Crowns Quotes - Page 3

• If I had rubies, riches, and crowns, I'd buy the whole world and change things around.

  Bob Dylan

  Peace, Special, Rubies

  Bob Dylan (2014). “The Lyrics: Since 1962”, p.36, Simon and Schuster

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• When the Christians, upon these occasions, received martyrdom, they were ornamented, and crowned with garlands of flowers; for which they, in heaven, received eternal crowns of glory.

  John Foxe

  Christian, Flower, Heaven

  John Foxe (1830). “The martyrs, or A history of persecution: from the commencement of Christianity to the present time including an account of the trials, tortures, and triumphant deaths of many who have suffered martyrdom”, p.21

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• The crown of literature is poetry.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Hygiene, Poetry, Literature

  W. Somerset Maugham (2010). “Cakes And Ale”, p.90, Random House

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• A sorrow's crown of sorrow is remembering happier times.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Time, Sorrow, Remember

  'Locksley Hall' (1842) l. 75.

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• By my count, the Deputy Prime Minister has sworn an oath of loyalty and service to Her Majesty no fewer than four times in the last two years, yet he has used his position as a minister of the Crown as a podium from which to rail against our history and our heritage. The minister says that instead of the monarchy he would prefer an entirely Canadian institution, but he fails to recognize that the monarchy is as Canadian as the House of Commons itself.

  Elsie Wayne

  Loyalty, Years, Two

  Elsie Wayne during House of Commons Debates, www.parl.gc.ca. October 8, 2002.

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• The end crowns all,
  And that old common arbitrator, Time,
  Will one day end it.

  William Shakespeare

  Time, Memorable, One Day

  'Troilus And Cressida' (1602) act 4, sc. 5, l. 223

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  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

  Mother, Queens, Children

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• The person who knows one thing and does it better than anyone else, even if it only be the art of raising lentils, receives the crown he merits. If he raises all his energy to that end, he is a benefactor of mankind and its rewarded as such.

  Og Mandino

  Motivational, Art, Life And Love

  Og Mandino (2011). “The Greatest Salesman in the World, Part II: The End of the Story”, p.114, Bantam

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• The man forget not, though in rags he lies,
  And know the mortal through a crown's disguise.

  Mark Akenside

  Lying, Men, Rags

  Mark Akenside (1808). “The Poetical Works of Mark Akenside ...: Collated with the Best Editions”

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• And if I have my choice between a pennant and a triple crown, I'll take the pennant every time.

  Carl Yastrzemski

  Sports, Time, Choices

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• I am quite prepared, if we can do it without any disrespect to the Crown of England, to bring our titles to the marketplace and make a bonfire of them.

  Wilfrid Laurier

  Disrespect, Titles, England

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• God has given such brave soldiers to this Crown that, if they do not frighten our neighbours, at least they prevent us from being frightened by them.

  Elizabeth I

  Bravery, Scary, Soldier

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• A farmer travelling with his load Picked up a horseshoe on the road, And nailed if fast to his barn door, That luck might down upon him pour; That every blessing known in life Might crown his homestead and his wife, And never any kind of harm Descend upon his growing farm.

  James Thomas Fields

  Blessing, Journey, Doors

  James Thomas Fields, “The Lucky Horseshoe”

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• The glories of our blood and state, Are shadows, not substantial things; There is no armour against fate, Death lays his icy hand on kings. Scepter and crown must tumble down, And, in the dust, be equal made With the poor crooked scythe and spade.

  James Shirley

  Kings, Fate, Dust

  'The Contention of Ajax and Ulysses' (1659) act 1, sc. 3

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• Old age: the crown of life, our play's last act.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Life, Birthday, Philosophical

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• In England the judges should have independence to protect the people against the crown. Here the judges should not be independent of the people, but be appointed for not more than seven years. The people would always re-elect the good judges.

  Andrew Jackson

  Independent, Should Have, Years

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The Crown Prince has said he needs to broaden political participation in the governing of Saudi Arabia.

  Frank Carlucci

  Political, Arabia, Needs

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• I am a subject of the British Crown, but whenever I have to choose between the interests of England and Canada it is manifest to me that the interests of my country are identical with those of the United States of America.

  Wilfrid Laurier

  Country, America, United States

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• The last act crowns the play.

  John Ruskin

  Play, Lasts

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• There are no crown princes at Ford.

  Edsel Ford

  Fog

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• Since, therefore, individuals as well as the public are so indebted to these writers for the benefits they enjoy, I think them not only entitled to the honour of palms and crowns, but even to be numbered among the gods.

  Marcus Vitruvius Pollio

  Thinking, Benefits, Individual

  Marcus VITRUVIUS POLLIO, Joseph GWILT (1826). “The Architecture of M. Vitruvius Pollio in Ten Books, Translated from the Latin by J. Gwilt”, p.260

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• With this announcement today, the Army has made it clear what we have known all along - that Fort Riley is truly the crown jewel of the United States Army.

  Jim Ryun

  Army, Jewels, America

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• I assure you that the training that you get in a midget, in a sprint car and perhaps in a Silver Crown car is really the kind of experience that makes you into a damn good race driver.

  Rodger Ward

  Race, Umpires, Car

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• Yes; quaint and curious war is! You shoot a fellow down you'd treat if met where any bar is, or help to half-a-crown.

  Thomas Hardy

  War, Bars, Half

  "The Man He Killed" l. 17 (1909)

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• Our founders did not oust George III in order for us to crown Richard I.

  Ralph Nader

  Order, Founders

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