Orphanhood Quotes

#1. We are curious creatures, we Taiwanese. Orphans. Eventually, orphans must choose their own names and write their own stories. The beauty of orphanhood is the blank slate.

Shawna Yang Ryan

#2. No one likes to talk about the positive parts of getting older and aging into orphanhood, how with your parents you often bury a lot of things you were never able to confront or fix or let go of.

Jill McCorkle

#3. "Should I comfort those who do not mourn?" Some preachers are too quick and too willing to hand out pardons to sinners who do not mourn over their crimes!

John William Fletcher

#4. The 1920s brought not only the Charleston but the flat chest.

Robert Gottlieb

#5. Take the kinks out your mind, not your hair.

Marcus Garvey

#6. When words lose their meaning, physical force takes over.

from an essay for Writers by Nancy Crampton

W. H. Auden

#7. Say what you want before the fight but when it's done, you accept the result.

Chael Sonnen

#8. It's always dangerous to prescribe an idea on other people. I think people's interactions with art are their own, and will be far more interesting and sophisticated than anything that I could come up with.

Tom Sturridge

#9. It reaffirmed my long-held belief that education was the enemy of prejudice. ========== The Long Walk to Freedom (Nelson Mandela)

Anonymous

#10. I am not half the man I use to think I was.

Mike Loffredo

#11. 28 Awake, my soul! No longer droop in sin. Rejoice, O my heart, and give place no more for the enemy of my soul.

Joseph Smith Jr.