Quotes About Parentless

#1. I do find the sibling connection endlessly fascinating, as I do all family dynamics. I like how siblings seem to create their own parentless mini-civilization within a family, one that has its own laws, myths, language, humor, its own loyalties and treacheries.

Jandy Nelson

#2. I stretched my arms out to the side and closed my eyes. I was no longer a parentless child. Nor was I a burn victim. Or the girl who was being abused. I was simply Joey. And, I was free.

Scott Hildreth

#3. John, the self-made man, self-made in every sense, out of nowhere, penniless, parentless, tie-less ... but I've always thought of him as if he had come into the world like Minerva, the goddess of wisdom, who sprang forth from Jupiter's head, fully grown and fully armed.

Ayn Rand

#4. I'm haunted. We all are, I guess. We're parentless, friendless, unloved, abandoned. The spirits of our deceased emotional anchors and proofs of existence will follow and demean us until we too roam a quiet lifeless world alongside them - unable to speak - our histories written in beach sand.

Jason S. Hornsby

#5. Orba (feminine), the Latin word for orphaned, parentless, childless, widowed. There was a time when I believed there was loss that could not be defined, that language had not caught up to death's enormity. But it has. Orbus, orba, orbum, orbi, orbae, orborum, orbo, orbis...

Jacqueline Woodson

#6. You're scared, but just because you can't see your future, doesn't mean I can't. I see it clearly because I can see mine.

Amanda Maxlyn

#7. I wake up saying, I'm still alive; a miracle. And so I keep on pushing.

Jacques-Yves Cousteau

#8. A hundred times I must have thought of ways to take it back, but I wasn't smart enough to understand that an apology is a sign of strenght, not weakness ( ... )

Terry Hayes

#9. The Balinese don't wait and see "how things go." That would be terrifying. They organize how things go, in order to keep things from falling apart.

Elizabeth Gilbert

#10. No great man is ever born too soon or too late.

Norman Douglas

#11. With three or more people there is something bold in the air: direct things get said which would frighten two people alone and conscious of each inch of their nearness to one another. To be three is to be in public - you feel safe.

Elizabeth Bowen

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

Donna Lynn Hope

#13. (Addie) I said. (If it had been you - if it were you trapped inside. If you were the one who couldn't move, I'd go back. I'd go back in a second.)

Kat Zhang

#14. Self-esteem isn't everything; it's just that there's nothing without it.

Gloria Steinem

#15. What once seemed such a curse has become a blessing. All the agony that threatened to destroy my life now seems like the fertile ground for greater trust, stronger hope, and deeper love.

Henri Nouwen