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Tag Name "Orphan" (119)

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ORPHAN, n. A living person whom death has deprived of the power of filial ingratitude . . .
Ambrose Bierce
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Orphans are easier to ignore before you know their names but once you know, everything changes.
David Platt
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Orphans, dead parents, lonely children at Christmas, morose spoken word recordings, everything you love about the holidays. Move the turkey over so you can fit your head in the oven.
April Winchell
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Orphan Black is the new black.
Haley Webb
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Orphans are the only ones who get to choose their fathers, and they love them twice as much.
Adam Johnson
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I'm an orphan! Constance cried gleefully. I'm an orphan! ~ The Prisoner's Dilemma
Trenton Lee Stewart
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I've gone skydiving twice. I was terrified about doing it, but I wanted to overcome that. The first time, I did it with my parents and I remember that they had already both jumped out, and suddenly it was my turn. And I thought, 'Well, I don't want to be an orphan,' so I guess I have no choice, and I jumped out of the plane.
Mandy Moore
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Emotional damage is never easy to measure, but mothers who are alive but psychically absent impose filial burdens which knot their children's feelings in a way biologic orphans are spared.
Eileen Simpson
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Not everyone can be an orphan.
Andre Gide
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When you're an orphan, you don't wake up every day and tell yourself, I'm an orphan again today. Why did this happen to me? You just get on with your life. I've had other challenges that were much greater than that.
Wayne Dyer
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If anybody understands God's order for his children, it's someone who has rescued an orphan from despair, for that is what God has done for us. God has adopted you. God sought you, found you, signed the papers and took you home.
Max Lucado
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Houses of evil similarity appeared like rows of disciplined, humiliated orphans.
Elizabeth Hardwick
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In Orphan Train, Christina Baker Kline seamlessly knits together the past and present of two women, one young and one old. Kline reminds us that we never really lose anyone or anything or – perhaps most importantly – ourselves.
Ann Hood
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I borrow to pay my honest debts and not to squander foolishly. What's more, I confine my borrowing to those who can well afford it. I don't go around sponging on widows and orphans unless they have plenty.
Will Cuppy
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And I, as I lived, in an alien landWill die a slave and an orphan.
Mikhail Lermontov
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Don't ye know that ev'ry Soul on Earth feels itself to be an Orphan?
Erica Jong
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Cross-generational sex is the phenomenon in which young girls are given material goods in exchange for sex. All girls are vulnerable to it, particularly orphans.
Ashley Judd
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You are ugly when you love her, you are beautiful and fresh, vital and free, modern and poetic when you don't... you are more beautiful as an orphan than as your mother's son.
Witold Gombrowicz
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These concerns (for orphan children in India and elsewhere in the world) are very good, but often these same people are not concerned with the millions that are killed by the deliberate decision of their own mothers.
Mother Teresa
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Life Insurance Motto - Robbing the widows early and orphan.
Ethel Mumford
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The same sun that rises over castles and welcomes the day Spills over buildings into the streets where orphans play And only You can see the good in broken things You took my heart of stone, and You made it home And set this prisoner free
Bethany Dillon
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Mrs. Pang was once a nanny for me, and she spoils me the way I imagined kindhearted women would spoil an orphan, loving me for whom I am, exactly the opposite of my mother, whose love I have to earn with great effort and with little success.
Yiyun Li
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I had the idea that there were two worlds. There was a real world as I called it, a world of wars and boxing clubs and children'shomes on back streets, and this real world was a world where orphans burned orphans.... I liked the other world in which almost everyone lived. The imaginary world.
Norman Mailer
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You can't avoid orphan stories, child. Every story is an orphan story. We are all orphaned sooner or later.
Gabrielle Zevin
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