Queen Elizabeth High

Famous quotes containing the words queen, elizabeth and/or high:

    “The Queen has lands and gold, Mother
    The Queen has lands and gold,
    While you are forced to your empty breast
    A skeleton Babe to hold”
    —Amelia Edwards (1831–1892)

    “...we never worked for white people in their homes. No, sir, not even once! That is one of the accomplishments in my life of which I am the most proud, yes, sir!”
    —Annie Elizabeth Delany (b. 1891)

    “I had a thought for no one’s but your ears:
    That you were beautiful, and that I strove
    To love you in the old high way of love;
    That it had all seemed happy, and yet we’d grown
    As weary-hearted as that hollow moon.”
    —William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)