Our Children

Our
Children
The lost children
Children population < 18 2.213.456.000
Children population < 5 629.106.000
Annual no of under-5 deaths 9.216.000
Estimated 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 you
Before you were born I loved you
Before you were here an hour I would die for you
This 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
We are the world!