Quotes About Orphan

I didn't even realize this at first, but there's almost no central character in any of my 24 books who doesn't have a dead mother or a lost parent.

She liked it? 'I love it--the way you'd love an orphan, or a bird with a broken foot.

When you lose a parent, you realize how vital they are to the foundation of your life. It's impossible to understand what it means until that curtain is pulled. You're an orphan. But then I think that life is kind of remarkable, and the thing that causes the biggest pain can also bring amazing energy.

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.

Each of us is an orphan in some sense or another, and yet someone's love and shelter come to us by the grace of God.

He reminds me of the man who murdered both his parents, and then when sentence was about to be pronounced pleaded for mercy on the grounds that he was an orphan.

Hypocrite: the man who murdered both his parents... pleaded for mercy on the grounds that he was an orphan.

Not only does the giving of coins to orphans rob them of their self-respect and Juche Spirit, it violates a central rule of good citizenship: Practice Self-Sufficiency.

The best of the houses is the house where an orphan gets love and kindness.

Success has many fathers and failure is an orphan.

If "defeat is an orphan," the old saying goes, "victory has a thousand fathers

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The one phrase you can use is that success has a thousand fathers, and failure is an orphan.

What's your story, dress?" Charlotte whispered. "Where'd you come from and why'd you come looking for me? One orphaned girl seeking another?

Victory has a thousand fathers, but defeat is an orphan.

When we'd gone to Disneyland, the tree house had been my favorite thing in the whole park. If only I'd had no parents watching my every move, if only I'd been a happy, carefree orphan, I'd have hidden under the player piano until everything closed, and then taken up residence there.

Success is everyone's child. Failure is an orphan." Omas smiled ruefully.

An orphan's curse would drag to hell, a spirit from on high; but oh! more horrible than that, is a curse in a dead man's eye!

Brian Howe had no mother, so he won't be missed.

Poetry is an orphan of silence.

ORPHAN, n. A living person whom death has deprived of the power of filial ingratitude . . .

Do you remember the classic example of chutzpah? It's the young man who kills his parents and then asks the judge for mercy on the grounds that he's an orphan. The Bush administration's updated version of that was starting a wholly illegal, immoral, and devastating war and then dismissing all kinds of criticism of its action on the grounds that 'we're at war.

History is an orphan. It can speak, but cannot hear. It can give, but cannot take. Its wounds and tragedies can be read and known, but cannot be avoided or cured.

The Duke of Dunstable had one-way pockets. He would walk ten miles in the snow to chisel an orphan out of tuppence.