Queens Quotes - Page 32

• Just as the French of the nineteenth century invested their surplus capital in a railway-system in the belief that they would makemoney by it in this life, in the thirteenth they trusted their money to the Queen of Heaven because of their belief in her power to repay it with interest in the life to come.

  Henry Adams

  Faith, Heaven, Belief

  Henry Adams (1986). “Mont-Saint-Michel and Chartres”, p.92, Penguin

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• If it were worth while to argue a paradox, one might maintain that nature regards the female as the essential, the male as the superfluity of her world. Perhaps the best starting-point for study of the Virgin would be a practical acquaintance with bees, and especially with queen bees.

  Henry Adams

  Women, Males, Essentials

  Henry Adams (2017). “Mont-Saint-Michel and Chartres”, p.248, BookRix

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• A virtuous name is the precious only good, for which queens and peasants' wives must contest together.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Names, Wife, Together

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• Queen rose of the rosebud garden of girls.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Girl, Women, Garden

  'Maud' (1855) pt. 1, sect. 22, st. 9

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• O, the mulberry-tree is of trees the queen!
  Bare long after the rest are green;
  But as the time steals onwards, while none perceives
  Slowly she clothes herself with leaves--
  Hides her fruit under them, hard to find.
  . . . .
  But by and by, when the flowers grow few
  And the fruits are dwindling and small to view--
  Out she comes in her matron grace
  With the purple myriads of her race;
  Full of plenty from root to crown,
  Showering plenty her feet adown.
  While far over head hang gorgeously
  Large luscious berries of sanguine dye,
  For the best grows highest, always highest,
  Upon the mulberry-tree.

  Dinah Maria Murlock Craik

  Flower, Feet, Clothes

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• Queens you must always be: queens to your lovers; queens to your husbands and your sons, queens of higher mystery to the world beyond. . . . But alas, you are too often idle and careless queens, grasping at majesty in the least things, while you abdicate it in the greatest.

  Dinah Maria Murlock Craik

  Husband, Women, Son

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• There has been a comparatively greater proportion of good queens, than of good kings.

  Sarah Moore Grimke

  Leadership, Kings, Royalty

  Sarah Moore Grimké, Mary S. Parker (1838). “Letters on the equality of the sexes, and the condition of woman: Addressed to Mary S. Parker”, p.59

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• On the lawn next to the sidewalk a fire ant colony is swarming. The ants are pouring out of a mound nest, here no more than an irregular pile of dirt partly flattened by the last pass of a lawnmower. Winged queens and males are taking off on their nuptial flight, protected by angry-looking workers that run up and down the grass blades and out onto the blistering-hot concrete of the sidewalk. The species is unmistakably Solenopsis geminata, the native fire ant.

  E. O. Wilson

  Running, Fire, Males

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• While the saving message spread day by day, some providence brought from Ethiopia an officer of the queen, for that nation is still traditionally ruled by a woman.

  Eusebius

  Saving, Messages, Providence

  Eusebius (2012). “Eusebius: The Church History”, p.54, Kregel Academic

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• Truth is a queen who has her eternal throne in heaven, and her seat of empire in the heart of God.

  Jacques-Benigne Bossuet

  Truth, Heart, Heaven

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• I like people to go away from a Queen show feeling fully entertained, having had a good time.

  Freddie Mercury

  People, Feelings, Going Away

  "The Man Who Would Be Queen". Melody Maker Interview, www.queenarchives.com. May 2,1981.

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• The greatest truths in life are the ones your fellow queens are willing to tell you.

  RuPaul

  Willing, Fellows

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• Weep not, sweet queen, for trickling tears are vain.

  William Shakespeare

  Sweet, Tears, Vain

  William Shakespeare (2013). “Second Tetralogy In Plain and Simple English: Includes Richard II, Henry IV Parts 1 and 2, and Henry V”, p.306, BookCaps Study Guides

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• I live in New York. I have an amazing apartment over there; I have this amazing life over there that's full of glamour. I get treated like a queen over there - and that's one of the reasons I love coming home. It's very grounding.

  Nicole Trunfio

  New York, Home, Amazing Life

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• The earliest memories I have from my childhood are of my mum getting ready to go on stage. I must have been about five and I would watch her vomiting backstage on opening night, and then the next minute she became Isabella, the Queen of Spain. At the time I remember thinking, 'What kind of schizophrenic job is this?' Now it all makes sense.

  Javier Bardem

  Jobs, Memories, Night

  Interview with Peter Symth, www.mirror.co.uk. March 30, 2008.

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• I do think of myself as a queen, but I don't think I'm the only queen. There's room for other queens. We reign over different kingdoms.

  Madonna Ciccone

  Thinking, Different, Kingdoms

  Source: www.independent.ie

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• I can always sniff out when someone is being what they think I want them to be, which is the complete opposite. I really want a queen to be herself.

  RuPaul

  Thinking, Opposites, Want

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• We are all illusionists and that's why we are attracted to drag queens. This whole world is an illusion. It's not real.

  RuPaul

  Real, World, Illusion

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• Woman is, by habit or nature, queen of the household. She is not designed to organize on a large scale.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Women, Habit, Scales

  Mahatma Gandhi (1967). “Collected Works”

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• I'm like the queen of planning and scheduling and I'm trying very hard to stop it. I just want to finish what I'm doing and go home. I want to have a weekend. I want to have breakfast, a stack of pancakes.

  Sandra Bullock

  Home, Weekend, Trying

  "Sandra Bullock and Ryan Reynolds Discuss 'The Proposal'". Interview with Rebecca Murray, www.thoughtco.com. February 25, 2014.

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• "God save our gracious Queen": Why would we invoke a non-specific deity to bail out these unelected spongers?

  Bill Bailey

  Funny, Humor, Bail

  "Part Troll". Documentary, Comedy, Music, 2004.

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• When I became a feminist, when the movement started in the late sixties, I started writing because I had something urgent to say. My first novel, Memoirs of an Ex-Prom Queen, is the product of that urgency.

  Alix Kates Shulman

  Writing, Prom Queen, Feminist

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• I am trying my hardest to stay away from the horror movies just because I feel like people are thinking that's what I do, that I'm a scream queen. I'd like to stay away from that.

  A. J. Cook

  Thinking, Trying My Hardest, People

  Source: www.ign.com

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• If one wants to be called a queen, one should act with civility and grace.

  Jinkx Monsoon

  Grace, Want, Civility

  "Interview with Jinkx Monsoon: Host for the 7th Annual Academy Awards Party at Seattle Cinerama". Interview with Brian Peterson, seattlegayscene.com. February 22, 2012.

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• I would like to work with Paul McCartney in the future. Or Brian Seltzer. But I guess like, like I said - I'm into The Strokes, like Ben Folds, Eliot Smith, the Beatles are my favorite, the Beach Boys, Queen.

  Drake Bell

  Beach, Boys, My Favorite

  Source: www.thestarscoop.com

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