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We should not play like Australia or India or England — we should play like Sri Lanka.
mahela jayawardene— Quoted in Charlie Austin, "Mahela Jayawardene," Wisden Cricketers' Almanack (2007)
In the nineteenth century some parts of the world were unexplored, but there was almost no restriction on travel.:; Up to 1914 you did not need a passport for any country except Russia.:; The European emigrant, if he could scrape together a few pounds for the passage, simply set sail for America or Australia, and when he got there no questions were asked.:; In the eighteenth century it had been quite normal and safe to travel in a country with which your own country was at war.
george orwell— "As I Please," Tribune (12 May 1944)[14]
Being lost in Australia gives you a lovely feeling of security.
Bruce Chatwin— 1987 The Songlines, ch.10.
Hail our Great Queen in her regalia; One foot in Canada, the other in Australia.
— Attributed to Gay by William Arthur Deacon in TheFour Jameses (1927).
The indifference — the fern-dark indifference of this remote golden Australia. Not to care — from the bottom of one's soul not to care.
d. h. lawrence— 1923 Kangaroo, ch.10.
InTurkey it was always1952, in Malaysia1937; Afghanistan was1910 and Bolivia1949. It is twenty years ago inthe Soviet Union, ten in Norway, five in France.It is always last year in Australia and next week in Japan.
— 1983 The Kingdom ByThe Sea, ch.1.
What the housewives of Australia need to understand as they do the ironing is that if they get it done commercially it’s going to go up in price and their own power bills when they switch the iron on are going to go up.
tony abbott— Quoted in the Sydney Morning Herald, "Abbott accused of being 'incredibly old-fashioned' as he lets off steam", February 9, 2010.
Jesus knew that there was a place for everything and it’s not necessarily everyone’s place to come to Australia.
tony abbott— Panel discussion, "Tony Abbott on Q and A" on abc.net.au, April 5, 2010.
I'd move to Los Angeles if New Zealand and Australia were swallowed up by a tidal wave, if there was a bubonic plague in England and if the continent of Africa disappeared from some Martian attack.
russell crowe— New York Daily News (2000)
Kyoto questions the philosophies underpinning societies such as America and Australia, which cling to the myth of limitless growth.
tim flannery— Chapter 25 (p. 237)
Unless legal and illegal immigration is halted and reversed, European First World nations across all of Europe from Spain to Russia, North America, Australia and New Zealand — will be destroyed and have their very culture and civilisation changed to that of the Third World. Immigration is now the single most important issue facing all First World nations, and will determine whether Western Civilisation continues to exist or not.
arthur kemp— Collective Nouns, blog post
These European White Men, then, with civilization in their blood and in their destiny, crossed the Atlantic and set up a new civilization on a bleak and rock bound coast. It was the White Men who drove north to Alaska and west to California; the men who opened up the tropics and subdued the Arctics; the men who mastered the African Veldts; the men who peopled Australia and seized the gates of the world at Suez, Gibraltar and Panama.
ben klassen— Nature's Eternal Religion (1973), Ch. 2, Paragraph 3
I'm 33...before AC/DC I've played in a lot of bands in Australia. You're never too old to rock and roll.
bon scott— From Best, December 1979.
Democracy may be alright for certain people in the world, but I don't think the type of democracy Fiji needs is the type Australia and New Zealand enjoy.
jona senilagakali— in a December 6, 2006 interview with the Australian Broadcasting Corporation
As a four-year-old, my mother told me I was climbing the fence, jumping off and calling myself an 'eppyplane' ... I bought books on aeroplanes, I followed everything in the newspapers about aeroplanes. Amy Johnson flew to Australia in 1930 - why couldn't I do something like that?
nancy bird walton— Nancy Bird Walton in an interview with George Negus on George Negus Tonight, 8 March 2004
I consider myself British and have very happy memories of the UK. I spent the first 14 years of my life in England and never wanted to leave. When I was in Australia I went back to England a lot.
naomi watts— "Watts turns back on Australia". The Daily Telegraph. April 24 2007. Retrieved on 2007-04-24.
