Queens County

Queens County or Queen's County is the name of:

  • Queens County, New Brunswick, Canada
  • Queens County, Nova Scotia, Canada
  • Queens County, Prince Edward Island, Canada
    • former Queen's County (electoral district)
  • Queen's County, Ireland, former name of County Laois
  • Queens County, New York, United States of America, the county coterminous with the borough of Queens in New York City

Famous quotes containing the words queens and/or county:

    ““Your strength, that is so lofty and fierce and kind,
    It might call up a new age, calling to mind
    The queens that were imagined long ago,
    Is but half yours....””
    —William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)

    “Anti-Nebraska, Know-Nothings, and general disgust with the powers that be, have carried this county [Hamilton County, Ohio] by between seven and eight thousand majority! How people do hate Catholics, and what a happiness it was to show it in what seemed a lawful and patriotic manner.”
    —Rutherford Birchard Hayes (1822–1893)