Widows Quotes - Page 9

• 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, Village

  Source: www.raintaxi.com

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• The condition of truth, is to allow suffering to speak. Which means attend to suffering of the least of these, of the orphan, the widow, the poor, the working people, the gay brother, the lesbian sister, the transgender, the black people.

  Cornel West

  Brother, Mean, Gay

  "Cornel West Reconsiders President Obama". "Talk of the Nation" with Tony Cox, www.npr.org. August 2, 2010.

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• You who have suffered so much do not want to be with the kind of person who makes "black widow" jokes to deal with an uncomfortable, painful moment. You should be with a person capable of great compassion and understanding.

  Mallory Ortberg

  Compassion, Understanding, Black

  "Just a Little Crush". Live chat, www.slate.com. March 7, 2016.

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• But the stuff that I do is more like all the comic roles like in The Merry Widow and Die Fledermaus and I just did this Offenbach operetta at the LA Opera. I love it. I just love it. For me, it's like a great mesh of musical theatre and my classical oboe background to be standing on these huge stages with a full orchestra and all the opulence. I'm a complete sucker for the over-the-topness.

  Jason Graae

  Musical, Theatre, Oboes

  Source: www.broadwayworld.com

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• In the hands of [God's] children, it is food for the hungry, drink for the thirsty, raiment for the naked. it gives to the traveler and the stranger where to lay his head. By it we may supply the place of a husband to the widow, and of a father to the fatherless. We may be a defense for the oppressed, a means of health to the sick, of ease to them that are in pain. It may be as eyes to the blind, as feet to the lame: yea, a lifter up from the gates of death!

  John Wesley

  Children, Pain, Husband

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• 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, Causes, Cases

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• Religion by itself was not meant to be a divisive tool. All of our religious teachings have similar rules, such as a commitment to peace and nonviolence, and care for women and widows and orphans. What has destroyed a coming together is men's interpretation of religion.

  Leymah Gbowee

  Religious, Teaching, Commitment

  Source: progressive.org

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• It was difficult in India to find an eight year old who could play a widow. The reason for that is that most of the children in India are really exposed to Bollywood. It's commercial Indian cinema which is really over the top. To find an actor, or even a non-actor, who felt natural was difficult.

  Deepa Mehta

  Children, Years, Play

  Source: www.movieweb.com

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• 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.

  Louis Farrakhan

  Spiritual, Perspective, Prophet Muhammad

  Source: www.finalcall.com

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• When we ignore the prostituted child, we actually lend our hand to their abuse. When we ignore the widow and the orphan in their distress, we actually add to their pain. When we ignore the slave who remains captive, it's us who is entrapping them. When we forget the refugee, it's actually us who is displacing them. When we choose not to help the poor and the needy, we actually rob them. Perhaps the only fair thing to say is that when we forsake the lives of others, we actually forsake our own.

  Joel Houston

  Pain, Children, Hands

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• I know also another man who married a widow with several children; and when one of the girls had grown into her teens he insisted on marrying her also, having first by some means won her affections. The mother, however, was much opposed to this marriage, and finally gave up her husband entirely to her daughter; and to this very day the daughter bears children to her stepfather, living as wife in the same house with her mother!

  T. B. H. Stenhouse

  Girl, Daughter, Mother

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• O, how much those men are to be valued who, in the spirit with which the widow gave up her two mites, have given up themselves! How their names sparkle! How rich their very ashes are! How they will count up in heaven!

  Edwin Hubbel Chapin

  Men, Names, Two

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• Life Insurance Motto - Robbing the widows early and orphan.

  Ethel Mumford

  Motto, Orphan, Robbing

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• Anybody can become a widow. There aren't any special qualifications. It happens in less time than it takes to draw a breath. It doesn't require the planning, for example, that it takes to become a wife or a mother or any of the other ritual roles of womanhood.

  Jacquelyn Mitchard

  Mother, Wife, Special

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• 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, Littles, Way

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• A widow is like a frigate of which the first captain has been shipwrecked.

  Alphonse Karr

  Captains, Firsts, Has Beens

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• One can with dignity be wife and widow but once.

  Joseph Joubert

  Wife, Dignity

  Joseph Joubert (1896). “Pensées of Joubert”

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• I had seen Cheers twice, I think. Ted [Danson] had so much hair in his widow's peak that I remember thinking, "That dude looks like Eddie Munster."

  Kirstie Alley

  Cheer, Thinking, Hair

  "The Best TV Show That's Ever Been" by Brian Raftery, www.gq.com. September 27, 2012.

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• To every class we have a school assign'd,
  Rules for all ranks, and food for every mind:
  Yet one there is, that small regard to rule
  Or study pays, and still is deem'd a school;
  That, where a deaf, poor, patient widow sits,
  And awes some thirty infants as she knits;
  Infants of humble, busy wives, who pay
  Some trifling price for freedom through the day.
  At this good matron's hut the children meet,
  Who thus becomes the mother of the street.

  George Crabbe

  Mother, Children, Humble

  George Crabbe (1858). “The Poetical Works of George Crabbe: With a Life of the Author”, p.239

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• I'm not upset about my divorce. I'm only upset that I'm not a widow.

  Roseanne Barr

  Divorce, Upset

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• It's in the homes of spiteful old widows that one finds such cleanliness.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Home, Cleanliness, Spiteful

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• I've always thought that the most perfect fate which could befall any woman would be to be born a rich widow.

  Faith Baldwin

  Women, Fate, Perfect

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• women used to be elected only when their husbands died and they became widows. The men found this was too hard on them. That's why they've become feminists.

  Gloria Steinem

  Husband, Men, Feminist

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• Onions can make even Heirs and Widows weep.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Food, Cooking, Onions

  James C. Humes, Benjamin Franklin (1995). “The wit and wisdom of Benjamin Franklin: a treasury of more than 900 quotations and anecdotes”, Harpercollins

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• 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, Literature, Tailors

  Karl Philipp Moritz (2010). “Travels in England in 1782”, p.21, BoD – Books on Demand

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