Anne Boleyn Quotations

O Lord have mercy on me, to God I commend my soul.

Good Christian people, I am come hither to die, for according to the law, and by the law I am judged to die, and therefore I will speak nothing against it. I am come hither to accuse no man, nor to speak anything of that, whereof I am accused and condemned to die.

To Jesus Christ I commend my soul; Lord Jesus, receive my soul.

And thus I take my leave of the world and of you all, and I heartily desire you all to pray for me.

O Death, rock me asleep, bring me to quiet rest, let pass my weary guiltless ghost out of my careful breast.

Remember me when you do pray that hope doth lead from day to day.

If it ever lay in my power, I will work the Cardinal as much displeasure as he has done to me.

I didn't care whether or not it was acceptable to mainstream society to be in a rock band. This is what I wanted to do.

In my small town, nothing really good happened too often and I thought, 'What am I doing here? I'm wasting my life.'

I was a pretty lousy bass player. But the band I was in couldn't find a bass player in our small town and it was more important to have a bass than keyboards, so that's what I did.

Going out on the road as a 14- or 15-year old and playing clubs with 20-year old guys was just not acceptable.

If any person should meddle with my cause, I require them to judge the best'.

I had a radio show at the local college and I got kicked off the air and banished forever for playing music from the Rocky Horror Picture Show, Alice Cooper, and David Bowie because (quote-unquote) "They were gay." So, things have changed quite a bit.

From a private gentlewoman you have made me first a marchioness, then a queen; and, as you can raise me no higher in the world, you are now sending me to be a saint in Heaven.

My parents were very old school, as were my grandparents who went through the Great Depression and were a big influence on my life. So for them it was very important for me to have a college education and to pursue a normal job that would give me benefits and things like that. So they were very, very much opposed to me being a musician. They were all pretty horrified.

I took piano lessons when I was real little. And you know... I hated it. But by the time I was in junior high, I had some kind of knowledge of the keyboards. In my very early years I played keyboards and bass.

The king has been very good to me. He promoted me from a simple maid to be a marchioness. Then he raised me to be a queen. Now he will raise me to be a martyr.

The executioner is, I believe, very expert; and my neck is very slender