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 IIIt has been women who have breathed gentleness and care into the hard progress of humankind.
More Queen Elizabeth II Quotes
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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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To all those who have suffered as a consequence of our troubled past I extend my sincere thoughts and deep sympathy. With the benefit of historical hindsight we can all see things which we would wish had been done differently or not at all.
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I know of no single formula for success. But over the years I have observed that some attributes of leadership are universal and are often about finding ways of encouraging people to combine their efforts, their talents, their insights, their enthusiasm and their inspiration to work together.
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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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You need to learn to stand up for yourself and what you believe and sometimes, pardon my language, kick some ass.
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They are not royal. They just happen to have me as their aunt.
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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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Family does not necessarily mean blood relatives but often a description of a community, organisation or nation.
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Grief is the price we pay for love.
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I myself prefer my New Zealand eggs for breakfast.
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True patriotism doesn’t exclude an understanding of the patriotism of others.
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[Before each of numerous portrait sittings:] Now then, with teeth or without?
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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.
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In the turbulence of this anxious and active world many people are leading uneventful, lonely lives. To them dreariness, not disaster, is the enemy.
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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 have to be seen to be believed.
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Work is the rent you pay for the room you occupy on earth.
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I don’t like to badmouth people. But I’m the head of a monarchy that began in the ninth century, and I’m apparently more modern than Chris Christie.
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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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I hope that tomorrow we can all, wherever we are, join in expressing our grief at Diana’s loss, and gratitude for her all-too-short life. It is a chance to show to the whole world the British nation united in grief and respect.
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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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What were once only hopes for the future have now come to pass.
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I have been aware all the time that my peoples, spread far and wide throughout every continent and ocean in the world, were united to support me in the task to which I have now been dedicated with such solemnity.
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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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[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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