Orphan Quotes

Orphan Quote of the day

Do not let Sunday be taken from you. If your soul has no Sunday, it becomes an orphan.

Technical perfection is insufficient. It is an orphan without the true soul of the dancer.

As always, victory finds a hundred fathers but defeat is an orphan.

Orphans are the only ones who get to choose their fathers, and they love them twice as much.

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

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.

Please don't let the illegal ivory trade orphan even more baby elephants.

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

I feel akin to the Platypus. An orphan in a family. A swimmer, a recluse. Part bird, part fish, part lizard.

And I, as I lived, in an alien landWill die a slave and an orphan.

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

I wasn't the only orphan in Guatemala. There are many others, and it's not my grief alone, it's the grief of a whole people.

Every politician should have been born an orphan and remain a bachelor.

Just love the one in front of you. Take in the orphan, take in the widow. Just love the one in front of you.

There’s a day that is coming when all the last will be first and every orphan will be home.

For not an orphan in the wide world can be so deserted as the child who is an outcast from a living parent's love.

He will regard his people's cry, the widow's tear, the orphan's moan.

Adolescents are attracted to tragic heroes. That's why rock stars dress like homeless people. Adolescence is a fall. It's when every child becomes an orphan.

The victory always has a lot of parents but the defeat is always an orphan.

The Christian who does not feel that the Virgin Mary is his or her mother is an orphan.

I always questioned if I was CALLED to adopt, but then I realized no child was ever CALLED to be an orphan.

People think you are an orphan when you are a child, and don't believe that old people can feel that they are orphans.

A woman always has her man, but the man unconsciously leans on his roots, his heritage. He feels like an orphan without his parents.

Marry an orphan: you'll never have to spend boring holidays with the in-laws.

Not everyone can be an orphan.

I do not believe in a religion that cannot wipe out the widow's tears or bring a piece of bread to the orphan's mouth.

I can't know everything, pretend you're an orphan.

The women laughed and wept; the crowd stamped their feet enthusiastically, for at that moment Quasimodo was really beautiful. He was handsome — this orphan, this foundling, this outcast.

Where can we hide in fair weather, we orphans of the storm?

Without me, rap is just a bunch of orphans.

My passion is kids, more than just kids is underprivileged kids and orphans.

Don't ye know that ev'ry Soul on Earth feels itself to be an Orphan?

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!

Late children are early orphans.

You can't avoid orphan stories, child. Every story is an orphan story. We are all orphaned sooner or later.

Fidel Castro looked after the poor, he looked after the weak, he looked after the widow, he looked after the orphan - he did all the things that Prophet Muhammad did from the spiritual perspective.

I love the holiday season, almost as much as I love touching myself in front of orphans.

Orphans are easier to ignore before you know their names; but once you know, everything changes.

I'm an orphan!" Constance cried gleefully. "I'm an orphan!" ~ The Prisoner's Dilemma

I believe that God is the Great Companion, that we are not left orphans, that we may have comradeship with him.

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.

I write sets of books, but I've also written a lot of orphans.

Is this a generation of orphans who are going to the improv to do stand-up?

If I lose show business - I'll really be an orphan!

Truth is orphan without matter and matter is impotent without truth.

Just because something's damaged doesn't mean it shouldn't be treated with respect.' 'Ad,' Wallace said, 'it's a coffee table, not an orphan.

Virtue is the daughter of Religion; Repentance, her adopted child,--a poor orphan who, without the asylum which she offers, would not know where to hide her sole treasure, her tears!

You show me a boy who brings a snake home to his mother and I'll show you an orphan.

Among adults – and among orphans – Wilbur Larch noted that delirious happiness was rare.

We probably looked like starving orphan children. Hey! We were starving orphan children.