Australia Quotes

“The arse end of the world.”

“Every day's a good day in Australia.”

“Our virgin continent! how long has she tarried her bridal day!”

“Never allow the thoughtless to delcare
That we have no tradition here!”

“Mordja Amari Boaradja
   Ngu Borngga Amari Mordja.”

“Australia without the Irish would be unthinkable... unimaginable... unspeakable.”

“Surely what the Americans have done by war, Australians can bring about in peace.”

“You can take them out of England, but you just can't take the convict out of them.”

“This is a rune I ravelled in the still,
Arrogant stare of an Australian cow.”

“So Cook made choice, so Cook sailed westabout,
So men write poems in Australia.”

“Earth is here so kind, that just tickle her with a hoe and she laughs with a harvest.”

“Shame on the mouth
That would deny
The knotted hands
That set us high!”

“Anyone will tell you it's a prisoner island,
Hidden in the summer for a million years.”

“Australia to the world lay hid in night:
God said, "Let Grattan be!" and all was light.”

“[At the time of Federation] Most Australians were still strangers in a new land. The land was only half won.”

“For the first time in the world's history, there will be a nation for a continent, and a continent for a nation.”

“With its weird red earth and its alien flora and fauna... Australia was the eighteenth-century equivalent of Mars.”

“Flax was the first conqueror – a hollow conqueror – of the distance which so often shaped Australia's destiny.”

“Australia was born on the shores of Gallipoli.”

“What Great Britain calls the Far East is to us the near north.”