Top 100 The Orphan Quotes
#1. The most surprising thing, honestly, is that so few Americans know about the orphan trains. I was also surprised at the resilience and fortitude of the riders I met, their pragmatism and grace. I don't know whether this is a Midwestern trait or simply a human one.
Christina Baker Kline
#2. 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.
Clarence W. Barron
#3. There is something very romantic about the orphan figure in American literature.
Christopher Bollen
#4. Every time you throw a snail off the dock," Ray teased Homer Wells, "you're making someone start his whole life over."
"Maybe I'm doing him a favor," said Homer Wells, the orphan.
John Irving
#5. We are taught from the very first moment to discover Christ under the distressing disguixe of the poor, the sick, the outcasts. Christ presents Himself to us under every disguise: the dying, the paralytic, the leper, the invalid, the orphan.
Mother Teresa
#6. 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.
Bill Vaughan
#7. He will regard his people's cry, the widow's tear, the orphan's moan.
Eliza R. Snow
#8. The repentant, run-to-seed ultra-Leftists who have converted to humanitarianism, artificial inseminators of the widow and the orphan, themselves orphans of reality and malades imaginaires of politics, premature ejaculators of posthistory and hyperchondriacs of the dead body of ideology and morality.
Jean Baudrillard
#9. The Bible, after all, repeatedly speaks of God as the special protector of the poor, the widow, and the orphan, without
raising the question of how it happened that they became poor, widowed, or orphaned in the first place.
Harold S. Kushner
#10. An ambitious, surreal tale of the love between a young Arab girl sold into marriage and the orphan boy she adopts, 'Habibi' spans multiple eras of conflict and change, stretching the lifetimes of its two protagonists over many centuries.
G. Willow Wilson
#11. 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
#12. Urban Fantasy is the orphan left on the doorstep that no-one knows what to do with.
Tracy Cooper-Posey
#13. Your position in this household has not changed, and I do not appreciate being spoken to in such a disrespectful manner by the orphan that I accepted into my home."
"Really?" said Cinder. "Would you like me to list all the things I didn't appreciate being done to me today?
Marissa Meyer
#14. We did a show called The Orphan Train, during the depression, when families didn't have enough money to support their children, they'd put them on the train and hope someone would pick them up who had enough money to support their children.
Robert Stack
#16. The orphan in children's literature allows the child protagonist to move the story forward themselves. I think that, however happy a family, every intelligent child thinks: 'How did I come to be born to these parents?' - it is about finding your place in the world.
Brian Selznick
#18. The heart of God's justice is to make sure that the "weak and the orphan" have received their share of God's resources for them to live and thrive. Retributive justice comes in only when that ideal is violated.
John Dominic Crossan
#19. You love your wars for the coffers, but for the warrior and the widow, the orphan and the owned, you've not two dry fucks to give.
Christopher Moore
#20. I thought Marilla Cuthburt was an old fool when I heard she'd adopted a girl out of an orphan asylum," she said to herself, "but I guess she didn't make much of a mistake after all. If I'd a child like Anne in the house all the time I'd be a better and happier woman.
L.M. Montgomery
#21. Is this a generation of orphans who are going to the improv to do stand-up?
Mindy Kaling
#22. Twice daily I had to circle through the one year olds' room here in the Old Mishnah Orphan Home where twenty babies sat naked in chairs, eating, sleeping and pooping at will.
J. Naomi Ay
#23. Life Insurance Motto - Robbing the widows early and orphan.
Ethel Mumford
#24. I was going to have to face the man who'd destroyed my kingdom, and the boy who was the reason.
Jodi Meadows
#25. 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
#26. Recent results from astronomers who study the occasional gravitational lensing of unknown worlds by intervening stars suggest that orphan planets could be at least as numerous as the stars. In other words, there could be hundreds of billions of orphan worlds shuffling through our galaxy.
Seth Shostak
#27. What the hell is that?" he asked.
"Magic mushrooms."
"I've always wanted to try those," he exclaimed. "They sound so cute.
Heather O'Neill
#28. A woman always has her man, but the man unconsciously leans on his roots, his heritage. He feels like an orphan without his parents.
Raj Kapoor
#29. 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
#30. ORPHAN, n. A living person whom death has deprived of the power of filial ingratitude ...
Ambrose Bierce
#31. DECEMBER 26TH. The dog came to see me at eight o'clock this morning. He was very affectionate, poor orphan! My room will be his quarters hereafter.
Mark Twain
#32. We're huge fans of 'Game of Thrones' for example, 'Orphan Black.' And even though those shows don't necessarily correlate directly with 'Arrow,' I'm a very big believer that writers are the product of their inspirations.
Marc Guggenheim
#33. Because isn't that what the holidays are all about - letting your family make you wish you were an orphan?
Shelly Laurenston
#34. 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.
Michael Mando
#35. This is the great world, and I am only Kim. Who is Kim?' He considered his own identity, a thing he had never done before, till his head swam. He was one insignificant person in all this roaring whirl of India, going southward to he knew not what fate.
