Orphan Quotes

If I lose show business - I'll really be an orphan!

— Red Buttons

I can't know everything, pretend you're an orphan.

— Cheshire Cat

Success has many fathers and failure is an orphan.

— Alexander Nix

Not everyone can be an orphan.

— Andre Gide

Poetry is an orphan of silence.

— Charles Simic

“Succes has many parents but, failure is an orphan.”

— Obameso Sunkanmi

“A foolish son has no advantage over a wise orphan.”

— Matshona Dhliwayo

Without me, rap is just a bunch of orphans.

— Drake

Families don't have to match. You don't have to look like someone else to love them.

— Leigh Anne Tuohy

I was raised an orphan... My mother died when I was 2 years old.

— Diego Luna

Orphans are the only ones who get to choose their fathers, and they love them twice as much.

— Adam Johnson

I decided that it might be interesting to have terrible things happen to orphans over and over again.

— Daniel Handler

Every politician should have been born an orphan and remain a bachelor.

— Lady Bird Johnson

Is this a generation of orphans who are going to the improv to do stand-up?

— Mindy Kaling

Please don't let the illegal ivory trade orphan even more baby elephants.

— Yao Ming

Victory has a thousand fathers, but defeat is an orphan.

— Anonymous

This country owes them all a debt of gratitude. The down payment on that debt is making sure that we live up…

— Dave Obey

I've never had much sympathy for orphans, I mean, when I was their age I would have killed to have no parents…

— Zach Braff

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

“Orphan could no longer hear or see the shadows of the dead. He didn't think they had perished. Most likely they were…

— Lavie Tidhar

I borrow to pay my honest debts and not to squander foolishly. What's more, I confine my borrowing to those who can…

— Will Cuppy

I grew up in the east side of Detroit in an area where there was very little, except for a lot of…

— Wayne Dyer

Adolescents are attracted to tragic heroes. That's why rock stars dress like homeless people. Adolescence is a fall. It's when every child…

— Heather O'Neill

You know, there's a big world out there filled with desperate orphans who would gladly swim across an ocean of thumbtacks just…

— Anonymous

“Oh, to be the spitting image of her father, or a younger version of her mother. She longed to carry those pieces…

— Molly Collier

My maternal granddad, Leonard, was full of amazing stories. He was an orphan, with 11 or 12 brothers and sisters, and he…

— Jamie Cullum

If anybody understands God's order for his children, it's someone who has rescued an orphan from despair, for that is what God…

— Max Lucado

In Orphan Train, Christina Baker Kline seamlessly knits together the past and present of two women, one young and one old. Kline…

— Ann Hood

A wife who loses a husband is called a widow. A husband who loses a wife is called a widower. A child…

— Jay Neugeboren

Question the Chestnuts. Chestnuts: the new name for boobs? No. NO. Why would you even say that? Get your mind out of…

— Chuck Wendig

We are taught from the very first moment to discover Christ under the distressing disguixe of the poor, the sick, the outcasts.…

— Mother Teresa

Where lies the final harbor, whence we unmoor no more? In what rapt ether sails the world, of which the weariest will…

— Herman Melville

The thief who is in prison is not necessarily more dishonest than his fellows at large, but mostly one who, through ignorance…

— George Bernard Shaw

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

— Chief Seattle

I am certain that over the course of your own life, you have noticed that people's rooms reflect their personalities. In my…

— Anonymous

Go back to the Bible, the Old Testament. I mean there were people who we would call intelectuals, there, they were called…

— Noam Chomsky

Remember that in ascending to the Father You could not leave us orphans; And in making yourself a prisoner on earth You…

— Therese of Lisieux

“It's impossible to find happiness if you're an orphan." "That's not true. Orphans are the only ones who are free to find…

— Tash Aw

I started reading Dickens when I was about 12, and I particularly liked all of the orphan books. I always liked books…

— John Boyne

The United States, which has been called the home of the persecuted and the dispossessed, has been since its founding an asylum…

— Eileen Simpson