I should like to be a horse.
QUEEN ELIZABETH III can give my heart and my devotion to these old islands and to all the peoples of our brotherhood of nations.
More Queen Elizabeth II Quotes
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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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Family does not necessarily mean blood relatives but often a description of a community, organisation or nation.
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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 has perhaps always been the case that the waging of peace is the hardest form of leadership of all.
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[To the suggestion that Great Britain might someday want a Republic:] We’ll go quietly.
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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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These wretched babies don’t come until they are ready.
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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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This new power, which has proved itself to be such a terrifying weapon of destruction, is harnessed for the first time for the common good of our community.
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Cowards falter, but danger is often overcome by those who nobly dare.
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The lessons from the peace process are clear; whatever life throws at us, our individual responses will be all the stronger for working together and sharing the load.
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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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I myself prefer my New Zealand eggs for breakfast.
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[Before each of numerous portrait sittings:] Now then, with teeth or without?
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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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