There is something very romantic about the orphan figure in American literature. — Christopher Bollen Copy Share Image
It sucks to be an orphan. But you know what doesn't suck? Being a millionaire. -Mr. Cisneros — Eastbound And Down Copy Share Image
Boo-hoo, I became an orphan at age thirty, please take care of me Batman! — Tom Arnold Copy Share Image
Technical perfection is insufficient. It is an orphan without the true soul of the dancer. — Sylvie Guillem Copy Share Image
I don't even know how it is to have a home. I feel like an orphan or something. — Fred Korematsu Copy Share Image
“A poet says, “The libraries of how many a nation did that orphan wipe clean who did not even learn how to… — Muhammad Zakariya Kandhlawi Copy Share Image
For me Oliver Twist is a political novel. It is a furious critique of the treatment of orphans and poor children who… — Henning Mankell 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
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
I'd seen 'Punky Brewster,' I'd seen 'Webster,' I saw 'Annie,' and it was time to either be an orphan or an actress. — Nadine Velazquez Copy Share Image
“She and me? We the same in some fings. We live. The others, those orphan kids, they dead. Because she and me,… — Melina Marchetta 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
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
“Never in her life had she seen him this way--without that smirking assurance in his mouth. In his eyes. In his shoulders.… — Allie Ray Copy Share Image
The repentant, run-to-seed ultra-Leftists who have converted to humanitarianism, artificial inseminators of the widow and the orphan, themselves orphans of reality and… — Jean Baudrillard Copy Share Image
The thing that got me about the Orphan Trains was that the experiences were so varied. Some of the kids went from… — Laura Moriarty 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
Lots of kids in books are only-child orphans, but I think it’s fun to have family as part of the adventure, to… — Sarah Rees Brennan Copy Share Image
Chris Christie who proposes accepting Syrian refugee orphans under the age of 5 because they may not be vetted well enough. You… — Rachel Maddow 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
They tell about a fifteen-year-old boy in an orphans' home who had an incurable stutter. One Sunday the minister was detained and… — Bennett Cerf Copy Share Image
“He was fine; he, that orphan that foundling that outcast; he felt himself august and strong; he looked full in the face… — Victor Hugo 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
“Werner likes to crouch in his dormer and imagine radio waves like mile-long harp strings,bending and vibrating over Zollverein,flying through forests,through cities,through… — Anthony Doerr 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
Hwang Jung-eun is one of the brightest stars of the new South Korean generation - she's Han Kang's favourite, and the novel… — Deborah Smith Copy Share Image
I cherish my own freedom dearly, but I care even more for your freedom. Too many have died since I went to… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
What kind of victory is it when someone is left defeated? What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans, and… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Postmodern irony and cynicism's become an end in itself, a measure of hip sophistication and literary savvy. Few artists dare to try… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
Houses of evil similarity appeared like rows of disciplined, humiliated orphans. — Elizabeth Hardwick Copy Share Image
And I, as I lived, in an alien landWill die a slave and an orphan. — Mikhail Lermontov Copy Share Image
Do not let Sunday be taken from you. If your soul has no Sunday, it becomes an orphan. — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
I always questioned if I was CALLED to adopt, but then I realized no child was ever CALLED to be an orphan. — David Platt Copy Share Image
The Christian who does not feel that the Virgin Mary is his or her mother is an orphan. — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
The one phrase you can use is that success has a thousand fathers, and failure is an orphan. — Alan Price Copy Share Image
