My first American ancestor, gentlemen, was an Indian-an early Indian. Your ancestors skinned him alive, and I am an orphan. All those… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Religion by itself was not meant to be a divisive tool. All of our religious teachings have similar rules, such as a… — Leymah Gbowee Copy Share Image
These concerns (for orphan children in India and elsewhere in the world) are very good, but often these same people are not… — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
“This famed orphan of the storm tended to bob about as helplessly as a cork (embracing the cliché in order to maintain… — Peter David Copy Share Image
When I was younger I never drank. I never drank, I never did any weed or drugs or anything because I felt… — Ice T 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
I did a lot of reading of first person accounts from Koreans and combatants and aid workers. And I spoke to relatives.… — Chang-Rae Lee Copy Share Image
Debt, grinding debt, whose iron face the widow, the orphan, and the sons of genius fear and hate; debt, which consumes so… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
It is very seldom that any one is in prison for an ordinary crime unless early in life he entered a path… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
When I was an orphan, I was the richest kid at the orphanage because everyone else was complaining about not having anything.… — Wayne Dyer Copy Share Image
Then she added in a sort of childish delight: 'We'll be poor, won't we? Like people in books. And I'll be an… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
Opera was an enormous part of my childhood. My parents were both opera buffs, and they met in the box seat of… — Daniel Handler Copy Share Image
“And after that until the end, there was no relief from being a girl with chores that she wasn’t being paid for,… — Ru Freeman Copy Share Image
I’ve discovered a new affliction; it’s called Orphan Black Eyes. When people ask me what I’m working on and I tell them… — Michelle Forbes Copy Share Image
“What I wouldn't give to have known my father with my mother in love-together, you know, just the two of them, in… — Adriana Trigiani Copy Share Image
What single organization has done more for the orphan than the Catholic Church? What one, through hospital and asylum, more for the… — David Josiah Brewer Copy Share Image
The question is not what anybody deserves. The question is who is to take on the God-like role of deciding what everybody… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
Perhaps you have heard about the college executives who were discussing what they wanted to do after retirement age. One hoped to… — Robert H. Jackson Copy Share Image
Shepard’s Field is a good place for orphans. My class had a fundraiser for them and when we had a field trip… — Lynn Chen Copy Share Image
“I thought back to Meg’s advice about Hemingway sentences—simple declarative statements that showed the truth and distilled the meaning. My first attempt… — Laura Anderson Kurk Copy Share Image
We tend to think of orphans as being the protagonist of stories we read when we're kids, and yet here you are:… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
The condition of truth, is to allow suffering to speak. Which means attend to suffering of the least of these, of the… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
My mum knows people in the village who died or were affected by Agent Orange who had kids who are disabled. I… — Anh Do Copy Share Image
Christina Baker Kline writes exquisitely about two unlikely friends—one, a 91-year-old survivor of the grinding poverty of rural Ireland, immigrant New York… — Cathy Marie Buchanan Copy Share Image
Dear Brothers and Sisters, Never resort to war! Never war! Above all, I think of all the children who are robbed of… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
My sister gave my two-and-a-half year old this book called 'And Tango Makes Three,' about the gay penguin couple at the Central… — Miriam Shor Copy Share Image
I did have a lot of lack, but I never experienced it. I grew up in the east side of Detroit, in… — Wayne Dyer Copy Share Image
These two guys [Donald Trump and Chris Christie] kinds find each other. They love each other. They were playing let's spend the… — Joan Walsh Anglund Copy Share Image
The global HIV/AIDS epidemic is an unprecedented crisis that requires an unprecedented response. In particular it requires solidarity - between the healthy… — Kofi Annan Copy Share Image
This business of burning human beings with napalm, of filling our nation's homes with orphans and widows, of injecting poisonous drugs of… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
“I'd plotted, as a child, to give my life to the Lord. In college, I'd lost this faith. Isolated, grief-wild, I'd picked… — R. O. Kwon Copy Share Image
There is a kind of virtue that lies not in extraordinary actions, not in saving poor orphans from burning buildings, but in… — Randy Cohen Copy Share Image
“One of the strangest things about life is that it will chug on, blind and oblivious, even as your private world-your little… — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
The President's policy proposal, known as 'chained CPI,' would re-calculate the cost of living for Social Security beneficiaries. That new number won't… — Elizabeth Warren Copy Share Image
“Someone experiencing the stages of grief is rarely aware of how his behavior might appear to others. Grief often produces a “zoom… — Sol Luckman Copy Share Image
It was the day of the worms. That first almost-warm, after-the-rainy-night day in April, when you bolt from your house to find… — Jerry Spinelli Copy Share Image
The orphan in children's literature allows the child protagonist to move the story forward themselves. I think that, however happy a family,… — Brian Selznick Copy Share Image
Perhaps there are those who are able to go about their lives unfettered by such concerns. But for those like us, our… — Kazuo Ishiguro Copy Share Image
“Destiny is not always preordained. Life is about making choices. Our lives are the sum of all the choices we make, the… — Judith Land Copy Share Image
I believe that this could very well be looked back on as the sin of our generation...I believe that our children and… — Richard Stearns Copy Share Image
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