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Is there any greater mystery than the separateness of each person? — Laura Van Den Berg

I love creating opportunities for people. I think it's my orphan mentality. — Kevin McCollum

It didn't feel so bad to be an orphan. It felt like the first day of a long vacation, a day as empty as the January sky was clear and sunny. — Jonathan Franzen

The Taliban travesty, a noxious combination of Deobandi rigidity, tribal chauvinism, and the aggression of the traumatized war orphan. — Karen Armstrong

Succes has many parents but, failure is an orphan. — Obameso Sunkanmi

The Christian who does not feel that the Virgin Mary is his or her mother is an orphan. — Pope Francis

If enough citizens believe their national security's in jeopardy then politicians who propose wars will receive the support they need. — James Morcan

An orphan's curse would drag to hell, a spirit from on high; but oh! more horrible than that, is a curse in a dead man's eye! — Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Factual reporting is all too often propaganda designed to provoke certain reactions from the masses. — James Morcan

I love the holiday season, almost as much as I love touching myself in front of orphans. — Zach Braff

I do not believe in a religion that cannot wipe out the widow's tears or bring a piece of bread to the orphan's mouth. — Bill Vaughan

The Duke of Dunstable had one-way pockets.
He would walk ten miles in the snow to chisel an orphan out of tuppence. — P.G. Wodehouse

Technical perfection is insufficient. It is an orphan without the true soul of the dancer. — Sylvie Guillem

Two years ago today my father was crushed under the wall he was building, and I became an orphan. — Isaac Marion

And I, as I lived, in an alien landWill die a slave and an orphan. — Mikhail Lermontov

A shadow has no relatives
he is universally orphan — Yarro Rai

You're a bastard, you know that?"

"Being an orphan, I have no idea, but you might be right. Now, can we eat? — Michael J. Sullivan

Never go on a date unarmed. Words of wisdom from my father. Well, my foster father. I was an orphan, of course. The best kings always are. — Brandon Sanderson

Victory has a hundred fathers and defeat is an orphan.
[News conference, April 21 1961] — John F. Kennedy

Try to be polite."
"I'm always polite."
"You're always eyeing people's valuables. That's hardly polite. — Jodi Meadows

There's an old saying that victory has a hundred fathers and defeat is an orphan ... I'm the responsible officer of the Government. — John F. Kennedy

Hypocrite: The man who murdered his parents, and then pleaded for mercy on the grounds that he was an orphan. — Abraham Lincoln

Poetry is an orphan of silence. — Charles Simic

Not everyone can be an orphan. — Andre Gide

Autobiography begins with a sense of being alone. It is an orphan form. — John Berger

People think you are an orphan when you are a child, and don't believe that old people can feel that they are orphans. — Agnes Varda

I was going to have to face the man who'd destroyed my kingdom, and the boy who was the reason. — Jodi Meadows

A music born among children of slaves is like an orphan: it will never know its real parents, will never hear the full visceral story of its birth. — Carolina De Robertis

The one phrase you can use is that success has a thousand fathers, and failure is an orphan. — Alan Price

Don't ye know that ev'ry Soul on Earth feels itself to be an Orphan? — Erica Jong

Just love the one in front of you. Take in the orphan, take in the widow. Just love the one in front of you. — Heidi Baker

Biography is, simply, the orphan of academia. — Nigel Hamilton

He will regard his people's cry, the widow's tear, the orphan's moan. — Eliza R. Snow

There is something very romantic about the orphan figure in American literature. — Christopher Bollen

And every day I thank [God] that I am alive, not because I fear death, but because my wife has a husband and my son is not an orphan. — Khaled Hosseini

'Orphan Black' tends to, for their auditions, shroud it in secrecy and change names. — Ari Millen

Orphan Black is the new black. — Haley Webb

I am not a cosmic orphan. — Elia Kazan

DECEMBER 26TH. The dog came to see me at eight o'clock this morning. He was very affectionate, poor orphan! My room will be his quarters hereafter. — Mark Twain

Life Insurance Motto - Robbing the widows early and orphan. — Ethel Mumford

You can't avoid orphan stories, child. Every story is an orphan story. We are all orphaned sooner or later. — Gabrielle Zevin

The home is the most ritualized place in a society; each house is like a religious order with its own ceremonies. — Heather O'Neill

In you the orphan finds mercy" (Hos. 14:3). — Russell D. Moore

The best of the houses is the house where an orphan gets love and kindness. — Anonymous

Don't wanna ever take your shoes off in coconut land. Never know when you're gonna have to run. — Dianne Harman

He turned and looked at the boy. Standing with his suitcase like an orphan waiting for a bus. — Cormac McCarthy

What is one boot without the other boot? It is nothing. It is useless, an orphan forevermore, and I could take no mercy on it. — Cheryl Strayed

I'm an orphan. But the public has adopted me, and that has been my only family. The biggest family in the world is my fans. — Eartha Kitt

Leaving me an orphan like those characters I had spoken of the night before, if one can truly be called an orphan at twenty-one years of age. — John Boyne

It's funny that sometimes you can only describe something with perfect accuracy by being wildly inaccurate. — Sophie Hannah

