My crown is called content, a crown that seldom kings enjoy.
And if I have my choice between a pennant and a triple crown, I'll take the pennant every time.
I don't think of the crown as this glamorous thing. It's this murderous, bejeweled thing, the crown.
I won the crown for what I am - I'm certainly not going to let go of that!
I felt privileged to be a facet of such a jewel in the crown of American cinema.
The glories of our blood and state, Are shadows, not substantial things; There is no armour against fate, Death lays his icy hand on kings. Scepter and crown must tumble down, And, in the dust, be equal made With the poor crooked scythe and spade.
I spent a lot of time with a crown on my head.
I was a queen, and you took away my crown; a wife, and you killed my husband; a mother, and you deprived me of my children. My blood alone remains: take it, but do not make me suffer long.
To take revenge halfheartedly is to court disaster; either condemn or crown your hatred.
I envy those old Greek bathers, into whose hands were delivered Pericles, and Alcibiades, and the perfect models of Phidias. They had daily before their eyes the highest types of Beauty which the world has ever produced; for of all things that are beautiful, the human body is the crown.
No cross no crown.
God has given such brave soldiers to this Crown that, if they do not frighten our neighbours, at least they prevent us from being frightened by them.
The crown is not my right, and pleaseth me not. The Lady Mary is the rightful heir.
Luther was guilty of two great crimes - he struck the Pope in his crown, and the monks in their belly.
Integrity of life is fame's best friend, which nobly, beyond death, shall crown in the end.
Give me my robe, put on my crown; I have Immortal longings in me.
The Saints are the elect children of the spouse of Christ, the precious fruit of her body; they are her crown of glory. And when these dear children quit her to reap their eternal reward, the mother retains precious memorials of them and holds up their example to her other children to encourage them to follow their glorious traces.
The skyscraper style first advocated by Louis Sullivan - a tower of strongly vertical character with clear definitions among base, shaft, and crown - has remained remarkably consistent throughout the history of this building type.
At the concert I'm going to crown the best looking man, Mr. Tampa. Bald men definitely have an edge.
Everybody is talking about the Triple Crown, but I want to win the Open. That is my aim.
Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown.
With this announcement today, the Army has made it clear what we have known all along - that Fort Riley is truly the crown jewel of the United States Army.
Public life is regarded as the crown of a career, and to young men it is the worthiest ambition. Politics is still the greatest and the most honorable adventure.
The crown of literature is poetry.
Being champion is all well and good, but you can't eat a crown.
That perfect bliss and sole felicity, the sweet fruition of an earthly crown.
New York is the opposite of East Germany, the crown of individuality. That's why I can work well here and find out what I personally think of the pieces I'm learning. I can lay aside all the baggage of German education. In any case, whatever I do, I can't lose it altogether.
The person who knows one thing and does it better than anyone else, even if it only be the art of raising lentils, receives the crown he merits. If he raises all his energy to that end, he is a benefactor of mankind and its rewarded as such.
I say this all the time, but my hijab, it really is my crown, and it's something that I bring to the table. It's something that makes me unique. It shows the world who I truly am.
A sorrow's crown of sorrow is remembering happier times.
Thus again the Netherlands, for the first time since the fall of Rome, were united under one crown imperial. They had already been once united, in their slavery to Rome.
By common consent gray hairs are a crown of glory; the only object of respect that can never excite envy.
But I must think that an address to his majesty to remove one of his servants, without so much as alleging any particular crime against him, is one of the greatest encroachments that was ever made upon the prerogatives of the crown.
I am a subject of the British Crown, but whenever I have to choose between the interests of England and Canada it is manifest to me that the interests of my country are identical with those of the United States of America.
And in terms of their crown jewel legislative achievement: who knew that when asked, 'will government impose a new federal mandate requiring middle class Americans to buy health insurance whether they can afford it or not?' The answer would be 'Yes we can!'
To gain a crown by fighting is great, to reject it divine.
