Orphaned Quotes
33 quotes by 31 authors
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Defeat creates orphaned thoughts.
— Madeleine Blais
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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
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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
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With spirit we are all children of the cosmos; Without it we are orphaned and adrift.
— Deepak Chopra
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What people loathe the most is to be orphaned, desolate, unworthy. But this is what princes and kings call themselves.
— Laozi
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Divorce in a young-adult novel means what being orphaned meant in a fairy tale: vulnerability, danger, unwanted independence.
— Caitlin Flanagan
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As an adult, it's a huge shock to be orphaned; as a child it's just hideous, ghastly.
— Kristin Scott Thomas
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...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
Who Wrote These Orphaned Quotes
31 authors contributed a total of 33 Orphaned Quotes, led by these top contributors: