Quotes About Orphan Children

#1. We probably looked like starving orphan children. Hey! We were starving orphan children.

James Patterson

#2. These concerns (for orphan children in India and elsewhere in the world) are very good, but often these same people are not concerned with the millions that are killed by the deliberate decision of their own mothers ...

Mother Teresa

#3. Every single thing in my life is built around race.

Jamie Foxx

#4. Virtue is the daughter of Religion; Repentance, her adopted child,
a poor orphan who, without the asylum which she offers, would not know where to hide her sole treasure, her tears!

Sophie Swetchine

#5. All of a sudden, in the good-natured child, the woman stood revealed, a disturbing woman with all the impulsive madness of her sex, opening the gates of the unknown world of desire. Nana was still smiling, but with the deadly smile of a man-eater.

Emile Zola

#6. The orphan in children's literature allows the child protagonist to move the story forward themselves. I think that, however happy a family, every intelligent child thinks: 'How did I come to be born to these parents?' - it is about finding your place in the world.

Brian Selznick

#7. We did a show called The Orphan Train, during the depression, when families didn't have enough money to support their children, they'd put them on the train and hope someone would pick them up who had enough money to support their children.

Robert Stack

#8. Something that you can't play in your kitchen is rap. It is done in your neighbour's kitchen.

Mick Jagger

#9. I listen to a variety of stuff on my iPod: Chemical Brothers, Prodigy, Public Enemy, Foo Fighters, anything that gets my adrenalin flowing.

Chris Hoy

#10. Some are bent with toil, and some get crooked trying to avoid it.

Herbert V. Prochnow

#11. I always questioned if I was CALLED to adopt, but then I realized no child was ever CALLED to be an orphan.

David Platt

#12. I want to feel like I'm making a difference in this world. And I want some time for living rather than just working. Life is for living, isn't it? It can't be all just for working

Zack Love

#13. Late children are early orphans.

John Wilmot

#14. Every child of God is not called by the Lord to establish schools and orphan houses and to trust in the Lord for means for them. Yet, there is no reason why you may not experience, far more abundantly than we do now, His willingness to answer the prayers of His children.

George Muller

#15. I'm a little obsessed with being competitive.

Metta World Peace

#16. People think you are an orphan when you are a child, and don't believe that old people can feel that they are orphans.

Agnes Varda

#17. I don't want to be the embarrassment of the galaxy to have had the power to deflect an asteroid, and then not and end up going extinct. We'd be the laughingstock of the aliens of the cosmos if that were the case.

Neil DeGrasse Tyson

#18. A music born among children of slaves is like an orphan: it will never know its real parents, will never hear the full visceral story of its birth.

Carolina De Robertis

#19. If anybody understands God's order for his children, it's someone who has rescued an orphan from despair, for that is what God has done for us. God has adopted you. God sought you, found you, signed the papers and took you home.

Max Lucado

#20. Orphans? Would you really? Adopt children?"
"There are advantages. If they turn out badly, we can blame their natural parents. We can also choose our own assortment of ages and genders. We can even get them ready-grown, if we wish.

Loretta Chase

#21. If you know how blessed you are, you will never ever complain.

Debasish Mridha

#22. Other resources I relied on during my orphan train research were the Children's Aid Society; the New York Foundling (I attended their 140th homecoming in 2009 and met a number of train riders there); the New York Tenement Museum;

Christina Baker Kline

#23. The home is the most ritualized place in a society; each house is like a religious order with its own ceremonies.

Heather O'Neill

#24. History, at its best, always tells us as much indirectly about ourselves as it does directly about our predecessors, and it is often most revealing when it deals with episodes and phenomena that we find repulsive.

Edmund Morgan

#25. There are no words to describe the pain of burying a child, and specifically there is no word to label their new, lifelong status. If you lose a spouse, you are a widow; if you lose a parent, you are an orphan. But what about when you lose a child? How do you name something you cannot comprehend?

Lisa Belkin

#26. On the second day, a sail drew near, nearer, and picked me up at last. It was the devious-cruising Rachel, that in her retracing search after her missing children, only found another orphan.

Herman Melville

#27. At some level you remain an orphan for life; looking after children is one way of looking after yourself.

Ian McEwan

#28. Figure 9.2 Common Hop Varieties and Their Typical Alpha Acid Levels

Ray Daniels

#29. The U.S. prosecution service is eating at the soul of the American republic. It is an absolute danger to everyone.

Conrad Black