Last time I was in Jamaica I financed a teacher to teach in an orphanage. — Ziggy Marley Copy Share Image
Before I pass, I want to start an orphanage and name it after my mother. She worked with kids all her life. — Jessie Reyez Copy Share Image
“Orphanages are the only places that ever left me feeling empty and full at the same time.” — John M. Simmons Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Many of the girls who were in the orphanage with me became either nurses or social workers. — Ruth Westheimer Copy Share Image
I understand that smoking is vaguely inappropriate in certain situations. You know, like an orphanage, cancer ward, whatever. — Greg Proops Copy Share Image
I want to be blessed so I can build orphanages. Blessed so I can build hospitals and do other things with our… — Joel Osteen Copy Share Image
I'd like to open an animal orphanage in Kenya. I do a lot of work for Born Free. — Rachel Hunter Copy Share Image
I decided it was well past time to take him home and place him in bosom of his family. If you had… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
I was a sickly baby, and after two sets of adoptive parents took me home, they returned me to the orphanage because… — Rodney Atkins Copy Share Image
We talk about orphanages, we talk about their countries and differences, and it’s a source of excitement and pride. I’ve heard Maddox… — Angelina Jolie Copy Share Image
“I'd tell my mother to, you know, go you-know-what herself and I would go help those children. They're in an orphanage and… — Gregg Olsen Copy Share Image
“Okay, news flash. Jealousy is not something I enjoy. I hadn’t felt it much before. But I’d also never been in love.… — Laura Anderson Kurk Copy Share Image
“He knew why he and the other children received ice cream only when newspaper photographers came to visit, and why food and… — Katherine Boo Copy Share Image
With all the chaos, pain and suffering in the world, the fact that my adoption of a child from who was living… — Madonna Ciccone Copy Share Image
My father was brought up in an orphanage in the Catskills. He was a factory worker. And because his family wasn't there… — Harvey Fierstein Copy Share Image
“In my mind, I saw a string stretching from Henry’s heart at Quiet Waters to my heart. It was taut and it… — Laura Anderson Kurk Copy Share Image
“Look, this boy's been kicked around all his life. You know-living in a slum, his mother dead since he was nine. He… — Reginald Rose Copy Share Image
“We formed an impromptu circle just so we could look at each other and memorize faces. We hardly noticed the waiting officials.… — Laura Anderson Kurk Copy Share Image
My pacifism came after I joined the army and was shipped over to Korea. There was a little one-room orphanage there called… — Utah Phillips Copy Share Image
When I was three years old, I went to an orphanage, but because of the beatings, I ran away when I was… — Choi Sung-bong Copy Share Image
“New rules—we needed new rules. No one opens the main doors but me. No one leaves the property without me. No one… — Laura Anderson Kurk Copy Share Image
My objection to the church isn't that the preachers are cruel, hypocritical, actually wicked, though some of them are that, too -… — Sinclair Lewis Copy Share Image
Before I began The Cider House Rules, I thought I wanted to write about a father-son relationship that was closer, more conflicted,… — John Irving Copy Share Image
Today, Musana is a thriving orphanage in Iganga, Uganda, housing over one hundred children! When asked what it was that made her… — Matthew West Copy Share Image
“I’d felt this before, when my granddad was in the hospital before he died. We all camped out in the waiting room,… — Laura Anderson Kurk Copy Share Image
“I want to grow up and do something cool with my life, such as build an orphanage in a third world country… — Shirley Marr Copy Share Image
“Hear, hear.' Sister Martha hoisted her water glass. 'Let the rigid stick of self-righteousness be dislodged from her very uptight ass.' Father… — Jacqueline Carey Copy Share Image
I feel like everybody needs to take a sabbatical and go to Russia and Africa and work in orphanages and really witness… — Madonna Ciccone Copy Share Image
My education was paid for by the RAF Benevolent Fund, so a charity school, run like an orphanage, with uniforms and beatings.… — Eric Idle Copy Share Image
Some of our most successful businessmen in US grew up in orphanages. They were well treated, and they learned discipline. They learned… — Phyllis Schlafly Copy Share Image
If you're looking at the Bible for a guide to living a compassionate, wise and humane life, well, frankly you've got more… — Pat Condell Copy Share Image
My father took me back home, back to Greenwich Village, and he thought by taking me out of the orphanage he'd be… — Gregory Corso Copy Share Image
“I thought back to Meg’s advice about Hemingway sentences—simple declarative statements that showed the truth and distilled the meaning. My first attempt… — Laura Anderson Kurk Copy Share Image
Kusewera, an organization that fosters orphanages in Africa and the Philippines and encourages through creative play and education. Anything and everything that… — Reggie Lee Copy Share Image
My son, who is five, was adopted from Ethiopia. My daughter was adopted from Guatemala. Her parents died of typhoid and malaria.… — Lisa Kristine Copy Share Image
“And as he watched them walk out of the orphanage, Thomas Carter would think of their lives as the blank pages of… — Carlos Ruiz Zafón Copy Share Image
As a youngster in the little orphanage home in New Orleans, I was the bugler of the institution. When I got to… — Louis Armstrong Copy Share Image
