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Not everyone can be an orphan. -- Andre Gide
Orphan Black is the new black. -- Haley Webb
Victory has a thousand fathers, but defeat is an orphan. -- John F. Kennedy
Every politician should have been born an orphan and remain a bachelor. -- Lady Bird Johnson
Autobiography begins with a sense of being alone. It is an orphan form. -- John Berger
Don't ye know that ev'ry Soul on Earth feels itself to be an Orphan? -- Erica Jong
Orphan Black' tends to, for their auditions, shroud it in secrecy and change names. -- Ari Millen
Poetry is an orphan of silence. The words never quite equal the experience behind them. -- Charles Simic
Do not let Sunday be taken from you. If your soul has no Sunday, it becomes an orphan. -- Albert Schweitzer
I'm a big fan of 'Orphan Black,' and to be one of the original cast members is something that will always be dear to me. -- Michael Mando
Something like 'Rust and Bone' would be a dream. Very pared down. 'Orphan Black' is such a challenge. I just need something that isn't as full-on intense as that. -- Tatiana Maslany
If you know anything about James Whitcomb Riley, you know that Little Orphan Annie is one of the most fantastic characters who ever lived in America before Charlie Chaplin. -- Marguerite Young
We're huge fans of 'Game of Thrones' for example, 'Orphan Black.' And even though those shows don't necessarily correlate directly with 'Arrow,' I'm a very big believer that writers are the product of their inspirations. -- Marc Guggenheim
In Orphan Train, Christina Baker Kline seamlessly knits together the past and present of two women, one young and one old. Kline reminds us that we never really lose anyone or anything or â?? perhaps most importantly â?? ourselves. -- Ann Hood
We did a show called The Orphan Train, during the depression, when families didn't have enough money to support their children, they'd put them on the train and hope someone would pick them up who had enough money to support their children. -- Robert Stack
There's something really unique about 'Orphan Black' is that it has a lot of female leads, so it's about a lot of women's stories, but it's not women's stories in terms of trying to find a guy or keep a guy; it's about entirely other things. -- Tatiana Maslany
Orphan Black' allows for people to have debates and theories and allegiances to different characters - to trust characters and hate other characters - but it doesn't tell you who is good or bad or right or wrong. That's the most exciting storytelling, in my book. -- Tatiana Maslany
'Orphan Black' allows for people to have debates and theories and allegiances to different characters - to trust characters and hate other characters - but it doesn't tell you who is good or bad or right or wrong. That's the most exciting storytelling, in my book. -- Tatiana Maslany
If only 7 percent of the 2 billion Christians in the world would care for a single orphan in distress, there would effectively be no more orphans. If everybody would be willing to simply do something to care for one of these precious treasures, I think we would be amazed by just how much we could change the world. -- Steven Curtis Chapman
Poetry is an orphan of silence. -- Charles Simic
Marry an orphan: you'll never have to spend boring holidays with the in-laws. -- George Carlin
The Christian who does not feel that the Virgin Mary is his or her mother is an orphan. -- Pope Francis
Hypocrite: The man who murdered his parents, and then pleaded for mercy on the grounds that he was an orphan. -- Abraham Lincoln
In the English language there are orphans and widows, but there is no word for the parents who loses a child. -- Jodi Picoult
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
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
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
There are orphans that can be cared for; but this some will not venture to undertake, for it brings them work more than they care to do, leaving them but little time to please themselves. -- Ellen G. White
These concerns (for orphan children in India and elsewhere in the world) are very good, but often these same people are not concerned with the millions that are killed by the deliberate decision of their own mothers... -- Mother Teresa
If anybody understands God's order for his children, it's someone who has rescued an orphan from despair, for that is what God has done for us. God has adopted you. God sought you, found you, signed the papers and took you home. -- Max Lucado
A wife who loses a husband is called a widow. A husband who loses a wife is called a widower. A child who loses his parents is called an orphan. There is no word for a parent who loses a child. That's how awful the loss is. -- Ronald Reagan
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. -- Joseph Roux
If I lose show business - I'll really be an orphan! -- Red Buttons
The one phrase you can use is that success has a thousand fathers, and failure is an orphan. -- Alan Price
I feel akin to the Platypus. An orphan in a family. A swimmer, a recluse. Part bird, part fish, part lizard. -- Trevor Dunn
A woman always has her man, but the man unconsciously leans on his roots, his heritage. He feels like an orphan without his parents. -- Raj Kapoor
I'm an orphan. But the public has adopted me, and that has been my only family. The biggest family in the world is my fans. -- Eartha Kitt
You are ugly when you love her, you are beautiful and fresh, vital and free, modern and poetic when you don't... you are more beautiful as an orphan than as your mother's son. -- Witold Gombrowicz
When my father died, my mother was still alive. And I think when your second parent dies, there is that shock: 'Oh man, I'm an orphan.' There's also this relief: It's done; it's finished; it's over. -- Roz Chast
I did nothing to deserve God's love; in fact, I was living as an orphan, without hope. Yet God chose to pursue a relationship with me, and through the death of his son Jesus, I was adopted into God's family. -- Steven Curtis Chapman
I'd always been insecure. Being the fourth of five kids means attention is divided five ways, and to do this equally is impossible. I grew up feeling like the little orphan in the family, the one who didn't fit in. -- Suzi Quatro
