The Christmas message shows us that this love is for everyone. There is no one beyond its reach.
QUEEN ELIZABETH IIThe upward course of a nation’s history is due in the long run to the soundness of heart of its average men and women.
More Queen Elizabeth II Quotes
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Grief is the price we pay for love.
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[Before each of numerous portrait sittings:] Now then, with teeth or without?
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We have all felt those emotions in these last few days. So what I say to you now, as your queen and as a grandmother, I say from my heart.
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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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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.
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I have to be seen to be believed.
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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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It is easy enough to define what the Commonwealth is not. Indeed this is quite a popular pastime.
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I can give my heart and my devotion to these old islands and to all the peoples of our brotherhood of nations.
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Families, friends and communities often find a source of courage rising up from within. Indeed, sadly, it seems that it is tragedy that often draws out the most and the best from the human spirit.
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When life seems hard, the courageous do not lie down and accept defeat; instead, they are all the more determined to struggle for a better future.
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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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I cannot lead you into battle. I do not give you laws or administer justice but I can do something else.
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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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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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