Children Quote by Alan Ball

A wife who loses a husband is called a widow. A husband who loses a wife is called a widower. A child who loses…

— Jay Neugeboren

When a child loses his parent, they are called an orphan. When a spouse loses her or his partner, they are called a widow…

— Ronald Reagan

When you lose a spouse, you're a widow or widower; when you lose your parents, you're an orphan. When you lose a child, there's…

— Frances McDormand

“When a husband loses his wife, they call him a widower. When a wife loses her husband, they call her a widow. And when…

— Bhavya Kaushik

There are no words to describe the pain of burying a child, and specifically there is no word to label their new, lifelong status.…

— Lisa Belkin

The English language has about 450,000 commonly used words, but more may be needed. What to you call someone who has lost a sibling…

— Jeffrey Zaslow

It's a different kind of grief when you lose a parent.

— Luke Campbell

Losing a parent is something like driving through a plate-glass window. You didn't know it was there until it shattered, and then for years…

— Saul Bellow

Mother is a synonym for abandonment and death. Comparing this synonym to water, it is like poured-out water. I call it mother, the identity…

— Kim Hyesoon

It's not possible to put into words the sense of loss and grief that comes to a family that loses one of their children.

— John R. Allen

No mother. Two small words, and yet within them lay a bottomless well of pain and loss, a ceaseless mourning for touches that were…

— Kristin Hannah

A Child Becomes An Orphan When Their Father Passes Away

— Ms_Freshie