Orphans are easier to ignore before you know their names; but once you know, everything changes. — David Platt Copy Share Image
As always, victory finds a hundred fathers but defeat is an orphan. — Galeazzo Ciano Copy Share Image
I love the holiday season, almost as much as I love touching myself in front of orphans. — Zach Braff Copy Share Image
We probably looked like starving orphan children. Hey! We were starving orphan children. — James Patterson Copy Share Image
“Urban Fantasy is the orphan left on the doorstep that no-one knows what to do with.” — Tracy Cooper-Posey Copy Share Image
Among adults – and among orphans – Wilbur Larch noted that delirious happiness was rare. — John Irving Copy Share Image
I'm an orphan!" Constance cried gleefully. "I'm an orphan!" ~ The Prisoner's Dilemma — Trenton Lee Stewart Copy Share Image
Autobiography begins with a sense of being alone. It is an orphan form. — John Berger Copy Share Image
“In the English language there are orphans and widows, but there is no word for the parents who lose a child.” — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
Orphans, dead parents, lonely children at Christmas, morose spoken word recordings, everything you love about the holidays. Move the turkey over so… — April Winchell Copy Share Image
The Duke of Dunstable had one-way pockets. He would walk ten miles in the snow to chisel an orphan out of tuppence. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Be generous to the poor orphans and those in need. The man to whom our Lord has been liberal ought not to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“For a terrible time of life a teen-ager deceives himself; he believes he can trick the world. He believes he is invulnerable.… — John Irving Copy Share Image
These esoteric, intellectual debates-I want them to come to New Jersey and sit across from the widows and the orphans and have… — Chris Christie Copy Share Image
I did nothing to deserve God's love; in fact, I was living as an orphan, without hope. Yet God chose to pursue… — Steven Curtis Chapman Copy Share Image
“A poet says, “The libraries of how many a nation did that orphan wipe clean who did not even learn how to… — Muhammad Zakariya Kandhlawi Copy Share Image
Even in chimps there is true altruistic behaviour; behaviour that doesn't fit into the sociobiological model that says you either help a… — Jane Goodall Copy Share Image
In tribal society, the most important thing to do when civilians are killed in a skirmish is to acknowledge the deaths, and… — Greg Mortenson Copy Share Image
She's gone. Been gone for ages. They split up right after you left. That's why the grass out front started growing again."… — Maureen Johnson Copy Share Image
'Orphan Black' allows for people to have debates and theories and allegiances to different characters - to trust characters and hate other… — Tatiana Maslany Copy Share Image
I was a hot-dog stand lady, I was an orphan housemother, I was a waitress 3 or 4 times. All of those… — Barbara Corcoran Copy Share Image
All the criticism is ultimately a blessing in disguise. Because now people know about Malawi [due to the child adoption]. And now… — Madonna Ciccone Copy Share Image
TRUST, n. In American politics, a large corporation composed in greater part of thrifty working men, widows of small means, orphans in… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
“Cono felt embarrassed by the thought that he might have been just another pitiful orphan trying to turn his friends into family,… — Victor Robert Lee Copy Share Image
Two things put me in the spirit to give. One is that I have come to think of everyone with whom I… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
When I was little I knew my father had been an orphan and had lived in an orphanage. I was curious, but… — Gail Carson Levine Copy Share Image
To me, my husband was my son's murderer. He was also my daughter's molester. A parasite nibbling on the Holy Book, he… — Tehmina Durrani Copy Share Image
“He knew what it was to have orphan status thrust upon you. Like someone had pushed you through a door, locked it,… — Lydia Kang Copy Share Image
Remember your contemporaries who have passed away and were your age. Remember the honors and fame they earned, the high posts they… — Al-Ghazali Copy Share Image
I started reading Dickens when I was about 12, and I particularly liked all of the orphan books. I always liked books… — John Boyne Copy Share Image
The United States, which has been called the home of the persecuted and the dispossessed, has been since its founding an asylum… — Eileen Simpson Copy Share Image
When I went to Afghanistan in 2003, I walked into a war zone. Entire neighborhoods had been demolished. There were an overwhelming… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
“She's bewitched you! What good could she do us?" "Well, now... We could do some good for her .” — Mariah Marsden Copy Share Image
Marry an orphan: you'll never have to spend boring holidays with the in-laws. — George Carlin Copy Share Image