Orphanage Quotes

• Happiness is not so much in having as sharing. We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.

  Norman MacEwen

  Inspirational, Life, Happiness

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  We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.

  Winston Churchill

  Love, Inspirational, Life

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• Children, we should visit homes of the poor, orphanages and hospitals from time to time. We should take our family members along and offer assistance and look after the welfare of inmates. A word spoken with love and concern will give them more comfort than any amount of money. That will lead to the expansion of our hearts as well.

  Mata Amritanandamayi

  Children, Home, Heart

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• Learn how to grow out of yourself and into the world of others: Plant a shade tree under which you know you will never sit. Set some goals that may benefit your children or an orphanage or the employees of your company or future generations or your own city, fifty years from now.

  Denis Waitley

  Children, Years, Cities

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• There are many children who need help, and anyone who wants to reach out and adopt a child from foster care or from a Russian orphanage should reach out and do it.

  Melissa Fay Greene

  Children, Needs, Care

  Source: www.cnn.com

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• Victory has a thousand fathers, but defeat is an orphan.

  John F. Kennedy

  Motivational, Inspiring, Leadership

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I have an idea I want to test, for combining old peoples homes and orphanages. Old people are lonely without children, children are lonely without parents. Why not bring them together?

  Zhou Xun

  Lonely, Children, Home

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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 did, feeding the poor on the streets, building the orphanage, giving money to friends in need, it was all his way of redeeming himself. And that, I believe, is what true redemption is, Amir jan, when guilt leads to good.

  Khaled Hosseini

  Father, Real, Believe

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• I’ve seen far too many Christians who are more than willing to travel halfway around the world to volunteer for a week in an orphanage, but who cannot bring themselves to take the personal risk of sharing Jesus with the co-worker who sits day after day in the cubicle right next to them.

  Lee Strobel

  Christian, Jesus, Volunteer

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• My father was the orphaned son of immigrants to the United States from Ireland. My father never knew his parents. His mother died - we're not sure - either at or shortly after his birth, and he and all of his siblings were placed in orphanages in the Boston area.

  George J. Mitchell

  Mother, Father, Sibling

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• I went to a number of foreign countries, and during whenever I went, I would try to go to an orphanage or a home for children. And I was seeing thousands of kids around the world that needed homes.

  Sam Brownback

  Country, Children, Home

  "Get to Know Sen. Sam Brownback" by Jared Wiener, abcnews.go.com. October 18, 2007.

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• When I was three years old, I went to an orphanage, but because of the beatings, I ran away when I was five and lived alone by selling gum on the streets. For ten years, I lived like a fly. I was eventually able to graduate elementary and middle school through qualification examinations and the first thing that I ever liked was music.

  Choi Sung-bong

  School, Years, Three

  "Choi Sung Bong's moving rendition on Korea's Got Talent induces tears and controversy". www.allkpop.com. June 06, 2011.

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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 will be in his lap.

  Cloris Leachman

  Home, Kids, Elderly

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• The world is an orphanage for grownups

  Elizabeth Swados

  World, Grownups

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• There's a culture in orphanages that children are eager to escape from, and it's a culture of being reared as a group and not being doted upon by parents. For any child, that's the bottom line. The fact is that a human child wants that mommy or daddy or both.

  Melissa Fay Greene

  Children, Daddy, Parent

  Source: www.cnn.com

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• What armies and how much of war I have seen, what thousands of marching troops, what fields of slain, what prisons, what hospitals, what ruins, what cities in ashes, what hunger and nakedness, what orphanages, what widowhood, what wrongs and what vengeance.

  Clara Barton

  War, Army, Cities

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• I work with a lot of different charities, and by that I don't mean merely by giving money, but by really getting involved hands-on. I've always said that one of the reasons why I was put on this Earth was to help people. That's something I've always enjoyed both here in America and if I have the opportunity when I'm traveling out of the country. For example, I like to visit orphanages to spend time with the children. That's very important to me.

  Janet Jackson

  Country, Children, Mean

  "Janet Jackson– Janet in control". Interview with Kam Williams, www.philasun.com. April 1, 2010.

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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

  Parent, Actors, Comedy

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• Even when I was in the orphanage, when I was roaming the street trying to find enough to eat, even then I thought of myself as the greatest actor in the world. I had to feel the exuberance that comes from utter confidence in yourself. Without it, you go down to defeat.

  Charlie Chaplin

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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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 orphanage provided. They made me look like an overgrown lummox.

  Marilyn Monroe

  Inspiring, Girl, Blue Dress

  Marilyn Monroe (2006). “My Story”, p.20, Taylor Trade Publishing

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• Last time I was in Jamaica I financed a teacher to teach in an orphanage.

  Ziggy Marley

  Teacher, Teaching, Jamaica

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• 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

  Father, Book, Night

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• I'd like to open an animal orphanage in Kenya. I do a lot of work for Born Free.

  Rachel Hunter

  Animal, Kenya, Born

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• Today, Musana is a thriving orphanage in Iganga, Uganda, housing over one hundred children! When asked what it was that made her fight for these children she simply said, “I just kept thinking, ‘If I don’t do something, who will?' Today, so many of us Christians talk so much about being the hands and feet of Christ, but never really displaying what that looks like. It’s not about talking. It’s about doing! It’s time for us to do something!

  Matthew West

  Christian, Children, Fighting

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• Ethiopia didn't just blow my mind; it opened my mind. Anyway, on our last day at this orphanage a man handed me his baby and said, 'Would you take my son with you?' He knew, in Ireland, that his son would live, and that in Ethiopia, his son would die.

  Bono

  Baby, Son, Blow

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