Mad, malevolent, and incantatory, The Orphan Palace reads like the hagridden fever dream of one who has not only stared the Abyss… — Robin Spriggs Copy Share Image
Before I began The Cider House Rules, I thought I wanted to write about a father-son relationship that was closer, more conflicted,… — John Irving Copy Share Image
Autobiography begins with a sense of being alone. It is an orphan form. — John Berger Copy Share Image
“I couldn't let you sacrifice yourself for me." "Its not a sacrifice. My ambition has just changed.” — Mariah Marsden Copy Share Image
I'd always been insecure. Being the fourth of five kids means attention is divided five ways, and to do this equally is… — Suzi Quatro Copy Share Image
As always, victory finds a hundred fathers but defeat is an orphan. — Galeazzo Ciano Copy Share Image
Get out of my way, you cakesniffers!” said a rude, violent, and filthy little girl, shoving the Baudelaire orphans aside as she… — Anonymous 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
Hypocrite: The man who murdered his parents, and then pleaded for mercy on the grounds that he was an orphan. — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
I believe that this could very well be looked back on as the sin of our generation...I believe that our children and… — Richard Stearns Copy Share Image
The condition of truth, is to allow suffering to speak. Which means attend to suffering of the least of these, of the… — Cornel West 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
Where would the Rockefellers be today if old John D. had gone on selling short-weight kerosene ... to widows and orphans instead… — S. J. Perelman Copy Share Image
The orphan in children's literature allows the child protagonist to move the story forward themselves. I think that, however happy a family,… — Brian Selznick Copy Share Image
Something ... made him feel small, not in the way of orphans or beggars or children, but in a good way. In… — R. Scott Bakker Copy Share Image
It has been hard to muster the resources to support fledgling democracies- or to help the world's most desperate - the AIDS… — Condoleezza Rice Copy Share Image
The global HIV/AIDS epidemic is an unprecedented crisis that requires an unprecedented response. In particular it requires solidarity - between the healthy… — Kofi Annan Copy Share Image
“I really want to believe that when our Quiet Waters kids wake up in the middle of the night, scared, they’ll remember… — Laura Anderson Kurk Copy Share Image
Beginning with a critique of my own limbs, which she said, justly enough, were nothing to write home about, this girl went… — Anonymous 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
We are taught from the very first moment to discover Christ under the distressing disguixe of the poor, the sick, the outcasts.… — Mother Teresa 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
I was born to a woman I never knew and raised by another who took in orphans. I do not know my… — James A. Michener Copy Share Image
