Lost Parents Quotes

My heart goes out to the grieving parents who lost their two-year-old or their newborn. — Elizabeth Edwards

Like a bird handled by humans whose flock would not accept it back, Rob now wore the unwashable scent of the Ivy League. — Jeff Hobbs

My parents lost everything, all their savings, because we had to run from the Nigerian side to the Biafran side. We were Igbos. — Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala

I'm never going to get married. I'm going to be a ballet-dancer. But don't tell anybody. — Leo Tolstoy

I lost both my parents young - but I have felt their presence throughout my life. — Roma Downey

I never lost an argument and my parents assumed I would be a lawyer. They cast me in that role. — Jared Harris

I lost my parents when I was fairly young. — Craig T. Nelson

It's hard to imagine her ever having felt lost, but it's impossible to know the people your parents were before they were your parents. — Jonathan Tropper

It doesn't matter how big the body, it's what you do with it. — Robert Cormier

The beast for me is greed. Whether you read Dante, Swift, or any of these guys, it always boils down to the same thing: the corruption of the soul. — Ben Nicholson

Lost children filled every chair at the headquarters of the Columbian Guard; nineteen spent the night and were claimed by their parents the next day. — Erik Larson

He who, having lost his parents or being abandoned, by them without ,just cause, gives himself to a ,man , is called a son self given. — Guru Nanak

I give up. In the war for my parents' approval, I'd lost to a complete stranger. — Cora Carmack

I lost my parents very early in my life. My mom died three weeks after I graduated from high school, and my dad died two years after I got married. — Mary Badham

How did your parents come to be "lost at sea", Moriarty?'
The professor paused, and said, 'Mysteriously, Moran. — Kim Newman

Uncertainty is the essential, inevitable and all-pervasive companion to your desire to make art — David Bayles

I get the whole lost-your-parents thing. Been there. But that don't have to turn you stupid. That's a choice, like wearing green stretch pants. — Joe R. Lansdale

I tried to copy my parents, as monkeys do, but they were trying to copy me, looking to the child for the energy and hope they had long since lost. — Jeanette Winterson

I'm not asking him to stay, Ronan thought. Only to come back. — Maggie Stiefvater

Losing my parents was the most crushing thing that ever happened to me. I lost my dad when I was 26, and it changed my life entirely. — Harlan Coben

What use, Milton, a silly story
Of our lost general parents,
eaters of fruit? — Gary Snyder

My father made false teeth. Unfortunately, during the Depression, not many people could afford them, and my parents lost their home. — Al Feldstein

Character is determined by choice, not opinion. — Aristotle.