Top 50 Quotes About Coronation
#1. Mrs. Teasdale congratulates him on his coronation and sovereignty: "The eyes of the world are upon you. Notables from every country are gathered here in your honor. This is a gala day for you." Firefly replies: "Well, a gal a day is enough for me. I don't think I could handle any more."
Groucho Marx
#2. A king was the Lord's anointed, hallowed at his coronation with holy oil.
Alison Weir
#3. It was, according to the history books, the fastest coronation since Bubric the Saxon crowned himself with a very pointy crown on a hill during a thunderstorm, and reigned for one and a half seconds.
Terry Pratchett
#4. I'd definitely be up for 'EastEnders.' Just the same as I would if 'Coronation Street' was offered. Either way, it would be like going back to my roots.
Jack Wild
#5. Coronation: The ceremony of investing a sovereign with the outward and visible signs of his divine right to be blown skyhigh with a dynamite bomb.
Ambrose Bierce
#6. My dad doesn't watch 'Coronation Street.' But my mum is a massive fan. I'd like to think my dad will watch it for a few token episodes, as I'm in it.
Rob James-Collier
#7. In the order of literature, as in others, there is no act that is not the coronation of an infinite series of causes and the source of an infinite series of effects.
Jorge Luis Borges
#9. A tree is a nobler object than a prince in his coronation-robes.
Alexander Pope
#10. but whenever I thought about them I pictured them to myself either in tapestry, as was the 'Coronation of Esther' which hung in our church,
Marcel Proust
#11. Richard Nixon coveted, to the point of obsession, a controversy-free, stage-managed coronation.
David Pietrusza
#12. Therefore I am sure that this, my Coronation, is not the symbol of a power and a splendor that are gone but a declaration of our hopes for the future, and for the years I may, by God's Grace and Mercy, be given to reign and serve you as your Queen.
Queen Elizabeth II
#13. Pritkin put a heavy hand on my shoulder, which was just as well. It probably wouldn't have looked good to choke the head of the Silver Circle to death right before the coronation. Then again, my reputation was shot to hell anyway ...
Karen Chance
#14. It still hasn't sunk in that I'm going to be in Coronation Street. Everything about the role is brilliant and I'm working with some great people.
Richard Fleeshman
#15. Before 'Coronation Street,' I was a jobbing actor, and after it, I'm a jobbing actor again.
Rob James-Collier
#16. I used to anticipate my childhood birthday parties as if each were an annual coronation. Like most kids, I loved sitting at the head of the table with a crown on my head.
Letty Cottin Pogrebin
#17. It would be good to see what the Queen gets up to at Buckingham Palace. I bet she spends her whole time watching 'Coronation Street.'
Amelia Warner
#18. Think of that, ye loyal Britons! we whalemen supply your kings and queens with coronation stuff!
Herman Melville
#19. Humanity is fickle. They may dress for a morning coronation and never feel the need to change clothes for an execution in the afternoon. So Triumphal Sundays and Good Fridays always fit comfortably into the same April week.
Calvin Miller
#20. Between 1945 and 1965, the number of colonial people ruled by the British monarch plunged from 700 million to five million. In 1956, just three years after the coronation, the Suez canal crisis and Anthony Eden's humiliation ended all notions that Britain was a world superpower.
Kate Williams
#21. I opened my eyes really wide and fluttered my eyelashes at him. "I'm sorry, I must've missed your coronation ceremony. Silly me." from Clean Sweep
Ilona Andrews
#22. Always remember that the crowd that applauds your coronation is the same crowd that will applaud your beheading. People like a show.
Terry Pratchett
#23. Being in 'Coronation Street' is only going to make me a better actor.
Rob James-Collier
#24. When I appeared in 'Coronation Street,' I lived in Manchester and enjoyed it very much.
Ian McKellen
#26. I'd been a Bond girl and in Dracula films and 'Coronation Street,' but I was always hunting for work. After 'The New Avengers,' I never had to wait for work again.
