Quotes About Widow

The idea of being a widow brings the thought of your husband dying. I don't really feel that way. I have higher confidence in life after that transition. That's my thought. That's how I feel. I want to keep him alive.

I have an aunt named Ida. She's the widow of my late Uncle Basil, nearly 100 years old, and very religious, and has managed to live her extremely long and virtuous life out of the pitiless public spotlight.

Confucius didn't care much for women: When a girl, obey your father; when a wife, obey your husband; when a widow, obey your son.

On land, you will be a mother. In the sea, you can be a grieving widow. Your tears will be added to the oceans of salty tears that wash in great waves across our planet. This I know. If you try to live, you can live on well.

The widow tells me that her monthly moon water is irregular. She has trouble sleeping and is plagued by bouts of sweating. She says she's always taken humble pride in being sharp of mind. "But now I can't remember a thing!" she complains.

Seven thirty-five. The only thing worse than being a widow and being single is being a widow and being single and being stood up.

His name was Charlie Mears; he was the only son of his mother who was a widow, and

Thirty-nine. A widow. Trying to fill her sons' needs. Trying to be both mother and father. Careful not to demand too much of the boys.

The thief's widow had turned him, before she married him, into a thief of a stupid and terrible kind, because she had made him rob himself.

I caused the widow's heart to sing for joy.

And there came a certain poor widow, and she threw in two mites.

How doth the city sit solitary, that was full of people! how is she become as a widow!

The grieving widow,' Hawthorne muttered. 'Do you think so?' 'No, Tony. I've seen more grief at a Turkish wedding. If you ask me, I'd say there's a lot of things she's not telling

State intervention to try and control incidents of widow immolation begins during the time of the Sultans and the Mughals.

It was the 'Marriage.'" "What do people marry for?" Miss Wardle said. I've sometimes wondered." "My dear, don't ask me." "One marries for latitude, I suppose." "Or to become a widow." "I'd give such worlds to be a widow," Miss Pontypool declared. "It's a difficult thing to be," Mrs. Barrow assured her.

Let's be quick. I should like to catch up to them before they marry and I am forced to make Suzette a widow.

He was determined never to marry a widow. If he did, it should be one, who had a vast fortune, and who never had a child. And he had still a more particular exception; and that was to a woman who had red hair. He held these exceptions till he was forty; and then being looked upon as a determin'd bachelor, no family thought it worth their while to make proposals  to him:

Jocelyn had to get rid of her maidenhead. It was the only way she could keep Edward's name from being blackened with ugly gossip. And after all, a widow had no business being a virgin.

The next part of this memorable trip took us to the home of Mrs. Buchanan, the widow of Admiral Buchanan, one of the two only living daughters of old Governor Lloyd, and here my reception was as kindly as that received at the Great House

The Church knows too that to marry the present age and its spirit is to become a widow in the next.

My mother was the perfect Spartan mother. I have always been able to imagine her telling her sons to return from battle 'with their shields, or on them'. She did actually try it on my father at the start of the Second World War. He didn't take it kindly, and confided to me ruefully that he thought she rather fancied herself a Hero's Widow.

'Ave you 'eard o' the Widow at WindsorWith a hairy gold crown on 'er 'ead?

I've had two proposals since I've been a widow. I am a wonderful catch, you know. I have a lot of money.

I may be permitted, like the doctors, to cure a greater evil by a less, for I shall not fall seriously in love with the young widow, I think, nor she with me - that's certain - but if I find a little pleasure in her society I may surely be allowed to seek it; and if the star of her divinity be bright enough to dim the lustre of Eliza's, so much the better, but I scarcely can think it