Orphan Quotes - Page 2

Orphans are easier to ignore before you know their names; but once you know, everything changes.

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

Late children are early orphans.

My profession brought me in contact with various minds. Earnest, serious discussion on the condition of woman enlivened my business room; failures of banks, no dividends from railroads, defalcations of all kinds, public and private, widows and orphans and unmarried women beggared by the dishonesty, or the mismanagement of men, were fruitful sources of conversation; confidence in man as a protector was evidently losing ground, and women were beginning to see that they must protect themselves.

Don't ye know that ev'ry Soul on Earth feels itself to be an Orphan?

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.

I love the holiday season, almost as much as I love touching myself in front of orphans.

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.

You can't avoid orphan stories, child. Every story is an orphan story. We are all orphaned sooner or later.

If I lose show business - I'll really be an orphan!

Is this a generation of orphans who are going to the improv to do stand-up?

I write sets of books, but I've also written a lot of orphans.

I believe that God is the Great Companion, that we are not left orphans, that we may have comradeship with him.

Among adults – and among orphans – Wilbur Larch noted that delirious happiness was rare.

We probably looked like starving orphan children. Hey! We were starving orphan children.

Better to build orphanages than prisons.

Orphan Black is the new black.

Life Insurance Motto - Robbing the widows early and orphan.

The world is an orphanage for grownups

Houses of evil similarity appeared like rows of disciplined, humiliated orphans.

I decided that it might be interesting to have terrible things happen to orphans over and over again.

There is something very romantic about the orphan figure in American literature.