#orphan

Read through the most famous quotes by topic #orphan




I feel akin to the Platypus. An orphan in a family. A swimmer, a recluse. Part bird, part fish, part lizard.


Trevor Dunn


#bird #family #feel #fish #i

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


#children #christmas #dead #everything #fit

My father was the orphaned son of immigrants to the United States from Ireland. My father never knew his parents. His mother died - we're not sure - either at or shortly after his birth, and he and all of his siblings were placed in orphanages in the Boston area.


George J. Mitchell


#area #birth #boston #died #either

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


#call #every #father #friend #here

Do not let Sunday be taken from you If your soul has no Sunday, it becomes an orphan.


Albert Schweitzer


#orphan #soul #sunday #taken #you

Why can't we build orphanages next to homes for the elderly? If someone were sitting in a rocker, it wouldn't be long before a kid will be in his lap.


Cloris Leachman


#build #elderly #his #homes #kid

The steel workers have now buried their dead, while the widows weep and watch their orphaned children become objects of public charity. The murder of these unarmed men has never been publicly rebuked by any authoritative officer of the state or federal government.


John L. Lewis


#armed men #authoritative #become #been #buried

Last time I was in Jamaica I financed a teacher to teach in an orphanage.


Ziggy Marley


#i #jamaica #last #last time #orphanage

URGE is a grassroots charity. We organized to get some incubators to give to the hospital for the kids. We donate money to orphanages.


Ziggy Marley


#donate #get #give #grassroots #hospital

My mother left me for seven years in an orphanage.


Vidal Sassoon


#me #mother #orphanage #seven #years