Quotes About Orphaned

Men become mothers to one another in combat. The grief and rage that they experience when the special comrade is killed appears virtually identical to that of a child suddenly orphaned, and they feel that the mother within them has died with the friend.

Divorce in a young-adult novel means what being orphaned meant in a fairy tale: vulnerability, danger, unwanted independence.

who meets us existentially in our greatest need and gives us the confidence and comfort that we are beloved and not orphaned in this world.

I sometimes feel as though we are all daughters of the same mythical mother. Some of us are super direct, funny. Others are pensive, inquisitive, maudlin, bitter, sarcastic, or a combination of all those things. Yet we have all been orphaned, except by our words, which we eventually turn to in order to make sense of the impossible, the unknowable.

God's love is his nature and he is so full of mercy that he has not chosen whom he loves based on their personal achievements or perceived worth. His love is given to those who are not worthy. He is not seeking to unite himself only to those who meet certain qualifications of looks, personality, and aptitude, but instead he has chosen a bride who was once an orphaned whore.

Your mind gives birth to an action and, whether you like it or not, it will never let it become orphaned

Orphaned at age 11 in 1755, Mayer followed the sound of clinking coins rather than his parents' idea that he become a rabbi.

Saying "I meant well" is not going to cut it. Not with God screaming, begging, pleading, urging us to love mercy and justice, to feed the poor and the orphaned, to care for the last and least in nearly every book of the Bible. It will not be enough one day to stand before Jesus and say, "Oh? Were You serious about all that?

That's the sacred intent of life, of God--to move us continuously toward growth, toward recovering all that is lost and orphaned within us and restoring the divine image imprinted on our soul.

I don't think a girl ever gets over losing her mom. I'm an adult and it's completely normal and expected for my mom to be dead, but I still feel orphaned sometimes.

I lost my parents when I was fairly young.

From the outset, the young Hamilton had phenomenal stamina for sustained work: ambitious, orphaned boys do not enjoy the option of idleness.

For the college essay, she wrote that in these stories, being orphaned is a precondition for the making of a hero. She also said those comic book heroes aren't simple heroes, but 'complicated ones who make moral compromises in the same tradition as the orphans in Victorian narratives.

I feel that adoption is a good idea to control population. This would also help orphaned children grow up in a normal way in a family atmosphere that is so important in today's time. The only thing you need is a large heart.

Há frases assim felizes. Nascem modestamente, como a gente pobre; quando menos pensam, estão governando o mundo, à semelhança das idéias. As próprias idéias nem sempre conservam o nome do pai; muitas aparecem órfãs, nascidas de nada e de ninguém. Cada um pega delas, verte-as como pode, e vai levá-las à feira, onde todos as têm por suas

As an adult, it's a huge shock to be orphaned; as a child it's just hideous, ghastly.

Gertrude Chandler Warner

It had been a seven-year string of bad luck, ever since their parents died in that house fire.

the nights would be orphaned without the sound of crickets chirping.

A life was a life. She'd been orphaned at an age to internalize death as poor material for a joke. And likewise, salvation.

La desgracia tiene hijos aunque ella no tiene madre

This vindicates my last decision ... when I unhesitatingly orphaned my own children in order to carry out my physician's duty to the end, as Abraham did not hesitate at God's demand to sacrifice his only son.

Post-modernism has cut off the present from all futures. The daily media add to this by cutting off the past. Which means that critical opinion is often orphaned in the present.

That's the sacred intent of life, of God--to move us continuously toward growth, toward recovering all that is lost and orphaned within us and restoring the divine image imprinted on our soul.