ORPHAN, n. A living person whom death has deprived of the power of filial ingratitude . . . — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
“Some people ate less food less often when they each had a home than they now do as hobos.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
He reminds me of the man who murdered both his parents, and then when sentence was about to be pronounced pleaded for… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
Television is blue-collar work. You clock in in the morning; you work 12, 13 hours - sometimes 18 hours if you're doing 'Orphan Black.' — Jordan Gavaris Copy Share Image
I grew up with my dad. He was very eccentric. I had zero supervision in New York. It's kind of like I… — Julia Fox Copy Share Image
We come crawling through these cracks, orphans, lobotomies; if you ask me what I want, I'll tell you. I want everything. Whole… — Kathy Acker Copy Share Image
Both of us were orphans. No one would remember what we remembered. The elders that stood as protective shields, as references to… — Sylvia Browne Copy Share Image
What sad faces one always sees in the asylums for orphans! It is more fatal to neglect the heart than the head. — Theodore Parker Copy Share Image
So, then, Oxford Street, stonyhearted stepmother, thou that listenest to the sighs of orphans, and drinkest the tears of children, at length… — Thomas de Quincey Copy Share Image
“If God is calling you to adopt, He will accomplish it. If God is leading you to care for the fatherless across… — Rick Morton Copy Share Image
In tribal society, the most important thing to do when civilians are killed in a skirmish is to acknowledge the deaths, and… — Greg Mortenson Copy Share Image
Even in chimps there is true altruistic behaviour; behaviour that doesn't fit into the sociobiological model that says you either help a… — Jane Goodall 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
She's gone. Been gone for ages. They split up right after you left. That's why the grass out front started growing again."… — Maureen Johnson Copy Share Image
All the criticism is ultimately a blessing in disguise. Because now people know about Malawi [due to the child adoption]. And now… — Madonna Ciccone Copy Share Image
TRUST, n. In American politics, a large corporation composed in greater part of thrifty working men, widows of small means, orphans in… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
I was a hot-dog stand lady, I was an orphan housemother, I was a waitress 3 or 4 times. All of those… — Barbara Corcoran Copy Share Image
“Cono felt embarrassed by the thought that he might have been just another pitiful orphan trying to turn his friends into family,… — Victor Robert Lee Copy Share Image
“the many hours Amy and I spent there, she sitting on the bank reading from a book of poems or some dreary… — L.A. Meyer 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
My profession brought me in contact with various minds. Earnest, serious discussion on the condition of woman enlivened my business room; failures… — Harriot Kezia Hunt Copy Share Image
Harry's status as orphan gives him a freedom other children can only dream about (guiltily, of course). No child wants to lose… — J. K. Rowling Copy Share Image
It has been hard to muster the resources to support fledgling democracies and to intervene on behalf of the most desperate. The… — Condoleezza Rice 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
“For my sake,” he said firmly, addressing the air in front of him as though it were a tribunal, “I dinna want… — Diana Gabaldon Copy Share Image
“Arms still crossed, Lindsay's clogs tapped on the sidewalk. “So Sam didn’t tell you I was a desperate orphan child with no… — Lilly Christine Copy Share Image
“People always ask me that, how it feels to be an orphan. I don't know. I want to ask them how it… — David J. Kirk 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
“In the English language there are orphans and widows, but there is no word for the parents who lose a child.” — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
Just love the one in front of you. Take in the orphan, take in the widow. Just love the one in front… — Heidi Baker Copy Share Image
“For a terrible time of life a teen-ager deceives himself; he believes he can trick the world. He believes he is invulnerable.… — John Irving Copy Share Image
These esoteric, intellectual debates-I want them to come to New Jersey and sit across from the widows and the orphans and have… — Chris Christie Copy Share Image
Orphans, dead parents, lonely children at Christmas, morose spoken word recordings, everything you love about the holidays. Move the turkey over so… — April Winchell Copy Share Image
The Duke of Dunstable had one-way pockets. He would walk ten miles in the snow to chisel an orphan out of tuppence. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Be generous to the poor orphans and those in need. The man to whom our Lord has been liberal ought not to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A woman always has her man, but the man unconsciously leans on his roots, his heritage. He feels like an orphan without… — Raj Kapoor Copy Share Image
There are orphans who can be cared for; but this some will not venture to undertake; for it brings them more work… — Ellen G. White Copy Share Image
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