The victory always has a lot of parents but the defeat is always an orphan. — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
“Urban Fantasy is the orphan left on the doorstep that no-one knows what to do with.” — Tracy Cooper-Posey Copy Share Image
Among adults – and among orphans – Wilbur Larch noted that delirious happiness was rare. — John Irving Copy Share Image
I'm an orphan!" Constance cried gleefully. "I'm an orphan!" ~ The Prisoner's Dilemma — Trenton Lee Stewart Copy Share Image
“She's bewitched you! What good could she do us?" "Well, now... We could do some good for her .” — Mariah Marsden Copy Share Image
Marry an orphan: you'll never have to spend boring holidays with the in-laws. — George Carlin Copy Share Image
“show me a person who says their family is normal, and i'll show you an orphan!” — Martha Frankel Copy Share Image
The Orphan is not he who has lost his father, an orphan is he who lacks knowledge, refinement, good manners, morals, decorum,… — Anas Copy Share Image
There's an old saying that victory has a hundred fathers and defeat is an orphan… I'm the responsible officer of the Government. — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
Can't see home for miles, I'm Lost like another orphan child, I'm only grinning cause I'm supposed to smile, so I do… — MGK Copy Share Image
“This is the time of myths, Orphan. They are the cables that run under the floors and power the world, the conduits… — Lavie Tidhar Copy Share Image
“I like spending time with my family. And if you have the same last name as me, we might be family. I’m… — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
In the United States, if one family out of every four churches adopted a child, there would be no orphans in the… — Kay Warren Copy Share Image
Emotional damage is never easy to measure, but mothers who are alive but psychically absent impose filial burdens which knot their children's… — Eileen Simpson Copy Share Image
When you lose a spouse, you're a widow or widower; when you lose your parents, you're an orphan. When you lose a… — Frances McDormand 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
Throughout our world the cry of the poor so often goes unheard. The prophets harangued Israel and Judah unceasingly about the powerless… — Thomas Cahill Copy Share Image
Recent results from astronomers who study the occasional gravitational lensing of unknown worlds by intervening stars suggest that orphan planets could be… — Seth Shostak Copy Share Image
“It sucks to be an orphan. Now what do we do? What is Plan B? For us, the answer was to find… — Ross Meador Copy Share Image
When you're in your twenties in a new city where no one's from here, we're all sort of orphans. The only people… — Dave Eggers Copy Share Image
I will work with my colleagues on both sides of the aisle to preserve the Social Security promise that provides secure retirement… — Chaka Fattah 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
I ask the citizens of this Republic whether such a state of things is to be suffered to pass unnoticed, and the… — Joseph Smith, Jr Copy Share Image
The unfortunate are not as miserable as the world imagines. That urchins, the handicapped, orphans, prisoners and others are much happier than… — Manu Joseph Copy Share Image
“He was an orphan, taken on by the alchemist to be little better than a slave. Will had never, not once, had… — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
When I went to Afghanistan in 2003, I walked into a war zone. Entire neighborhoods had been demolished. There were an overwhelming… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
In the time since the Baudelaire parents' death, most of the Baudelaire orphans' friends had fallen by the wayside, an expression wich… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
And what an example of the power of dress young Oliver Twist was! Wrapped in the blanket which had hitherto formed his… — Charles Dickens 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
Two things put me in the spirit to give. One is that I have come to think of everyone with whom I… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
To me, my husband was my son's murderer. He was also my daughter's molester. A parasite nibbling on the Holy Book, he… — Tehmina Durrani Copy Share Image
Autobiography begins with a sense of being alone. It is an orphan form. — John Berger Copy Share Image
Orphans are easier to ignore before you know their names; but once you know, everything changes. — David Platt Copy Share Image
As always, victory finds a hundred fathers but defeat is an orphan. — Galeazzo Ciano Copy Share Image
