Charity
Jamie is a keen supporter of Oxfam. In 2003 he took a break to travel to Uganda in East Africa to meet with former child soldiers. Jamie is a Patron for 'CANCERVIVE' - a charity established to address the needs of anyone whose family or friends are cancer sufferers.
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Famous quotes containing the word charity:
“When a sparrow sips in the river, the water doesn’t recede. Giving charity does not deplete wealth. Saint Kabir says so.”
—Punjabi proverb, trans. by Gurinder Singh Mann.
“Knowledge puffeth up, but charity edifieth. And if any man think that he knoweth any thing, he knoweth nothing yet as he ought to know.”
—Bible: New Testament St. Paul, in 1 Corinthians, 8:1-2.
“Having levelled my palace, don’t erect a hovel and complacently admire your own charity in giving me that for a home.”
—Emily Brontë (1818–1848)