If I begin my book with a review of the coup, it is only to show that my abiding interests for Australia did not end with it. They shall end only with a long and fortunate life.
gough whitlam— Abiding Interests (1997), Foreword
I was profoundly embarrassed by it [the White Australia Policy] and did all I could to change it.
gough whitlam— Quoted in Paul Kelly, 100 Years – The Australian Story (Allen & Unwin, ABC Books, NSW, 2001), p. 196
The idea of defending, as integral parts of our Empire, countries 10,000 miles off, like Australia, which neither pay a shilling to our revenue...nor afford us any exclusive trade...is about as quixotic a specimen of national folly as was ever exhibited.
Richard Cobden— A note to Edward Ellice, 1856.James E. Thorold Rogers (ed.), Speeches on Questions of Public Policy by Richard Cobden M.P. (1878), p. 248.
South America had been an island continent, far bigger and far more diverse than Australia, for tens of millions of years before the Isthmus of Panama rose just a couple of million years ago. The resulting flood of North American mammals across the new land bridge corresponds in time with the decimation of the native South American fauna. In fact, most large mammals generally considered distinctly South American... are all recent migrants from North America.
stephen jay gould— "Can We Truly Know Sloth and Rapacity?" pp. 390
Here from this mountain shore, headland beyond stormy headland plunging like dolphins through the blue sea-smoke Into pale sea look west at the hill of water: it is half the planet: this dome, this half-globe, this bulging Eyeball of water, arched over to Asia, Australia and white Antarctica: those are the eyelids that never close; this is the staring unsleeping Eye of the earth ; and what it watches is not our wars .
robinson jeffers— "The Eye"
Australia without the Irish would be unthinkable . . . unimaginable . . . unspeakable.
paul keating— Speaking in 1992, as quoted in "Ned Kelly and 'Mary Poppins' writer among top Irish-Australians" by Pádraig Collins, in The Irish Times (19 August 2009)
In Australia Inter alia , Mediocrities Think they’re Socrates .
peter porter— Quoted in Charles Osborne Giving It Away (London: Secker & Warburg, 1986) p. 114.
The prime minister of Canada had to apologise to the Indians… the other day the prime minister of Australia apologised [for historical injustices]. There is something useful in that apology. Although I wasn't involved during the 2007-2008 [crisis]… I say I apologise for what has happened as a leader of this nation something has gone wrong.
— Mr. Kiplagat, quoted on BBC News, "Uhuru Kenyatta and William Ruto named in Kenya TRJC report", May 22, 2013.
Specific areas of production include countries such as USA , India , China , America , the Middle East and Australia , where climatic conditions suit the natural growth requirements of cotton, including periods of hot and dry weather and where adequate moisture is available, often obtained through irrigation .
— In P.7 (The Biology of Gossypium hirsutum L. and Gossypium barbadense L. (cotton) Version)
In joyful strains then let us sing, "Advance Australia fair!"
— Advance Australia Fair (Australian national anthem, lyric by Peter Dodds McCormick).
I'd move to Los Angeles if New Zealand and Australia were swallowed up by a tidal wave, if there was a bubonic plague in England and if the continent of Africa disappeared from some Martian attack.
russell crowe— Russell Crowe, New York Daily News (2000)[ ]
In joyful strains then let us sing, "Advance Australia fair!"
— Advance Australia Fair (Australia, lyric by Peter Dodds McCormick)
The President of the United States ordered me to break through the Japanese lines and proceed from Corregidor to Australia for the purpose, as I understand it, of organizing the American offensive against Japan, a primary objective of which is the relief of the Philippines. I came through and I shall return.
— General Douglas MacArthur, remarks to reporters in Australia after he had been ordered by Pres. Roosevelt to leave the fortress on the island of Corregidor in Manila Bay before it fell to the Japanese (March 30, 1942). Reported in Representative Speeches of General of the Army Douglas MacArthur (1964), p. vi; Senate Doc. 88–95.
