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

Updated: Jun 12, 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 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)

52 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

53 All orphans aren't delinquents.

Quote from The Master (1984)

54 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

55 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)