Charity School Quotes

#1. 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, but it got me to Cambridge - like being a chrysalis suddenly becoming a butterfly.

Eric Idle

#2. Life is a book and there are a thousand pages I have not yet read.

Cassandra Clare

#3. Poverty didn't necessarily engender an envy of wealth; sometimes it might beget a passion for decency.

Patricia Hampl

#4. I started quite young at school, compering a charity event at an old people's home. I would do stand up and impressions and enjoyed the laughter. It's very addictive. It's a lovely sensation to say something and hear a whole room laugh.

Armando Iannucci

#5. You grow up with your father holding you down and covering your mouth so another man can make a horrible searing pain between your legs.

Catharine MacKinnon

#6. You are where you need to be. Just take a deep breath.

Lana Parrilla

#7. A number of girls of my acquaintance went to school to the nuns of the Congregational Nunnery, or Sisters of Charity, as they are sometimes called.

Maria Monk

#8. She imagines that she is a seed, driven by the wind, that withstands cold and heat, the worst possible conditions, until one day it falls, like the Bible says, on fertile soil. She knows one day she will flower. This is inevitable. Winter always ends, and springtide blossoms in its place.

David Bowles

#9. Those who know what it's like in the dark will do anything to stay in the light.

Victoria Aveyard

#10. That was the moment you should have told her what your heart was telling you. If you had allowed it, she could have been your whole world. All you had to do was open the door. All you had to say was, come in.

Lang Leav

#11. I worked for a charity for a while, but ... well, I started acting while I was in high school. I kind of just got lucky enough to live at my parents' house until I was actually making enough money to be somebody's roommate.

Shannon Woodward

#12. Truth is inclusive of all the virtues, is older than sects and schools, and, like charity, more ancient than mankind.

Amos Bronson Alcott

#13. Someday, you know, we're going to be shown the great ledger of our recorded decisions-a dread concept you nonetheless know in your deepest soul is true.

Leif Enger

#14. It is easy to be conspicuously 'compassionate' if others are being forced to pay the cost.

Murray N. Rothbard

#15. Save the Children is an awesome charity that has helped more than 125 million children around the world, providing everything from school books to food to blankets and shelter.

PewDiePie

#16. I am here to seduce you into a love of life; to help you to become a little more poetic; to help you die to the mundane and to the ordinary so that the extraordinary explodes in your life.

Rajneesh