These wretched babies don’t come until they are ready.
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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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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Football’s a difficult business and aren’t they prima donnas. But it’s a wonderful game.
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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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[Before each of numerous portrait sittings:] Now then, with teeth or without?
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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 declare before you all that my whole life, whether it be long or short, shall be devoted to your service and the service of our great imperial family to which we all belong.
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They are not royal. They just happen to have me as their aunt.
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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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It has turned out to be an annus horribilis.
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It has perhaps always been the case that the waging of peace is the hardest form of leadership of all.
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Grief is the price we pay for love.
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For me, heaven is likely to be a bit of a come-down.
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I have to be seen to be believed.
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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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The Christmas message shows us that this love is for everyone. There is no one beyond its reach.
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