Orphans are the only ones who get to choose their fathers, and they love them twice as much. — Adam Johnson
Too many children in foster care are falling through cracks. Be a hero, take the time learn about adoption today. — Bruce Willis
And I, as I lived, in an alien landWill die a slave and an orphan. — Mikhail Lermontov
Why can't we build orphanages next to homes for the elderly? If someone were sitting in a rocker, it wouldn't be long before a kid will be in his lap. — Cloris Leachman
Being unwanted, unloved, uncared for, forgotten by everybody, I think that is a much greater hunger, a much greater poverty than the person who has nothing to eat. — Mother Teresa
Being unwanted, unloved, uncared for, forgotten by everybody, I think that is a much greater hunger, a much greater poverty than the person who has nothing to eat. — Mother Theresa
Without a family, man, alone in the world, trembles with the cold. — Andre Maurois
The abused children are alone with their suffering, not only within the family, but also within themselves. They cannot crate a place in their own soul where they could cry their beart out. — Alice Miller
Every child deserves a home and love. Period. — Dave Thomas
Born alone, die alone, no crew to keep my crown or throne — Nas
Sometimes, only one person is missing, and the whole world seems depopulated. — Alphonse De Lamartine
The mother of the year should be a sterilized woman with two adopted children — Paul R. Ehrlich
But lost children always find each other, in the dark, in the cold. It is as though they are magnetized, and can only attract their like. — Catherynne M. Valente
Other people are occupied, I alone am unwilling, like the outcast. — Lao Tzu
Short Orphan Quotes
Success has many parents, but failure is an orphan. — American Proverbs
Families don't have to match. You don't have to look like someone else to love them. — Leigh Anne Tuohy
Barbers, learn on the heads of orphans. — Moroccan Proverbs
Do not let Sunday be taken from you. If your soul has no Sunday, it becomes an orphan. — Albert Schweitzer
Technical perfection is insufficient. It is an orphan without the true soul of the dancer. — Sylvie Guillem
As always, victory finds a hundred fathers but defeat is an orphan. — Galeazzo Ciano
The one phrase you can use is that success has a thousand fathers, and failure is an orphan. — Alan Price
Victory has a thousand fathers, but defeat is an orphan. — John F. Kennedy
ORPHAN, n. A living person whom death has deprived of the power of filial ingratitude . . . — Ambrose Bierce
Poetry is an orphan of silence. The words never quite equal the experience behind them. — Charles Simic
Orphan Image Quotes
Being An Orphan Quotes
Autobiography begins with a sense of being alone. It is an orphan form. — John Berger
I always questioned if I was CALLED to adopt, but then I realized no child was ever CALLED to be an orphan. — David Platt
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 by the long shadow that is cast by my accomplishments. — Daniel Handler
Don't ye know that ev'ry Soul on Earth feels itself to be an Orphan? — Erica Jong
If I lose show business - I'll really be an orphan! — Red Buttons
We tend to think of orphans as being the protagonist of stories we read when we're kids, and yet here you are: you're an adult, you're supposed to manage, you're supposed to get over it, you're supposed to go on with your life, and you feel like a lost child. — Sandra Cisneros
For not an orphan in the wide world can be so deserted as the child who is an outcast from a living parent's love. — Charles Dickens
History is an 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. — Kedar Joshi
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
Adult Orphan Quotes
Looked after children - fostered, adopted or orphaned - [often] grow into their adult lives in fear of speaking of their background, as if it may somehow weaken their standing in the foreground. — Lemn Sissay
When I lost my father, I thought I learned about grief and transition. However, nobody tells you what it's like to lose your mother. They don't tell you that you're going to feel like an orphan at whatever age you are as an adult. — Sandra Cisneros
Divorce in a young-adult novel means what being orphaned meant in a fairy tale: vulnerability, danger, unwanted independence. — Caitlin Flanagan
Among adults – and among orphans – Wilbur Larch noted that delirious happiness was rare. — John Irving
As an adult, it's a huge shock to be orphaned; as a child it's just hideous, ghastly. — Kristin Scott Thomas
Defeat Is An Orphan Quotes
Theres an old saying that victory has 100 fathers and defeat is an orphan. — John F. Kennedy
Victory has a hundred fathers but defeat is an orphan. — Galeazzo Ciano
The victory always has a lot of parents but the defeat is always an orphan. — Honore de Balzac
There's an old saying that victory has a hundred fathers and defeat is an orphan.... I'm the responsible officer of the Government. — John F. Kennedy
Widows And Orphans Quotes
We call that person who has lost his father, an orphan; and a widower that man who has lost his wife. But that man who has known the immense unhappiness of losing a friend, by what name do we call him? Here every language is silent and holds its peace in impotence. — Joseph Roux
We call that person who has lost his father, an orphan; and a widower that man who has lost his wife. But that man who has known the immense unhappiness of losing a friend, by what name do we call him? Here every language is silent and holds its peace in impotence. — Philibert Joseph Roux
Where would the Rockefellers be today if old John D. had gone on selling short-weight kerosene ... to widows and orphans instead of wisely deciding to mulct the whole country. — S. J. Perelman
I dont know about Brad Pitt leaving that beautiful woman to go hold orphans for Angelina. I mean how long is that going to last? — Michael Douglas
In the English language there are orphans and widows, but there is no word for the parents who loses a child. — Jodi Picoult