Rudyard Kipling
#36. he also engaged in many charitable works, notably the building of one of the world's largest orphanages for boys (and boys alone; orphan girls would have to look elsewhere)
Bill Bryson
#37. My maternal granddad, Leonard, was full of amazing stories. He was an orphan, with 11 or 12 brothers and sisters, and he used to tell us about growing up near the Irrawaddy river and how one brother was eaten by a crocodile.
Jamie Cullum
#38. I did nothing to deserve God's love; in fact, I was living as an orphan, without hope. Yet God chose to pursue a relationship with me, and through the death of his son Jesus, I was adopted into God's family.
Steven Curtis Chapman
#39. 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.
Victor Hugo
#40. On the second day, a sail drew near, nearer, and picked me up at last. It was the devious-cruising Rachel, that in her retracing search after her missing children, only found another orphan.
Herman Melville
#41. It's so dark that I can hear the sea better than I can see it. Shhhhh, Shhhhh, it says, like I'm a fretful child and it's my mother, though if the sea were my mother, I'd rather have been an orphan.
Maggie Stiefvater
#42. A woman who loses a husband is called a widow, a man who loses his wife is called a widower, and a child who loses his/her parents is called an orphan, but there is no word in the English language for a parent who loses a child (Jay Neugeboren).
David Asay
#43. There are no words to describe the pain of burying a child, and specifically there is no word to label their new, lifelong status. If you lose a spouse, you are a widow; if you lose a parent, you are an orphan. But what about when you lose a child? How do you name something you cannot comprehend?
Lisa Belkin
#44. At the worst times, the best plan was often no plan. And Ky excelled at coming up with no plan.
Gillian Bronte Adams
#45. A public domain work is an orphan. No one is responsible for its life. But everyone exploits its use, until that time certain when it becomes soiled and haggard, barren of its previous virtues. How does the consumer benefit from the steady decline of a film's quality?
Jack Valenti
#46. It didn't feel so bad to be an orphan. It felt like the first day of a long vacation, a day as empty as the January sky was clear and sunny.
Jonathan Franzen
#47. In Ronan's hand, the mask was as thin as a sheet of paper, still warm from Adam's gasped breaths. Orphan Girl buried her face in his side, her body shaking with sobs. Her tiny voice was muffled: "Tollerere me a hic, tollerere me a hic ... "
Take me away from here, take me away from here.
Maggie Stiefvater
#48. Yes, but I doubt Jane Eyre is explicit about irrational fucking.' 'Ah, so you believe my only source of information is a Bildungsroman from the nineteenth century about an orphan girl who marries a gigantic arse.
Charlotte Stein
#49. She and me? We the same in some fings. We live. The others, those orphan kids, they dead. Because she and me, we want to live and we do anyfing to make that happen. That's the difference between us and the others.
Melina Marchetta
#50. Orphan could no longer hear or see the shadows of the dead. He didn't think they had perished. Most likely they were hiding now, somewhere in this landscape of books.
Lavie Tidhar
#52. Dance,' they told me, and I stood still,
and while I stood quiet in line at the gate of the Kingdom, I danced.
'Pray,' they said, and I laughed,
covering myself in the earth's brightnesses,
and then stole off gray into the midst of a revel,
and prayed like an orphan.
Wendell Berry
#53. I'm an orphan!" Constance cried gleefully. "I'm an orphan!" ~ The Prisoner's Dilemma
Trenton Lee Stewart
#54. The home is the most ritualized place in a society; each house is like a religious order with its own ceremonies.
Heather O'Neill
#55. My orphan heart thought love was to complete someone else and to be completed by them. I didn't understand that when two people who aren't whole try to complete each other they both end up with less than when they started. I didn't understand that the only one who can make a person whole is God.
Lacey Sturm
#56. Other resources I relied on during my orphan train research were the Children's Aid Society; the New York Foundling (I attended their 140th homecoming in 2009 and met a number of train riders there); the New York Tenement Museum;
Christina Baker Kline
#57. Leaving me an orphan like those characters I had spoken of the night before, if one can truly be called an orphan at twenty-one years of age.
John Boyne
#58. I was there was the war began. And when it ended.
Jodi Meadows
#59. The Taliban travesty, a noxious combination of Deobandi rigidity, tribal chauvinism, and the aggression of the traumatized war orphan.
Karen Armstrong
#60. The surly orphan of American politics ... the grim joker in the deck, whose nightrider candidacy [is] a rough approximation of the potential for an American fascism. People
Hampton Sides
#61. 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
#62. Everything about 'Hugo' to me is poignant, from the broken orphan to the old man losing his past to the fragility of film itself.
John Logan
#63. I believe that God is the Great Companion, that we are not left orphans, that we may have comradeship with him.
