China's children and future

The older I grow the more earnestly I feel that the few joys of childhood are the best that life has to give.  ~Ellen Glasgow

 There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in.  ~Graham Greene

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

There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him to sleep.  ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

Every child comes with the message that God is not yet discouraged of man.  ~Rabindranath Tagore

A little girl is sugar and spice and everything nice - especially when she's taking a nap.  ~Author Unknown

 

 

Children are one third of our population and all of our future. (unknown)

Children's talent to endure stems from their ignorance of alternatives.
Maya Angelou

We worry about what a child will become tomorrow, yet we forget that he is someone today.  ~Stacia Tauscher

Upon our children -- how they are taught -- rests the fate -- or fortune -- of tomorrow's world.

Childhood is measured out by sounds and smells and sights, before the dark hour of reason grows.  ~John Betjeman

A child can ask questions that a wise man cannot answer.  ~Author Unknown

I taught them the Shaka sign that we use in Hawaii.

Kids: they dance before they learn there is anything that isn't music.  ~William Stafford

There is no seven wonders of the world in the eyes of a child.  There are seven million.  ~Walt Streightiff

Childhood is the most beautiful of all life's seasons.  ~Author Unknown

The only thing worth stealing is a kiss from a sleeping child.  ~Joe Houldsworth

There's nothing that can help you understand your beliefs more than trying to explain them to an inquisitive child.  ~Frank A. Clark

  Childhood is a short season.  ~Helen Hayes

Our greatest natural resource is the minds of our children.

There is a garden in every childhood, an enchanted place where colors are brighter, the air softer, and the morning more fragrant than ever again.  ~Elizabeth Lawrence

  Of all nature's gifts to the human race, what is sweeter to a man than his children?
Marcus Tullius Cicero

 

 This is my new best friend that didn't want to give me his best smile, so I took what he gave me.

After a bit of coaxing, I wanted him to mount the wheel for me, kids love to climb anything, so this was the great result.....

It was my privilege and honor to photograph these Chinese children during our travels in China. In many cases I asked permission of the parents and they were just as honored to give it.