I always questioned if I was CALLED to adopt, but then I realized no child was ever CALLED to be an orphan. — David Platt Copy Share Image
The Christian who does not feel that the Virgin Mary is his or her mother is an orphan. — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
The one phrase you can use is that success has a thousand fathers, and failure is an orphan. — Alan Price Copy Share Image
There is something very romantic about the orphan figure in American literature. — Christopher Bollen Copy Share Image
It sucks to be an orphan. But you know what doesn't suck? Being a millionaire. -Mr. Cisneros — Eastbound And Down Copy Share Image
Television is blue-collar work. You clock in in the morning; you work 12, 13 hours - sometimes 18 hours if you're doing 'Orphan Black.' — Jordan Gavaris Copy Share Image
Emotional damage is never easy to measure, but mothers who are alive but psychically absent impose filial burdens which knot their children's… — Eileen Simpson Copy Share Image
“Are you really an orphan? Yes, I am, said Portia a shade shortly. Are you? No, not at present, but I suppose… — Elizabeth Bowen Copy Share Image
Yes, Gimli was a very comedic character, but at the end of the day we understood him almost to be like an… — Bear McCreary Copy Share Image
“It’s a strange thing, becoming an orphan at sixteen. To lose your family long before you’ve had time to create your own… — Fredrik Backman Copy Share Image
When you lose a spouse, you're a widow or widower; when you lose your parents, you're an orphan. When you lose a… — Frances McDormand Copy Share Image
And his good wife will tear her cheeks in grief, his sons are orphans and he, soaking the soil red with his… — Homer Copy Share Image
If you bring a child in this world,be a parent,spend time with them,love them no matter what,its not about you anymore,its about… — Murali Iyengar Copy Share Image
“Never in her life had she seen him this way--without that smirking assurance in his mouth. In his eyes. In his shoulders.… — Allie Ray Copy Share Image
The repentant, run-to-seed ultra-Leftists who have converted to humanitarianism, artificial inseminators of the widow and the orphan, themselves orphans of reality and… — Jean Baudrillard Copy Share Image
The thing that got me about the Orphan Trains was that the experiences were so varied. Some of the kids went from… — Laura Moriarty Copy Share Image
Lots of kids in books are only-child orphans, but I think it’s fun to have family as part of the adventure, to… — Sarah Rees Brennan Copy Share Image
My dad's father was a White Star Line trumpet player in the '20s. It shaped the way that I think about music.… — Elvis Costello Copy Share Image
If we believe that humanity may transcend tooth and claw, if we believe divers races & creeds can share this world as… — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
They tell about a fifteen-year-old boy in an orphans' home who had an incurable stutter. One Sunday the minister was detained and… — Bennett Cerf Copy Share Image
In Orphan Train, Christina Baker Kline seamlessly knits together the past and present of two women, one young and one old. Kline… — Ann Hood Copy Share Image
Go back to the Bible, the Old Testament. I mean there were people who we would call intelectuals, there, they were called… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
“Arms still crossed, Lindsay's clogs tapped on the sidewalk. “So Sam didn’t tell you I was a desperate orphan child with no… — Lilly Christine Copy Share Image
When a child loses his parent, they are called an orphan. When a spouse loses her or his partner, they are called… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
Compassion is an emotion of which we ought never to be ashamed. Graceful, particularly in youth, is the tear of sympathy, and… — Hugh Blair Copy Share Image
I think we're creating a situation that's incredibly dangerous. There's a lot of chat at the moment about the war on terror… — Emma Thompson Copy Share Image
“It contained a sad, but too common story of the hard-heartedness of the wealthy, and the misery endured by the children of… — Mary Shelley Copy Share Image
Harry's status as orphan gives him a freedom other children can only dream about (guiltily, of course). No child wants to lose… — J. K. Rowling Copy Share Image
It has been hard to muster the resources to support fledgling democracies and to intervene on behalf of the most desperate. The… — Condoleezza Rice Copy Share Image
Boo-hoo, I became an orphan at age thirty, please take care of me Batman! — Tom Arnold Copy Share Image
Technical perfection is insufficient. It is an orphan without the true soul of the dancer. — Sylvie Guillem Copy Share Image
I don't even know how it is to have a home. I feel like an orphan or something. — Fred Korematsu Copy Share Image
Houses of evil similarity appeared like rows of disciplined, humiliated orphans. — Elizabeth Hardwick Copy Share Image
And I, as I lived, in an alien landWill die a slave and an orphan. — Mikhail Lermontov Copy Share Image
My passion is kids, more than just kids is underprivileged kids and orphans. — Tim Tebow Copy Share Image
