Sydney Harbour Bridge
The Sydney Harbour Bridge is the main crossing of Sydney Harbour in Australia.
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- There the proud arch Colossus like bestride
Yon glittering streams and bound the strafing tide.- Erasmus Darwin, "Visit of Hope to Sydney Cove, near Botany Bay" (1789)
- To get on in Australia, you must make two observations. Say, "You have the most beautiful bridge in the world" and "They tell me you trounced England again in the cricket." The first statement will be a lie. Sydney Bridge [sic] is big, utilitarian and the symbol of Australia, like the Statue of Liberty or the Eiffel Tower. But it is very ugly. No Australian will admit this.
- James Michener, Return to Paradise (1951)
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- I open this bridge in the name of the Majesty the King and all the decent citizens of NSW.
- Captain de Groot on opening the Sydney Harbour Bridge, (1932). His organisation, the New Guard, had resented the fact that the King hadn't been asked to open the bridge.