Unwed Quotes

#1. I took the sheep and cut their throats over the pit, and let the dark blood flow. Then there gathered the spirits of the dead, brides and unwed youths, old men worn out by labour, and tender maidens with hearts still new to sorrow.

Homer

#2. As far as unwed mothers on welfare are concerned, it seems to me that they must be capable of some other form of labor.

Al Capp

#3. If they only married when they fell in love, most people would die unwed.

Robert Louis Stevenson

#4. Asking a man if he could be trusted was like asking an unwed girl if she was a virgin. The question mattered, but the asking of it was gross insult.

Orson Scott Card

#5. I think especially in her position, a highly successful professional woman, it would be a real exception to have an unwed child.

Dan Quayle

#6. I don't think anybody cares about unwed mothers unless they're black or poor. The question is not morality, the question is money. That's what we're upset about.

Toni Morrison

#7. This is the woman I'm t' marry! Where have ye been all me life, me love?"
And without a blink, I replied, "Don't start with me, ye scoundrel! If ye come with an empty purse, ye can leave now, fer I'd rather be unwed than unfed.

Karen Hawkins

#8. Indeed, in US politics, 'poverty', along with 'welfare', 'unwed mothers' and 'crime', became code words for blacks.

Frances Fox Piven

#9. The available divorce data show that marital breakdown is now considerably more common in the Bible Belt than in the secular Northeast ... The percentages of broken families and unwed mothers remained higher in places like Arkansas and Oklahoma than in New York and Massachusetts.

Joe Conason

#10. In 2013, 71 percent of black children in America were born to an unwed mother, as were 53 percent of Hispanic children and 36 percent of white children. Indeed, a single parent is the new norm.

Nicholas Kristof

#11. Hating the Yankees is as American as pizza pie, unwed mothers, and cheating on your income tax.

Mike Royko

#12. And she began the oft-told tale of a lady of imperial descent who could find no husband in the narrow circle where her pride permitted her to mate, and had lived on unwed, her age now thirty, and would die unwed, for no one would have her now.

E. M. Forster

#13. The only way to break the cycle of unwed motherhood, fatherless children, poverty, crime, and welfare is to recognize that welfare causes more problems than it cures.

David Boaz

#14. (Kaylee) Tell me I'm pretty, Wash.
(Wash) Were I unwed I would take you in a manly fashion.
(kaylee) Because I'm pretty?
(Wash) Because you're pretty.

Brett Matthews

#15. Is there nothing the prodigiously talented Ann Patchett can't do? She's channeled the world of opera, Boston politics, magic, unwed motherhood, and race relations, creating scenarios so indelible, you swear they are right outside your door.

Caroline Leavitt

#16. Children born to unwed mothers,' he said after a long silence, 'have parts of their souls missing.

Bernard Cornwell

#17. The sneaker heels thing is a myth. They were saying, 'They're like sneakers.' No, they're like heels is what they're like. That's like saying a denim skirt is like jeans. It's not.

Anna Kendrick

#18. I had not yet acquired the experience which gives modesty.

Jules Breton

#19. Our business is to be free of anything that separates us from God who has created us to simply be happy and to progress.

Toni Sorenson

#20. But perhaps there are two sides to everyone.

K. Weikel

#21. Maybe people don't see me as believable playing a person of today. I guess I'm just more realistic in a corset and funny hairstyles.

Katie McGrath