Like all the best families, we have our share of eccentricities, of impetuous and wayward youngsters and of family disagreements.
QUEEN ELIZABETH IIWork is the rent you pay for the room you occupy on earth.
More Queen Elizabeth II Quotes
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What were once only hopes for the future have now come to pass.
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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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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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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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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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Good memories are our second chance at happiness.
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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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They are not royal. They just happen to have me as their aunt.
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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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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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It has been women who have breathed gentleness and care into the hard progress of humankind.
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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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It has perhaps always been the case that the waging of peace is the hardest form of leadership of all.
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Work is the rent you pay for the room you occupy on earth.
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