My husband has quite simply been my strength and stay all these years, and I owe him a debt greater than he would ever claim.
QUEEN ELIZABETH IIFor Christians, as for all people of faith, reflection, meditation and prayer help us to renew ourselves in God’s love, as we strive daily to become better people.
More Queen Elizabeth II Quotes
-
-
Family does not necessarily mean blood relatives but often a description of a community, organisation or nation.
QUEEN ELIZABETH II -
For many, Christmas is also a time for coming together. But for others, service will come first.
QUEEN ELIZABETH II -
It’s all to do with the training: you can do a lot if you’re properly trained.
QUEEN ELIZABETH II -
I should like to be a horse.
QUEEN ELIZABETH II -
The upward course of a nation’s history is due in the long run to the soundness of heart of its average men and women
QUEEN ELIZABETH II -
Think what we would have missed if we had never … used a mobile phone or surfed the Net — or, to be honest, listened to other people talking about surfing the Net.
QUEEN ELIZABETH II -
This new power, which has proved itself to be such a terrifying weapon of destruction, is harnessed for the first time for the common good of our community.
QUEEN ELIZABETH II -
Madam President, speaking here in Dublin Castle it is impossible to ignore the weight of history, as it was yesterday when you and I laid wreaths at the Garden of Remembrance.
QUEEN ELIZABETH II -
It is easy enough to define what the Commonwealth is not. Indeed this is quite a popular pastime.
QUEEN ELIZABETH II -
I have to be seen to be believed.
QUEEN ELIZABETH II -
[On the 1982 intruder into her bedroom:] I realized immediately that it wasn’t a servant because they don’t slam doors.
QUEEN ELIZABETH II -
It has been women who have breathed gentleness and care into the hard progress of humankind.
QUEEN ELIZABETH II -
We lost the American colonies because we lacked the statesmanship to know the right time and the manner of yielding what is impossible to keep.
QUEEN ELIZABETH II -
I can give my heart and my devotion to these old islands and to all the peoples of our brotherhood of nations.
QUEEN ELIZABETH II -
In the turbulence of this anxious and active world many people are leading uneventful, lonely lives. To them dreariness, not disaster, is the enemy.
QUEEN ELIZABETH II