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)

    “It would astonish if not amuse, the older citizens of your County who twelve years ago knew me a stranger, friendless, uneducated, penniless boy, working on a flat boat—at ten dollars per month to learn that I have been put down here as the candidate of pride, wealth, and aristocratic family distinction.”
    —Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865)