My mother hated me. Once she took me to an orphanage and…

I found that when I went to the ring as a bad guy, people hated that I took care of myself. That I went…

— Laurel Van Ness

One thing I know is that it is a bad idea to marry someone who had bad parents. If they hated their mother, if…

— Ellen Gilchrist

“Finally, she'd found a group on Corellia that had helped her deal with her addiction, helped her realize why she felt so empty, so…

— A.C. Crispin

At a certain point the family moved to Jaipur, where no woman could avoid the doli or purdah. They kept her in the house…

— Indira Gandhi

“For years, my mother must have hated Deirdre; for years she must have wished her dead. And now that Deirdre was dead, my mother…

— Brock Clarke

“I was dying to have a cat. But they wouldn't let me. My mother hated them. Not once in my life have I managed…

— Haruki Murakami

“It wasn’t that I truly felt bad that I’d upset my mother—it was more that I hated any debits in her column.”

— Gillian Flynn

We talk about orphanages, we talk about their countries and differences, and it’s a source of excitement and pride. I’ve heard Maddox explain to…

— Angelina Jolie

“Edward had used work and accomplishments throughout his life to keep the misery at bay. He’d endured so much heartache in the first eighteen…

— Steven Decker

The earth is a great big orphanage for most animals.

— Eric Roberts

My favorite of my books is DAVE AT NIGHT, because it's loosely based on my father's childhood in an orphanage.

— Gail Carson Levine

I didn't pay much attention to the whistles and whoops, in fact, I didn't quite hear them. I was full of a strange feeling,…

— Marilyn Monroe

With all the chaos, pain and suffering in the world, the fact that my adoption of a child from who was living in an…

— Madonna Ciccone

Even when I was in the orphanage, when I was roaming the street trying to find enough to eat, even then I thought of…

— Charlie Chaplin

A man walks down the street. It's a street in a strange world. Maybe it's the third world. Maybe it's his first time around.…

— Paul Simon