Top 138 Quotes & Sayings by Monacan Authors - Page 2

I really wanted to address different issues of protection of biodiversity, water management issues that I knew were pretty severe in most countries, and then of course climate change.

I can't say that every day is wonderful bliss and enjoyment.

The Red Cross Gala is unique. There's great history there. It's the highlight of the summer in terms of social and charity events.

I kissed my first girl when I was 13.

The Paris agreement represents a huge step forward. It would have been preferable, of course, to start the process many years earlier, and a lot of question marks remain on how nations will ratify it, adhere to it and report their carbon reductions. But this is a remarkable ray of hope for our planet.

I've always been interested in clothes, from as early as I can remember.

When you see the numbers who come to the circus, you understand that we don't get that by abusing animals.

We may be small in size but we have a lot to offer. Visit us - that would be great. Live in Monaco if there is room - that would be wonderful.

We're an independent sovereign country and that's very important to Monaco.

I've practiced a lot of different sports. I stopped counting after 15.

You know, the Monaco Grand Prix is the grandfather of all street races.

Animals are the traditional circus. It's what people remember from their childhood.

I want to be recognized for my performance as an athlete and not because of who I am.

It is together that we will be able to save our biodiversity. This is a principle of effectiveness. But it is also a principle of humility; none of us can act alone.

I never thought I could sing, but apparently I can.

I want the full Olympic experience.

If everyone that has agreed to the Paris Agreement wants to meet their targets they are going to have to make renewables part of the equation. There's no other way out of it.

The most important thing is to feel happy with what you yourself decided.

You have to help people who are living with AIDS. Help them to live as dignified a life as they can.

I prefer adventure to comfort.

Bringing anyone into royal circles is a pretty tough act. Especially in the British royal family, which is scrutinized by the press as no one's been.

With my songs and music, it's a way of sharing things with people that really have to do with me.

My mother sang very well. She proved this in her film 'High Society.'

Something deep inside me lives by challenges.

Bobsledding has made me a more confident person.

Winning has become too important in all sports, with too many commercial rewards.

We have no choice: we must protect Arctic ice, enable it to continue to act as an essential temperature regulator for the planet, avoid the catastrophic rise in sea levels that would result from the ice melt, and stop the disappearance of permafrost releasing irreversible quantities of greenhouse gases back into the atmosphere.

The British community is very active and very generous in many different areas. I can only have high praise for them.

When you do something in your life and you know it's going to work, you have to be optimistic.

I've had an unusual career path for a princess.

My relationship with Pauline is special. She knows I will always be there to hold her hand. We have the same expressions and gestures. I tell her sometimes, 'you are my mini me.'

One isn't considered a bobsledder if he hasn't crashed.

My whole life has been nothing but tremendous doubt.

I monitor very carefully, in the automobile sector in particular, the development of new technologies which help to limit negative effects on the environment by influencing human actions.

F1 has to keep appealing to sports fans and not only to motor racing fans but to possibly a wider public... I don't know if it's only social media or different electronic devices that will do that. How to establish more of a personal link to the drivers and to the teams - these are things that you have to think of.

Certainly, when I started bobsledding I didn't think of being in the Olympics some day.

Creating wealth is not an end in itself. It needs to be shared by all.

I consider myself a private person most of the time so it's hard to perform in a very public situation and have to do... public appearances and speeches depending on what it is and what the situation is.

If you have 20,000 people and they like you, they give you their support, that's so gratifying.

There is such a history and such a mystique around the name of Ferrari and the success that it has had. The whole imagery and legend of the red cars and what they mean to the world of automobiles and racing itself. It is hard to imagine F1 without them.

Monaco has a vocation to embrace other cultures. Should this be forgotten, the European and American origins of my family are there to remind us.

It's hard to see a certain type of press try to destroy your life.

I don't live the life of a star.

We try never to have pictures of our children in the magazines, because there are strange people out there. But the paparazzi try to steal pictures.

The promotion of international tolerance, reconciliation and education for which we must work are, in my view, of paramount importance in order to build a balanced world showing solidarity.

We try to create as safe an environment as possible for our citizens and for our visitors. That's one of the main positive features of Monaco. In an ever-changing and difficult world, it's a tremendous asset.

Protecting the environment is just as important a priority as the economic imperatives.

We will never harm the Jews.

I am delighted to see that the issue of coral reefs is receiving the attention it deserves.

The fight against AIDS and the fight for the emancipation of women go hand-in-hand.

Climate change has far-reaching consequences for our own survival on this planet. As an issue, it overrides everything else.

I have always respected the freedom of expression. But the dissemination of false information is lamentable and subject to criminal penalties.

Every mother in the world knows this feeling one day... of emptiness, a time comes where you feel a little less useful because you're no longer running left and right. Life no longer has the same rhythm.

I don't have the desires of a spoiled child. I never did.

Oceans, in their beauty and mystery, unite human beings whatever their situation, nationality, or faith.

I'm tired of seeing the press equate Monaco with money laundering.

Charlene has a very strong personality and I have no doubt of her desire to get involved in things alongside me.

The truth is that I'm a very down-to-earth person. I've been called a brat but that's an insult to my parents. They didn't raise a brat. I'm not an immature, insensitive person.

I don't see myself as a rebel. Of course, it all depends on what you consider normal.

I like women but I want a meaningful relationship.