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That's it then. Cancel the kitchen scraps for lepers and orphans, no more merciful beheadings, and call off Christmas. — Alan Rickman

If your brother can't 'old 'is own against a bunch of orphans, 'e'd best leave off playing 'azard altogether! — Sheri Cobb South

Let me introduce you. Sophie, this is Miss Eliot, from the National Childcare Agency. Miss Eliot, this is Sophie, from the ocean. — Katherine Rundell

I will love you as misfortune loves orphans, as fire loves innocence, and as justice loves to sit and watch while everything goes wrong. — Lemony Snicket

If you invest your time, talent, and resources, orphans around the world can have much happier and healthier lives. — Beau Sides

And now the fight continues for all orphans and children who need families who will love and care for them - until they too can all go home. — Kim De Blecourt

Christmas without a murder plot is like a day without giant spiders eaten orphans" (quote on my special gift holiday mugs) — Roma Gray

Happiness is a conscious choice we make for ourselves. It has to come from within. — Beau Sides

Just knowing that they could read made the Baudelaire orphans feel as if their wretched lives could be a little brighter. — Lemony Snicket

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

As he has promised, no harm has come to the Baudelaire orphans in the Reptile Room, but great harm had come to Uncle Monty. — Lemony Snicket

Solidarity was admirable; loyalty was the person standing next to you when the devil came to call. — Suzanne Elizabeth Anderson

If you want to celebrate a happy occasion, Do it by helping those who are in need. — Mohith Agadi

I've never had much sympathy for orphans, I mean, when I was their age I would have killed to have no parents to make me clean my room and stuff — Zach Braff

These esoteric, intellectual debates-I want them to come to New Jersey and sit across from the widows and the orphans and have that conversation, — Chris Christie

Life, despite the accompanying loneliness that afflicts human without umbilical attachments, was to be cherished for the sheer joy of nature. — Aporva Kala

Continuous persecution of widows and orphans is a crime. Even the Bible says there is a specific place in hell for those who oppress widows. — Imelda Marcos

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

Dead mothers are rather fashionable these days. They lend such an attractive air of tragedy. — Heidi Schulz

And for the world's orphans. A portion of this book's proceeds will go to you. — Stacy Wasmuth

He'd spent his life with orphans, he understood their special plight, so he didn't hate them like most people did. He just wasn't one of them. — Adam Johnson

He was one of those children most deserving of pity, among all, one of those who have father and mother, and who are orphans nevertheless. — Victor Hugo

Never abandon widows, widowers and orphans. — Lailah Gifty Akita

We were orphans before we were ever the sons of these songs. — The Gaslight Anthem , Orphans

We were castoffs and slaves, orphans and unwanteds and used-to-be princesses...and we were mighty.

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Glorious theater. It creates family for all kinds of orphans. — Rebecca Wells

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 really want to see Israel. I would like to come and to express my support in the peace process there, and help the war orphans. — Peta Wilson

Get out of my way, you cakesniffers! said a rude, violent, and filthy little girl, shoving the Baudelaire orphans aside as she dashed by. — Lemony Snicket

Wealth gives you options, and your decisions about what to do with your options say much about your character. — Beau Sides

Life isn't fair, he said, in his undisguised voice, and for once the Baudelaire orphans agreed with every word the man said. — Lemony Snicket

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

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

Raw. Unleashed. Unashamed of following Christ's commands, His voice in my ear. — Margaret Aranda

Late children are early orphans. — John Wilmot

Rachel had been worried she couldn't remember what Sam looked like; now she worried he wouldn't recognize her. — Kim Van Alkemade

A brigand, a barber, a beggar, two orphans, and a boy whore. With such do we defend the realms of men. — George R R Martin

We are the orphans of our son. — Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Throughout his life, Dickens cared passionately about orphans. — Claire Tomalin

... and the Baudelaire orphans climbed aboard, turning the tables of their lives and breaking their unfortunate cycle for the very first time. — Lemony Snicket

Orphans are easier to ignore before you know their names; but once you know, everything changes. — David Platt

Remember, Jesus would rather constantly shame gays than let orphans have a family. — Stephen Colbert

The real orphans are words, always stumbling about to capture what must be said. And here they go again. — Nathan Leslie

We are the estranged orphans of our nations and tribes, and we now bear the weight not of survival of the group but of personal identity. — Chris Matakas

Care for him who shall have borne the battle — Abraham Lincoln

Spend less time on social media and more time reading and writing. — James Gary Vineyard

