for all the lost children

Our Children

The lost children

Children population < 18 2.213.456.000Children population < 5 629.106.000Annual no of under-5 deaths 9.216.000Estimated no of children with HIV 2.000.000

Annual no of birds 135.770.000

Children and drunks always speak the truth. Maria Montessori

Every child is an artist. The problem is to remain an artist once they grow up. Pablo Picasso

Children need models rather than critics John F. Kennedy

Before you were conceived I wanted youBefore you were born I loved youBefore you were here an hour I would die for youThis is the miracle of life.Maureen Hawkins

Children are our most valuable natural resource.Herbert Hoover

Bitter are the tears of a child: Sweeten them.Deep are the thoughts of a child: Quiet them.Sharp is the grief of a child: Take it from him.Soft is the heart of a child: Do not harden it.

Pamela Glenconner

It is a wise father that knows his own child. William Shakespeare

Children enjoy the present because they have neither a past nor a future.Jean de la Bruyère

To value his own good opinion, a child has to feel that he is a worth- while person. He has to have confidence in himself as an individual.Sidonie Gruenberg

You can learn many things from children. How much patience you have, for instance. Franklin P. Jones

Nothing you do for children is ever wasted. They seem not to notice us, hovering, averting our eyes, and they seldom offer thanks, but what we do for them is never wasted. Garrison Keillor

Children are one third of our population and all of our future. Select Panel for the Promotion of Child Health, 1981

While we try to teach our children all about life,Our children teach us what life is all about.Angela Schwindt

Children are the living messages we send to a time we will not see.John W. Whitehead