57 Movie Quotes about Orphans (+ Sound Clips) - page 6

Updated: Aug 18, 2026

Memorable quotes about orphans, selected from famous or less known movies by Movie-Sounds.org's visitors, accompanied by short mp3 and wav audio samples.

51 Ten years ago I was just a homeless orphan. He was the one who convinced our teacher to take me in.

Quote from Come Drink with Me (1966)

52 We're better off than a lot of people. Orphans, for instance. We have Father and Marmee... and each other.

Brien as Beth March; Margaret O’Brien in Little Women (1950)

53 I was born a poor orphan boy. From the beginning, I hadn't a chance.

Robert Montgomery as Richard Hannay in The 39 Steps (1937)

54 It reminds me of the way I must have looked myself when I took off from the orphan home at the advanced age of 10 years.

Quote from Rocky Fortune

55 All orphans aren't delinquents.

Quote from The Master (1984)

56 When I was 15 years old, I lost my mother and my father in the same month.

Denzel Washington as Coach Herman Boone in Remember the Titans

57 Go, take the little baggage to the orphan asylum. That's the proper place for foundlings, anyway.

Paul Frees as Burgermeister Meisterburger in Santa Claus Is Comin' to Town (1970)