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Orphans are the only ones who get to choose their fathers, and they love them twice as much. -- Adam Johnson
Orphans, dead parents, lonely children at Christmas, morose spoken word recordings, everything you love about the holidays. Move the turkey over so you can fit your head in the oven. -- April Winchell
Orphans' reflects unconscious elements in myself that were, at the time, indigestible and butting up against each other in my psyche; issues I wasn't really in touch with but was trying to put into a dramatic framework. -- Lyle Kessler
Orphans? Would you really? Adopt children?There are advantages. If they turn out badly, we can blame their natural parents. We can also choose our own assortment of ages and genders. We can even get them ready-grown, if we wish. -- Loretta Chase
Orphans? Would you really? Adopt children?""There are advantages. If they turn out badly, we can blame their natural parents. We can also choose our own assortment of ages and genders. We can even get them ready-grown, if we wish. -- Loretta Chase
Arethusa liked to call us Poseidon's Children. Orphans of the storm. We'd endured the worst the world could throw at us, the worst consequences of our own stupidity, and came through ... ready to face the dawn. But there are always more storms, Chiku." -- Alastair Reynolds
We have nothing left. Orphans. Castaways." She turns to me"Childless. That is what we are. The unwanted or the un-killed. Weare together only by the wrongs done to us. There is no-one else to worry about us, to fear for our safety, or to give us comfort. -- Bill Blais
Orphans are easier to ignore before you know their names; but once you know, everything changes. -- David Platt
Throughout his life, Dickens cared passionately about orphans. -- Claire Tomalin
I write sets of books, but I've also written a lot of orphans. -- Lynn Abbey
Many people, for many reasons, feel rootless - but orphans and abandoned or abused children have particular cause. -- Christina Baker Kline
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
I don't know about Brad Pitt leaving that beautiful woman to go hold orphans for Angelina. I mean how long is that going to last? -- Michael Douglas
Peter Pan' is my favorite. I love the idea that all the Lost Boys were orphans, and that they wanted Wendy to be their mom. -- Edward Kitsis
A person may rightfully be happy if in this life he could do a great favor for widows and orphans, could assist support than, and facilitate fate of people. -- Islom Karimov
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For me 'Oliver Twist' is a political novel. It is a furious critique of the treatment of orphans and poor children who were forced to spend their early lives in ghastly institutions. -- Henning Mankell
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's no shortage of orphans in 19th-century literature, but it's hard to find a single happy, communicative, functional parental relationship in the whole of 'Great Expectations,' even among the minor characters. -- David Nicholls
There's a Biblical mandate to reach out to those who are the orphans, the widows in their distress, to take care of the stranger in your land. But that does not mean citizenship. -- James Lankford
I went to Africa without the perspective of a balance between teaching people the truth, which has been my calling, and helping people who have physical problems, like AIDS and orphans and hunger. -- Bruce Wilkinson
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
I love how New York as an idea is less a paradigm of manifest destiny and more a romance for the social orphans of the world. We live here to be among the towers and the crowds. -- Chris Benz
In 'Last to Die,' three children living in different cities are the only survivors when their families are slaughtered. Two years later, their foster families are murdered, and these three orphans are once again the only survivors. -- Tess Gerritsen
Be generous to the poor orphans and those in need. The man to whom our Lord has been liberal ought not to be stingy. We shall one day find in Heaven as much rest and joy as we ourselves have dispensed in this life. -- Saint Ignatius
I will work with my colleagues on both sides of the aisle to preserve the Social Security promise that provides secure retirement benefits for all, especially those who are most at risk such as widows, orphans, and people with disabilities when the need arises. -- Chaka Fattah
I'm a really big advocate of ethical fashion. I actually have a travelling boutique called Maison de Mode, which is all about ethical fashion. I also like Maiyet from Paris. They're very Celine-esque in their silhouettes. I love their back story, too: they work with orphans in Colombia and India. -- Amanda Hearst
Everyone finds their own version of Charles Dickens. The child-victim, the irrepressibly ambitious young man, the reporter, the demonic worker, the tireless walker. The radical, the protector of orphans, helper of the needy, man of good works, the republican. The hater and the lover of America. The giver of parties, the magician, the traveler. -- Claire Tomalin
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
Late children are early orphans. -- John Wilmot
Never abandon widows, widowers and orphans. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
Without me, rap is just a bunch of orphans. -- Drake
Without words, we're history's orphans. Our lives and thoughts erased. -- Alena Graedon
Houses of evil similarity appeared like rows of disciplined, humiliated orphans. -- Elizabeth Hardwick
We were orphans before we were ever the sons of these songs. -- The Gaslight Anthem
Where can we hide in fair weather, we orphans of the storm? -- Evelyn Waugh
My passion is kids, more than just kids is underprivileged kids and orphans. -- Tim Tebow
Remember, Jesus would rather constantly shame gays than let orphans have a family. -- Stephen Colbert
Is this a generation of orphans who are going to the improv to do stand-up? -- Mindy Kaling
Among adults "? and among orphans "? Wilbur Larch noted that delirious happiness was rare. -- John Irving
I love the holiday season, almost as much as I love touching myself in front of orphans. -- Zach Braff
