Orphaned Quotes

33 quotes by 31 authors

I go to Malawi twice a year. It's where two of my children were adopted from, and I have a lot of projects there that… — Madonna Ciccone
Each feminist work has tended to be received as if it emerged from nowhere; as if each one of us had lived, thought, and worked… — Adrienne Rich
My father was the orphaned son of immigrants to the United States from Ireland. My father never knew his parents. His mother died - we're… — George J. Mitchell
Post-modernism has cut off the present from all futures. The daily media add to this by cutting off the past. Which means that critical opinion… — John Berger
What is needed now are increased efforts to promote youth participation and commitment; more services aimed at youth; more parental involvement; more education and information,… — Carol Bellamy
Did you know a child is orphaned by AIDS every 15 seconds. Millions of children are going it alone. Missing their childhood. Missing their mother.… — Danny Glover
Perhaps we become aware of our existence only when we feel on our skin the touch of a place that has no name, that connects… — Andrzej Stasiuk
Defeat creates orphaned thoughts. — Madeleine Blais
It deals with so many different aspects of living in South Africa the racial issues of South Africans and Asians with poverty with the reality… — Laura Thielen
Epidemics historically have tended to kill the very young and the very old, but AIDS is different: Those ages 20 to 40 are most affected,… — Marvin Olasky
With spirit we are all children of the cosmos; Without it we are orphaned and adrift. — Deepak Chopra
What people loathe the most is to be orphaned, desolate, unworthy. But this is what princes and kings call themselves. — Laozi
Time mellows people as it mellows wine, as long as the grapes are good. You may set out to be a businesswoman or businessman but… — Barbara Johnson
It's not so much that I want to direct but that I have to. When I write something it terrifies me that if I give… — Peter Mullan
Do you lend books and DVDs to people? If so, don't you always regret it? All my life I have forced books on to people… — Lynne Truss
I talk to my inner lover, and I say, why such rush? We sense that there is some sort of spirit that loves birds and… — Kabir
If it had been a heart attack, the newspapermight have used the word massive,as if a mountain range had openedinside her, but insteadit used the… — Nick Flynn
Divorce in a young-adult novel means what being orphaned meant in a fairy tale: vulnerability, danger, unwanted independence. — Caitlin Flanagan
As an adult, it's a huge shock to be orphaned; as a child it's just hideous, ghastly. — Kristin Scott Thomas
...she knew in her heart that nature has a preference for a particular order: parents die, then children die. But it was a harsh design,… — Charles Frazier

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