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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

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

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

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

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

ORPHAN, n. A living person whom death has deprived of the power of filial ingratitude ... — Ambrose Bierce

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Orphan Black is the new black. — Haley Webb

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

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

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

It's a neighborhood where every dad has at least one job and where parents often end conversations with the words: no guts, no glory. — Michael Jay

I was there was the war began. And when it ended. — Jodi Meadows

I'm an orphan!" Constance cried gleefully. "I'm an orphan!" ~ The Prisoner's Dilemma — Trenton Lee Stewart

I feel akin to the Platypus. An orphan in a family. A swimmer, a recluse. Part bird, part fish, part lizard. — Trevor Dunn

At the worst times, the best plan was often no plan. And Ky excelled at coming up with no plan. — Gillian Bronte Adams

While many of us give to the hungry orphan, we have forgotten to love her. — Marquita Burke-DeJesus

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

I am not a cosmic orphan. — Elia Kazan

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

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

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

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