Quotes About Being Orphaned

#1. Maybe it was being orphaned and alone all my life, but I always steeled for the worst outcome I could envision. That way I could shrug and be almost happy with anything that fell short of the worst. It was a peculiar life skill and one I had gotten damn good at.

James Anderson

#2. Divorce in a young-adult novel means what being orphaned meant in a fairy tale: vulnerability, danger, unwanted independence.

Caitlin Flanagan

#3. Think about it: You're trying to raise cash to save an endangered animal. You've got orphaned pandas getting 3 trillion YouTube hits, and you've got seals being clubbed over the head by roughnecks. The money flows in. But what about the poor shark?

Stephen Rodrick

#4. You get Kandinsky, a bad mother, all them pick-up-sticks pictures ...

Donald Barthelme

#5. All nuclear weapon states should now recognize that this is so, and declare - in Treaty form - that they will never be the first to use nuclear weapons. This would open the way to the gradual, mutual reduction of nuclear arsenals, down to zero.

Joseph Rotblat

#6. Know what you value, be willing to take a risk, and lead from the heart - lead from what you believe in.

Alan Keith

#7. Always have a dream that will outlast your lifetime,

Jack Layton

#8. The word 'teach' suddenly conveys a sense of menace that is foreign to me.

Anna Bayes

#9. I'm a lioness. I have four cubs. I'm a mom. I want to take care of my kids and protect them.

Heidi Klum

#10. She knew in her heart that nature has a preference for a particular order: parents die, then children die. But it was a harsh design, offering little relief from pain, for being in accord with it means that the fortunate find themselves orphaned.

Charles Frazier

#11. Cooking is actually quite aggressive and controlling and sometimes, yes, there is an element of force-feeding going on.

Nigella Lawson

#12. It's very complicated. There's been this broader mechanism, an industry, which wants people to use free services, from the old days of advertising-supported papers and magazines, to ad-supported free television.

Astra Taylor

#13. During many ages, the prediction, as it is usual, contributed to its own accomplishment.

Edward Gibbon

#14. You can't be a winner if you're a whiner ... wiener.

Jeffrey Gitomer

#15. She laughed again, as if she said something very witty, and held my hand for a moment, looking up into my face, promising that there was no one in the world she so much wanted to see.

F Scott Fitzgerald