For me, heaven is likely to be a bit of a come-down.
QUEEN ELIZABETH IIThe events that I have attended to mark my Diamond Jubilee have been a humbling experience. It has touched me deeply to see so many thousands of families, neighbors and friends celebrating together in such a happy atmosphere.
More Queen Elizabeth II Quotes
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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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For many, Christmas is also a time for coming together. But for others, service will come first.
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Cowards falter, but danger is often overcome by those who nobly dare.
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1992 is not a year I shall look back on with undiluted pleasure. In the words of one of my more sympathetic correspondents, it hasturned out to be an Annus Horribilis.
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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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Let us not take ourselves too seriously. None of us has a monopoly on wisdom.
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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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[To the suggestion that Great Britain might someday want a Republic:] We’ll go quietly.
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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.
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These wretched babies don’t come until they are ready.
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Football’s a difficult business and aren’t they prima donnas. But it’s a wonderful game.
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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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They are not royal. They just happen to have me as their aunt.
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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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I myself prefer my New Zealand eggs for breakfast.
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