My husband has quite simply been my strength and stay all these years, and I owe him a debt greater than he would ever claim.
Queen Elizabeth IiRead
Madam President, speaking here in Dublin Castle it is impossible to ignore the weight of history, as it was yesterday when you and I laid wreaths at the Garden of Remembrance.
Interpretation
The quote reflects on the significance of remembering the past while acknowledging the present.
Queen Elizabeth II's quote emphasizes the importance of recognizing historical moments and their impact on current events. Speaking from Dublin Castle, she highlights the solemnity of the occasion where she laid wreaths at the Garden of Remembrance, symbolizing the collective memory and respect for those who came before us, thus bridging the past with the present.
In practice
In a speech on Memorial Day, one could use this quote to honor fallen soldiers and reflect on their sacrifices.
My husband has quite simply been my strength and stay all these years, and I owe him a debt greater than he would ever claim.
In remembering the appalling suffering of war on both sides, we recognise how precious is the peace we have built in Europe since 1945.
I declare before you all that my whole life, whether it be long or short, shall be devoted to your service and the service of our great imperial family to which we all belong.
We lost the American colonies because we lacked the statesmanship to know the right time and the manner of yielding what is impossible to keep.
The world is not the most pleasant place. Eventually, your parents leave you and nobody is going to go out of their way to protect you unconditionally. You need to learn to stand up for yourself and what you believe and sometimes, pardon my language, kick some ass.
At Christmas, I am always struck by how the spirit of togetherness lies also at the heart of the Christmas story. A young mother and a dutiful father with their baby were joined by poor shepherds and visitors from afar. They came with their gifts to worship the Christ child.
I deliberately did not read anything about the Vietnam War because I felt the politics of the war eclipsed what happened to the veterans. The politics were irrelevant to what this memorial was.
I wasn't trying to work out my own ancestry. I was trying to get people to feel slavery. I was trying to get across the kind of emotional and psychological stones that slavery threw at people.
The historian does simply not come in to replenish the gaps of memory. He constantly challenges even those memories that have survived intact.
One day the great European War will come out of some damned foolish thing in the Balkans (1888).
I was probably unusually close to my parents, so I do what I can now to preserve the integrity of their memory. The Holocaust deserves to be remembered.
Can any one be so indifferent or idle as not to care to know by what means, and under what kind of polity, almost the whole inhabited world was conquered and_x000D_ brought under the dominion of the single city of Rome, and that too within a period of not quite fifty-three years?
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