Orphan Quotes
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Orphan Quotes & Sayings
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Is there any greater mystery than the separateness of each person?
— Laura Van Den Berg
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
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
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
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
There is something very romantic about the orphan figure in American literature.
— Christopher Bollen
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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 is the new black.
— Haley Webb
I am not a cosmic orphan.
— Elia Kazan
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
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
It's funny that sometimes you can only describe something with perfect accuracy by being wildly inaccurate.
— Sophie Hannah
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
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
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
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
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
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
Listen little Songkeeper, the voice whispered, and I will sing you a Song.
— Gillian Bronte Adams
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
