“Life, despite the accompanying loneliness that afflicts human without umbilical attachments, was to be cherished for the sheer joy of nature.” — Aporva Kala 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
“You are stranded in a culture where you can’t trust many, you don’t fully understand the language, and you can’t read the… — Kim De Blecourt Copy Share Image
“She was learning that being with Slade was like riding a roller coaster. Good news one minute and bad news the next.… — Dianne Harman Coyote in Provence Copy Share Image
“OrPhAnS,are the one who has no parents,But have many parents.But having ones parents is more valuable than the other having many parents(it… — Siddwin S Shetty Copy Share Image
I've played a worrying number of orphans, children who have been abandoned or had something terrible happen to them. — Asa Butterfield Copy Share Image
“An orphans curse would drag to hell A spirit from on high; But oh! How more horrible that that Is the curse… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“For years I looked for you. I never gave up, but I never imagined that fate would bring you to Mineral Wells."… — Neil Patrick Harris Copy Share Image
“There were two types of survivors in life: those, like her, who found the requisite strength in having once been loved with… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
I was born to a woman I never knew and raised by another who took in orphans. I do not know my… — James A. Michener Copy Share Image
“If every Christian family in the United States would simply commit to pray and ask God if HE wants to use them… — Kelly Rosati Copy Share Image
“We both look mournfully in the window as we pass, though I'd sworn to myself that I wouldn't. Nothing says orphans like… — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
“He wanted a home. He wanted a family. He wanted to have friends. But none of those things were realistic. At least… — Neil Patrick Harris Copy Share Image
“Do you think that horrible servant girl will get my body pregnant?' she asked as we trotted down the steps. 'I've heard… — Jasper Fforde 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
“We have nothing left. Orphans. Castaways." She turns to me. "Childless. That is what we are. The unwanted or the un-killed. We… — Bill Blais 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
“Her mother admonished through closed lips, the sound a mother can make mean anything from "pick up your socks" to "we are… — Thomm Quackenbush Copy Share Image
“None of us became monks to be nursemaids.” To which the child Lazlo replied, with fire in his soul, “And none of… — Laini Taylor Copy Share Image
“To our God, taking care of orphans isn’t just a “great idea.” It’s critical. Why? Because every man, woman, boy, and girl—including… — Johnny Carr 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
“Some of the common occurrences of injustice are the presence of poverty, starvation, gender inequality, neglected widows and orphans and the injustice… — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
I'm concerned about the plight of children. But I'm not on a mission to get all the available orphans in the world… — Andy Stanley Copy Share Image
“You're not my real parents, every child has thought. I'm not your real child. But with orphans, it's true. What freedom, to… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
Acceptance, Unconditional Love and Compassion - loving someone else's child God sent your way gives more joy and blessings than can ever… — Rosa-Lee Beckwith-Powell Copy Share Image
“There are orphanages," he exclaimed to himself, "for children who have lost their parents--oh! why, why, why, are there no harbours of… — Samuel Butler Copy Share Image
Wow. What'd he do to deserve that? Rescue orphans from a burning building? If so, you might want to make sure he… — Richelle Mead Copy Share Image
There's no shortage of orphans in 19th-century literature, but it's hard to find a single happy, communicative, functional parental relationship in the… — David Nicholls Copy Share Image
People think you are an orphan when you are a child, and don't believe that old people can feel that they are… — Agnes Varda Copy Share Image
“The purpose of having the orphans study all these diverse fields was not for them to just become geniuses, but to become… — James Morcan, Lance Morcan Copy Share Image
Our souls are like those orphans whose unwedded mothers die in bearing them: the secret of our paternity lies in their grave,… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
“I have never left you. And I never told you you couldn't go outside. Take your children and go outside and play… — Kim de Blecourt Copy Share Image
“… and the Baudelaire orphans climbed aboard, turning the tables of their lives and breaking their unfortunate cycle for the very first time.” — Lemony Snicket Copy Share Image
The white man's God cannot love our people or He would protect them. They seem to be orphans who can look nowhere… — Chief Seattle Copy Share Image
“Just knowing that they could read made the Baudelaire orphans feel as if their wretched lives could be a little brighter.” — Lemony Snicket Copy Share Image
“I'd never opened up the gas station if it had been someone else, but I know Tucker's fond of you. It's a… — Dianne Harman Cornered Coyote Copy Share Image
“The Baudelaire orphans looked worriedly out the window. They weren't very happy about just being dropped off in a strange place, as… — Lemony Snicket Copy Share Image
“When other girls were dreaming about love, she dreamt of love too, but in an entirely different context - the ones they… — Donna Lynn Hope Copy Share Image
“Imagine you’re visiting a place where there’s little to no English spoken and you wake up one day to find that the… — Kim De Blecourt Copy Share Image
There are orphans that can be cared for; but this some will not venture to undertake, for it brings them work more… — Ellen G. White Copy Share Image
