Orphan Quotes


Not everyone can be an orphan.

Orphan Black is the new black.

Victory has a thousand fathers but defeat is an orphan.

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

Autobiography begins with a sense of being alone. It is an orphan form.

Don't ye know that ev'ry Soul on Earth feels itself to be an Orphan?

Orphan Black' tends to for their auditions shroud it in secrecy and change names.

Poetry is an orphan of silence. The words never quite equal the experience behind them.

Do not let Sunday be taken from you. If your soul has no Sunday it becomes an orphan.

I'm a big fan of 'Orphan Black ' and to be one of the original cast members is something that will always be dear to me.

Something like 'Rust and Bone' would be a dream. Very pared down. 'Orphan Black' is such a challenge. I just need something that isn't as full-on intense as that.

If you know anything about James Whitcomb Riley you know that Little Orphan Annie is one of the most fantastic characters who ever lived in America before Charlie Chaplin.

Poetry is an orphan of silence.

Marry an orphan: you'll never have to spend boring holidays with the in-laws.

The Christian who does not feel that the Virgin Mary is his or her mother is an orphan.

Hypocrite: The man who murdered his parents and then pleaded for mercy on the grounds that he was an orphan.

In the English language there are orphans and widows but there is no word for the parents who loses a child.

In the United States if one family out of every four churches adopted a child there would be no orphans in the country

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 the holy name of liberty or democracy?

If I lose show business - I'll really be an orphan!

I feel akin to the Platypus. An orphan in a family. A swimmer a recluse. Part bird part fish part lizard.

A woman always has her man but the man unconsciously leans on his roots his heritage. He feels like an orphan without his parents.

I'm an orphan. But the public has adopted me and that has been my only family. The biggest family in the world is my fans.

You are ugly when you love her you are beautiful and fresh vital and free modern and poetic when you don't... you are more beautiful as an orphan than as your mother's son.

When my father died my mother was still alive. And I think when your second parent dies there is that shock: 'Oh man I'm an orphan.' There's also this relief: It's done; it's finished; it's over.

I can't know everything pretend you're an orphan.

Victory has a hundred fathers but defeat is an orphan.

Life Insurance Motto - Robbing the widows early and orphan.

Truth is orphan without matter and matter is impotent without truth.

As always victory finds a hundred fathers but defeat is an orphan.

He will regard his people's cry the widow's tear the orphan's moan.

Please don't let the illegal ivory trade orphan even more baby elephants.

There is something very romantic about the orphan figure in American literature.

I'm an orphan!" Constance cried gleefully. "I'm an orphan!" ~ The Prisoner's Dilemma

We probably looked like starving orphan children. Hey! We were starving orphan children.

ORPHAN n. A living person whom death has deprived of the power of filial ingratitude . . .

The victory always has a lot of parents but the defeat is always an orphan.

And I as I lived in an alien landWill die a slave and an orphan.

Technical perfection is insufficient. It is an orphan without the true soul of the dancer.

You can't avoid orphan stories child. Every story is an orphan story. We are all orphaned sooner or later.

There's a day that is coming when all the last will be first and every orphan will be home.

You show me a boy who brings a snake home to his mother and I'll show you an orphan.

I always questioned if I was CALLED to adopt but then I realized no child was ever CALLED to be an orphan.

The Duke of Dunstable had one-way pockets. He would walk ten miles in the snow to chisel an orphan out of tuppence.

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.

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.

I do not believe in a religion that cannot wipe out the widow's tears or bring a piece of bread to the orphan's mouth.

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.

I'd seen 'Punky Brewster ' I'd seen 'Webster ' I saw 'Annie ' and it was time to either be an orphan or an actress.

Adolescents are attracted to tragic heroes. That's why rock stars dress like homeless people. Adolescence is a fall. It's when every child becomes an orphan.

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.

You are in the field to defend the public interest the financial truth for investors and the funds that should support the widow and the orphan.

The women laughed and wept; the crowd stamped their feet enthusiastically for at that moment Quasimodo was really beautiful. He was handsome ? this orphan this foundling this outcast.

and every day I thank [God] that I am alive not because I fear death but because my wife has a husband and my son is not an orphan.

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.

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.

Virtue is the daughter of Religion; Repentance her adopted child --a poor orphan who without the asylum which she offers would not know where to hide her sole treasure her tears!

I've always been a bit of an orphan because actors say 'Well he's more of a dancer.' And dancers say 'No. He's really a singer.' And singers say 'No. He's an actor.'

Sir usually I do preach for souls but my orphans cannot eat souls. And if they could it would take four souls the size of yours to make a square meal for just one orphan!

Fidel Castro looked after the poor he looked after the weak he looked after the widow he looked after the orphan - he did all the things that Prophet Muhammad did from the spiritual perspective.