Elizabeth Angela Marguerite Bowes-Lyon Quotes

I shall yet live to see it an English nation.

I'm English and love England. Whenever I'm there, I'm always seeing the present but feeling its past.

You can take the boy out of England, but you can't take England out of the boy. And ummm, yes, I feel a huge emotional attachment to England.

Stone of Destiny: This Stone belongs to Scotland. It was Stolen by Edward I in 1296. The Church of England should be ashamed that they allowed this piece of stolen property to remain in Westminster Abbey …. It must be returned to the Scottish Parliament which was never closed but only adjourned in 1707.

We are all proud to be British. But we also feel more local and regional allegiances.

Sting and I need to think what our relationship is to England in the long term.

India shaped my mind, anchored my identity, influenced my beliefs, and made me who I am. ... India matters to me and I would like to matter to India.

Japan is not a Western democracy. The Japanese have kept their traditions, culture and heritage, but they have joined the community of free nations.

I don't have a deep link with England like, say, Jonathan Coe or Hanif Kureishi might demonstrate. For me, it is like a mythical place.

It's my country but I don't want to know about France - I was born there but I feel English.

I love New York, and I love being here, but I think I'll always be Australian at heart.

I've got nothing against America, but I went over there a couple of times and didn't really like it. I mean, not that I like England that much, but it's somewhere to live.

The homeland affects you directly: it affects your body; it affects the collective mind and the collective heart and the collective spirit.

I feel no bond with South Africa, which is curious, since South Africa is where I was born.

I don't know whether it is fortunate or unfortunate, but I have no such thing as national pride. I don't feel proud that I am Iranian. I happen to be who I am.

I cannot live anywhere else except India.

I come more to Scotland than I ever used to, so I feel more connected to it, more part of the zeitgeist. You know when you realize you have a choice and I'm choosing my homeland. It's funny: when you get older these things creep up to you.

Although I was always very happy in Britain, I never stopped thinking of America as home, in the fundamental sense of the term. It was where I came from, what I really understood, the base against which all else was measured.

I'm as Scottish as they come.

In a funny way, nothing makes you feel more like a native of your own country than to live where nearly everyone is not.

It seems to me psychologically I'm a Canadian.

Each person makes their own choice, but my spirit is meant to stay in Iran, especially with the work that I do, and with the emotional connection I have with the country - with all its difficulties, this is why I stay.

I'm not a monarchist. But I'm English. And I have an irrational emotion for my country.

I know my own heart to be entirely English.

I've never stopped being Argentine, and I've never wanted to. I feel very proud of being Argentine, even though I left there. I've been clear about this since I was very young, and I never wanted to change.