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You know children are growing up when they start asking questions that have answers. (Princess Diana )
The wildest colts make the best horses. (Princess Diana )
If you have a great passion it seems that the logical thing is to see the fruit of it, and the fruit are children. (Princess Diana )
Children are living jewels dropped unsustained from heaven. (Princess Diana )
There is not so much comfort in having children as there is sorrow in parting with them. (Princess Diana )
Children and drunks always speak the truth. (Princess Diana )
A rich child often sits in a poor mothers lap. (Princess Diana )
Do not confine your children to your own learning, for they were born in another time. (Princess Diana )
Children suck the mother when they are young and the father when they are old. (Princess Diana )
Better a snotty child than his nose wiped off. (Princess Diana )
My children cause me the most exquisite suffering of which I have any experience. It is the suffering of ambivalence: the murderous alternation between bitter resentment and raw-edged nerves, and blissful gratification and tenderness. Sometimes I seem to myself, in my feelings toward these tiny guiltless beings, a monster of selfishness and intolerance. (Princess Diana )
For unflagging interest and enjoyment, a household of children, if things go reasonably well, certainly all other forms of success and achievement lose their importance by comparison. (Princess Diana )
Childhood is the sleep of reason. (Princess Diana )
The training of children is a profession, where we must know how to waste time in order to save it (Princess Diana )
The distinctive character of a child is to always live in the tangible present. (Princess Diana )
In great countries, children are always trying to remain children, and the parents want to make them into adults. In vile countries, the children are always wanting to be adults and the parents want to keep them children. (Princess Diana )
Children see in their parents the past, their parents see in them the future; and if we find more love in the parents for their children than in children for their parents, this is sad but natural. Who does not entertain his hopes more than his recollections. (Princess Diana )
Let your children be as so many flowers, borrowed from God. If the flowers die or wither, thank God for a summer loan of them. (Princess Diana )
Children are given to us to discourage our better emotions. (Princess Diana )
Children wish fathers looked but with their eyes; fathers that children with their judgment looked; and either may be wrong. (Princess Diana )
In all our efforts to provide advantages we have actually produced the busiest, most competitive, highly pressured, and over-organized generation of youngsters in our history. (Princess Diana )
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