Written by: Becky Tschamler
I ran across this quote on another blog the other day …
“There are only 6,574 days between a child’s birth and their eighteenth birthday. Don’t waste a single one.”
I have no idea who first said it but it kind of puts the brevity of life into a new light, doesn’t it? Makes you want to move “spend more time with my child” up on life’s priority list.
We have a collection of quotes about children and poverty on our web site. Check it out … some of the names might surprise you.
Do you have a favorite quote about children or poverty? Let me know.
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February 25th, 2008 at 5:21 pm
Chinese Proverb
A child’s life is like a piece of paper on which every passerby leaves a mark.
April 1st, 2008 at 10:59 am
Amazing…you wrote this 3 days before my 1st born’s 18th birthday and it HAS been SO brief…and I am rejoicing and mourning all at the same time. One way we have tried not to waste our days with her is to have raised her as a child sponsor and advocate for the poor. So proud to say she is both.
April 1st, 2008 at 11:17 am
Julie, what a great legacy to leave through your daughter!
March 22nd, 2009 at 12:31 pm
Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it.
(Proverbs 22:6)