Jane Eyre may be an orphan, homely, battered, alone and abandoned, but she is not, never has been and never will be a big fat sausage. — Fanny Britt

I'd seen 'Punky Brewster,' I'd seen 'Webster,' I saw 'Annie,' and it was time to either be an orphan or an actress. — Nadine Velazquez

I always questioned if I was CALLED to adopt, but then I realized no child was ever CALLED to be an orphan. — David Platt

A woman always has her man, but the man unconsciously leans on his roots, his heritage. He feels like an orphan without his parents. — Raj Kapoor

Do not let Sunday be taken from you. If your soul has no sunday, it becomes an orphan. — Albert Schweitzer

You are in the field to defend the public interest, the financial truth for investors and the funds that should support the widow and the orphan. — Clarence W. Barron

If I lose show business - I'll really be an orphan! — Red Buttons

Michael was a purveyor of exotics, a typical anthropologist, a cultural orphan who sought other cultures he could love without risk or pain. — Toni Morrison

Woe to the heart that has not loved in youth! — Ivan Turgenev

Just because something's damaged doesn't mean it shouldn't be treated with respect.'
'Ad,' Wallace said, 'it's a coffee table, not an orphan. — Sarah Dessen

Without me, rap is just a bunch of orphans. — Drake

It is well-known what an orphan's life is: although he is little and has not yet a man's wisdom, he will follow every trail, try every task. — Alexander Afanasyev

Urban Fantasy is the orphan left on the doorstep that no-one knows what to do with. — Tracy Cooper-Posey

At some level you remain an orphan for life; looking after children is one way of looking after yourself. — Ian McEwan

When other girls were dreaming about love, she dreamt of love too, but in an entirely different context - the ones they took for granted. — Donna Lynn Hope

Every politician should have been born an orphan and remain a bachelor. — Lady Bird Johnson

Yes, my sister is weird and says crap like en route. I smirk - it's a common facial tic of mine - and turn to her. — Stacey Wallace Benefiel

Everyone has to be an orphan some time. — John Steinbeck

What the hell is that?" he asked.
"Magic mushrooms."
"I've always wanted to try those," he exclaimed. "They sound so cute. — Heather O'Neill

Victory has a thousand fathers and defeat is an orphan. — Anonymous

That's one of the benefits of being an orphan: instant sympathy. — Carrie Ryan

Success is everyone's child. Failure is an orphan." Omas smiled ruefully. — Karen Traviss

For not an orphan in the wide world can be so deserted as the child who is an outcast from a living parent's love. — Charles Dickens

Because isn't that what the holidays are all about - letting your family make you wish you were an orphan? — Shelly Laurenston

Poetry is an orphan of silence. The words never quite equal the experience behind them. — Charles Simic

Victory has a thousand fathers, but defeat is an orphan. — John F. Kennedy

There's a day that is coming when all the last will be first and every orphan will be home. — Steven Curtis Chapman

Are you really an orphan?
Yes, I am, said Portia a shade shortly. Are you?
No, not at present, but I suppose it's a thing one is bound to be. — Elizabeth Bowen

You love your wars for the coffers, but for the warrior and the widow, the orphan and the owned, you've not two dry fucks to give. — Christopher Moore

Everything about 'Hugo' to me is poignant, from the broken orphan to the old man losing his past to the fragility of film itself. — John Logan

The victory always has a lot of parents but the defeat is always an orphan. — Honore De Balzac

Late children are early orphans. — John Wilmot

A Jewish Native American half-breed orphan playing bagpipes wasn't the sort of impression I ever wanted to make — James Anderson

I believe that God is the Great Companion, that we are not left orphans, that we may have comradeship with him. — Lyman Abbott

Houses of evil similarity appeared like rows of disciplined, humiliated orphans. — Elizabeth Hardwick

I wasn't the only orphan in Guatemala. There are many others, and it's not my grief alone, it's the grief of a whole people. — Rigoberta Menchu

Victory has a hundred fathers but defeat is an orphan. — Galeazzo Ciano

A foolish son has no advantage over an orphan. — Matshona Dhliwayo

Is this a generation of orphans who are going to the improv to do stand-up? — Mindy Kaling

I'm a big fan of 'Orphan Black,' and to be one of the original cast members is something that will always be dear to me. — Michael Mando

show me a person who says their family is normal, and i'll show you an orphan! — Martha Frankel

Marry an orphan: you'll never have to spend boring holidays with the in-laws. — George Carlin

My passion is kids, more than just kids is underprivileged kids and orphans. — Tim Tebow

Listen little Songkeeper, the voice whispered, and I will sing you a Song. — Gillian Bronte Adams

She liked it? 'I love it
the way you'd love an orphan, or a bird with a broken foot. — Pico Iyer

inspired my own life.
Victory has thousands father but failure always find itself an orphan.
--Fidel Castro — Fidel Castro

I can't know everything, pretend you're an orphan. — Cheshire Cat

Please don't let the illegal ivory trade orphan even more baby elephants. — Yao Ming

You show me a boy who brings a snake home to his mother and I'll show you an orphan. — Erma Bombeck

From August 25 to 28, I'm sharing the Amazon proceeds of all versions of Love Is Never Past Tense with Orphan World Relief — Janna Yeshanova