Quotes and Sayings About Crowns
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Offspring were a joy or a shame, but still the crown of their elders, nature's unpredictable creatures.
-- Achy Obejas -
The slave begins by demanding justice and ends by wanting to wear a crown.
-- Albert Camus -
The foundation stones of a great building are destined to groan and be pressed upon; it is not for them to crown the edifice.
-- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn -
Fickle Fortune reigns, and, undiscerning, scatters crowns and chains.
-- Alexander Pope -
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Being champion is all well and good, but you can't eat a crown.
-- Althea Gibson -
Let us hope that the US (Democratic and Republican party) allows us, their European cultural and economical crown vassals, to liberate ourselves and deport the Muslims without them militarily intervening. We shouldn't forget that we have many allies in the US including a sizable faction of the Republican Party.
-- Anders Behring Breivik -
Damn it all you can't have the crown of thorns and the thirty pieces of silver.
-- Aneurin BevanSource : In Michael Foot Aneurin Bevan (1973) vol. 2, ch. 13
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I hold an old-fashioned notion that a happy marriage is the crown of a woman’s life.
-- Beatrix PotterSource : Beatrix Potter (2014). “Delphi Complete Works of Beatrix Potter (Illustrated)”, p.1214, Delphi Classics
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When I got involved with The Five Crowns who later became The Drifters, and we got this hit record, I still was looking at this as kind of a fun thing.
-- Ben E. King -
Never had Parliament or the crown, or both together, operated in actuality as theory indicated sovereign powers should.
-- Bernard BailynSource : Bernard Bailyn (2012). “The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution”, p.203, Harvard University Press
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All intelligent beings who are crowned with crowns of glory, immortality, and eternal lives must pass through every ordeal appointed for intelligent beings to pass through, to gain their glory and exaltation. Every calamity that can come upon mortal beings will be suffered ... to prepare them to enjoy the presence of the Lord. ... Every trial and experience you have passed through is necessary for your salvation.
-- Brigham YoungSource : Brigham Young (1861). “Journal of Discourses”, p.150
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The cross comes before the crown and tomorrow is a Monday morning!
-- C. S. Lewis -
And if I have my choice between a pennant and a triple crown, I'll take the pennant every time.
-- Carl Yastrzemski -
Yes, beloved reader, our God reigneth, and if we crown Him Lord of all, Lord of our soul, Lord of our body, Lord of all the circumstance in our lives, we shall find that He is able to subdue all things unto Himself.
-- Carrie Judd Montgomery -
All other swindlers upon earth are nothing to the self-swindlers, and with such pretences did I cheat myself. Surely a curious thing. That I should innocently take a bad half-crown of somebody else's manufacture, is reasonable enough; but that I should knowingly reckon the spurious coin of my own make, as good money!
-- Charles Dickens -
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There is no man who hates the power of the crown more, or who has a worse opinion of the Person to whom it belongs than I.
-- Charles James FoxSource : "Charles James Fox" by L. G. Mitchell, London: Penguin, (p. 41), 1997.
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There are no crown-wearers in heaven who were not cross-bearers here below.
-- Charles Spurgeon -
Were all on a golden journey-every one of us. A journey inspired by golden dreams, and at the end awaits a golden crown of righteousness....please remember that every step is to be cherished. Every single one...
-- Chris Heimerdinger -
There are decades in the making of the one man of renown; Multitudes that go unnoticed who must wreathe for him a crown.
-- Christopher Paolini -
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If old age means a crown of thorns, the trick is to wear it jauntily.
-- Clare Boothe Luce -
Although the threads of my life have often seemed knotted, I know, by faith, that on the other side of the embroidery there is a crown..
-- Corrie Ten Boom -
When the leaves turn brown, I'll be wearing the batting crown
-- Dave Parker -
The crown could go to a person with the most talent. But how could ‘most talent’ be determined? So Indian society settled on age.
-- Devdutt Pattanaik -
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All my laurels you have riven away, and my roses; yet in spite of you, there is one crown I bear away with me... One thing without stain, unspotted from the world, in spite of doom mine own! And that is... my white plume.
-- Edmond Rostand -
Many a crown Covers bald foreheads.
-- Elizabeth Barrett Browning -
To be a king and wear a crown is a thing more glorious to them that see it than it is pleasant to them that bear it.
-- Elizabeth I -
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I would rather go to any extreme than suffer anything that is unworthy of my reputation, or of that of my crown.
-- Elizabeth I -
The muses crown virtue when fortune refuses to do it.
-- Elizabeth Montagu