Want to read my most favorites books? They are Wildflowers, Bridie's Daughter, and Secrets! You'll be glad you did! — Robert Noonan

Because they are ignorant and their parents are ignorant. Because they don't know any better." Pastel Orphans — Gemma Liviero

If you couldn't be loved, the next best thing was to be left alone. — L.M. Montgomery

Something ... made him feel small, not in the way of orphans or beggars or children, but in a good way. In the way of souls. — R. Scott Bakker

Fear gripped me as my children and I arrived at the Ukraine-Moldova border crossing. — Kim De Blecourt

It seemed like an unachievable goal for one person to bring sunshine to one hundred little faces when what they need is a mother apiece. — Jean Webster

Where can we hide in fair weather, we orphans of the storm? — Evelyn Waugh

It's rather good to pretend to be normal with someone. — Ana Franco

The ends justify the means mindset has been the impetus behind many a cruel medical or social experiment. — James Morcan

I write sets of books, but I've also written a lot of orphans. — Lynn Abbey

...I feel pity that she will never fully understand what it is to be loved and forgiven, then loved even more." Pastel Orphans — Gemma Liviero

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

I'm concerned about the plight of children. But I'm not on a mission to get all the available orphans in the world adopted into Christian homes. — Andy Stanley

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

Good evening, you poor little Orphans of a Loveless God. Good evening to you blood sucking fools. — Paula Heath

Orphans have many parents. — Adriana Trigiani

Kate Daniels, deadly swordswoman and rescuer of hungry orphans. Come in. Wash your hands. — Ilona Andrews

She missed most of all the feeling of having a mother. — Susan Ornbratt

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

even found time to organize relief for war orphans. — Cormac O'Brien

I'll just go rub some salt in her wounds,then i think I'll run out and kick some puppies on my way to foreclosing on my quota of widows and orphans. — Nora Roberts

Tell me, Theodore, were you playing against orphans, by any chance? — Sheri Cobb South

Cressbrook Mill was operated mostly by orphans who were treated worse than abysmally. — Bill Bryson

The wars don't end when you sign peace treaties or when the years go by. They will echo on until I'm gone and all the widows and orphans are gone. — Tim O'Brien

Holding onto failed dreams only makes you bitter. — Joseph C. Sciarillo

If you like Girl with Dragon Tattoo and Vampires, this is for you! (Kathi Humphries (Design) on 'ORPHANS - Time is running out' by Ian Dewar) — Kathi Humphries

Orphans are the only ones who get to choose their fathers, and they love them twice as much. — Adam Johnson

Then the train resumed its journey, leaving in its wake, in a snowy field in Poland, hundreds of naked orphans without a tomb. — Elie Wiesel

My mother is my father's wife. And the children of lovers are orphans. — Nancy Horan

They are orphans again, with no true home but each other and whatever life they can make together on the other side of the sea. — Leigh Bardugo

When you lose your parents as a child, you are indoctrinated into a club, you re taken into life's severest confidence. You are undeceived. — Hilary Thayer Hamann

Uncle Monty smiled at the orphans. 'That's quite all right,' he said. 'Questions show an inquisitive mind. — Lemony Snicket

In the United States, if one family out of every four churches adopted a child, there would be no orphans in the country — Kay Warren

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

Memories were a luxury for other children, not the Keramzin orphans. — Leigh Bardugo

All children in adventure books have to be orphans. — Charlie Higson

What sad faces one always sees in the asylums for orphans! It is more fatal to neglect the heart than the head. — Theodore Parker

We, who have so much, need to reach out to the orphans of this world and show them the care, hope, and love they deserve. — Kim De Blecourt

But I'm here. I will love him. I will be his mother. — Kim De Blecourt

This was what Ravka did. It made orphans. It made misery. No land, no life, just a uniform and a gun. — Leigh Bardugo

'Peter Pan' is my favorite. I love the idea that all the Lost Boys were orphans, and that they wanted Wendy to be their mom. — Edward Kitsis

In the English language there are orphans and widows, but there is no word for the parents who lose a child. — Jodi Picoult

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

LCSH terms that are "orphans" in terms of their individual coverage are seldom orphans in terms of their relationships. — Thomas Mann

When you build an orphanage in a poor community, you create orphans. — Sara Brinton

I don't know about Brad Pitt leaving that beautiful woman to go hold orphans for Angelina. I mean how long is that going to last? — Michael Douglas

Orphanages are the only places that ever left me feeling empty and full at the same time. — John M. Simmons

Many people, for many reasons, feel rootless - but orphans and abandoned or abused children have particular cause. — Christina Baker Kline