God is pleased with no music below so much as with the thanksgiving songs of relieved widows and supported orphans; of rejoicing, comforted, and thankful persons. — Jeremy Taylor
It is now possible to live a "christian life" without doing the things that Jesus commanded us to do. We have hired people to go into all the world, to visit those in prison, to feed the hungry, to clothe the naked, to care for widows and orphans. The average Christian doesn't have to do it. — Cal Thomas
Care for him who shall have borne the battle — Abraham Lincoln
A person may rightfully be happy if in this life he could do a great favor for widows and orphans, could assist support than, and facilitate fate of people. — Islom Karimov
I will work with my colleagues on both sides of the aisle to preserve the Social Security promise that provides secure retirement benefits for all, especially those who are most at risk such as widows, orphans, and people with disabilities when the need arises. — Chaka Fattah
The sponsors of war closely resemble the weapons they create. And smart bombs, depleted uranium, land mines, rockets and tanks, rather than protect 'widows and orphans and strangers at the gate', are designed precisely to create 'widows and orphans', to transform strangers into enemies and enemies into corpses. — Daniel Berrigan
When we adopt—and when we encourage a culture of adoption in our churches and communities—we’re picturing something that’s true about our God. We, like Jesus, see what our Father is doing and do likewise (John 5:19). And what our Father is doing, it turns out, is fighting for orphans, making them sons and daughters. — Russell D. Moore
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 shall one day find in Heaven as much rest and joy as we ourselves have dispensed in this life. — Ignatius of Loyola
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 more orphans. If everybody would be willing to simply do something to care for one of these precious treasures, I think we would be amazed by just how much we could change the world. — Steven Curtis Chapman
Fairies, black, grey, green, and white,
You moonshine revellers, and shades of night,
You orphan heirs of fixed destiny,
Attend your office and your quality. — William Shakespeare
This business of burning human beings with napalm, of filling our nation's homes with orphans and widows, of injecting poisonous drugs of hate into veins of peoples normally humane, of sending men home from dark and bloody battlefields physically handicapped and psychologically deranged, cannot be reconciled with wisdom, justice and love. — Martin Luther King, Jr.
I was born to a woman I never knew and raised by another who took in orphans. I do not know my background, my lineage, my biological or cultural heritage. But when I meet someone new, I treat them with respect.... For after all, they could be my people. — James A. Michener
A wife who loses a husband is called a widow. A husband who loses a wife is called a widower. A child who loses his parents is called an orphan. There is no word for a parent who loses a child. That's how awful the loss is. — Jay Neugeboren
The global HIV/AIDS epidemic is an unprecedented crisis that requires an unprecedented response. In particular it requires solidarity - between the healthy and the sick, between rich and poor, and above all, between richer and poorer nations. We have 30 million orphans already. How many more do we have to get, to wake up? — Kofi Annan
I feel akin to the Platypus. An orphan in a family. A swimmer, a recluse. Part bird, part fish, part lizard. — Trevor Dunn
That's the sacred intent of life, of God--to move us continuously toward growth, toward recovering all that is lost and orphaned within us and restoring the divine image imprinted on our soul. — Sue Monk Kidd
We learned that orphans are easier to ignore before you know their names. They are easier to ignore before you see their faces. It is easier to pretend they’re not real before you hold them in your arms. But once you do, everything changes. — David Platt
Orphans, dead parents, lonely children at Christmas, morose spoken word recordings, everything you love about the holidays. Move the turkey over so you can fit your head in the oven. — April Winchell
I wasn't the only orphan in Guatemala. There are many others, and it's not my grief alone, it's the grief of a whole people. — Rigoberta Menchu
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 not sure - either at or shortly after his birth, and he and all of his siblings were placed in orphanages in the Boston area. — George J. Mitchell
Every politician should have been born an orphan and remain a bachelor. — Lady Bird Johnson
Just love the one in front of you. Take in the orphan, take in the widow. Just love the one in front of you. — Heidi Baker
Chris Christie who proposes accepting Syrian refugee orphans under the age of 5 because they may not be vetted well enough. You can`t trust them. The 5-year-olds might it be terrorists. After all, they`re from Syria. — Rachel Maddow
In the United States, if one family out of every four churches adopted a child, there would be no orphans in the country — Kay Warren
The same sun that rises over castles and welcomes the day
Spills over buildings into the streets where orphans play
And only You can see the good in broken things
You took my heart of stone, and You made it home
And set this prisoner free — Bethany Dillon
If anybody understands God's order for his children, it's someone who has rescued an orphan from despair, for that is what God has done for us. God has adopted you. God sought you, found you, signed the papers and took you home. — Max Lucado
We come crawling through these cracks, orphans, lobotomies; if you ask me what I want, I'll tell you. I want everything. Whole rotten world come down and break. Let me spread my legs. — Kathy Acker
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