Never had Parliament or the crown, or both together, operated in actuality as theory indicated sovereign powers should.
Christianity has always insisted that the cross we bear always precedes the crown we wear.
O Winter! ruler of the inverted year,. . . I crown thee king of intimate delights, Fireside enjoyments, home-born happiness, And all the comforts that the lowly roof Of undisturbed Retirement, and the hours Of long uninterrupted evening, know.
Robert was never the same after he put on that crown. Some men are like swords, made for fighting. Hang them up and they go to rust.
This crown to crown the laughing man, this rose-wreath crown: I myself have set this crown upon my head, I myself have pronounced my laughter holy.
He neither serves nor rules, he transmits. His position is humble and the beauty at the crown is not his own. He is merely a channel.
When you were made a leader you weren't given a crown, you were given the responsibility to bring out the best in others.
This perception that the only people that come to Crown are helpless victims and we are just sitting there preying on them, you know, I reject that absolutely and that does upset me. And I think that that is, you know, that is a spin line from the latte set, which is completely wrong.
Raw hatred took its time making an outpost of its rage and prepared for me a savage crown with rusty, bloodstained spikes. It wasn't pride that made me keep my heart at a distance from such terror, nor did I waste on revenge or the pursuit of power the forces that came from my selfish griefs or my accumulated joys. It was something else-my helplessness.
Youth wrenches the sceptre from old age, and sets the crown on its own head before it is entitled to it.
The foundations of our Empire are now based more firmly than ever! The birth of a Crown Prince shows that the prosperity of the Imperial Household is increasing many times.
Both religion and natural science require a belief in God for their activities, to the former He is the starting point, and to the latter the goal of every thought process. To the former He is the foundation, to the latter, the crown of the edifice of every generalized world view.
Most historians accept that Egypt was a cradle of civilization, and that many cultural idioms and traditions come from there. What has yet to be understood, however, is the manner in which Egypt inherited its cultural elements from the lands of the North-West. This fact is not known today because of the threat it poses to Rome and London, the Vatican and Crown, and to all those who have profited from the suppression of knowledge.
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.
Our motto must continue to be perseverance. And ultimately I trust the Almighty will crown our efforts with success.
. . . and she had worn bitterness as though it were a crown.
From the crown of my head to the soles of my feet I am Bolshevik, and proud of it.
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.
Product procedure. . . must securely protect the crown jewels, but, equally important, it must eschew building high fences around the garbage cans.
And Archimedes, as he was washing, thought of a manner of computing the proportion of gold in King Hiero's crown by seeing the water flowing over the bathing-stool. He leaped up as one possessed or inspired, crying, "I have found it! Eureka!".