Princess Diana Quotes

I want to walk into a room, be it a hospital for the dying or a hospital for the sick children, and feel that I am needed. I want to do, not just to be.

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• We need more children raised in the optimum situation, which is between a mom and a dad bonded together for life.

  

  Sam Brownback
  • Life
  • Children
  • Together

• Do our children now have to choose between getting an education and dying? Some of us cannot move on and accept that kind of society.

  

  Obiageli Ezekwesili
  • Children
  • Society
  • Education

• My biggest nightmare is I'm driving home and get sick and go to hospital. I say: 'Please help me.' And the people say: 'Hey, you look like...' And I'm dying while they're wondering whether I'm Barbra Streisand.

  

  Barbra Streisand
  • People
  • Home
  • Help

• Children are educated by what the grown-up is and not by his talk.

  

  Carl Jung
  • Up
  • Children
  • Talk

• The problem with most children's hospitals is that they are passive. They are high quality. They are filled with the best doctors. But their function is to wait until kids get sick and get referred in.

  

  Irwin Redlener
  • Children
  • Kids
  • High

• If even dying is to be made a social function, then, grant me the favor of sneaking out on tiptoe without disturbing the party.

  

  Dag Hammarskjold
  • Me
  • Party
  • Dying

• A mother deserves a day off to care for a sick child or sick parent without running into hardship - and you know what, a father does, too. It's time to do away with workplace policies that belong in a 'Mad Men' episode.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Time
  • Men
  • Mother

• Islam is a religion of success. Unlike Christianity, which has as its main image, in the west at least, a man dying in a devastating, disgraceful, helpless death.

  

  Karen Armstrong
  • Death
  • Success
  • Man

• Fairytales were never really meant for children; they were meant as cautionary tales for teenagers on the verge of growing up.

  

  Kate Forsyth
  • Up
  • Children
  • Growing

• I like children - fried.

  

  W. C. Fields
  • Children
  • Funny
  • Like

• My children have been learning lessons about entrepreneurship since they were in kindergarten, and these lessons are paying off: even though they are only 22, 18, and 15, they have already collectively launched three nonprofit organizations and several new businesses.

  

  Naveen Jain
  • Children
  • Learning
  • Three

• I don't know how to not have fun. I'm dying and I'm having fun, and I'm going to keep having fun every day I've got left.

  

  Randy Pausch
  • Fun
  • Day
  • Dying

• In India, innocent and poor children are victims of child labor.

  

  Malala Yousafzai
  • Children
  • Child
  • Innocent

• No one plans to get sick or hurt - I certainly didn't - but most people will need medical care at some point in their lives.

  

  Magic Johnson
  • People
  • Hurt
  • Sick

• It's true what people say - that actors are the closest thing there is to children. They play.

  Nastassja Kinski
  • People
  • Children
  • True

• Having my animals or my children with me exorcises that feeling of not being wanted.

  

  Eartha Kitt
  • Children
  • Feeling
  • Wanted

• Many Christians do not believe God sends tornadoes. But they do believe that God walks with His children through the storms, that He sends His people to help after the storms, and that with and through God, there is always hope.

  

  Adam Hamilton
  • People
  • God
  • Believe

• Medieval alchemists, despite their lust for gold, considered mercury the most potent and poetic substance in the universe. As a child, I would have agreed with them.

  

  Sam Kean
  • Universe
  • Child
  • Gold

• I have nine children. It breaks my heart to think that it might be their blood is needed to redeem something, to reclaim something that we, through our apathy and our indifference, have given away.

  

  Matt Bevin
  • Children
  • Heart

• I wouldn't call my work Modernist. I would rust if I try to think about labels. I'd feel like the Tin Man in 'The Wizard of Oz.'

  

  Ali Smith
  • Work

• As a little girl in the '50s, I couldn't wear a purple-and-white flowered skirt with a red blouse - those colors were too loud. My parents were not into that 'We are Negros that wear all beige,' but there was a line you could walk over that could signal vulgar, crass, rather than clever use of color. And that outfit crossed over the line.

  

  Margo Jefferson
  • Parents
  • Girl
  • Color

• I've come up against a few challenges. I've just taken them on with a really pure energy. I'm not out to change people's minds. I'm out to maybe educate and inspire.

  

  Meredith Brooks
  • People
  • Taken
  • Challenges

• I want to walk into a room, be it a hospital for the dying or a hospital for the sick children, and feel that I am needed. I want to do, not just to be.

  

  Princess Diana
  • Children
  • Sick
  • Dying