Orphanage Home Quotes

#1. As a youngster in the little orphanage home in New Orleans, I was the bugler of the institution. When I got to be around 13 or 14 years old, they took me off the bugle and put me in the little brass band.

Louis Armstrong

#2. The theater commitment is hard, especially in conjunction with a television commitment. That's a big, long commitment.

Sarah Paulson

#3. My father took me back home, back to Greenwich Village, and he thought by taking me out of the orphanage he'd be out of the World War too. But no way - they got him anyway. He went in the Navy and then I lived on the streets.

Gregory Corso

#4. Inside a home you left me, a blue orphanage.
Inside a bluish mosaic, space to live.

Heng Siok Tian

#5. If a woman is in one's thoughts all day, one should not have a dream of her at night.

Graham Greene

#6. Perception rules the world. Everyone knows that. Where we live and where we're from, you just can't escape it.

Lamar Odom

#7. 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 him in an orphanage, I fully understand.

Cassandra Clare

#8. I guessed she must be, at most, twenty, but there was something about her manner that made me think she could be ageless. She seemed trapped in that state of perpetual youth reserved for mannequins in shop windows.

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

#9. Domestic violence is any behavior involving physical, psychological, emotional, sexual or verbal abuse. It is any form of aggression intended to hurt, damage, or kill an intimate person.

Asa Don Brown

#10. There's no shame compared to being beautiful with nothing in your brain, an ugly devil with wits is much better that the former.

Michael Bassey Johnson

#11. These kids [of the current generation] have no fear of technology ... sort of like I have no fear of a refrigerator.

Don Tapscott

#12. 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

#13. I think people seem to want to read pieces that are shorter but not as short as the pieces they can read in small bites on the Internet. It may be that the sort of long essays are hitting a sweet spot between the tiny morsels online and the full-length book.

Meghan Daum