Orphan famous quotes

Public property has the same standing with me as that of an orphan; if it is much, it must be conserved, and if it is little, it must be used with care.
-- Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi

#Care #Littles #Orphan

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

#Father #Orphan

That's it then. Cancel the kitchen scraps for lepers and orphans, no more merciful beheadings, and call off Christmas.
-- Alan Rickman

#Kitchen #Orphan #Scrap

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

#Life #Death #Orphan

Poetry is an orphan of silence.
-- Charles Simic

#Silence #Orphan #Poetry Is

There is something very romantic about the orphan figure in American literature.
-- Christopher Bollen

#Literature #Orphan #Figures

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

#Children #Orphan #I Realized

Houses of evil similarity appeared like rows of disciplined, humiliated orphans.
-- Elizabeth Hardwick

#Evil #House #Orphan

Life Insurance Motto - Robbing the widows early and orphan.
-- Ethel Mumford

#Widows #Motto #Orphan

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

#Widows #Orphan

Autobiography begins with a sense of being alone. It is an orphan form.
-- John Berger

#Orphan #Form #Autobiography

Late children are early orphans.
-- John Wilmot

#Children #Orphan

Every politician should have been born an orphan and remain a bachelor.
-- Lady Bird Johnson

#Politics #Politician #Orphan

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

#Believe #May #Orphan

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

#Book #Writing #Orphan

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

#Aliens #Slave #Orphan

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

#Generations #Orphan

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

#Orphan #Show Business #Shows

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

#Orphan #Prisoner #Dilemma

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

#Orphan #Knows #I Can

Orphan Black is the new black.
-- Haley Webb

#Black #Orphan