Top Orphan Quotes

Do you not know that God entrusted you with that money (all above what buys necessities for your families) to feed the hungry, to clothe the naked, to help the stranger, the widow, the fatherless; and...

Some people ate less food less often when they each had a home than they now do as hobos.

Orphan Definition

(n.) A child bereaved of both father and mother; sometimes, also, a child who has but one parent living.

(a.) Bereaved of parents, or (sometimes) of one parent.

(v. t.) To cause to become an orphan; to deprive of parents.

What the hell is that? he asked.Magic mushrooms.I've always wanted to try those, he exclaimed. They sound so cute.

For my sake, he said firmly, addressing the air in front of him as though it were a tribunal, I dinna want ye to bear another child. I wouldna risk your loss, Sassenach, he said, his voice suddenly hu...

There would be fewer absent fathers, if straight men were turned on only by women with whom they would not mind having children.

Every politician should have been born an orphan and remain a bachelor.

History is orphan. It can speak, but cannot hear. It can give, but cannot take. Its wounds and tragedies can be read and known, but cannot be avoided or cured.

When you don't have something anymore, you learn to live without it." That's what my dad told me that first night after he found me sleeping inside a closet underneath a pile of my mom's clothes. All...

When other girls were dreaming about love, she dreamt of love too, but in an entirely different context - the ones they took for granted.

This is the great world, and I am only Kim. Who is Kim?' He considered his own identity, a thing he had never done before, till his head swam. He was one insignificant person in all this roaring whirl...

Victory has a thousand fathers, but defeat is an orphan.

The one phrase you can use is that success has a thousand fathers, and failure is an orphan.

And when the Assembly arrived at Dusk I hasten'd into the Streets and made my self a child of Hazard. There was a Band of little Vagabonds who met by moon-light in the Moorfields, and for a time I wan...

For a terrible time of life a teen-ager deceives himself; he believes he can trick the world. He believes he is invulnerable. An adolescent who is an orphan at this phase is in danger of never growing...

I propose a conspiracy of orphans. We exchange winks. We reject hierarchies. All hierarchies. We take the shit of the world for granted and we exchange stories about how we nevertheless get by. We are...

Werner likes to crouch in his dormer and imagine radio waves like mile-long harp strings,bending and vibrating over Zollverein,flying through forests,through cities,through walls.At midnight he and Ju...