Top 57 Prince Charles Quotes
#1. You have to give this much to the Luftwaffe: when it knocked down our buildings it did not replace them with anything more offensive than rubble. We did that.
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#3. I learned the way a monkey learns - by watching its parents.
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#4. Any difficulties which the world faces today will be as nothing compared to the full effects which global warming will have on the world-wide economy.
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#5. To get the best results you must talk to your vegetables.
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#6. I was totally absorbed. I was in another world, or another dimension; all sense of time evaporated.
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#7. It is baffling, I must say, that in our modern world we have such blind trust in science and technology that we all accept what science tells us about everything - until, that is, it comes to climate science.
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#9. A jostling scrum of office buildings so mediocre that the only way you ever remember them is by the frustration they induce - like a basketball team standing shoulder to shoulder between you and the Mona Lisa.
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#10. Christianity was literally born in the Middle East, and we must not forget our Middle Eastern brothers and sisters in Christ.
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#11. If your children want to alter society, listen to their reasons and the idealism behind them. Don't crush them with some clever remark straight away.
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#12. As technology advances at an alarming pace, the place of drawing remains as valid as ever in the creation of art and architecture.
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#13. Hong Kong has created one of the most successful societies on Earth.
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#14. I find myself born into this particular position. I'm determined to make the most of it. And to do whatever I can to help. And I hope I leave things behind a little bit better than I found them.
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#15. Why can't we have those curves and arches that express feeling in design? What is wrong with them? Why has everything got to be vertical, straight, unbending, only at right angles - and functional?
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#16. It is clear that through the partnerships between Global Cool and the International Indian Film Academy, Indian cinema has the potential to provide great leadership by exciting its enormous and enthusiastic audience to do their bit to save the planet
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#17. A large number of us have developed a feeling that architects tend to design houses for the approval of fellow architects and critics, not for the tenants.
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#18. It seems to me self-evident that we cannot have capitalism without capital and, very importantly, that the ultimate source of all economic capital is Nature's capital
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#19. Organic farming has been shown to provide major benefits for wildlife and the wider environment. The best that can be said about genetically engineered crops is that they will now be monitored to see how much damage they cause.
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#20. There's nothing like a jolly good disaster to get people to start doing something.
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#21. If you think about your and my grandchildren, this is what really worries me. I don't want them - if I'm still alive by then - to say, 'Why didn't you do something about it?', when you could have done.
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#23. Something as curious as the monarchy won't survive unless you take account of people's attitudes. After all, if people don't want it, they won't have it.
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#24. Do you seriously expect me to be the first Prince of Wales in history not to have a mistress?
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#26. Perhaps it has been too uncomfortable for those with vested interests to acknowledge, but we have spent the best part of the past century enthusiastically testing the world to utter destruction; not looking closely enough at the long-term impact our actions will have.
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#27. One of the main reasons for the conflict in Syria, and the terrorism that it's spawned, is climate change and drought.
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#28. As you may possibly have noticed from time to time, I have tended to make a habit of sticking my head above the parapet and generally getting it shot off for pointing out what has always been blindingly obvious to me.
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#29. This was one of those special occasions when I could actually feel the inner appreciation of the beauty of the moment passing like an electric current through the brush in my hand.
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#30. The less people know about what is really going on, the easier it is to wield power and authority.
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#31. I believe passionately that everyone has a particular God-given ability.
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#33. Father told me that if I ever met a lady in a dress like yours, I must look her straight in the eyes.
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#34. We're busily wrecking the chances for future generations at a rapid rate of knots by not recognizing the damage we're doing to the natural environment, bearing in mind that this is the only planet that we know has any life on it.
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#35. All I'm saying is that there is a price to be paid at the sharp end.. environmentally and everywhere else.. for the food that is produced in a particular way.
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#37. There is very good evidence indeed that one of the major reasons for this horror in Syria was a drought that lasted for about five or six years, which meant that huge numbers of people in the end had to leave the land.
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#38. I think we're going to find, with climate change and everything else, things like global warming and goodness knows what else and the cost of fuel for a start, that things are going to become very complicated.
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#39. The demand for organic food is growing at a remarkable rate. Consumers have made it clear that they want organic produce and every sector of the food chain is responding, with the kind of results we have just seen.
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#40. I think we need to recover the depth, the subtlety, the generosity of imagination, the respect for wisdom that so marked Islam in its great ages.
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#41. While the demand for organic food outstrips supply, we happen to know that 77 percent of consumers don't want genetically engineered crops grown in this country. Consumers can choose whether or not to buy organic produce. Genetically modified ingredients will deny us choice in the long run.
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#42. If you chuck away too many things, you end up discovering there was value in them.
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#43. That's called a microphone. It's a big sausage that picks up everything you say - and you're starting early.
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#44. When people are uncertain about what is right and what is wrong, and anxious about being considered old-fashioned, it seems to be worse than folly that Christians are still arguing about doctrinal matters which can only bring needless distress to a number of people.
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#45. The whole imposing edifice of modern medicine is like the celebrated tower of Pisa - slightly off balance.
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#46. We don't, in a sensible world, want to hand on an increasingly dysfunctional world to our grandchildren
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#47. Climate change should be seen as the greatest challenge to face man and treated as a much bigger priority in the United Kingdom.
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#48. Painting transports me into another dimension which, quite literally, refreshes parts of the soul which other activities can't reach.
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#49. I think we'd be very foolish to expect that we can just import everything from somewhere else and imagine that that's going to last for ever and ever and ever
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#50. There is no doubt that we live in an age of unprecedented, and sometimes terrifying, technological advance where the speed of advance so often outstrips the necessary ethical considerations.
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#51. The price of apparently cheap food is costing nothing less than the Earth.
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#52. I sometimes wonder if two thirds of the globe is covered in red carpet.
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#53. We should be treating, I think, the whole issue of climate change and global warming with a far greater degree of priority than I think is happening now.
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#54. It is frightening how dependent on drugs we are all becoming and how easy it is for doctors to prescribe them as the universal panacea for our ills.
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#55. I miss my grandmother every day. I miss her vitality, her interest in the lives of others, her courage and determination, her perceptive wisdom, her calm in the face of all difficulties, her steadfast belief in the British people and above all her unstoppable sense of mischievous humour.
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#57. Only the other day I was inquiring of an entire bed of old-fashioned roses, forced to listen to my ramblings on the meaning of the universe as I sat cross-legged in the lotus position in front of them.
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