Quotes of: Charity Keyword

In 1934, the American Jewish charities offered to find homes for 300 German refugee children. We were on the SS Washington, bound for New York, Christmas 1934.

Jack Steinberger

My girlfriend's dad runs the Prostate Centre on Wimpole St. in London, and he's chairman of Prostate U.K., which I think is the second-largest prostate cancer charity in Britain.

Christian Cooke

After Lyndon Johnson's Great Society, the belief in decent housing as a political right or social obligation was supplanted in the U.S. by the notion that suitable shelter should be an act of charity.

Martin Filler

I want to make the most out of the word 'fame.' I want to do good things with my fame, or whatever it is. I want to help and do charity work.

Ali Lohan

As for charity, it is a matter in which the immediate effect on the persons directly concerned, and the ultimate consequence to the general good, are apt to be at complete war with one another.

John Stuart Mill

My grandfather worked with charities his whole entire life, and we grew up living with him. He always told me about the other side of the world and everything that's going on.

Ali Lohan

Attacking the indecency of life in much of the Southern Hemisphere is no longer a matter of grace, of charity, of patronizing kindness. It is a matter of intense self-interest.

Anthony Lewis

Harvey never had an original idea or thought in his life. I was out wandering around the country doing charity benefits, mainly, when I asked him to come along.

Tim Conway

Northern white people love the Negro in a sort of abstract way, as a race; through a sense of justice, charity, and philanthropy, they will liberally assist in his elevation.

James Weldon Johnson

If you're an enthusiast and you love the world like I do, it comes naturally. But I think charity must become more fun to give, more interactive and imaginative.

Joanna Lumley

Charity separates the rich from the poor; aid raises the needy and sets him on the same level with the rich.

Evita Peron

I still get invitations from all over Europe to speak at dinners, and it's an honour that promoters and charities can use me to create income.

Frank Bruno

I play a lot of charity golf mainly. I'm a bandit 18 if I play two or three times a week.

Eric Bristow

Did universal charity prevail, earth would be a heaven, and hell a fable.

Charles Caleb Colton

Even though it's become a really cliched thing to see musicians working for charity, it's still effective and it still has to be done.

George Michael

In every human act of charity, something larger, greater, divine has come down to visit the act.

Geoffrey Wood

Never let your zeal outrun your charity. The former is but human, the latter is divine.

Hosea Ballou

Capital punishment is as fundamentally wrong as a cure for crime as charity is wrong as a cure for poverty.

Henry Ford

There is no truer cause of unhappiness amongst men than, where naturally expecting charity and benevolence, they receive harm and vexation.

Francois Rabelais

The only genuine elite is the elite of those men and women who gave their lives to justice and charity.

Sargent Shriver

Where the Mind is biggest, the Heart, the Senses, Magnanimity, Charity, Tolerance, Kindliness, and the rest of them scarcely have room to breathe.

Virginia Woolf