William Shawcross Quotes

One morning every spring, for exactly two minutes, Israel comes to a stop. Pedestrians stand in place, drivers pull over to the side of the road, and nobody speaks, sings, eats, or drinks as the nation pays respect to the victims of the Nazi genocide. From the Mediterranean to the Dead Sea, the only sounds one hears are sirens.

I think it's very important to allow people into Ted Kennedy. Thousands of people lined the streets the day of his funeral.

I don't know whether there is anyone else at all who remembers my noble father with such sadness.

We all wore a 21 patch that one season as a silent tribute to our deceased teammate Roberto.

When I got through, Duke Ellington stood up and started the applause.

No greater nor more affectionate honor can be conferred on an American than to have a public school named after him.

Eulogy. Praise of a person who has either the advantages of wealth and power, or the consideration to be dead.

I hope that tomorrow we can all, wherever we are, join in expressing our grief at Diana's loss, and gratitude for her all-too-short life. It is a chance to show to the whole world the British nation united in grief and respect.

Our dad was a great guy and we will never forget him.

Every actor in the room honored Sidney for being there so many years before. And everybody was so moved to be at a place where history was being made again. It was tangible.

I respect the British a lot - their history, their past, their culture. I think it's beautiful, what they have with the monarchy.

I'd love to have tea and scones with the Queen; she's my idol.

I was quite moved to see this huge crowd which attended the ceremony in the middle of the town.

I want to say unequivocally the Queen is magnificent. She is the enduring force, she is the glue that makes everyone feel good. She is beloved. I would rue the day when she may not be here.

Kennedy had been assassinated a month or so before. So we walked to the grave of John Kennedy and ended our walking symbolically at the Arlington National Cemetery.

I'd like to be Queen Elizabeth.

I'm delighted. I don't know of anybody who had a statue built of them while they were living. It's a great feeling.

I like all the families in the U.K. But what I like about the idea of the royal family is... they seem like they're well educated and there's something admirable about them. And the Queen... she reminds me of my grandma.

[Addressing Robert Peel, 1788-1850:] The Right Honorable Gentleman's smile is like the silver fittings on a coffin.

Those only deserve a monument who do not need one.

Permit me also to express my great admiration of the thoughts expressed by you, with such eloquent simplicity & appropriateness, at the consecration of the cemetery. I should be glad, if I could flatter myself that I came as near to the central idea of the occasion, in two hours, as you did in two minutes.

Hats off, gentlemen — if he were still alive we should not be here.

In the first years of the Queen's reign, the level of adulation - you wouldn't believe it. You really wouldn't.

How important it is for us to recognize and celebrate our heroes and she-roes!

I love the Royal Family. The Queen, she's fabulous.