Canberra Quotes

• Beautifully Bleak. I likened the hills encircling Canberra to the sea. They, like the sea, could be a sunny beguiling blue, or deep and inky. They could be distant and mysterious, or beautifully bleak as the wind tore across the plains from their snowy peaks. The hills were ever changing like the sea.

  Hazel Hawke

  Nature, Blue, Wind

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• When youre asked/told to come to Canberra by your Prime Minister, in the country I grow up in, you obey that.

  Andrew Forrest

  Country, Growing Up, Prime

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• I want to make it clear as Premier and as local member that I strongly support the Renewable Energy Target. Our message to the Federal Government and to Canberra is stick to the Renewable Energy Target.

  Denis Napthine

  Government, Support, Energy

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• Una escuela de Canberra me envía un trabajo trimestral. Me siento solo en el sofá, lo termino y lo devuelvo.

  Callan McAuliffe

  School, Couches, Term

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• Space is about 100 kilometers away. That’s far away—I wouldn’t want to climb a ladder to get there—but it isn’t that far away. If you’re in Sacramento, Seattle, Canberra, Kolkata, Hyderabad, Phnom Penh, Cairo, Beijing, central Japan, central Sri Lanka, or Portland, space is closer than the sea.

  Randall Munroe

  Japan, Sea, Sri Lanka

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• I had some vague memory of visiting Canberra as a lad, when we came up with my father by car. But when I made the long train journey from Sydney to Canberra and arrived at the little stop, I did wonder slightly whether this really was the national capital.

  John Henry Carver

  Memories, Father, Journey

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• Because each are going to blame each other. The thing that Canberra has to really get right is the sharing of the resource. But my problem with people in the government who are there for a short time is that there's no consequences for some of these decisions they make.

  Rex Hunt

  Government, People, Decision

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Se puede dibujar lo que se quiera sobre una pizarra en blanco y dar rienda suelta a todos los caprichos en la naturaleza al trazar una Nueva Delhi, Canberra o Brasilia, pero cuando se opera en una metrópolis sobreedificada, hay que abrirse camino con un hacha de carnicero.

  Robert Moses

  Carne, Querer, Camino

  "The Power Broker", de Robert Caro, (p. 849), 1974.

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• Antes vivía en la otra punta de Canberra, así que tardaba entre 20 y 25 minutos en llegar al entrenamiento. Estaba muy agradecida por tener coche. Mamá también estaba contenta porque tenía todo ese tiempo extra en vez de llevarme al entrenamiento, esperar y luego llevarme a casa.

  Melissa Breen

  Home, Waiting Around, Extra Time

  Fuente: www.smh.com.au

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• After I broke the Australian record in 2014, Audi Centre in Canberra gave me a beautiful black A1 with the number plates AI 1111, because the record I broke was 11.11 in the 100.

  Melissa Breen

  Beautiful, Numbers, Black

  Fuente: www.smh.com.au

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• Learning to drive in Canberra is pretty easy and I had great teachers in my parents.

  Melissa Breen

  Teacher, Parent, Easy

  Fuente: www.smh.com.au

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