Quotes About Australians

Australians are hungry for sport. They love it. They're addicted to it.

What's fascinating about the Australians is they have this quality that they are impervious to majesty. They're not awed.

We are moving toward recognition of the first Australians in the Australian constitution.

Australians were very practical, Emily had found. They did things quickly and purposefully and to the absolute minimum standard required. It was refreshing and guenuine but sometimes led to situations like building a town around a hole.

The friendliness of Australians – all of it quite sincere and spontaneous, as far as I could ever tell – never ceases to amaze or gratify.

Advances in science and medical research and public health policies have meant that life expectancy for Australians is one of the highest in the world.

Let them wander and scrutinize the outlandish Australians. I have more of God, they more of the road.

People love events - they love performances, they love music - and I think Australians are great entertainers.

Part of the beauty of the way Australians hang out isn't just how relaxed it is, but the inclusive, rolling nature of how they socialize.

I got to know Australians well working on the 'Mad Max' franchise with director George Miller.

It's a great privilege and an honour to have the experiences and opportunities that I do to meet extraordinary Australians right across our country who share a great generosity of spirit.

There is something about musical narrative and Australians. If you want to do something, you kind of have to do it at a level - because we're so far away from everywhere else - that exceeds what is just normal if you want to convince people that some guy from Australia is worth backing for an original musical.

Australians in general are pretty casual about traveling. If you grow up there, you basically get trained in long-haul flights—fifteen hours, twenty-four—it's what we're used to. For us, eight hours across the Atlantic seems like a doddle.

more Australians now die of heat stress than die on the roads.

It was very frustrating when I was president of Hakoah. You could not make any headway. We couldn't attract the public because it was an ethnic game. Australians were not interested.

The idea of having Australians upset at me is just awful.

Germs thus acquired ultimately from domestic animals played decisive roles in the European conquests of Native Americans, Australians, South Africans, and Pacific islanders.

Australians are a fantastic bunch of people but the attention can be overwhelming for someone like me.

I always found myself in the company of Australians, who were like a reminder that I'd touched bottom.

What most Australians seem to want in the way of a response is something funny and familiar, such as You bloody diggers are rough as pig's breakfast, but that's what I like.

At my lowest point, when things were at their most desperate and uncomfortable, I always found myself in the company of Australians, who were like a reminder that I'd touched bottom.

The Australians plunged through the apertures and slew or captured the defenders of the galleries.

While he was in the neighbourhood he went to New York for the – surely redundant by now – ceremonial visit of the next prime minister to Rupert Murdoch. Back home in the Spectator Australia he laid it on thick again: "Along with the commander of the First AIF, Sir John Monash, and the penicillin inventor, Lord Florey, he is one of the Australians who have made the most difference in the world.

Australians are coffee snobs. An influx of Italian immigrants after World War II ensured that - we probably had the word 'cappuccino' about 20 years before America. Cafe culture is really big for Aussies. We like to work hard, but we take our leisure time seriously.