Orphanage Quotes
49 Orphanage quotes by 40 unique authors
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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
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When they asked Jack Benny to do something for the Actor's Orphanage - he shot both his parents and moved in.
— Bob Hope
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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
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Last time I was in Jamaica I financed a teacher to teach in an orphanage.
— Ziggy Marley
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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I can remember staring at the orphanage and feeling envy.
— George Carlin
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..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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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The earth is a great big orphanage for most animals.
— Eric Roberts
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Rarely will you find God in the temple itself, but you can readily find God in an orphanage.
— Mak_786
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You may meet the Lord in the temple, but you can only get comfortable with God in an orphanage.
— Mak_786
Who Wrote These Orphanage Quotes
40 authors contributed a total of 49 Orphanage Quotes, led by these top contributors: