Orphan Quotes - Page 2

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

  Kedar Joshi

  Truth, Matter, Truth Is

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• I was born to a woman I never knew and raised by another who took in orphans. I do not know my background, my lineage, my biological or cultural heritage. But when I meet someone new, I treat them with respect.... For after all, they could be my people.

  James A. Michener

  People, Adoption, Heritage

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

  Ambrose Bierce

  Life, Death, Power

  Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.175, University of Georgia Press

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• When I was younger I never drank. I never drank, I never did any weed or drugs or anything because I felt it would compromise my position. I was an orphan, and I had a feeling like if I ever hit the ground I may never get back up.

  Ice T

  Weed, Drug, Feelings

  Source: www.pbs.org

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

  Sylvie Guillem

  Dance, Dancing, Perfection

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• We call that person who has lost his father, an orphan; and a widower that man who has lost his wife. But that man who has known the immense unhappiness of losing a friend, by what name do we call him? Here every language is silent and holds its peace in impotence.

  Philibert Joseph Roux

  Friendship, True Friend, Father

  "Meditations of a Parish Priest" by Philibert Joseph Roux, translated by Isabel Florence Hapgood, New York: Thomas Y. Crowell & Co., Part 9, LIV, 1886.

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• Both of us were orphans. No one would remember what we remembered. The elders that stood as protective shields, as references to our past, and as reflections of who we were and are and where we came from, were gone.

  Sylvia Browne

  Grief, Reflection, Past

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

  Adam Johnson

  Father

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• What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans, and the homeless, whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism or the holy name of liberty or democracy?

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Inspirational, Peace, War

  Non-Violence in Peace and War (1942) vol. 1, ch. 142

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• Autobiography begins with a sense of being alone. It is an orphan form.

  John Berger

  Form, Autobiography

  John Berger (2008). “Selected Essays of John Berger”, p.765, Vintage

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

  Evelyn Waugh

  Weather, Storm, Brideshead Revisited

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• In the English language there are orphans and widows, but there is no word for the parents who loses a child.

  Jodi Picoult

  Sad, Children, Parent

  Jodi Picoult (2009). “My Sister's Keeper: A Novel”, p.493, Simon and Schuster

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• Sir, usually I do preach for souls, but my orphans cannot eat souls. And if they could, it would take four souls the size of yours to make a square meal for just one orphan!

  Charles Spurgeon

  Squares, Soul, Meals

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• God is pleased with no music below so much as with the thanksgiving songs of relieved widows and supported orphans; of rejoicing, comforted, and thankful persons.

  Jeremy Taylor

  Inspiring, Music, Thanksgiving

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

  Trenton Lee Stewart

  Prisoner, Dilemma, Cried

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• When a child loses his parent, they are called an orphan. When a spouse loses her or his partner, they are called a widow or widower. When parents lose their child, their isn't a word to describe them. This month recognizes the loss so many parents experience across the United States and around the world. It is also meant to inform and provide resources for parents who have lost children due to miscarriage, ectopic pregnancy, molar pregnancy, stillbirths, birth defects, SIDS, and other causes.

  Ronald Reagan

  Children, Pregnancy, Miscarriage

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• Even in chimps there is true altruistic behaviour; behaviour that doesn't fit into the sociobiological model that says you either help a close relative and thereby your own genes, or you help somebody else now in return for their help in the future. When a very high-ranking male chimpanzee rescues a little orphan, saving his life, that kind of explanation doesn't work.

  Jane Goodall

  Saving, Littles, Return

  Source: www.egonzehnder.com

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• Remember your contemporaries who have passed away and were your age. Remember the honors and fame they earned, the high posts they held, and the beautiful bodies they possessed. Today all of them are turned to dust. They have left orphans and widows behind them, their wealth is being wasted, and their houses turned into ruins.
  No sign of them is left today, and they lie in dark holes underneath the earth.
  Picture their faces before your mind's eye and ponder.

  Al-Ghazali

  Beautiful, Wisdom, Lying

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• Poetry is an orphan of silence.

  Charles Simic

  Silence, Poetry Is

  Charles Simic (1985). “The Uncertain Certainty: Interviews, Essays, and Notes on Poetry”

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

  Lady Bird Johnson

  Should Have, Politics, Politician

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• In the United States, if one family out of every four churches adopted a child, there would be no orphans in the country

  Kay Warren

  Country, Children, Church

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• If one accepts the 24th and 104th Psalms as scriptural norms, then surface mining and other forms of earth destruction are perversions. If we take the Gospels seriously, how can we not see industrial warfare - with its inevitable massacre of innocents - as a most shocking perversion? By the standard of all scriptures, neglect of the poor, of widows and orphans, of the sick, the homeless, the insane, is an abominable perversion.

  Wendell Berry

  Widows And Orphans, Sick, Insane

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• And while we stand with conviction and courage, we must live with compassion. Amid a world with massive social needs around us, ranging from desperate poverty and orphan crises and millions of girls being trafficked for sex, to the degradation of marriage and the abortion of babies, we need to speak and act with selfless love on all of these issues.

  David Platt

  Girl, Baby, Sex

  Source: blog.vyrso.com

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• Then she added in a sort of childish delight: 'We'll be poor, won't we? Like people in books. And I'll be an orphan and utterly free. Free and poor! What fun!' She stopped and raised her lips to him in a delighted kiss. 'It's impossible to be both together,' said John grimly. 'People have found that out. And I should choose to be free as preferable of the two.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Fun, Book, Kissing

  F. Scott Fitzgerald (2008). “Babylon Revisited: And Other Stories”, p.106, Simon and Schuster

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

  George Carlin

  Holiday, Law, Boring

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