101 Quotes About Orphans

Rachel had been worried she couldn't remember what Sam looked like; now she worried he wouldn't recognize her.

It seemed like an unachievable goal for one person to bring sunshine to one hundred little faces when what they need is a mother apiece.

For a child, the loss of a parent is the loss of memory itself.

Tell me, Theodore, were you playing against orphans, by any chance?

Ukienda katika kituo cha watoto yatima halafu watoto wakakulilia shida zao na ukaondoka bila kuwasaidia chochote, hutalala vizuri usiku.

— ¿Y por qué no vives siempre con nosotros como antes, mamacita?— Porque ahora tu mamacita tiene que trabajar en vez de tu papacito, que se fue al cielo.

Her mother admonished through closed lips, the sound a mother can make mean anything from "pick up your socks" to "we are very disappointed you have murdered those orphans.

For I was indeed a student of human nature, as every orphan and hooker and unwanted kid must be.

If every Christian family in the United States would simply commit to pray and ask God if HE wants to use them to bless a child without a family, well, we'd change the world. If we can get the church to think about adoption not in terms of the desires of adults but in terms of the needs of children, I think we'd see on a much grander scale how God sets the lonely in families.