Orphan Quotes

178 quotes by 149 authors

I am an orphan, alone: nevertheless I am found everywhere. I am one, but opposed to myself. I am youth and old man at one… — Carl Jung
I'm an orphan!" Constance cried gleefully. "I'm an orphan!" ~ The Prisoner's Dilemma — Trenton Lee Stewart
Just because something's damaged doesn't mean it shouldn't be treated with respect.' 'Ad,' Wallace said, 'it's a coffee table, not an orphan. — Sarah Dessen
Remember, Jesus would rather constantly shame gays than let orphans have a family. — Stephen Colbert
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 orphan and utterly… — F. Scott Fitzgerald
Hypocrite: The man who murdered his parents, and then pleaded for mercy on the grounds that he was an orphan. — Abraham Lincoln
She's gone. Been gone for ages. They split up right after you left. That's why the grass out front started growing again." "He's got a… — Maureen Johnson
In an ideal world, we would have been orphans. We felt like orphans and we felt deserving of the pity that orphans get, but embarrassingly… — Miranda July
In the time since the Baudelaire parents' death, most of the Baudelaire orphans' friends had fallen by the wayside, an expression wich here means "they… — Daniel Handler
Sir, usually I do preach for souls, but my orphans cannot eat souls. And if they could, it would take four souls the size of… — Charles Spurgeon
Just as the Torah and Bible teach concern for those in distress, the Koran instructs all Muslims to make caring for widows, orphans, and refugees… — Greg Mortenson
You show me a boy who brings a snake home to his mother and I'll show you an orphan. — Erma Bombeck
But I also slaughtered you real mother and father. In a moment of mad rage, I took their lives and left you an orphan. If… — Darren Shan
Where can we hide in fair weather, we orphans of the storm? — Evelyn Waugh
Orphans are the only ones who get to choose their fathers, and they love them twice as much. — Adam Johnson
(Sebastian) "See, there you go. You're always looking at me like that." "Like what?" "Like I burn down animal shelters for fun and light my… — Cassandra Clare
I will love you as misfortune loves orphans, as fire loves innocence, and as justice loves to sit and watch while everything goes wrong. — Daniel Handler
Beginning with a critique of my own limbs, which she said, justly enough, were nothing to write home about, this girl went on to dissect… — P.G. Wodehouse
Iâ€™ve always wanted to be liked. It grieved me that I was treated with indifference. Left an orphan by Fortune, I wantedâ€”like all orphansâ€”to be… — Fernando Pessoa
Perhaps there are those who are able to go about their lives unfettered by such concerns. But for those like us, our fate is to… — Kazuo Ishiguro

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