Joanna Lumley
#27. coronation. "Exactly that. The Scrolls of the Ancient Kings tell of the Throne being crafted for the One Protector of Albion. Many kings and queens have sat upon it, I assure you, and there is no record of that "singing" business of last
Daisy Piper
#28. Death is said in the Bible to be a coronation for the Christian.
Billy Graham
#29. I'm not a showbiz person. I just enjoy talking nonsense on the radio. I'm not bothered about going to clubs or the paparazzi, I genuinely prefer my neighbours. Spending time with my family and watching Coronation Street are what I love best. People are just people, aren't they?
Tony Blackburn
#30. Only what coronation is in an earthly way, baptism is in a heavenly way; God's authoritative declaration in material form of a spiritual reality.
Frederick William Robertson
#31. A Christian funeral should be a coronation ceremony, a statement to the world about eternal life.
Billy Graham
#32. Do not wait for a coronation; the greatest emperors crown themselves.
Robert Greene
#33. If I was a star, it would be difficult to go off and do 'Coronation Street.' So I guess I'm not a star.
Ian McKellen
#34. You know, I was a kid when I went into 'Coronation Street' and I had an amazing time. I got some fantastic opportunities from Corrie and from 'Soapstar' and I'd never say they did anything other than help me.
Richard Fleeshman
#35. Major success feels a bit like a coronation. Like I'd become a king. I was one of the most famous people in the world, loved and hated in equal measure. I couldn't see anything bad with it. It made me a happy person.
Larry Hagman
#36. Look," I said, trying to reason with him despite extensive experience that this rarely worked. "This isn't a great time. I have my inauguration - "
"Coronation."
" - coming up,
Karen Chance
#37. I think life without Coronation Street would be unthinkable. It's part of all our lives.
Michael Parkinson
#38. I worked in a paper factory the week after I left school. I had loads of paper cuts all over my hands and the pay was dreadful. On my third day I was like, 'Can I leave early? I've got an audition for Coronation Street.' They said yes and I never went back.
Suzanne Shaw
#39. I've never been out with any of the cast of Coronation Street. We're all very close friends so it's very much a professional attitude.
Richard Fleeshman
#40. Our lives are quite boring. I spend a lot of time watching Coronation Street and Eastenders.
Rio Ferdinand
#42. You will show that thing to me and from now on, I will deal with them."
I opened my eyes really wide and fluttered my eyelashes at him. "I'm sorry, I must've missed your coronation ceremony. Silly me.
Ilona Andrews
#43. I have long been one of those tedious people who rails against the coronation of 'student-athletes.' I have heard the argument that big-time athletics bring in loads of money to universities. I don't believe the money goes anywhere other than back into the sports teams, but that's another story.
Susan Orlean
#44. I liked 'Z Cars' - just hearing the music got me going! 'Coronation Street' was massive in our house. My mum used to say Ena Sharples reminded her of Gran, which she wouldn't have been happy to hear!
Colin Salmon
#45. 'Coronation Street' was my first job, Zoe was a controversial character, and I wasn't used to everyone looking at me.
Joanne Froggatt
#46. The Crown. Place it upon your head and you assume a different post-tranquil yet radiating assurance. Never show doubt, never lose your dignity beneath the crown, or it will not fit. It will seem to be destined for one more worthy. Do not wait for a coronation; the greatest emporers crown themselves.
Robert Greene
#47. I've got a bike in the lounge that I watch Coronation Street on. I never had to watch my weight until I had the children, but with the bike, I'm fine.
Cilla Black
#48. He took off his hat and shook it (having hurried home as though his own coronation were waiting), and moved now with the slow deliberation of lonely people who have time for every meager requirement of their lives.
William Gaddis
#49. I suppose the nearest equivalent to a bar mitzvah in terms of emotional build-up would probably not even be one's wedding day, but one's coronation.
Maureen Lipman
#50. Then Frodo came forward and took the crown from Faramir and bore it to Gandalf; and Aragorn knelt, and Gandalf set the White Crown upon his head and said:
Now come the days of the King, and may they be blessed while the thrones of the Valar endure!
J.R.R. Tolkien
