There are many children who need help, and anyone who wants to reach out and adopt a child from foster care or… — Melissa Fay Greene 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
“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
“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
So my father grew up in an orphanage in Boston. He was then adopted by an elderly childless couple from Maine, who… — George J. Mitchell 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
“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
“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
“I reached down and picked up a baseball bat at my feet and I flung it as hard as it could. It… — Laura Anderson Kurk 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
Shepard’s Field is a good place for orphans. My class had a fundraiser for them and when we had a field trip… — Lynn Chen Copy Share Image
Children, we should visit homes of the poor, orphanages and hospitals from time to time. We should take our family members along… — Mata Amritanandamayi 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
The first real unhappiness I remember to have felt was when some one told me, one day, that I did not love… — Lucy Larcom Copy Share Image
“It took her three seconds-one, two, three-to know that her destiny required her to join this man, and his gun and his… — James A. Michener 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
I went to a number of foreign countries, and during whenever I went, I would try to go to an orphanage or… — Sam Brownback Copy Share Image
At the age of four I lost my parents and my uncle chose to leave me in an orphanage. Due a skin… — Michaela DePrince 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
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 have an idea I want to test, for combining old peoples' homes and orphanages. Old people are lonely without children, children… — Zhou Xun 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
My mother found a letter, though, that I wrote her when I was 8 years old and it was a letter where… — Kristen Stewart 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
When I was little I knew my father had been an orphan and had lived in an orphanage. I was curious, but… — Gail Carson Levine Copy Share Image
“And what do you want?” I almost choked. “How could you even ask me that, Henry?” He sighed. “Because I’m thousands of… — Laura Anderson Kurk Copy Share Image
I'm always trying to understand who I want to be, what I want, what I dream of. When I was a kid,… — Olivier Rousteing 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