I was a hot-dog stand lady, I was an orphan housemother, I was a waitress 3 or 4 times. All of those jobs did not have good bosses. They basically told you what to do, when to do and when to hop. And I just didn't like that very much. -- Barbara Corcoran
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. -- Joseph Roux
The bottom line is that finding orphan planets - small, faint, and located who-knows-where - is not for the faint of heart. The task is comparable to observing a match flame at the distance of Pluto. The WISE satellite, a hi-tech, space-based infrared telescope especially suited for such work, has found only a few. -- Seth Shostak
When I was an orphan, I was the richest kid at the orphanage because everyone else was complaining about not having anything. But when I discovered that you could get two cents for a Coca-Cola bottle, I would follow people around who were drinking it and ask them if they were almost through with it. -- Wayne Dyer
When you lose a parent, you realize how vital they are to the foundation of your life. It's impossible to understand what it means until that curtain is pulled. You're an orphan. But then I think that life is kind of remarkable, and the thing that causes the biggest pain can also bring amazing energy. -- Neneh Cherry
My father is a silent cinema freak, so he took me to 1925 silent films that took forever, like 5-hour movies, but I've seen a lot of that stuff since I was young. And then I saw the film 'Annie,' and I just wanted to be Annie; I just wanted to be that orphan kid and wanted to sing and dance. -- Carice van Houten
You don't have to know anything about baseball to respond to Babe Ruth because he's just this magnificent human being. And a really good story because he was this kid who grew up essentially as an orphan, you know, had a tough life, and then he became the most successful baseball player ever. But he was also a really good guy. -- Bill Bryson
I've gone skydiving twice. I was terrified about doing it, but I wanted to overcome that. The first time, I did it with my parents and I remember that they had already both jumped out, and suddenly it was my turn. And I thought, 'Well, I don't want to be an orphan,' so I guess I have no choice, and I jumped out of the plane. -- Mandy Moore
I can't know everything, pretend you're an orphan. -- Cheshire Cat
Victory has a hundred fathers but defeat is an orphan. -- Galeazzo Ciano
Life Insurance Motto - Robbing the widows early and orphan. -- Ethel Mumford
Truth is orphan without matter and matter is impotent without truth. -- Kedar Joshi
As always, victory finds a hundred fathers but defeat is an orphan. -- Galeazzo Ciano
He will regard his people's cry, the widow's tear, the orphan's moan. -- Eliza R. Snow
Please don't let the illegal ivory trade orphan even more baby elephants. -- Yao Ming
There is something very romantic about the orphan figure in American literature. -- Christopher Bollen
I'm an orphan!" Constance cried gleefully. "I'm an orphan!" ~ The Prisoner's Dilemma -- Trenton Lee Stewart
We probably looked like starving orphan children. Hey! We were starving orphan children. -- James Patterson
ORPHAN, n. A living person whom death has deprived of the power of filial ingratitude . . . -- Ambrose Bierce
The victory always has a lot of parents but the defeat is always an orphan. -- Honore de Balzac
And I, as I lived, in an alien landWill die a slave and an orphan. -- Mikhail Lermontov
Technical perfection is insufficient. It is an orphan without the true soul of the dancer. -- Sylvie Guillem
You can't avoid orphan stories, child. Every story is an orphan story. We are all orphaned sooner or later. -- Gabrielle Zevin
There's a day that is coming when all the last will be first and every orphan will be home. -- Steven Curtis Chapman
You show me a boy who brings a snake home to his mother and I'll show you an orphan. -- Erma Bombeck
I always questioned if I was CALLED to adopt, but then I realized no child was ever CALLED to be an orphan. -- David Platt
The Duke of Dunstable had one-way pockets. He would walk ten miles in the snow to chisel an orphan out of tuppence. -- P. G. Wodehouse
There's an old saying that victory has a hundred fathers and defeat is an orphan.... I'm the responsible officer of the Government. -- John F. Kennedy
People think you are an orphan when you are a child, and don't believe that old people can feel that they are orphans. -- Agnes Varda
Everything about 'Hugo' to me is poignant, from the broken orphan to the old man losing his past to the fragility of film itself. -- John Logan
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. -- Sarah Dessen
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. -- Rigoberta Menchu
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. -- Bill Vaughan
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. -- Charles Dickens
I'd seen 'Punky Brewster,' I'd seen 'Webster,' I saw 'Annie,' and it was time to either be an orphan or an actress. -- Nadine Velazquez
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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. -- William Shakespeare
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! -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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
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. -- Victor Hugo
and every day I thank [God] that I am alive, not because I fear death, but because my wife has a husband and my son is not an orphan. -- Khaled Hosseini
History is 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. -- Kedar Joshi
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. -- Kedar Joshi
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! -- Sophie Swetchine
I've always been a bit of an orphan, because actors say, 'Well, he's more of a dancer.' And dancers say, 'No. He's really a singer.' And singers say, 'No. He's an actor.' -- Dick Van Dyke
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
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

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