#queen

If I follow the inclination of my nature, it is this: beggar-woman and single, far rather than queen and married. ↗

— Elizabeth I Tudor

#british-monarchy #british-royal-family #dignity #empowerment #freedom

There is a deep affection in Australia for the Queen. And I mean the Queen's been the Queen ever since I was born. I mean she is part of the firmament of Australia's sort of national life; there's a deep respect for her role. ↗

— Kevin Rudd

#australia #been #born #deep #ever

I was a queen, and you took away my crown; a wife, and you killed my husband; a mother, and you deprived me of my children. My blood alone remains: take it, but do not make me suffer long. ↗

— Marie Antoinette

#away #blood #children #crown #deprived

Italy to me is like the mean mother. Whatever I do, it's never good enough. People say I'm the queen of Cannes, but in Italy I get turned down for work. ↗

— Asia Argento

#down #enough #get #good #i

The strongest arguments prove nothing so long as the conclusions are not verified by experience. Experimental science is the queen of sciences and the goal of all speculation. ↗

— Roger Bacon

#experience #experimental #goal #long #nothing

Money is the sovereign queen of all delights - for her, the lawyer pleads, the soldier fights. ↗

— Richard Barnfield

#fights #her #lawyer #money #pleads

Tampa's crazy... The ladies in Tampa come in all flavors. I felt like I was at Dairy Queen. ↗

— Luther Campbell

#crazy #dairy #felt #flavors #i

I'm a Queens boy at the end of the day. ↗

— Andrew Cuomo

#day #end #end of the day #i #queens

I was a student at Columbia College, actually, in the Architecture school. Paul would drive in from Queens, showing me these new songs. I can't remember us working it out. ↗

— Art Garfunkel

#architecture #college #columbia #drive #i

Shaking hands with the Queen of England was a long way from being forced to sit in the colored section of the bus going into downtown Wilmington, North Carolina. ↗

— Althea Gibson

#bus #carolina #colored #downtown #england