“show me a person who says their family is normal, and i'll show you an orphan!” — Martha Frankel Copy Share Image
Families don't have to match. You don't have to look like someone else to love them. — Leigh Anne Tuohy Copy Share Image
Is this a generation of orphans who are going to the improv to do stand-up? — Mindy Kaling Copy Share Image
Please don't let the illegal ivory trade orphan even more baby elephants. — Yao Ming Copy Share Image
Orphans are the only ones who get to choose their fathers, and they love them twice as much. — Adam Johnson Copy Share Image
I decided that it might be interesting to have terrible things happen to orphans over and over again. — Daniel Handler Copy Share Image
Every politician should have been born an orphan and remain a bachelor. — Lady Bird Johnson Copy Share Image
For me Oliver Twist is a political novel. It is a furious critique of the treatment of orphans and poor children who… — Henning Mankell Copy Share Image
Everything about 'Hugo' to me is poignant, from the broken orphan to the old man losing his past to the fragility of… — John Logan Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“She and me? We the same in some fings. We live. The others, those orphan kids, they dead. Because she and me,… — Melina Marchetta Copy Share Image
In an ideal world, we would have been orphans. We felt like orphans and we felt deserving of the pity that orphans… — Miranda July Copy Share Image
I grew up with my dad. He was very eccentric. I had zero supervision in New York. It's kind of like I… — Julia Fox Copy Share Image
He reminds me of the man who murdered both his parents, and then when sentence was about to be pronounced pleaded for… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
The women laughed and wept; the crowd stamped their feet enthusiastically, for at that moment Quasimodo was really beautiful. He was handsome… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“It's a good thing you're an aging orphan," he murmured, gently pushing the hair away from her face. "I don't have to… — Anne Stuart Copy Share Image
“ORPHAN TRAIN is a specifically American story of mobility and rootlessness, highlighting a little-known but historically significant moment in our country’s past.… — Christina Baker Kline Copy Share Image
I think I was fortunate that even in the children's home I had a boyfriend. How important it was, as an orphan… — Ruth Westheimer Copy Share Image
Mrs. Pang was once a nanny for me, and she spoils me the way I imagined kindhearted women would spoil an orphan,… — Yiyun Li Copy Share Image
A public domain work is an orphan. No one is responsible for its life. But everyone exploits its use, until that time… — Jack Valenti Copy Share Image
I've gone skydiving twice. I was terrified about doing it, but I wanted to overcome that. The first time, I did it… — Mandy Moore Copy Share Image
We did a show called The Orphan Train, during the depression, when families didn't have enough money to support their children, they'd… — Robert Stack Copy Share Image
Chris Christie who proposes accepting Syrian refugee orphans under the age of 5 because they may not be vetted well enough. You… — Rachel Maddow Copy Share Image
The unfortunate are not as miserable as the world imagines. That urchins, the handicapped, orphans, prisoners and others are much happier than… — Manu Joseph Copy Share Image
“He was an orphan, taken on by the alchemist to be little better than a slave. Will had never, not once, had… — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
In the time since the Baudelaire parents' death, most of the Baudelaire orphans' friends had fallen by the wayside, an expression wich… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The thief who is in prison is not necessarily more dishonest than his fellows at large, but mostly one who, through ignorance… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Your God loves your people and hates mine; he folds his strong arms lovingly around the white man and leads him as… — Chief Seattle Copy Share Image
I am certain that over the course of your own life, you have noticed that people's rooms reflect their personalities. In my… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Remember that in ascending to the Father You could not leave us orphans; And in making yourself a prisoner on earth You… — Therese of Lisieux Copy Share Image
“It's impossible to find happiness if you're an orphan." "That's not true. Orphans are the only ones who are free to find… — Tash Aw Copy Share Image
The victory always has a lot of parents but the defeat is always an orphan. — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
ORPHAN, n. A living person whom death has deprived of the power of filial ingratitude . . . — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
“Some people ate less food less often when they each had a home than they now do as hobos.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
Do not let Sunday be taken from you. If your soul has no Sunday, it becomes an orphan. — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image