Best Adelaide Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“...the reality of late summer and early autumn when Adelaide, more than any place on earth, and as simply as pouring tea from a pot, pours fourth from a lavish cornucopia into gardens and parks and markets and arcade stalls a cascade of carnations and grapes and melons, guavas and Michaelmas daisies and tomatoes, zinnias and belladonna lilies and tuberoses, lavender and quinces and cumquats and pomegranates, roses and roses and roses.”

Summer Fruit Australia Autumn Flowers Suburbs Backyards Adelaide

Book:Paper Chase

Source: Paper Chase

“Summer in Adelaide: the nourishing and destructive golds, the soft fruit and the fire.”

Summer Seasons Australia Summertime Adelaide Summertime Quotes

Book:Adelaide

Source: Adelaide

“A lemon tree was nearly universal; other trees varied with climate - almond trees in Adelaide and Perth, plums and apples in Melbourne, choke vines and bananas in Sydney and Brisbane, a mango in Cairns, figs and loquats everywhere. For a few weeks, there was a gross overabundance of fruit and much trading ('I'll take some of your plums if you take some of my apples next month').”

Fruit Australia Sydney Brisbane Melbourne Adelaide Perth Australiana Cairns

Author:George Seddon

“I agree. I certainly like your mouth”

Richelle Mead Adelaide Cedric The Glittering Court Cedric Thorn

Book:The Glittering Court

Source: The Glittering Court

“I'd always dreamt of acting but, in Adelaide, we don't have exposure to the opportunities that make stardom a possibility.”

Opportunity Acting Possibility Exposure Stardom Adelaide

Author:Teresa Palmer

“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.”

World Running Kids Animal Week Dad Quiet Property My Dad Hills Mum Best Of Both Worlds Adelaide

Author:Teresa Palmer

“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.”

I Can Home Remember Moving Night Lost Parent Six Flood Looking Back Day And Night Cafes Adelaide

Author:Samantha Stosur

“I had seen Adelaide the dearest and the cheapest place to live in.”

Places To Live Adelaide

Book:Ever Yours, C.H. Spence: Catherine Helen Spence's An Autobiography (1825-1910), Diary (1894) and Some Correspondence (1894-1910)

Source: Ever Yours, C.H. Spence: Catherine Helen Spence's An Autobiography (1825-1910), Diary (1894) and Some Correspondence (1894-1910)

“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.”

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Author:George Brandis

“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.”

World Kids Winning Becoming Cups Australia Slam Adelaide

Author:Lleyton Hewitt

“If there is one venue where Pakistan can beat Australia, then Adelaide is that ground”

Ifs Beats Australia Pakistan Venues Adelaide

Author:Imran Khan

“Even though I live in America more, I feel like when I go to Adelaide, that's when I get to go home.”

Feels Home America Folds Adelaide

Author:Ben Folds

“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.”

People Ability Numbers Cities Special Example Keys Skills Resources Experts Australian Sydney Melbourne Adelaide

Author:Charles Landry

“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].”

Whole Black Water One Thing Brother Clubs Rough Halls Performers Cotton Dukes One Thing At A Time Adelaide

Author:Lena Horne

“Adelaide is becoming a hub for higher education.”

Becoming Higher Higher Education Hub Adelaide

Author:Geoff Mulgan

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

Inspirational May Has Beens Might Motivation Lost Stars Might Have Been Adelaide

Author:Adelaide Anne Procter

“Dreams grow holy put in action.”

Dream Action Grows Holy Holiness Adelaide

Book:Legends and lyrics: a book of verses

Source: Legends and lyrics: a book of verses

“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.”

Thinking Men Wells May Certain He Man Horse Arguing Driving Ass Riding Speculation Adieu Adelaide

Author:Adelaide Anne Procter

“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.”

Keys One Day Fingers Ill Ease Organs Echoes Weary Harmonious Noisy Adelaide

Author:Adelaide Anne Procter

“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”

Air Up In The Air Adelaide

Author:Billy Connolly

“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.”

Source: Snakecharmers In Texas

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

Ifs World Firsts Cities Citizens Architecture Australia Recreation Adelaide

Author:Robin Boyd

“I do not ask, O Lord, that life may be a pleasant road.”

May Asks Lord Pleasant Adelaide

Book:A Chaplet of Verses

Source: A Chaplet of Verses

“Joy is like restless day; but peace divine like quiet night; Lead me, O Lord, till perfect Day shall shine through Peace to Light.”

Light Joy Night Perfect Lord Divine Quiet Shining Restless Leading Me Perfect Days Adelaide

Book:A Chaplet of Verses

Source: A Chaplet of Verses

“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.”

Years Lasts Nice Years Ago Boxes Drunk New Year Truck New Years Eve Coca Cola Adelaide

Author:Ronald Biggs