Queen Quotes

For me, heaven is likely to be a bit of a come-down.

Bring me a cup of tea and the 'Times.'

I hope people will think very carefully about the future.

Being pregnant is an occupational hazard of being a wife.

I fear John Knox's prayers more than an army of ten thousand men.

Learning to read and write changes lives; it means jobs, money, health, and dreams fulfilled.

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.

Educate a woman and you educate her family. Educate a girl and you change the future.

What were once only hopes for the future have now come to pass.

We are stronger when we listen,and smarter when we share.

As believers we all have an opportunity and moral obligation to recognize our spiritual common ground; to rise above our differences; to combat prejudice and intolerance.

Like all the best families, we have our share of eccentricities, of impetuous and wayward youngsters and of family disagreements.

At the end of the day, the position is just a position, a title is just a title, and those things come and go. It's really your essence and your values that are important.

I decided early on that I was going to put on my crown and rule my world by acting right and treating myself like a queen.

I think people really marry far too much; it is such a lottery after all, and for a poor woman a very doubtful happiness.

I don’t want to be a supermodel; I want to be a role model.

[On alcohol:] Total abstinence is an impossibility and ... it will not do to insist on it as a general practice.

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.

My mom will make me walk the dogs or take out the trash when I go home.

It has perhaps always been the case that the waging of peace is the hardest form of leadership of all.

Every woman is a queen, and we all have different things to offer.

No one ever got ahead by going through the motions. You have to constantly be improving yourself. Make your life the masterpiece you want it to be.

Sometimes you weren't supposed to share pain. Sometimes it was best just to deal with it alone.

When a man who is drinking neat gin starts talking about his mother he is past all argument.

If one girl with courage is a revolution, imagine what feats we can achieve together.

When you don't talk, there's a lot of stuff that ends up not getting said.

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

It's a funny thing, how much time we spend planning our lives. We so convince ourselves of what we want to do, that sometimes we don't see what we're meant to do.

Oh! was ever woman so blessed as I am.

Good teachers teach. Great teachers transform.

The Queen has done all she could on the dreadful subject of vivisection, and hopes that Mr. Gladstone will speak strongly against such a practice which is a disgrace to humanity.

I really don't know how to be anyone else, and whenever I try to be anyone else, I fail miserably. Or I disappoint myself. It doesn't build my self-esteem, and it doesn't help me grow me at all.

When I was around 18, I looked in the mirror and said, 'You're either going to love yourself or hate yourself.' And I decided to love myself. That changed a lot of things.

Values are the shields that you carry throughout life and it protects you from whatever life throws at you.

Let your inner queen's voice come through loud and clear. Be strong, be authentic, be you, and you'll do her proud.

When you educate a girl, you kick-start a cycle of success. It makes economic sense. It makes social sense. It makes moral sense. But, it seems, it's not common sense yet.

[Before each of numerous portrait sittings:] Now then, with teeth or without?

You cannot kill an ideology with a bullet. You can only kill it with a better idea.

Be bold, be brave enough to be your true self.

Today, there is no excuse for any one of us to sit back and go, "Ugh! There's nothing I can do about it."Because there is always something that can be done.

[To the bishop who suggested the widowed queen now consider herself 'as married to Christ':] That's what I call twaddle!

Dreams become reality when we put our minds to it.

I had a desire to see something besides my own shores, if only to be content to return to them someday. If I wish to live in my native land and love her, it should not be out of ignorance.

Football's a difficult business and aren't they prima donnas. But it's a wonderful game.

For many, the hijab represents modesty, piety and devotion to God, and I truly respect that. But the hijab should not be used as a means of applying social pressure on people.

No civilization is complete which does not include the dumb and defenseless of God's creatures within the sphere of charity and mercy.

When I think of a merry, happy, and free young girl - and look at the ailing aching state a young wife is generally doomed to - which you can't deny is the penalty of marriage.

Racism is ignorant. And it's stupid. And it's old. And it's played out. So beat it already with that, you know what I mean? 'Let's all get along' - I'm so tired of that damn sentence, but it's true.

We shouldn't judge people through the prism of our own stereotypes.

Every man is his own worst enemy