I decided that it might be interesting to have terrible things happen to orphans over and over again. -- Daniel Handler
If you invest your time, talent, and resources, orphans around the world can have much happier and healthier lives. -- Beau Sides
That's it then. Cancel the kitchen scraps for lepers and orphans, no more merciful beheadings, and call off Christmas. -- Alan Rickman
In the English language there are orphans and widows, but there is no word for the parents who lose a child. -- Jodi Picoult
I believe that God is the Great Companion, that we are not left orphans, that we may have comradeship with him. -- Lyman Abbott
In the English language there are orphans and widows, but there is no word for the parents who loses a child. -- Jodi Picoult
Life isn't fair," he said, in his undisguised voice, and for once the Baudelaire orphans agreed with every word the man said. -- Daniel Handler
What sad faces one always sees in the asylums for orphans! It is more fatal to neglect the heart than the head. -- Theodore Parker
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
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
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
I will love you as misfortune loves orphans, as fire loves innocence, and as justice loves to sit and watch while everything goes wrong. -- Daniel Handler
Something ... made him feel small, not in the way of orphans or beggars or children, but in a good way. In the way of souls. -- R. Scott Bakker
They are orphans again, with no true home but each other and whatever life they can make together on the other side of the sea. -- Leigh Bardugo
I dont know about Brad Pitt leaving that beautiful woman to go hold orphans for Angelina. I mean how long is that going to last? -- Michael Douglas
Cross-generational sex is the phenomenon in which young girls are given material goods in exchange for sex. All girls are vulnerable to it, particularly orphans. -- Ashley Judd
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
I really want to see Israel. I would like to come and to express my support in the peace process there, and help the war orphans. -- Peta Wilson
Get out of my way, you cakesniffers!â? said a rude, violent, and filthy little girl, shoving the Baudelaire orphans aside as she dashed by. -- Daniel Handler
I'm concerned about the plight of children. But I'm not on a mission to get all the available orphans in the world adopted into Christian homes. -- Andy Stanley
So, then, Oxford Street, stonyhearted stepmother, thou that listenest to the sighs of orphans, and drinkest the tears of children, at length I was dismissed from thee. -- Thomas de Quincey
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
Each new mornNew widows howl, new orphans cry, new sorrowsStrike heaven on the face, that it resoundsAs if it felt with Scotland, and yelled outLike syllable of dolor. -- William Shakespeare
(Sebastian) "See, there you go. You're always looking at me like that." "Like what?" "Like I burn down animal shelters for fun and light my cigarettes with orphans. -- Cassandra Clare
Our souls are like those orphans whose unwedded mothers die in bearing them: the secret of our paternity lies in their grave, and we must there to learn it. -- Herman Melville
In an ideal world, we would have been orphans. We felt like orphans and we felt deserving of the pity that orphans get, but embarrassingly enough, we had parents. -- Miranda July
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
Emotional damage is never easy to measure, but mothers who are alive but psychically absent impose filial burdens which knot their children's feelings in a way biologic orphans are spared. -- Eileen Simpson
I've never had much sympathy for orphans, I mean, when I was their age I would have killed to have no parents to make me clean my room and stuff -- Zach Braff
The white man's God cannot love our people or He would protect them. They seem to be orphans who can look nowhere for help. How then can we be brothers? -- Chief Seattle
What does it matter 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
Wow. What'd he do to deserve that? Rescue orphans from a burning building? If so, you might want to make sure he didn't set the building on fire in the first place. -- Richelle Mead
For me Oliver Twist is a political novel. It is a furious critique of the treatment of orphans and poor children who were forced to spend their early lives in ghastly institutions. -- Henning Mankell
Living is death; dying is life. We are not what we appear to be. On this side of the grave we are exiles, on that citizens; on this side orphans, on that children; -- Henry Ward Beecher
We come crawling through these cracks, orphans, lobotomies; if you ask me what I want, I'll tell you. I want everything. Whole rotten world come down and break. Let me spread my legs. -- Kathy Acker
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 in the holy name of liberty or democracy? -- Mahatma Gandhi
I had this idea about terrible things happening to orphans, and I knew it was such a horrible idea that the idea of writing it down and then submitting it professionally was obviously absurd. -- Daniel Handler
They call war an art, but it isn't. It largely consists in outwitting people, robbing widows and orphans, and inflicting suffering on the helpless for one's own ends - and that's not art: that's business. -- Kenneth Roberts
You know, there's a big world out there filled with desperate orphans who would gladly swim across an ocean of thumbtacks just to be eclipsed by the long shadow that is cast by my accomplishments. -- Daniel Handler
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
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And his good wife will tear her cheeks in grief, his sons are orphans and he, soaking the soil red with his own blood, he rots away himself-more birds than women flocking round his body! -- Homer
The internet does not adhere to the inherent, necessary asymmetry of high-versus-low-art categorizations that we use in the cultural sector: in a banal sense, all photographs on the Web are orphans ready to be claimed. -- Charlotte Cotton

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