It is as queen of Canada that I am here. Queen of Canada and all Canadians, not just one or two ancestral strains.
QUEEN ELIZABETH IIThink 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.
More Queen Elizabeth II Quotes
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These wretched babies don’t come until they are ready.
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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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My husband has quite simply been my strength and stay all these years, and I owe him a debt greater than he would ever claim.
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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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Let us not take ourselves too seriously. None of us has a monopoly on wisdom.
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They are not royal. They just happen to have me as their aunt.
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[To the suggestion that Great Britain might someday want a Republic:] We’ll go quietly.
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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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Good memories are our second chance at happiness.
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Therefore I am sure that this, my Coronation, is not the symbol of a power and a splendour that are gone but a declaration of our hopes for the future, and for the years I may, by God’s Grace and Mercy, be given to reign and serve you as your Queen.
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Grief is the price we pay for love.
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What were once only hopes for the future have now come to pass.
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I should like to be a horse.
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The upward course of a nation’s history is due in the long run to the soundness of heart of its average men and women
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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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