Royal Quotes - Page 18

• Baseball's Opening Day is full of time-honored traditions: the President throws out the first ball, the Cubs' starting pitcher walks away with a 54.00 ERA, the Royals get mathematically eliminated from the pennant race.

  Rob Sheffield

  Baseball, Race, President

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• When I was growing up, I did not exercise at all. I was raised in the French Quarter in New Orleans. If I saw someone running, I would call the police because I thought they stole something on Royal Street.

  Richard Simmons

  Running, Growing Up, Exercise

  "Richard Simmons On The Best Advice He Ever Got". The Huffington Post Interview, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 27, 2012.

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• Well, I have a CBE and I accepted it with glee because it's not bestowed on you by the royal family, it's not bestowed on you by the government, you have to be nominated by the public.

  Rod Stewart

  Government, Glee, Accepted

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• When I left the Royal College, I decided I would only make paintings that I would want to look at myself, that felt close to my life.

  Chris Ofili

  College, Looks, Want

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• We be informed by our judges that we at no time stand so highly in our estate royal as in the time of Parliament, wherein we as head and you as members are conjoined and knit together into one body politic, so as whatsoever offence or injury (during that time) is offered to the meanest member of the House is to be judged as done against our person and the whole Court of Parliament.

  Henry VIII of England

  Judging, House, Together

  1543 Address to a deputation from the House of Commons, 31 Mar.

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• The Emperor himself amassed his great riches. The older he grew, the greater became his greed, his pitiable cupidity... he and his people took millions from the state treasurer and left cemeteries full of people who had died of hunger, cemeteries visible from the windows of the royal palace

  Haile Selassie

  People, Greed, Royal Palaces

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• The Admiralty said it was a plane and not a boat, the Royal Air Force said it was a boat and not a plane, the Army were plain not interested.

  Christopher Cockerell

  Army, Air, Aviation

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• We used to be so proud that our country offered far more economic opportunities than the feudal system in Great Britain, with its royal family, princesses and dukes. But social mobility in the UK is higher than in the US. Our social rift is as big as it was in the 1920s.

  Robert Reich

  Country, Princess, Opportunity

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• There is no royal path to good writing; and such paths as exist do not lead through neat critical gardens, various as they are, but through the jungles of self, the world, and of craft.

  Jessamyn West

  Writing, Garden, Self

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• And now run the race which is set before thee, in the royal way of universal love.

  John Wesley

  Running, Race, Way

  John Wesley (2012). “The Works of the REV. John Wesley: With the Last Corrections of the Author, Volume 12...”, p.504

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• Wimbledon is getting a bit too like Royal Ascot. It's not what happens or who wins so much, as what clothes do I have on.

  David Lloyd

  Winning, Clothes, Tennis

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• I sometimes, in my sprightly moments, consider myself, in my great chair at school, as some dictator at the head of a commonwealth. In this little state I can discover all the great geniuses, all the surprising actions and revolutions of the great world in miniature. I have several renowned generals but three feet high, and several deep-projecting politicians in petticoats. I have others catching and dissecting flies, accumulating remarkable pebbles, cockleshells, etc., with as ardent curiosity as any virtuoso in the Royal Society.

  John Adams

  School, Knowledge, Feet

  John Adams, Charles Francis Adams (1850). “The Works of John Adams, Second President of the United States: With a Life of the Author, Notes and Illustrations”, p.9

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• Whence we see spiders, flies, or ants entombed and preserved forever in amber, a more than royal tomb.

  Francis Bacon

  Forever, Spiders, Amber

  Francis Bacon, William Rawley (1858). “The Works of Francis Bacon: Translations of the philosophical works”, p.320

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• If you ask me why I've succeeded it's because I was in the Royal Marines. You have this unbelievable sense of achievement and of overcoming adversity. That's the confidence it breeds.

  Brian McDermott

  Adversity, Marine, Achievement

  "Brian McDermott, the marine who became a world-beater with Leeds". Interview with Donald McRae, www.theguardian.com. February 18, 2013.

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• Two billion people watched the royal wedding. Clearly, they're interested in that - the outside of what appears to be lives that have a certain amount of privilege. They have gifts, they have history, they have a sort of unusual and separate position, which maybe involves paying a price.

  Kenneth Branagh

  Two, Royal Wedding, People

  "Actor-director Kenneth Branagh". "The Tavis Smiley show" with Tavis Smiley, www.pbs.org. May 5, 2011.

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• Crime, carefully planned and executed, is demonstrably the royal high road to pecuniary success in the United States.

  Ferdinand Lundberg

  United States, Crime, High Road

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• Apart from life, a strong constitusion and an abiding connection to the Thembu royal house, the only thing my father bestowed upon me at birth was a name, Rolihlahla

  Nelson Mandela

  Strong, Father, Names

  Nelson Mandela (2009). “Long Walk To Freedom Vol 1: 1918-1962”, p.12, Hachette UK

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• The failure of modern living is the failure of the imagination...Literature is the royal road that enables us to enter the realm of the imagination.

  Julius Lester

  Imagination, Literature, Modern

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• From his soft fur, golden and brown, Goes out so sweet a scent, one night I might have been embalmed in it By giving him one little pet. He is my household's guardian soul; He judges, he presides, inspires All matters in his royal realm; Might he be fairy? or a god? When my eyes, to this cat I love Drawn as by a magnet's force, Turn tamely back upon that appeal, And when I look within myself, I notice with astonishment The fire of his opal eyes, Clear beacons glowing, living jewels, Taking my measure, steadily.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Sweet, Eye, Cat

  Charles Baudelaire, James N McGowan (2008). “The Flowers of Evil”, p.105, Oxford Paperbacks

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• I don't like the way people cherish the ghetto, as if it’s some royal palace, or kingdom. I also don't like the way people treat each other in the ghetto. It is really hard to find love, trust, and respect. You don't find too many people that want to do better for themselves in the ghetto because so many people seem to be satisfied with where they're at.

  Delano Johnson

  Ghetto, People, Finding Love

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• The senior members of the royal family work very hard and I don't think people quite realise that.

  Zara Phillips

  Senior, Thinking, People

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• A full moon is poison to some; they shut it out at every crevice, and do not suffer a ray to cross them; it has a chemical or magical effect; it sickens them. But I am never more free and royal than when the subtile celerity of its magic combinations, whatever they are, is at work.

  Harriet Elizabeth Prescott Spofford

  Moon, Magic, Suffering

  Harriet Elizabeth Prescott Spofford, Alfred Bendixen (1989). “The Amber Gods, and Other Stories”, p.67, Rutgers University Press

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• Mary was a virgin and he Bible says that she 'found favor' - that means there must have been others in the race. What quality did she have that made a depository of the royal seed? She was a virgin - a clean place - he looks for clean places to deposit truth & she was open to this unique & unusual move of God.

  Tommy Tenney

  Moving, Mean, Unique

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• Some day there may be... machinery that needs but to be wound up and sent roaming o'er hill and dale, through fields and meadows, by babbling brooks and shady woods - in short, a machine that will discriminately select its subject and, by means of a skillful arrangement of springs and screws, compose its motif, expose the plate, develop, print, and even mount and frame the result of its excursion, so that there will be nothing for us to do but to send it to the Royal Photographic Society's exhibition and gratefully to receive the 'Royal Medal'.

  Edward Steichen

  Photography, Spring, Mean

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• Out in the lonely woods the jasmine burns Its fragrant lamps, and turns Into a royal court with green festoons The banks of dark lagoons.

  Henry Timrod

  Lonely, Dark, Lamps

  Henry Timrod (1873). “The Poems of Henry Timrod”, p.131

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