For many, Christmas is also a time for coming together. But for others, service will come first.
QUEEN ELIZABETH III 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.
More Queen Elizabeth II Quotes
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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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Let us not take ourselves too seriously. None of us has a monopoly on wisdom.
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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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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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Work is the rent you pay for the room you occupy on earth.
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[Before each of numerous portrait sittings:] Now then, with teeth or without?
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To what greater inspiration and counsel can we turn than to the imperishable truth to be found in this treasure house, the Bible?
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I myself prefer my New Zealand eggs for breakfast.
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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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I have to be seen to be believed.
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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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[On the 1982 intruder into her bedroom:] I realized immediately that it wasn’t a servant because they don’t slam doors.
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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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I cannot lead you into battle. I do not give you laws or administer justice but I can do something else.
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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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