Quotes with orphanage

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• Ethiopia didn't just blow my mind; it opened my mind. Anyway, on our last day at this orphanage a man handed me his baby and said, 'Would you take my son with you?' He knew, in Ireland, that his son would live, and that in Ethiopia, his son would die.

  Bono
  Irish singer, songwriter, philanthropist, activist and businessman (1960 - )
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• I was born illegitimately and almost immediately, as I understand it, placed in an orphanage. So my very earliest memories were in an orphanage. It was the tag end of the Great Depression when I was born. People were desperately poor.

  Bryce Courtenay
  South African-Australian advertising director and novelist (1933 - 2012)
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• When they asked Jack Benny to do something for the Actor's Orphanage - he shot both his parents and moved in.

  Bob Hope
  American comedian, actor (1903 - 2003)
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Subjects in these quotes:

• illegitimately
• immediately
• desperately
• depression
• something
• parents

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