Orphanages Quotes

“You will never know the moon or stars, unless you breathe in their solar system and inspect it from many diverse vantage points as possible.”
― Shannon L. Alder

“We can point the finger at adults for the stupid decisions they make in life, but an orphaned child can never be blamed for the situation in which they find themselves.”
― Kevin Ansbro, In the Shadow of Time

“Wealth gives you options, and your decisions about what to do with your options say much about your character.”
― Beau Sides, Unseen Tears: The Challenges of Orphans and Orphanages in China

“If you invest your time, talent, and resources, orphans around the world can have much happier and healthier lives.”
― Beau Sides, Unseen Tears: The Challenges of Orphans and Orphanages in China

“Orphaned children are equally deserving of unconditional support and love, the world is much stronger when the vulnerable are also strengthened.”
― Wayne Chirisa

“The world does not know a care leaver and a non care leaver”
― Deborah Dzifah Tamakloe, Beyond the Orphanage: A Journey of Hope and Aspirations

“When she turned eighteen, Tara had traveled to India in search of her father. She hadn't found him, but she had spent ten years in a yoga ashram in Jammu. She'd come home with Siddhartha, a four-year-old boy she'd adopted, and joined her mother in running the studio. Two years after that she'd adopted India from an orphanage in Bangkok, and two years after that China from an orphanage in Nairobi.
India hadn't known there was anything different about her family until a substitute teacher in her kindergarten classroom had looked at her with an expression India would come to know well as she grew up, and asked, Aren't you one of that yoga teacher's kids? The ones with the cleft lip scars adopted from three continents?
When India had told Sid about it on their way home from school, he'd said, But India and Thailand are on the same continent.
It's how India had learned that adults, even teachers, didn't always know everything. To India, their family was how families were supposed to be. Many years later, when China was in her rebellious phase, she had asked Tara why she had felt the need to adopt children from three countries.
I took a lifelong vow of celibacy. How else was I supposed to have children? That had been Tara's answer.”
― Sonali Dev, Incense and Sensibility