Jubilee Quotes - Page 2

• People’s lives, in Jubilee as elsewhere, were dull, simple, amazing, and unfathomable – deep caves paved with kitchen linoleum.

  Alice Munro

  Simple, People, Kitchen

  "Lives of Girls and Women". Book by Alice Munro, 1971.

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• He wanted all to lie in an ecstasy of peace; I wanted all to sparkle and dance in a glorious jubilee. I said his heaven would be only half alive; and he said mine would be drunk: I said I should fall asleep in his; and he said he could not breathe in mine.

  Emily Bronte

  Lying, Fall, Drunk

  Emily Bronte “Wuthering Heights”, Lulu.com

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• I went to Buckingham Palace and I wanted to take something from there, but there was nothing good to steal, although I did nick some serviettes with ER and Her Majesty on them from the Jubilee celebrations.

  Konnie Huq

  Majesty, Palaces, Celebration

  "Konnie Huq: If I show my cleavage people make such a fuss". Mirror Interview, www.mirror.co.uk. November 30, 2008.

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• In 1897, troops from the greatest empire the world had ever seen marched down London’s mall for Queen Victoria’s diamond jubilee. Seventy years later, Britain had government health care, a government-owned car industry, massive government housing, and it was a shriveled high-unemployment socialist basket-case living off the dwindling cultural capital of its glorious past. In 1945, America emerged from the Second World War as the preeminent power on earth. Seventy years later . . . Let’s not go there.

  Mark Steyn

  Queens, War, Past

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• 2012 has been an extraordinary year for our country. We cheered our Queen to the rafters with the Jubilee, showed the world what we're made of by staging the most spectacular Olympic and Paralympic Games ever and - let's not forget - punched way above our weight in the medals table.

  David Cameron

  Country, Queens, Games

  "David Cameron cites Gospel of John in Christmas message" by Nicholas Watt, www.theguardian.com. December 24, 2012.

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• Most people in the country would think the diamond jubilee is a wonderful occasion for us to celebrate together as a community and as a nation. But I suspect that most people in the country would think, given that there is very little money around, that this probably would not be the top of their list of priorities for the use of scarce public resources.

  Nick Clegg

  Country, Thinking, Diamond Jubilee

  "'The haves and have yachts': Clegg blasts Gove's call for a new royal ship for the Queen as a Jubilee present". www.dailymail.co.uk. January 16, 2012.

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• Before I take you into the beating heart of the story, let’s get one thing out of the way. I know from experience that when it comes up later, it will distract you so much that you won’t be able to concentrate on anything else I will tell you. My name is Jubilee Dougal. Take a moment and let it sink in.

  Maureen Johnson

  Heart, Names, Stories

  John Green, Lauren Myracle, Maureen Johnson (2009). “Let It Snow: Three Holiday Stories”, p.8, Penguin

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• Jubilee 2000 is a broad coalition which has moved the earth.

  Gordon Brown

  Earth, Coalitions, Broads

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• I don't want to give too much away, but something horrible happens in 1977. That was also the year of the Queen's Silver Jubilee. I remember this jubilee. I remember receiving a commemorative coin from the school. I think it was a fifty pence piece. That was its monetary value, but it was not a normal fifty pence piece, and it would have been strange to try and use it in a shop.

  Quentin S. Crisp

  Queens, School, Thinking

  Source: www.teemingbrain.com

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• I think I still have [commemorative coin ] somewhere. Why was this given to me? I think every child in the country must have received one [ from Queen's Silver Jubilee]. That's the last time that I recall something of an innocent, more-or-less unquestioning monarchist patriotism in Britain.

  Quentin S. Crisp

  Country, Queens, Children

  Source: www.teemingbrain.com

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• 1977 was also, of course, the year that Derek Jarman made his iconoclastic film Jubilee, which was so much part of the punk movement.

  Quentin S. Crisp

  Years, Movement, Film

  Source: www.teemingbrain.com

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