The real orphans are words, always stumbling about to…

We tend to think of orphans as being the protagonist of stories we read when we're kids, and yet here you are: you're an…

— Sandra Cisneros

“Life, despite the accompanying loneliness that afflicts human without umbilical attachments, was to be cherished for the sheer joy of nature.”

— Aporva Kala

“I reached down and picked up a baseball bat at my feet and I flung it as hard as it could. It circled and…

— Laura Anderson Kurk

“Correct me if I'm wrong," said the bat, "but would the main ingredient of water soup be water?”

— Vivian French

My first performance was as one of the orphans in 'Oliver!'

— Brad Hall

“To our God, taking care of orphans isn’t just a “great idea.” It’s critical. Why? Because every man, woman, boy, and girl—including orphaned and…

— Johnny Carr

Wow. What'd he do to deserve that? Rescue orphans from a burning building? If so, you might want to make sure he didn't set…

— Richelle Mead

“He wanted a home. He wanted a family. He wanted to have friends. But none of those things were realistic. At least not until…

— Neil Patrick Harris

“People will rather pass by the weak, the lame, the beggars, the orphans, the tormented, the widows and take their large offerings to church,…

— Sunday Adelaja

“Mrs. Scatcherd raps Dutchy's knuckles several times with a long wooden ruler, though it seems to me a halfhearted penalty. He barely winces, then…

— Christina Baker Kline

Your God loves your people and hates mine; he folds his strong arms lovingly around the white man and leads him as a father…

— Chief Seattle

“We have nothing left. Orphans. Castaways." She turns to me. "Childless. That is what we are. The unwanted or the un-killed. We are together…

— Bill Blais

Angelina has a rule that she adopts children only when they are orphans.

— James Haven

“remember asking my mom when I was little if I could go live at this place in Boston called “The Home for Little Wanderers.”…

— Jen Kirkman

“But I'm here. I will love him. I will be his mother.”

— Kim De Blecourt