Orphans Quotes

88 quotes by 77 authors

When you're in your twenties in a new city where no one's from here, we're all sort of orphans. The only people that you can… — Dave Eggers
For me Oliver Twist is a political novel. It is a furious critique of the treatment of orphans and poor children who were forced to… — Henning Mankell
The white man's God cannot love our people or He would protect them. They seem to be orphans who can look nowhere for help. How… — Chief Seattle
They tell about a fifteen-year-old boy in an orphans' home who had an incurable stutter. One Sunday the minister was detained and the boy volunteered… — Bennett Cerf
If only 7 percent of the 2 billion Christians in the world would care for a single orphan in distress, there would effectively be no… — Steven Curtis Chapman
Be generous to the poor orphans and those in need. The man to whom our Lord has been liberal ought not to be stingy. We… — Ignatius Loyola
What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans, and the homeless, whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism or… — Mahatma Gandhi
Continuous persecution of widows and orphans is a crime. Even the Bible says there is a specific place in hell for those who oppress widows. — Imelda Marcos
There are orphans that can be cared for; but this some will not venture to undertake, for it brings them work more than they care… — Ellen G. White
Our souls are like those orphans whose unwedded mothers die in bearing them: the secret of our paternity lies in their grave, and we must… — Herman Melville
Among adults â€“ and among orphans â€“ Wilbur Larch noted that delirious happiness was rare. — John Irving
You know, there's a big world out there filled with desperate orphans who would gladly swim across an ocean of thumbtacks just to be eclipsed… — Daniel Handler
Get out of my way, you cakesniffers!â€ said a rude, violent, and filthy little girl, shoving the Baudelaire orphans aside as she dashed by. — Daniel Handler
In times of war, you often hear leadersâ€”Christian, Jewish, and Muslimâ€”saying, â€˜God is on our side.â€™ But that isnâ€™t true. In war, God is on… — Greg Mortenson
Where lies the final harbor, whence we unmoor no more? In what rapt ether sails the world, of which the weariest will never weary? Where… — Herman Melville
Lots of kids in books are only-child orphans, but I think itâ€™s fun to have family as part of the adventure, to have familial love… — Sarah Rees Brennan
Life isn't fair," he said, in his undisguised voice, and for once the Baudelaire orphans agreed with every word the man said. — Daniel Handler
In the English language there are orphans and widows, but there is no word for the parents who loses a child. — Jodi Picoult
Let the tears which fell, and the broken words which were exchanged in the long close embrace between the orphans, be sacred. A father, sister,… — Charles Dickens
It was the day of the worms. That first almost-warm, after-the-rainy-night day in April, when you bolt from your house to find yourself in a… — Jerry Spinelli

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