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Quotes About Queen

Here! 'Not thread nor glue, not nails nor screws, will ever self and shadow wed.' Helpful, those poet-types. Perhaps this one: 'Seek the grimy queen of dread machines, if you your errant shadow miss.' Now that's quite good! As a Prophetic Utterance, Third Class (Vague Hints and Mysterious Signs), you couldn't ask for better. It's downright plain-spoken!
~ Catherynne M. Valente
I asked a queen once why she didn't want me. She wasn't a powerful queen, not a monarch of Spain or of Albania. Just a little kingdom of nowhere, but she married well and she had a crown. The queen of nowhere looked at me with her clear grey eyes and said: "Because I don't want to be in a story." Princesses usually grow up to be queens. The cleverness sticks long after the beauty goes.
~ Catherynne M. Valente
Surrender to God is the only absolute power that the creature possesses. Only the handmaid of the Lord is the Queen of Heaven.
~ Gertrud von Le Fort
The Queen coined new money specifically for the Company {East India}. Minted at the Tower of London and bearing her arms on one side and a portcullis on the other, it soon became know as the portcullis money. She also granted the merchants a new flag which, with its blue field and background of thirteen red and white stripes, prefigured the one adopted by the Thirteen Colonies of America some 175 years later.
~ Giles Milton
God bless you, my beloved sisters, who stand as the queens in your home, that you may be happy with that happiness which comes of the knowledge that you are loved and honored and treasured.
~ Gordon B. Hinckley
Within and about the Forest of Tantrevalles existed a hundred or more fairy shees, each the castle of a fairy tribe. Thripsey Shee on Madling Meadow, little more than a mile within the precincts of the forest, was ruled by King Throbius and his spouse Queen Bossum. His realm included Madling Meadow and as much of the forest surrounding as was consistent with his dignity. The fairies at Thripsey numbered eighty-six.
~ Jack Vance
The irony in any investigation was that lies were often protectors of the truth—unless they became too powerful, in which case lies were like worker bees who turn on their queen.
~ Jacqueline Winspear
Jurata, Queen of the Baltic.
~ James Conroyd Martin
A regular old drag queen is usually your science teacher who's actually wearing women's panties underneath his slacks. A drag-queen superstar is someone who actually works in clubs and makes a living doing it more than one night a year, or even one night in six months.
~ RuPaul
The queen, I say, is the mother bee; it is undoubtedly complimenting her to call her a queen and invest her with regal authority, yet she is a superb creature and looks every inch a queen.
~ John Burroughs
Action is king, but wisdom is queen.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
I get called Pink quite a lot. The Pink of the Action Sport World. Or Queen of the Dirt - some call me that.
~ Caroline Buchanan
They love putting me in the 'indie queen' box. I had some high standards in my 20s that I don't have anymore.
~ Parker Posey
If I was not a remarkably modest man, I should probably brag a little, and say that I had done what no American ever before accomplished by visiting the queen at her palace twice within eight days.
~ P. T. Barnum
Set in this stormy Northern sea, Queen of these restless fields of tide, England! what shall men say of thee, Before whose feet the worlds divide?
~ Oscar Wilde
The rifle is the queen of weapons and its effective use is one of the greatest satisfactions available to man.
~ Jeff Cooper
Autumn bowed to place a beautiful crown on the Queen of Morning, and her velvet robes sway merrily in the chilly breeze.
~ Terri Guillemets
Why were kings cross? Maybe their trains were late! Some say warrior Queen Boudica was buried under platform 8.
~ Terry Deary
It was on the 1958 tour that Ellington met Queen Elizabeth II in London. 'Struck speechless' by her grace, he responded with one of his most elegant gestures, writing with Strayhorn a piece called 'The Queen's Suite', then recording it and having a single copy of the album pressed for her alone.
~ Terry Teachout
It is said that when the historian John Wheeler-Bennett came to write the official biography of King George VI, the Queen Mother asked him to tone down the many references to her influence on her husband.
~ Theo Aronson
Without the queen excluder, the queen might suddenly fly off in search of a new hive, taking her swarm with her. That was what had happened in Brazil in 1957 after scientists bred Africanized honey bees, aka killer bees, thinking they would thrive in the tropical conditions. A visiting beekeeper, believing the queen excluders were hindering the movement of the bees inside the hives, removed them, and twenty-six queens as well as their swarms escaped, traveling north, eventually reaching the US.
~ Nicholas Sparks
Marghe learned of linn cloud, the waterfall cloud in multilayers which brought very heavy rain; of n'gus, queen daggerhorn sky—stately and slow-moving like the beasts of the forest; of pilwe sky, soft, white undulating cloud that could hide the sun for a whole moon.
~ Nicola Griffith
În opinia lui Emmaline, dragostea f?cea din ea o femeie special?. Dragostea f?cea orice femeie s? fie frumoas? ÅŸi transforma b?rbatul într-un prinÅ£. O femeie care avea parte de dragoste în via?? era la fel de bogat? ca o regin?, pentru c? inima ei era preÅ£uit?.
~ Nora Roberts
Priscilla, Queen of the Desert needed ABBA to invent gay Australians. The
~ Chuck Klosterman