Widows famous quotes

[T]he departing world leaves behind... not an heir, but a pregnant widow.
-- Alexander Herzen

#Widows #World #Heirs

A widow is like a frigate of which the first captain has been shipwrecked.
-- Alphonse Karr

#Widows #Captains #Firsts

WIDOW, n. A pathetic figure that the Christian world has agreed to take humorously, although Christ's tenderness towards widows was one of the most marked features of his character.
-- Ambrose Bierce

#Christian #Character #Widows

I get lonely when I'm a Playstation widow.
-- Ashley Judd

#Lonely #Widows #Playstation

These esoteric, intellectual debates-I want them to come to New Jersey and sit across from the widows and the orphans and have that conversation,
-- Chris Christie

#Intellectual #Widows #Want

You are in the field to defend the public interest, the financial truth for investors and the funds that should support the widow and the orphan.
-- Clarence W. Barron

#Support #Widows #Fields

I did not want to make the widow record. I still haven't made the widow record.
-- Courtney Love

#Widows #Records #Want

My mother turned into a professional widow. She couldnt understand why I wanted to be an engineer; she thought I should be a chicken farmer.
-- David Antin

#Mother #Widows #Chickens

Drying a widow's tears is one of the most dangerous occupations known to man.
-- Dorothy Dix

#Women #Tears #Widows

He will regard his people's cry, the widow's tear, the orphan's moan.
-- Eliza R. Snow

#People #Tears #Widows

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

#Widows #Motto #Orphan

I've certainly had to go through trying to change the fact that I was always identified as the widow of Notorious B.I.G. You know, I'm never going to be able to get away from having been married to him, but that's not what identifies me. You know, my life isn't just about that.
-- Faith Evans

#Trying #Widows #Able

Truly, sister, you were born to be a widow. (Tyrion to Cersei)
-- George R. R. Martin

#Widows #Born #Tyrion

Just as the Torah and Bible teach concern for those in distress, the Koran instructs all Muslims to make caring for widows, orphans, and refugees a priority.
-- Greg Mortenson

#Caring #Priorities #Widows

If a woman abandoned by her husband, or a widow, of her own accord contracts a second marriage and bears ,a son , he is called the son of a re married woman .
-- Guru Nanak

#Husband #Son #Widows

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

Handsome widows, after a twelve-month, enjoy a latitude and longitude without limit.
-- Honore de Balzac

#Twelve #Widows #Handsome

Take care! Kingdoms are destroyed by bandits, houses by rats, and widows by suitors.
-- Ihara Saikaku

#House #Widows #Suitors

Continuous persecution of widows and orphans is a crime. Even the Bible says there is a specific place in hell for those who oppress widows.
-- Imelda Marcos

#Widows #Hell #Crime

I will tell you one thing. They will never drag me out like a little old widow like they did Mrs. Wilson when President Wilson died. I will never be used that way.
-- Jackie Kennedy

#President #Widows #Littles

Tonight the American flag floats from yonder hill or Molly Stark sleeps a widow,
-- John Stark

#Sleep #Flags #Widows

One can with dignity be wife and widow but once.
-- Joseph Joubert

#Wife #Widows #Dignity

My landlady, who is only a tailor's widow, reads her Milton; and tells me, that her late husband first fell in love with her on this very account: because she read Milton with such proper emphasis.
-- Karl Philipp Moritz

#Husband #Widows #Literature

Black widows may be powerful predators, but every predator is somebody else's prey.
-- Lionel

#Powerful #Black #Widows

Except for the con men borrowing money they shouldn't get and the widows who have to visit with the handsome young men in the trust department, no sane person ever enjoyed visiting a bank.
-- Martin Mayer

#Men #Handsome #Widows

children had no place in love affairs. Children ought to be born to widows and old maids.
-- Mary Borden

#Children #Widows #Maids

I got so lucky on my 'Red Widow' cast. It was just the universe looking out for me that I got those actors. It's a big ensemble cast, a very international cast. I don't know how that happened.
-- Melissa Rosenberg

#Lucky #Widows #Ensemble

Since I've got on the Internet, it's opened a whole world of wasted time for me. My wife says she's an Internet widow.
-- Mick Ralphs

#Wife #World #Widows

When I did that interview with Hepburn, the only ground rule was, you did not discuss Spencer Tracy. Spencer Tracy's widow is still alive, and she respected that.
-- Morley Safer

