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:
“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)
“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 1 Corinthians 8:1-2.
“How much methinks, I could despise this man,
But that I am bound in charity against it.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)