Orphanage Quotes

“And as he watched them walk out of the orphanage, Thomas Carter would think of their lives as the blank pages of a book in which he had written the initial chapters of a story he would never be allowed to finish.”

“If you invest your time, talent, and resources, orphans around the world can have much happier and healthier lives.”

“Wealth gives you options, and your decisions about what to do with your options say much about your character.”

“I can remember staring at the orphanage and feeling envy.”

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

“Inside a home you left me, a blue orphanage. Inside a bluish mosaic, space to live.”

“URGE is a grassroots charity. We organized to get some incubators to give to the hospital for the kids. We donate money to orphanages.”

“There are orphanages," he exclaimed to himself, "for children who have lost their parents--oh! why, why, why, are there no harbours of refuge for grown men who have not yet lost them?”

“Do you remember the long orphanage of the train stationsWe crossed cities that turn-tabled all dayAnd vomited at night the sunshine of the day ("The Voyager")”

“He knew why he and the other children received ice cream only when newspaper photographers came to visit, and why food and clothing donated for the children got furtively resold outside the orphanage gate.”