Quotes by Australian/Australia authors (page 25)

"I had seen Adelaide the dearest and the cheapest place to live in"

"I count myself well educated, for the admirable woman at the head of the school which I attended from the age of four and a half till I was thirteen and a half, was a born teacher in advance of her own times"

Catherine Helen Spence, Author

"A glass of whisky in Scotland in the thirties cost less than a cup of tea"

Catherine Helen Spence, Author

"The first issue of The Register was printed in London, and gave a glowing account of the province that was to be - its climate, its resources, the sound principles on which it was founded"

Catherine Helen Spence, Author

"I had only two offers of marriage in my life, and I refused both"

Catherine Helen Spence, Author

"After the break up of the municipality and the loss of his income my father lost health and spirits"

Catherine Helen Spence, Author

"I now attend non-orthodox synagogues, and study little during the secular week"

Luke Ford, Writer

"It's a terrific privilege to be able to see into somebody else's life"

Helen Garner, Novelist

"But there are some wounds that can never be healed"

Helen Garner, Novelist

"But I can't bear it when somebody who some man made a pass at - to call that violence seems to me absurd and insulting to women who've really met violence, who've been raped or bashed"

Helen Garner, Novelist

"Probably my mother's life was prolonged beyond that of a long-lived family by her coming to Australia in middle life; and if I ever had any tendency to consumption, the climate must have helped me"

Catherine Helen Spence, Author

"I think I was well brought up, for my father and mother were of one mind regarding the care of the family"

Catherine Helen Spence, Author

"As we grew to love South Australia, we felt that we were in an expanding society, still feeling the bond to the motherland, but eager to develop a perfect society, in the land of our adoption"

Catherine Helen Spence, Author

"My parents always encouraged me and I had a good home life. We were always taught to respect things and other people. It's so different today, because children are just not taught the right way"

Betty Cuthbert, Athlete

"I realised from a very early age that God gave me a gift, and that gift was to run, and I wanted to use it to the best of my ability"

Betty Cuthbert, Athlete

"Even before the discovery of copper South Australia had turned the corner"

Catherine Helen Spence, Author

"My salvation was a free gift. I didn't have to work for it and it's better than any gold medal that I've ever won"

Betty Cuthbert, Athlete

"South Australia was the first community to give the secret ballot for political elections"

Catherine Helen Spence, Author

"My pamphlet did not set the Torrens on fire"

Catherine Helen Spence, Author

"I look back to a happy childhood"

Catherine Helen Spence, Author

"There is nothing to compare with the instantaneous feedback a singer gets from the people sitting in front of him. That is where it all comes together - all the rehearsing and working to get everything just exactly right"

Andy Gibb, Musician

"The integral part of being a star is having the will to win. All the champions have it"

Betty Cuthbert, Athlete

"No way did I ever think I was going to win the 100m"

Betty Cuthbert, Athlete

"Before, I was terrified on stage. I only play guitar during the acoustic songs. After a while, you can elicit certain responses from the crowd, like Elvis"

Andy Gibb, Musician

"I respect the people who buy my records and come to my concerts. It's only fair that I always try to give them the very best that's in me. After all, I need them more than they need me"

Andy Gibb, Musician

"My favourite event was the 200m, so as I won the 100m, I thought it was possible I'd win the 200m"

Betty Cuthbert, Athlete

"Everything I did that required effort, I opened my mouth. Even to catch a ball, I opened my mouth"

Betty Cuthbert, Athlete

"Songs don't just come out of the air. They take time, but it's good fun, too. Maurice gave me encouragement"

Andy Gibb, Musician

"I've been working at performing for five years now. I've been working in Australia and Spain and England. When I was only 15 or 16, 1 was performing in bars; I could have had legal problems, but it's also the only way to get to know what music is all about"

Andy Gibb, Musician

"I'll have to get people to write songs for me right now until my own writing comes around"

Andy Gibb, Musician

"I have to take time occasionally to get away from the pressures of this business. If I don't, I think I would get stale, and that would show in my music"

Andy Gibb, Musician

"I have been to hell and back. I had a very, very bad nervous breakdown"

Andy Gibb, Musician

"In 1973 we moved to the British Isle of Man, and I put my first band together for one year, named Melody Fair"

Andy Gibb, Musician

"Yet, upon the whole, the space I traversed is unlikely to become the haunt of civilized man, or will only become so in isolated spots, as a chain of connection to a more fertile country; if such a country exist to the westward"

Charles Sturt, Explorer

"We moved leisurely towards Mount Foster, on the 22nd, and arrived opposite to it a little before sunset"

Charles Sturt, Explorer

"We had not seen any natives for many days, but a few passed the camp on the opposite side of the river on the evening of the 25th. They would not, however, come to us; but fled into the interior in great apparent alarm"

Charles Sturt, Explorer

"These matters having been arranged, I had a temporary awning erected near the river, and was for three or four days busily employed writing an account of our journey for the Governor's information"

Charles Sturt, Explorer

"The year 1826 was remarkable for the commencement of one of those fearful droughts to which we have reason to believe the climate of New South Wales is periodically subject"

Charles Sturt, Explorer

"The staple of our Australian colonies, but more particularly of New South Wales, the climate and the soil of which are peculiarly suited to its production, - is fine wool"

Charles Sturt, Explorer

"The main consideration with those who, possessing some capital, propose to emigrate as the means of improving their condition, is, the society likely to be found in the land fixed on for their future residence"

Charles Sturt, Explorer

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