Lost Children Quotes

Lord, please watch over all these lost children born to chase the hurricane.

Children find themselves adrift not because the informational signposts are illegible, but because there is no one around to guide and accompany them.

Children usually do not blame themselves for getting lost.

[My maternal grandmother ] was a teacher in London and elsewhere during the war, although the children she taught were not the "lost children" who feature in the novel - those come from my research.

The police have enough work to keep them busy regulating automobile traffic, preventing robberies and crimes of violence and helping lost children and little old ladies find their way home. As long as the police confine themselves to such activities they are respected friends of the public. But as soon as they begin inquiring into people's private morals, they become nothing more than armed clergymen.

You parents of the wilful and the wayward! Don't give them up. Don't cast them off. They are not utterly lost. The Shepherd will find his sheep. They were His before they were yours - long before He entrusted them to your care; and you cannot begin to love them as He loves them.

People rescue each other. They build shelters and community kitchens and ways to deal with lost children and eventually rebuild one way or another.

What do you mean you have my children at the police station? Why are my kids at the police station?

I tell 'Hansel and Gretel' stories about heroic children who are lost in a world that seems friendly at first, and then isn't.

These are my daughters, I suppose. But where in the world did the children vanish?