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A child is a beam of sunlight from the Infinite and Eternal, with possibilities of virtue and vice- but as yet unstained. (Princess Diana )
As much as I converse with sages and heroes, they have very little of my love and admiration. I long for rural and domestic scene, for the warbling of birds and the prattling of my children (Princess Diana )
Of all the needs (there are none imaginary) a lonely child has, the one that must be satisfied, if there is going to be hope and a hope of wholeness, is the unshaken need for an unshakable God. (Princess Diana )
The countenances of children, like those of animals, are masks, not faces, for they have not yet developed a significant profile of their own. (Princess Diana )
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There is a sanctity involved with bringing a child into this world: it is better than bombing one out of it. (Princess Diana )
Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them. (Princess Diana )
You see much more of your children once they leave home. (Princess Diana )
There is no sinner like a young saint. (Princess Diana )
It is amazing how quickly the kids learn to drive a car, yet are unable to understand the lawnmower, snow-blower, or vacuum cleaner. (Princess Diana )
Never lend your car to anyone to whom you have given birth. (Princess Diana )
It goes without saying that you should never have more children than you have car windows. (Princess Diana )
Many children, many cares; no children, no felicity. (Princess Diana )
Children are curious and are risk takers. They have lots of courage. They venture out into a world that is immense and dangerous. A child initially trusts life and the processes of life. (Princess Diana )
The only moral lesson which is suited for a child, the most important lesson for every time of life, is this: Never hurt anybody. (Princess Diana )
Children enjoy the present because they have neither a past nor a future. (Princess Diana )
What is a neglected child? He is a child not planned for, not wanted. Neglect begins, therefore, before he is born. (Princess Diana )
If we had paid no more attention to our plants than we have to our children, we would now be living in a jungle of weed. (Princess Diana )
The first duty to children is to make them happy, If you have not made them so, you have wronged them, No other good they may get can make up for that. (Princess Diana )
Adults find pleasure in deceiving a child. They consider it necessary, but they also enjoy it. The children very quickly figure it out and then practice deception themselves. (Princess Diana )
Young people should be helped, sheltered, ignored, and clubbed of necessary. (Princess Diana )
There are few successful adults who were not first successful children. (Princess Diana )
There is no finer investment for any community than putting milk into babies. (Princess Diana )
To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a child. (Princess Diana )
Children have more need of models than of critics. (Princess Diana )
It is not a bad thing that children should occasionally, and politely, put parents in their place. (Princess Diana )
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