For 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.
QUEEN ELIZABETH III can give my heart and my devotion to these old islands and to all the peoples of our brotherhood of nations.
More Queen Elizabeth II Quotes
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They are not royal. They just happen to have me as their aunt.
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It’s all to do with the training: you can do a lot if you’re properly trained.
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I believe that there is a great fear in our generation of being labeled as priggish.
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We all need to get the balance right between action and reflection. With so many distractions, it is easy to forget to pause and take stock.
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It is as queen of Canada that I am here. Queen of Canada and all Canadians, not just one or two ancestral strains.
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[To a woman whose cellphone rang during a formal meeting:] You’d better answer that. It could be someone important.
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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.
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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.
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These wretched babies don’t come until they are ready.
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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
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I should like to be a horse.
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[On being criticized for her serious expression:] I simply ache from smiling. Why are women expected to beam all the time? It’s unfair. If a man looks solemn, it’s automatically assumed he’s a serious person, not a miserable one.
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Look, I know he has to appeal to the crazy right-wingers in his party, but the fact is, he’s not as forward-thinking as an eighty-seven-year-old lady who wears a crown on her head. It’s pathetic.
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I have behind me not only the splendid traditions and the annals of more than a thousand years but the living strength and majesty of the Commonwealth and Empire; of societies old and new; of lands and races different in history and origins but all, by God’s Will, united in spirit and in aim.
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For me, heaven is likely to be a bit of a come-down.
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