#orphan

Not everyone can be an orphan. ↗

— Andre Gide

#orphan

Old hands soil, it seems, whatever they caress, but they too have their beauty when they are joined in prayer. Young hands were made for caresses and the sheathing of love. It is a pity to make them join too soon. ↗

— Andre Gide

#orphan

You are ugly when you love her, you are beautiful and fresh, vital and free, modern and poetic when you don't... you are more beautiful as an orphan than as your mother's son. ↗

— Witold Gombrowicz

#free #fresh #her #love #modern

When they asked Jack Benny to do something for the Actor's Orphanage - he shot both his parents and moved in. ↗

— Bob Hope

#asked #benny #both #his #jack

If I lose show business - I'll really be an orphan! ↗

— Red Buttons

#i #lose #orphan #really #show

I go to Malawi twice a year. It's where two of my children were adopted from, and I have a lot of projects there that I go and check up on and children who I look after. It's sort of a commitment that I've made to this country and the hundreds of thousands of children there who have been orphaned by AIDS. ↗

— Madonna Ciccone

#after #aids #been #check #children

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

#back #father #got #greenwich #greenwich village

What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans, and the homeless, whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism or the holy name of liberty or democracy? ↗

— Mahatma Gandhi

#democracy #destruction #difference #does #holy

The steel workers have now buried their dead, while the widows weep and watch their orphaned children become objects of public charity. The murder of these unarmed men has never been publicly rebuked by any authoritative officer of the state or federal government. ↗

— John L. Lewis

#armed men #authoritative #become #been #buried

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

— Ziggy Marley

#i #jamaica #last #last time #orphanage