Lyman Abbott
#64. Twenty orphans, one of whom was vaccinated, were put on board a ship. On the eighth day, when a pustule had developed, a second orphan was vaccinated, and so on. When the ship reached its destination, the transfer of vaccinia was made to local residents and the vaccination chain continued.
D.A. Henderson
#65. A music born among children of slaves is like an orphan: it will never know its real parents, will never hear the full visceral story of its birth.
Carolina De Robertis
#66. Listen little Songkeeper, the voice whispered, and I will sing you a Song.
Gillian Bronte Adams
#67. 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
#68. The Duke of Dunstable had one-way pockets.
He would walk ten miles in the snow to chisel an orphan out of tuppence.
P.G. Wodehouse
#69. Freddy Mercury's reflections about supersonic women are making me glad that I've never met one: they sound like a bit of a handful - not very easy-going.
Sophie Hannah
#70. Every child of God is not called by the Lord to establish schools and orphan houses and to trust in the Lord for means for them. Yet, there is no reason why you may not experience, far more abundantly than we do now, His willingness to answer the prayers of His children.
George Muller
#71. I love the holiday season, almost as much as I love touching myself in front of orphans.
Zach Braff
#72. These concerns (for orphan children in India and elsewhere in the world) are very good, but often these same people are not concerned with the millions that are killed by the deliberate decision of their own mothers ...
Mother Teresa
#73. Your beauty is an elixir.
Which has given an orphan life.
Lovesick I will die, from the grave I will cry
Should you decline to become my wife.
Vikas Swarup
#74. Cono felt embarrassed by the thought that he might have been just another pitiful orphan trying to turn his friends into family, and that he might be blinded by this need, a need that colored his whole life, that ache to offer worth to someone.
Victor Robert Lee
#75. Technical perfection is insufficient. It is an orphan without the true soul of the dancer.
Sylvie Guillem
#76. 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!
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
#77. The Christian who does not feel that the Virgin Mary is his or her mother is an orphan.
Pope Francis
#78. There are words like 'orphan', 'widow' and 'widower' in all languages. But there is no word in any language to describe a parent who loses a child. How does one describe the pain of 'ultimate bereavement'! (Page 50)
Neena Verma
#79. Why else do you think we are permanently at war in various regions all over the world? And why is it the citizens of this country, one of the richest on earth, get poorer each year?
James Morcan
#80. There was a single ray of sun shining through the window. I got up, went to the cracked glass, and saw that it was both raining and shining outside
a bit of meteorological weirdness whose name no one can seem to agree on. My mom, I kid you not, refers to it as orphan's tears.
Ransom Riggs
#81. If enough citizens believe their national security's in jeopardy then politicians who propose wars will receive the support they need.
James Morcan
#83. Is there any greater mystery than the separateness of each person?
Laura Van Den Berg
#84. She liked it? 'I love it
the way you'd love an orphan, or a bird with a broken foot.
Pico Iyer
#85. The one phrase you can use is that success has a thousand fathers, and failure is an orphan.
Alan Price
#86. For a terrible time of life a teen-ager deceives himself; he believes he can trick the world. He believes he is invulnerable. An adolescent who is an orphan at this phase is in danger of never growing up.
John Irving
#87. I'll search in mythology and archeology
and in every -ology to my old name.
one of the goddesses of Canaan will side with me,
then swear with a flash of lightning.
This is my orphan son
Mahmoud Darwish
#88. 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.
Marguerite Young
#89. The day before the disaster, Iris Carr had her first premonition of danger. She was used to the protection of a crowd, whom - with unconscious flattery - she called 'her friends'. An attractive orphan of independent means, she had been surrounded always with clumps of people.
Ethel Lina White
#90. The entire life we have has it's real meaning in giving! He who least knows the real value of giving that can leave a distinctive footprint least knows what the essence of life is about
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
#91. 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
#92. 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
#93. Hypocrite: The man who murdered his parents, and then pleaded for mercy on the grounds that he was an orphan.
Abraham Lincoln
#94. I'd always been insecure. Being the fourth of five kids means attention is divided five ways, and to do this equally is impossible. I grew up feeling like the little orphan in the family, the one who didn't fit in.
Suzi Quatro
#95. 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
#96. This is the time of myths, Orphan. They are the cables that run under the floors and power the world, the conduits of unseen currents, the steam that powers the great engines of the earth.
Lavie Tidhar
#97. From August 25 to 28, I'm sharing the Amazon proceeds of all versions of Love Is Never Past Tense with Orphan World Relief
Janna Yeshanova
#98. If God is calling you to adopt, He will accomplish it. If God is leading you to care for the fatherless across the globe in some way other than adoption, He will accomplish it.
Rick Morton
#99. Poetry is an orphan of silence. The words never quite equal the experience behind them.
Charles Simic
#100. My dad's father was a White Star Line trumpet player in the '20s. It shaped the way that I think about music. My grandfather was classically trained, military trained. He was an orphan who ended up in the Military School of Music in Kneller Hall.
Elvis Costello
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