Orphan Quotes
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The victory always has a lot of parents but the defeat is always an orphan.
Honore de Balzac -
As always, victory finds a hundred fathers but defeat is an orphan.
Galeazzo Ciano
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Hypocrite: The man who murdered his parents, and then pleaded for mercy on the grounds that he was an orphan.
Abraham Lincoln -
Victory has a hundred fathers but defeat is an orphan.
Galeazzo Ciano -
You can't avoid orphan stories, child. Every story is an orphan story. We are all orphaned sooner or later.
Gabrielle Zevin -
We tend to think of orphans as being the protagonist of stories we read when we're kids, and yet here you are: you're an adult, you're supposed to manage, you're supposed to get over it, you're supposed to go on with your life, and you feel like a lost child.
Sandra Cisneros -
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 -
I'm an orphan!" Constance cried gleefully. "I'm an orphan!" ~ The Prisoner's Dilemma
Trenton Lee Stewart
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And I, as I lived, in an alien land Will die a slave and an orphan.
Mikhail Lermontov -
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 -
Syria these days reminds me of an orphan surrounded by real enemies and false friends, forming a club of cynics, and trying to seize control of its destiny.
Amir Taheri -
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 -
Life Insurance Motto - Robbing the widows early and orphan.
Ethel Watts Mumford -
The question is not what anybody deserves. The question is who is to take on the God-like role of deciding what everybody else deserves. You can talk about 'social justice' all you want. But what death taxes boil down to is letting politicians take money from widows and orphans to pay for goodies that they will hand out to others, in order to buy votes to get re-elected. That is not social justice or any other kind of justice.
Thomas Sowell
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Don't ye know that ev'ry Soul on Earth feels itself to be an Orphan?
Erica Jong -
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 -
When I lost my father, I thought I learned about grief and transition. However, nobody tells you what it's like to lose your mother. They don't tell you that you're going to feel like an orphan at whatever age you are as an adult.
Sandra Cisneros -
There is something very romantic about the orphan figure in American literature.
Christopher Bollen