#Alive #Interviews #Widows

Always be civil to the girls, you never know who they may marry' is a aphorism which has saved many an English spinster from being treated like an Indian widow.
-- Nancy Mitford

#Girl #Widows #May

But I am a widows son outlawed and my orders must be obeyed.
-- Ned Kelly

#Son #Order #Widows

Bride knoweth bride at the glance of an eye. And between them swiftly passes comfort and meaning in a language that man and widows wot not of.
-- O. Henry

#Eye #Men #Widows

I'm not sentimental about war. I see nothing noble in widows.
-- Paddy Chayefsky

#Peace #War #Widows

It's always the generals with the bloodiest records who are the first to shout what a hell it is. And it's always the war widows who lead the Memorial Day parades.
-- Paddy Chayefsky

#Memorial Day #War #Widows

Here, take this, she would say, take this, and tell me where he is. Tell me whether he's dead or alive, so I can walk as his widow or his wife. No one would, or could, tell her, and so she continued to cook, and to learn new things all the while searching for an answer among the outcasts. The way he carried his body, the way he walked in my life, Tatiana thought, declared that he was the only man I had ever loved, and he knew it. And until I was alone without him, I thought it was all worth it.
-- Paullina Simons

#Men #Wife #Widows

Widows are far better than brides. They don't tell, they won't yell, they don't swell, they rarely smell, and they're grateful as hell.
-- Robert A. Heinlein

#Grateful #Smell #Widows

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

#Two #Widows #Wonderful

Where would the Rockefellers be today if old John D. had gone on selling short-weight kerosene ... to widows and orphans instead of wisely deciding to mulct the whole country.
-- S. J. Perelman

#Country #Entrepreneur #Widows

The others were only my wives. But you, my dear, will be my widow.
-- Sacha Guitry

#Jealousy #Wife #Widows

War - after all, what is it that the people get? Why-widows, taxes, wooden legs and debt.
-- Samuel B. Pettengill

#War #People #Widows

Widowers marry again because it makes their lives easier. Widows often don't, because it makes their lives harder. [p. 61]
-- Siri Hustvedt

#Widows #Easier #Harder

I read 'Scarlett' recently, and that was a killer comic book. The 'Black Widow' was pretty rockin'. There is a big list of killer chicks that are just rockin'.
-- Stana Katic

#Book #Black #Widows

Widows are divided into two classes - the bereaved and relieved.
-- Victor Robinson

#Class #Two #Widows

Scarlett tells Mammy: "I'm too young to be a widow." She weeps to her mother: "My life is over. Nothing will ever happen to me anymore." Her mother comforts her: "It's only natural to want to look young and be young when you are young."
-- Vivien Leigh

#Mother #Looks #Widows

I borrow to pay my honest debts and not to squander foolishly. What's more, I confine my borrowing to those who can well afford it. I don't go around sponging on widows and orphans unless they have plenty.
-- Will Cuppy

#Debt #Pay #Widows

The determination of life insurance salesmen to succeed has made life pretty soft for widows.
-- William Feather

#Determination #Widows #Succeed

Fortune is like a widow won,And truckles to the bold alone.
-- William Somervile

#Widows #Fortune

The family I grew up in had three generations of widows.
-- Chath Piersath

#Three #Generations #Widows

I'm doing a collaborative project with another artist, Mary Hamill. My project is to gather the oral history of war widows, starting with the women of my village, Kop Nymit.
-- Chath Piersath

#War #Artist #Widows

Even though ashrams... probably still exist in India, you don't find a child widow anymore.
-- Deepa Mehta

#Children #India #Widows

Stop doing wrong, learn to do right! Seek justice, encourage the oppressed. Defend the cause of the fatherless, plead the case of the widow.
-- Isaiah

#Justice #Widows #Causes

But I am a Widow’s Son, outlawed and my orders must be obeyed.
-- Ned Kelly

#Son #Order #Widows

I'm not upset about my divorce. I'm only upset that I'm not a widow.
-- Roseanne Barr

#Divorce #Upset #Widows

The more I read the Scriptures I find an overwhelming case of Scriptures being concerned with the poor, outcast, widow, foreigner and marginalized.
-- Sho Baraka

#Widows #Scripture #Poor