Commonwealth Nations Quotes

If nationalism were the world's ruling passion, could the British Commonwealth, with its manifold variety of peoples, have been held together?

I spent my first 10 years in the Commonwealth. I come from cricket, crumpets, cucumber sandwiches, the Queen.

Try and understand: cricket was played by Commonwealth countries only; now it has started in other countries as well, and I am proud of that.

I think there was, and there is, a real Commonwealth culture. It's different. America doesn't really feel to be a part of that.

I'm going to do the Commonwealth Games for no other reason than national pride. It's something special getting to ride for the Isle of Man.

[ Elizabeth II] has immersed herself, in the sense [that] she can speak intelligently about any and all members of the Commonwealth and she has played a role.

The Commonwealth Prize is about celebrating the Commonwealth and the special relationship we have with the ex-colonies - which is part guilt and part warmth - and the Booker Prize isn't an essential part of that, but it is part of that.

When I was a child in the 1940s and early 1950s, my parents and grandparents spoke of Britain as home, and New Zealand had this strong sense of identity and coherence as being part of the commonwealth and a the identity of its people as being British.

Cambridge was the place for someone from the Colonies or the Dominions to go on to, and it was to the Cavendish Laboratory that one went to do physics.

One of our targets as a country is to now work very closely with the Commonwealth countries - they could become a very big market for us.