born, and that's an important part of my history, and I think all immigrants are the same. But if I could live anywhere in the world, it would be Australia.

Aboriginal Australia is a tough place to work, rough and tough.

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

Australia is an island surrounded by water. My fondest memories growing up were trips to the beach, walking around the harbour and playing in the beautiful parks.

It was a positive sign that the conversation took place, it's a sign of the depth of the friendship between Australia and Indonesia.

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

She told fortunes for a living. It's a wacky book and was great fun to write. It is very much a look at what life was like for women in Australia in the 1960's.

I feel like kids that grew up in New York City or in L.A. were exposed to all these subcultures and subgenres, whereas I was only exposed to the poppiest of pop music so I never had this negative connotation towards pop music. That's not South African music having an effect on me, but just how international music was filtered through South Africa affected me. It gave me a not-negative connotation towards pop music growing up.

I wonder if it is Australia's great distance from more populated land masses that allows its inhabitants to be left to their own devices, to be incredibly creative and, at times, to be wonderfully weird.

Where I lived in Glasgow looked like Dresden after the war. It was a bomb site. I don't think I'd ever played football on grass until I moved to Australia.

I actually started out as a writer and then converted to illustration because I realised that there was a dearth of good illustrators in genre fiction, at least in Australia at that time.

I go back to the parallels with 1963, 1964 when white America really became aware of the brutality of segregation, the cruelty of the apartheid system which existed in the south. Then white people began to get on the freedom buses and travel to the south and be part of the voter registration drives and they... some of them were beaten and some of them were murdered but they stood with the African-American community and the civil rights movement. It's time for straight people to do that today and it is time for gay people to insist that they do that today.

Black Saturday reminded many Australians of what they know only too well: that of all the advanced economies, Australia is perhaps the one most vulnerable to climate change.

Starting at 16 in Australia at Riot City Wrestling, I learned a lot about myself and wrestling in general.

I suppose I was very disappointed that I was injured during training for Korea. In fact, I had an argument with a grenade and it won, and consequently I was forced to come back to Australia for twelve months.

Great,' I said. 'Visit exotic Australia. Get bitten by an exotic snake. Die exotically.

As a young kid you stay up late to watch the Ashes, getting told off for not being in bed, and dream of making a hundred against Australia.

I went back to Australia to do a show called 'The Beautiful Lie,' which is a retelling of 'Anna Karenina' in a six-part mini-series - a modern, contemporary version.

Australia's got some of the best girls in the world. They are very fit, very athletic and always by the beach.

It will be nice to play against Australia. It's a great country, and football is getting bigger and bigger.

I still have my agent back in Australia keeping an eye on things there, and we are trying to find the right job which will bring me home to shoot.

Australia is an outdoor country. People only go inside to use the toilet. And that's only a recent development.

I have spent a lot of time out in Australia, and so I have a good little fan base out there.

WWE is a global juggernaut; it is the pinnacle. It is a global entity. You have superstars from Australia, China, Japan.

I certainly have no regret living in the U.S. The quality of life in Australia is good, but it is bloody good here as well.

As a fast bowler if you're not going to bowl well on a Perth wicket you're going to struggle in Australia.

The Labour Party of today has fits of horrors of the very thought of somebody like me might saying that they bought in white Australia. But I believe they did.

I don't have a problem with nudity. I never have. I was born naked. I'd like to buried naked. It's a way of life in Australia.

I did well as an actor in Australia, and then Paramount invited me over... to have a look at me.

I play cricket. I'm a professional cricketer and I guess my job is to hopefully help Australia win games of cricket.

It is in the national interest to have the Flying Kangaroo. It's in the interests of our tourism industry. It's in the interests of jobs here in Australia.

It's an individual waste and it's an economic waste for Australia not to recognise dyslexia.

In Argentina, in Brazil, I remember going to Australia, all the trips I did in Japan, you know how they'd advertise me? 'From Madison Square Garden, Bruno Sammartino.'

Atlanta is not the South.

There are many non-intellectual countries; Australia is one of the few anti-intellectual ones.

Didgeridoo is a name that white people gave it when they came to Australia, from the sound that it makes. Its traditional name is yidaki.

I got hooked on espresso when I visited Italy at 18, but these days I prefer a 'flat white.' It's like a small latte with less milk - they're popular in Australia.

Didgeridoo was something I picked up while I was on tour in Australia with Peter Gabriel in '93. I found out later that it's only meant to be played by men.

My commitment to the Republican movement was pure and simply patriotism, a love of Australia... a desire or passion that all of our national symbols should be unequivocally and unambiguously Australian.

If you got the DVD you can see that George Lucas has taken that person out, as well as the voice, and we shot this scene when we arrived in Australia during the actual filming of Episode 3.

The land and agricultural industry is the backbone of Australia, and we need to foster the industry that provides our country with so much.

Bill Heseltine had been at university with me, at the University of Western Australia. I knew him well.

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

Building a new Health and Hospitals Network is fundamental to building a stronger and fairer Australia.

I love London. I love the U.K., but if I was going to live anywhere else on Earth, it would be Australia.

Australia is very good friends with China, perhaps better friends than America is.

In real life, I am trying to save the Steve Irwin wildlife preserve. It's in Australia, up on Cape York, and it's in danger of being strip-mined.

OPTIMISM, enthusiasm, confidence against fear, prejudice, conformity - that is his enduring message to the men and women of Australia. Never more than now.

When I was a kid, I didn't have any women of color to look up to in Australia. So a lot of the things I do, I keep in mind that I think I'm making my younger self really proud.

I made publicity contracts with Nike, several broadcasting companies and airline companies within Australia.

And I saw Australia anew through her eyes. And I realised what a tremendously thrilling country it was. And ever since then I have been coming back regularly.

I have always had, as I know many people have, a singular passion for Australia. I do love the sunburnt country, its ancient landscapes, its exhilarating reaches of sand and sea.

Australia is an island surrounded by water. My fondest memories growing up were trips to the beach, walking around the harbor and playing in the beautiful parks.

In Australia and New Zealand I had big, big success.

This is a look, a part of Australia we don't see. The wide streets, the architecture, the embassies, the space. It's really beautiful and there's a feel to Canberra that is different to any other city.

My dad played in the National Soccer League in Australia and also played football in Malaysia.

I didn't know the books and certainly didn't know the tragic origin story of Mary Poppins in 1906 Australia.

It's obviously a lot more of a political undertaking making a movie in Hollywood and it's a business there. In Australia, they don't expect films to make money; whereas in America they're counting on it.

How comedic are squirrels? We don't have squirrels in Australia. The first time I saw a squirrel was at a meeting at Disney.

I usually have about 16 pills a day of various descriptions - I also have minerals from Salt Lake City and amino acids that get sent to me from Australia.