The lessons from the peace process are clear; whatever life throws at us, our individual responses will be all the stronger for working together and sharing the load.
QUEEN ELIZABETH IILook, 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.
More Queen Elizabeth II Quotes
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Like all the best families, we have our share of eccentricities, of impetuous and wayward youngsters and of family disagreements.
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Family does not necessarily mean blood relatives but often a description of a community, organisation or nation.
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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.
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I hope people will think very carefully about the future.
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Work is the rent you pay for the room you occupy on earth.
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[On the 1982 intruder into her bedroom:] I realized immediately that it wasn’t a servant because they don’t slam doors.
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At Christmas, I am always struck by how the spirit of togetherness lies also at the heart of the Christmas story. A young mother and a dutiful father with their baby were joined by poor shepherds and visitors from afar. They came with their gifts to worship the Christ child.
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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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The British Constitution has always been puzzling and always will be.
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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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I should like to be a horse.
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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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They seldom realize that on their steadfastness, on their ability to withstand the fatigue of dull repetitive work, and on their courage in meeting constant small adversities depend in great measure the happiness and prosperity of the community as a whole. …
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The Christmas message shows us that this love is for everyone. There is no one beyond its reach.
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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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