Mr. Clarke played the King all evening as though under constant fear that someone else was about to play the Ace. Field was referring to Creston Clarke's performance of King Lear in Denver in 1880.
Kings & Queens Quotes (1519 Quotes)
The children will not leave unless I do. I shall not leave unless their father does, and the King will not leave the country in any circumstances whatever.
I read for the part of Elizabeth, the virgin queen. I thought they said they were looking for a virgin from Queens. Whatever, the only virgin in my house is the olive oil.
Today, it is not only that our kings do not know mathematics, but our philosophers do not know mathematics and to go a step further our mathematicians do not know mathematics.
The United States has been ambiguous on the current situation in Nepal. They have not actually come out very strongly in terms of pushing the king to take measures on the detentions or abuses by the army. China continues to provide military equipment.
I'm elated for these guys, the way they came out and fought. Christ the King is one heck of a basketball program. They've got some great athletes out there.
The situation has deteriorated so much by the king of Nepal sweeping away democracy and suppressing democratic rights. And now that has become one of the most serious problems because the people of Nepal do not have democratic space to discuss and decide their future and to resolve the conflict peacefully.
A little madness in the Spring Is wholesome even for the King.
Columbia, Columbia, to glory arise, The queen of the world and child of the skies Thy genius commands thee with rapture behold, While ages on ages thy splendors unfold.
An earnest conjuration from the King,
As England was his faithful tributary,
As love between them like the palm might flourish,
As peace should still her wheaten garland wear
And stand a comma 'tween their amities,
And many such-like as's of great charge,
That, on the view and knowing of these contents,
Without debatement further, more or less,
He should the bearers put to sudden death,
Not shriving time allow'd.
I told them (the other drivers) I admired them and appreciated them because they're out racing these cars for people to see. These (cars) aren't hangar queens. They (the racers) are very selfless about sharing their love for these cars with everybody here. You could tell from the reception, with cars in the paddock area, that a lot of these fans here are excited to see these cars again.
This sleep is sound indeed; this is a sleep
That from this golden rigol hath divorc'd
So many English kings.
The people entitled to the Abode of Bliss are three the first, a just king, a doer of good to his people endowed with virtue the second, an affectionate man, of a tender heart to relations and others the third, a virtuous man.
We call on the king to release all political detainees and initiate a dialogue with the political parties. His continuing refusal to take these steps is leading his country further down the path of violence and disorder.
When 5150 came out rock was king. Post Nirvana and Pearl Jam 1996 is a different story.
The sparrow-hawk loves the rainwater, falling in torrents the king loves to see his wealth on display.
One's only rival is one's own potentialities. One's only failure is failing to live up to one's own possibilities. In this sense, every man can be a king, and must therefore be treated like a king.
I remember the day tDr. King died. I wasn't angry at the beginning. It was like something very personal in my life had been touched and finished.
I had a feeling, based on her cancellation of several events, that she wasn't doing well, ... I have been praying for Mrs. King every day and I urge Atlanta, Georgia, the nation and the world to pray for her.
He who slays a king and He who dies for him are alike idolaters.
Your heart's queen, you dethrone her?
Democracy is not one obsessed man using the power of kings to attack another country in our name. Democracy is not siding with Ariel Sharon, a war criminal, in order to crush Palestinians. Democracy is this great event today representing the majority of the people of Great Britain.
When the Burmese government tries to blame the victims for the crime, and say that (democracy activist) Aung San Suu Kyi and her party are responsible for their own repression, I can only reply that much the same was once said about Gandhi and Martin Luther King, Nelson Mandela and Vaclav Havel, ... The world is not fooled. And we must not be silent.
Boxing is the only sport where you can get robbed without a gun. My promoter, Don King, should do his job and get me a rematch.
I did not feel like we came out and played with the necessary intensity in the first half. The Kings scored on a pair of excellent plays. One guy scored from 40 yards out and another on a bicycle kick. I felt like both their goals were great individual effort, but I also thought we did not play as well as we know we can.
If you shoot at a king you must kill him.
I've been the queen of dysfunction and made every mistake one can make.
Separation from the wife, disgrace from one's own people, an enemy saved in battle, service to a wicked king, poverty, and a mismanaged assembly these six kinds of evils, if afflicting a person, burn him even without fire.
Into my heart's treasury I slipped a coin That Time cannot take Nor a thief purloin O better than the minting Of a gold-crowned king Is the safe-kept memory Of a lovely thing.
Dr. King will get more recognition as a fact of life in a federally dominated America. Yet Lee and Jackson deserve considerable recognition, significantly more than today, for future Virginians to follow their example as heroes.
ROUNDHEAD, n. A member of the Parliamentarian party in the English civil war --so called from his habit of wearing his hair short, whereas his enemy, the Cavalier, wore his long. There were other points of difference between them, but the fashion in hair was the fundamental cause of quarrel. The Cavaliers were royalists because the king, an indolent fellow, found it more convenient to let his hair grow than to wash his neck. This the Roundheads, who were mostly barbers and soap-boilers, deemed an injury to trade, and the royal neck was therefore the object of their particular indignation. Descendants of the belligerents now wear their hair all alike, but the fires of animosity enkindled in that ancient strife smoulder to this day beneath the snows of British civility.
I know I have the body of a weak and feeble woman, but I have the heart and stomach of a king, and of a king of England too.
I am the lizard king. I can do anything.
The King would speak with Cornwall; the dear father
Would with his daughter speak, commands her service.
With the birth of the Babe in Bethlehem, there emerged a great endowment, a power stronger than weapons, a wealth more lasting than the coins of Caesar. This child was to be the King of Kings and Lord of Lords, the promised Messiah even Jesus Christ, the Son of God.
If the King disregarded it, constitutional monarchy would cease to exist. The King is bound to accept and act upon the advice of his ministers ... for the King to broadcast in disregard of that advice would be appealing over the heads of his constitutional advisers.
When I went down to Carolina, probably the biggest shock was when I went to the movies, they had an entrance for colored and an entrance for white and they had water fountains for colored and water fountains for white. That was a little bit of a culture shock. . . . (King) did amazing things back then. Unless you were a white supremacist, everybody loved him. It was a difficult time losing him. . . . Fortunately, things kept getting better (because of King's influence).
Strong reasons make strong actions let us go If you say ay, the king will not say no.
A king should die on his feet.
At the moment the Queen stuff does sell really well, but there's no guarantee it'll go on forever.
Life is not always like chess. Just because you have the king surrounded, don't think he is not capable of hurting you.
Who asks a king for a penny.
Given that her mother lived to 101, the Queen is clearly in for the long haul. Therefore the Prince of Wales must simply wait. We can only wish his mother all health and happiness and get used to the fact that British heads of state will, in future, be very senior citizens.
It's going to be a rough, grueling match again. But he's the king and I know that, you know. I got to take my opportunity if it's there . . . I've loved watching him grow up and play the game. Hopefully, this won't be his last run here, but I wouldn't mind to be the one to take him out from the Open.
I grew up in Queens and New Jersey. I started doing children's theater when I was seven to get out of school because I didn't fit in.
'No, no' said the Queen. 'Sentence firstverdict afterwards.'
I am like the Jack Nicholson of the Kings - every single game. If there was a game tonight I wouldn't be here. I used to play hockey. That was my original thing. My first thing, I wanted to play professional hockey.
The Glenn Miller event, that's the biggest one. When they come here, parking is a problem and some people park as far as Christ the King Church.
In a blind town, the one-eyed man is king.
With pen and paper, I have written clever things. I have seen what it is to be a chief, a king, and an emperor, but they do not satisfy the mind.