We tend to think of orphans as being the protagonist of stories we read when we're kids, and yet here you are:… — Sandra Cisneros 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
We probably looked like starving orphan children. Hey! We were starving orphan children. — James Patterson 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
An orphan's curse would drag to hell, a spirit from on high; but oh! more horrible than that, is a curse in… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
My first American ancestor, gentlemen, was an Indian-an early Indian. Your ancestors skinned him alive, and I am an orphan. All those… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Wow. What'd he do to deserve that? Rescue orphans from a burning building? If so, you might want to make sure he… — Richelle Mead Copy Share Image
My father is a silent cinema freak, so he took me to 1925 silent films that took forever, like 5-hour movies, but… — Carice van Houten Copy Share Image
Religion by itself was not meant to be a divisive tool. All of our religious teachings have similar rules, such as a… — Leymah Gbowee Copy Share Image
The same sun that rises over castles and welcomes the day Spills over buildings into the streets where orphans play And only… — Bethany Dillon 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
I’ve always wanted to be liked. It grieved me that I was treated with indifference. Left an orphan by Fortune, I wanted—like… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
History is an orphan. It can speak, but cannot hear. It can give, but cannot take. Its wounds and tragedies can be… — Kedar Joshi 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
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
Life isn't fair," he said, in his undisguised voice, and for once the Baudelaire orphans agreed with every word the man said. — Anonymous 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
Where lies the final harbor, whence we unmoor no more? In what rapt ether sails the world, of which the weariest will… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
“If God is calling you to adopt, He will accomplish it. If God is leading you to care for the fatherless across… — Rick Morton Copy Share Image
“Okay… This looks bad. You cowboy around with the Avengers some. Guys got, what, armor. Magic. Super-powers. Super-strength. Shrink-dust. Grow-rays. Magic. Healing… — Matt Fraction Copy Share Image
My mum knows people in the village who died or were affected by Agent Orange who had kids who are disabled. I… — Anh Do Copy Share Image
It is now possible to live a "christian life" without doing the things that Jesus commanded us to do. We have hired… — Cal Thomas Copy Share Image
