“The peasant of early modern France inhabited a world of step-mothers and orphans, of inexorable, unending toil, and of brutal emotions, both… — Robert Darnton Copy Share Image
When we ignore the prostituted child, we actually lend our hand to their abuse. When we ignore the widow and the orphan… — Joel Houston Copy Share Image
But I also slaughtered you real mother and father. In a moment of mad rage, I took their lives and left you… — Darren Shan Copy Share Image
Remember your contemporaries who have passed away and were your age. Remember the honors and fame they earned, the high posts they… — Al-Ghazali Copy Share Image
Like no other illness, AIDS tests our ability to put ourselves in someone else's shoes - to empathize with the plight of… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
I really want to see Israel. I would like to come and to express my support in the peace process there, and… — Peta Wilson Copy Share Image
Politicians step up and say, "This is what were going to do: we're going to set aside 450 million dollars for a… — Mr. Lif Copy Share Image
“Orphans? Would you really? Adopt children?" "There are advantages. If they turn out badly, we can blame their natural parents. We can… — Loretta Chase Copy Share Image
Our souls are like those orphans whose unwedded mothers die in bearing them: the secret of our paternity lies in their grave,… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
The love of wisdom is a way of life; that is to say, it's a set of practices that have to do… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
There's no shortage of orphans in 19th-century literature, but it's hard to find a single happy, communicative, functional parental relationship in the… — David Nicholls Copy Share Image
The bottom line is that finding orphan planets - small, faint, and located who-knows-where - is not for the faint of heart.… — Seth Shostak Copy Share Image
“Well, finally, once you become an orphan, you're an orphan till the day you die. I keep having the same dream. I'm… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
You know, there's a big world out there filled with desperate orphans who would gladly swim across an ocean of thumbtacks just… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“...and when the Assembly arrived at Dusk I hasten'd into the Streets and made my self a child of Hazard. There was… — Peter Ackroyd Copy Share Image
Give me ... a compassionate heart, quickly moved to grieve for the woes of others and to active pity for them, even… — Johann Arndt Copy Share Image
When I lost my father, I thought I learned about grief and transition. However, nobody tells you what it's like to lose… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
'Orphan Black' allows for people to have debates and theories and allegiances to different characters - to trust characters and hate other… — Tatiana Maslany Copy Share Image
Cross-generational sex is the phenomenon in which young girls are given material goods in exchange for sex. All girls are vulnerable to… — Ashley Judd Copy Share Image
I don't understand those couples that fight and a minute later change their Facebook status to Single. I fight with my parents… — Shennon Fabiano Copy Share Image
You show me a boy who brings a snake home to his mother and I'll show you an orphan. — Erma Bombeck 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 will love you as misfortune loves orphans, as fire loves innocence, and as justice loves to sit and watch while everything… — Anonymous 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
