Orphanage Quotes

49 Orphanage quotes by 40 unique authors

My father was brought up in an orphanage in the Catskills. He was a factory worker. And because his family wasn't there for him, family… — Harvey Fierstein
When they asked Jack Benny to do something for the Actor's Orphanage - he shot both his parents and moved in. — Bob Hope
Why can't we build orphanages next to homes for the elderly? If someone were sitting in a rocker, it wouldn't be long before a kid… — Cloris Leachman
Last time I was in Jamaica I financed a teacher to teach in an orphanage. — Ziggy Marley
URGE is a grassroots charity. We organized to get some incubators to give to the hospital for the kids. We donate money to orphanages. — Ziggy Marley
At twelve I looked like a girl of seventeen. My body was developed and shapely. I still wore the blue dress and the blouse the… — Marilyn Monroe
I believe God wants you to have money to pay your bills, send your kids to college and do charity work and build orphanages. There's… — Joel Osteen
Our ministry also supports orphanages in the U.S. and overseas, thousands of poor children in Latin America, drug centers for addicted men, and a drug… — David Wilkerson
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. He… — Paul Simon
And this is what I want you to understand, that good, real good, was born out of your father's remorse. Sometimes, I thing everything he… — Khaled Hosseini
I can remember staring at the orphanage and feeling envy. — George Carlin
..when a war ends, what does that look like exactly? do the cells in the body stop detonating themselves? does the orphanage stop screaming for… — Andrea Gibson
The thinking man always finds himself in a gigantic orphanage in which people are continually proving to him that he has no parents. — Thomas Bernhard
I decided it was well past time to take him home and place him in bosom of his family. If you had rather I put… — Cassandra Clare
My son, who is five, was adopted from Ethiopia. My daughter was adopted from Guatemala. Her parents died of typhoid and malaria. We got her… — Lisa Kristine
My education was paid for by the RAF Benevolent Fund, so a charity school, run like an orphanage, with uniforms and beatings. It was tough,… — Eric Idle
With all the chaos, pain and suffering in the world, the fact that my adoption of a child from who was living in an orphanage,… — Madonna Ciccone
The earth is a great big orphanage for most animals. — Eric Roberts
So my father grew up in an orphanage in Boston. He was then adopted by an elderly childless couple from Maine, who gave him the… — George J. Mitchell
I was born illegitimately and almost immediately, as I understand it, placed in an orphanage. So my very earliest memories were in an orphanage. It… — Bryce Courtenay
It's the hard-knock life for us It's the hard-knock life for us No one cares for you a smidge When your in an orphanage It's… — SHEYA
The pageant was such a fluke. I mean, I was living in an orphanage, and my foster mother bet me $150 to go out for… — Unknown Author
Rarely will you find God in the temple itself, but you can readily find God in an orphanage. — Mak_786
You may meet the Lord in the temple, but you can only get comfortable with God in an orphanage. — Mak_786

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