Grace Kelly Quotes

She is incredibly fit, but we remind staff that she's not just the monarch, but our mother.

I volunteer a lot of my time with an organization in New York called The Center for Children and Families.

As a mom, that's at the forefront of everything in my mind, so I'm always trying to balance, whether it's bringing Violet to work or, the second I am done working, getting home to her.

It is not always a treat to grow up as the heir to a world-famous leader.

I've spent 30 years, actually maybe a little more, working to help kids and families. And I want to take all that experience to the White House and do that every single day.

To have a child is the greatest honor and responsibility that can be bestowed upon any living being. - Arya

I just focus on my work with inner-city kids, and in my community, and on my philanthropic work.

I'm not trying to be philosophical, but I really think it's my job to help children. And I don't care if people laugh.

Far away, where the swallows take refuge in winter, lived a king who had eleven sons and one daughter, Elise. The eleven brothers--they were all princes--used to go to school with stars on their breasts and swords at their sides. They wrote upon golden slates with diamond pencils, and could read just as well without a book as with one, so there was no mistake about their being princes. Their sister Elise sat upon a little footstool of looking-glass, and she has a picture-book which had cost the half of a kingdom. Oh, these children were very happy; but it was not to last thus forever.

I set about fifty-five years ago (1927) to see what a penniless, unknown human individual with a dependent wife and newborn child might be able to do effectively on behalf of all humanity

Freedom does not mean doing what you can get away with, doing what you please. It means, instead, having the opportunity to do what you ought to do--for family, and for community, and for humanity as a whole.

When I'm not governing my country any more, I'll go back to taking care of children.

My advice to any diplomat who wants to have good press is to have two or three kids and a dog.

The advantage of riches remains with him who procured them, not with the heir.

For us lads of eighteen they ought to have been mediators and guides to the world of maturity, the world of work, of duty, of culture, of progress -- to the future.

This time I particularly loved because it came from a real experience with my grandchildren. Having them alone alone for the first time for six or seven days and going "Wow, this is exhausting," because when you're not around little ones for a long time, you forget about how much work that is. So I came in and started writing the story that became this movie ['PARENTAL GUIDANCE'].

My children needed me, and I like my job as a social worker.

I think my favourite thing is understanding the responsibility of raising two human beings and putting them into the world.

No matter how hard you try to be present at home, you're always doing the things that you have to do.

The rearing of children is considered too important to be left to the individual and should be the responsibility of the state.

Being at home is a job in itself and raising a family for sure.

What it means to be human is to bring up your children in safety, educate them, keep them healthy, teach them how to care for themselves and others, allow them to develop in their own way among adults who are sane and responsibile, who know the value of the world and not its economic potential. It means art, it means time, it means all the invisibles never counted by the GDP and the census figures. It means knowing that life has an inside as well as an outside. And I think it means love.

My father had a small Estate in Nottinghamshire; I was the Third of five Sons.

I try so hard to be the best mom that I can be and usually I'm always thinking about how to better my son's life.

Prince Charles's concern for the underprivileged and disadvantaged has not exactly endeared him to the Conservative Central Office. As Norman Tebbit replied, it is not surprising that the Prince is so sympathetic towards the unemployed: he is by way of being one of them himself.