Quotes About Orphan

She was going to be an orphan soon, a woman without parents in the world. Which meant that she was the parent now; the one who had to set the example and do the right thing, even when it was the hard thing, and bear some of her burdens and hurts alone.

Success has many fathers, but failure is an orphan.

Victory has 100 fathers, defeat is an orphan!

This famed orphan of the storm tended to bob about as helplessly as a cork (embracing the cliché in order to maintain the metaphor) until matters happened to, through no effort of his own, land him upon safe and welcoming shores.

Twenty years old, I had embarked on this trip to Izu heavy with resentment that my personality had been permanently warped by my orphan's complex and that I would never be able to overcome a stifling melancholy. So I was inexpressibly grateful to find that I looked like a nice person as the world defines the word. -from The Dancing Girl of Izu

I moved out of my aunt's house and got my own apartment when I was seventeen. Since I was an orphan, my aunt was getting a Social Security check for $250 every month, and finally I said, "Look, give me the money. You don't want me here anyway—I'm gone.

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

Victory has a hundred fathers but defeat is an orphan.

I'd been eleven when my father disappeared and eighteen when my mother was murdered. Now, I'm twenty-eight

Pip is an orphan who is given the chance to create his own self and destiny. Pip's experience also reminds us of the emigrant's experience. Each leaves behind the place he grew up in. Each strikes out on his own. Each is free to create himself anew. Each is also free to make mistakes...

The General, who hardly ever raised his voice, now did. Unofficially, you are abandoning us, he shouted. All day and night planes depart from the airport. Everyone who works with Americans wants an exit visa. They go to your embassy for these visas. You have evacuated your own women. You have evacuated babies and orphans. Why is it that the only people who do not know the Americans are pulling out are the Americans?

Kiddo—here's a problem. We've got witches, we've got Evil, we've got an orphan, and we've got a kidnapping. What's the deal?

You should watch your words, Your Grace. I shall take them to heart." "I should like that, Miss Darling." "You seem to be flirting with me, Your Grace, but I don't think you should lose sight of the fact that I'm with you tonight only because of your threat to have one of my orphans arrested." "I only seem to be flirting? Then I must put forth greater effort so I leave no doubt.

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.

Fairies, black, grey, green, and white, You moonshine revellers, and shades of night, You orphan heirs of fixed destiny, Attend your office and your quality.

This was how I came to be ten, and an orphan. This is how I came to Phthia.

Victory has a hundred fathers, but defeat is an orphan

El éxito tiene muchos padres, pero el fracaso es huérfano.

Wilbur Larch knew that freedom was an orphan's most dangerous illusion, and when he finally heard from Homer, he scanned the oddly formal letter, which was disappointing in its lack of detail. Regarding illusions, and all the rest, there was simply no evidence. 'I am learning to swim,' wrote Homer Wells. (I know! I know! Tell me about it! Thought Wilbur Larch.) 'I do better at driving,' Homer added.

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.

If an orphan is not adopted by the time he reaches this alarming period of adolescence, he may continue to deceive himself, and others forever. "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.

Poetry is an orphan of silence. The words never quite equal the experience behind them.

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

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