Orphan Quotes
178 quotes by 153 authors
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Autobiography begins with a sense of being alone. It is an orphan form.
— John Berger
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You don't have to know anything about baseball to respond to Babe Ruth because he's just this magnificent human being. And a really good story…
— Bill Bryson
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Marry an orphan: you'll never have to spend boring holidays with the in-laws.
— George Carlin
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Debt, grinding debt, whose iron face the widow, the orphan, and the sons of genius fear and hate; debt, which consumes so much time, which…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The question is not what anybody deserves. The question is who is to take on the God-like role of deciding what everybody else deserves. You…
— Thomas Sowell
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Upon the decease [of] my wife, it is my Will and desire th[at] all the Slaves which I hold in [my] own right, shall receive…
— George Washington
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Give me ... a compassionate heart, quickly moved to grieve for the woes of others and to active pity for them, even as our Lord…
— Johann Arndt
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Remember that in ascending to the Father You could not leave us orphans; And in making yourself a prisoner on earth You knew to veil…
— Therese of Lisieux
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Living is death; dying is life. We are not what we appear to be. On this side of the grave we are exiles, on that…
— Henry Ward Beecher
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The global HIV/AIDS epidemic is an unprecedented crisis that requires an unprecedented response. In particular it requires solidarity - between the healthy and the sick,…
— Kofi Annan
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Postmodern irony and cynicism's become an end in itself, a measure of hip sophistication and literary savvy. Few artists dare to try to talk about…
— David Foster Wallace
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Poetry is an orphan of silence. The words never quite equal the experience behind them.
— Charles Simic
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It would be more in keeping with the intention of the noblest man in this world if our two Christian churches, instead of annoying Negroes…
— Adolf Hitler
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If anybody understands God's order for his children, it's someone who has rescued an orphan from despair, for that is what God has done for…
— Max Lucado
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What kind of victory is it when someone is left defeated? What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans, and the homeless, whether…
— Mahatma Gandhi
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This business of burning human beings with napalm, of filling our nation's homes with orphans and widows, of injecting poisonous drugs of hate into veins…
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Mrs. Pang was once a nanny for me, and she spoils me the way I imagined kindhearted women would spoil an orphan, loving me for…
— Yiyun Li
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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 Orphan Black…they usually…
— Michelle Forbes
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That's it then. Cancel the kitchen scraps for lepers and orphans, no more merciful beheadings, and call off Christmas.
— Alan Rickman
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Shepard’s Field is a good place for orphans. My class had a fundraiser for them and when we had a field trip to their orphanage,…
— Lynn Chen
Who Wrote These Orphan Quotes
153 authors contributed a total of 178 Orphan Quotes, led by these top contributors: