Adelaide Quotes

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  • No star is lost once we have seen, We always may be what we might have been.

  • All cities have one key resource: the special abilities of the people who live in them. You just have to find out what they are. In the Australian city of Adelaide, for example, which is overshadowed by Sydney and Melbourne, I discovered a number of experts in the penal system. I advised them to work with these special skills.

    Keys   Skills   Cities  
    Source: www.spiegel.de
  • If there is one venue where Pakistan can beat Australia, then Adelaide is that ground

  • The men are much alarmed by certain speculations about women; and well they may be, for when the horse and ass begin to think and argue, adieu to riding and driving.

    Horse   Men   Thinking  
  • I had seen Adelaide the dearest and the cheapest place to live in.

    Catherine Helen Spence, Susan Magarey, Maryan Beams (2005). “Ever Yours, C.H. Spence: Catherine Helen Spence's An Autobiography (1825-1910), Diary (1894) and Some Correspondence (1894-1910)”, p.49, Wakefield Press
  • Dreams grow holy put in action.

    Adelaide Anne Procter (1861). “Legends and Lyrics: A Book of Verses”, p.111
  • The provincial intellectual is doomed to arguing at low level... there is still no Australian literary world, not in Sydney, Melbourne, Adelaide. It is some consolation to realise that there is no literary world in Birmingham or Los Angeles either. I have heard there is one in Montreal, but I don't believe it. The literary world is in London and New York, the only cities big enough to sustain magazines which can afford to reject copy.

    Art   New York   Believe  
    Clive James (2013). “Snakecharmers In Texas”, p.28, Pan Macmillan
  • I think it's very, very important that people outside the capital cities, not just Sydney and Melbourne but also Brisbane Perth Adelaide and so on, have the greatest access to the best cultural experiences they can in both the performing arts and the visual arts.

    Art   Thinking   Cities  
    Source: www.abc.net.au
  • I'd always dreamt of acting but, in Adelaide, we don't have exposure to the opportunities that make stardom a possibility.

  • We are eager to tunnel under the Atlantic and bring the Old World some weeks nearer to the New; but perchance the first news that will leak through into the broad, flapping American ear will be that the Princess Adelaide has the whooping cough.

    Henry David Thoreau (2009). “Walden”, p.34, Cosimo, Inc.
  • I had the best of both worlds when I was a kid. I'd spend a quiet week with my mum, then I'd go to my dad's property in the Adelaide Hills, where there were all these kids and animals running around.

    Running   Dad   Kids  
  • I do not ask, O Lord, that life may be a pleasant road.

    Adelaide   May   Lord  
    Adelaide Anne Procter (1862). “A Chaplet of Verses”, p.106
  • I don't really remember the day we lost our home in the floods, but looking back I can understand how devastating it was for my parents. I was only six, so I remember us having to move to Adelaide - but not much of the actual day and night of the flood. We had to start all over again and my parents opened a café.

    Moving   Home   Night  
    "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
  • Even though I live in America more, I feel like when I go to Adelaide, that's when I get to go home.

    Home   America   Adelaide  
    Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
  • Joy is like restless day; but peace divine like quiet night; Lead me, O Lord, till perfect Day shall shine through Peace to Light.

    Adelaide Anne Procter (1862). “A Chaplet of Verses”, p.107
  • I learned from Ethel Waters, Duke Ellington, Adelaide Hall, the Nicholas Brothers, the whole thing, the whole schmear. [The Cotton Club] was a great place because it hired us, for one thing, at a time when it was really rough [for Black performers].

    Brother   Water   Black  
  • I once travelled to Adelaide on Emu Airways. I was 5,000 ft up in the air when someone pointed out to me that emus can't fly

  • Adelaide was the first city in Australia, if not in the world, to provide for the health and recreation of all its citizens.

  • Adelaide is becoming a hub for higher education.

    "Our creative minds need to be harnessed" by Geoff Mulgan, www.theguardian.com. September 30, 2008.
  • The last thing I stole was a box of Coca Cola from a parked truck in Adelaide. I was nice and drunk. It was New Year's Eve. And that was about 28 years ago.

    New Year   Nice   Years  
  • When I was a kid in Adelaide, I dreamed of becoming No. 1 in the world, winning a grand slam and the Davis Cup for Australia.

    "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
  • Seated one day at the organ, I was weary and ill at ease, and my fingers wandered idly over the noisy keys. It seemed the harmonious echo from our discordant life.

    Echoes   Keys   One Day  
    "A Lost Chord" l. 1 (1858)
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