Abandoned Quotes

My mother left behind three daughters when she went to America and started a new life. I certainly felt abandoned when my father died of a brain tumour; I felt he had abandoned me to this terrible, volatile mother and I had no protection. Amy Tan
Life Me Protection Mother New Life Father Three Abandoned Daughters Volatile Had He New She Terrible Felt Brain Left America Died Behind Certainly Started
What I see as the particularly exciting prospect for writing horror fiction as we go forward is setting stories in more internal landscapes than external ones, mapping out the mind as the home for scary things instead of the house at the end of the lane or lakeside campground or abandoned amusement park. Andrew Pyper
Home Writing Mind Setting Abandoned Out See Scary Horror More Park Exciting Instead Prospect Particularly House Go End Than Fiction Stories Landscapes Lane Internal Forward Mapping Things External Amusement
I've played a worrying number of orphans, children who have been abandoned or had something terrible happen to them. Asa Butterfield
Worrying Abandoned Something Had Terrible Been Children Happen Them Who Orphans Played Number
The environment will continue to deteriorate until pollution practices are abandoned. B. F. Skinner
Will Abandoned Deteriorate Environment Until Practices Continue Pollution
In the Trump era, the Left has smartly and justifiably seized a moral high ground that the Right has abandoned by its embrace of the president. Bari Weiss
President Abandoned High Moral Embrace High Ground Seized Era Trump Left Ground Right
Many foreclosed homes are neglected or abandoned, as legal proceedings or other factors delay their resale. Deteriorating or vacant properties can, in turn, directly affect the quality of life in a neighborhood, for example, by leading to increases in vandalism or crime. Ben Bernanke
Life Legal Quality Crime Delay Example Increases Other Neglected Neighborhood Abandoned Vandalism Deteriorating Properties Directly Factors Leading For Example Quality Of Life Affect Turn Many Homes Vacant
Old books that have ceased to be of service should no more be abandoned than should old friends who have ceased to give pleasure. Bernard Baruch
Service Old Old Friends Books Pleasure Abandoned Give More Friends Than Old Books Should Who
To explore technology for me is something that I have to do. Otherwise, I feel completely left in the back... abandoned. Bernardo Bertolucci
Me Technology Otherwise Back Abandoned Something Feel Left Explore
Then I abandoned comics for fine art because I had some romantic vision of being like Vincent Van Gogh Jr. Bill Griffith
Art Vision Abandoned Van Van Gogh Fine Fine Art Some Had Like Because Comics Gogh Being Romantic Then
At the moment of childbirth, every woman has the same aura of isolation, as though she were abandoned, alone. Boris Pasternak
Alone Woman Isolation Every Though Abandoned She Were Aura Same Childbirth Moment
I guess my journey with comics began with stuff like Spider-Man and Batman. I started off with mainstream superhero stuff, which I've never abandoned. Brian K. Vaughan
Journey My Journey Guess Batman Abandoned Spider-Man Superhero Never Mainstream Stuff Like Comics Off Began Which Started
It was such a paradox for me that the only thing I know how to do is act, but that the first thing I abandoned while writing were the characters. Bryce Dallas Howard
Me Writing First Abandoned Characters Paradox Only Know First Thing How Were The First Thing The Only Thing While Act Thing
My childhood was rough, we were poor and my parents were alcoholics, but nobody was mean. I knew I was loved. We were on welfare, but I never felt abandoned or unloved. Carol Burnett
Welfare Parents Unloved Abandoned Never Knew Nobody Felt Were Childhood Loved Mean Poor Rough
Few years ago when I visited a palliative care centre in Chennai for the first time, it completely moved me. It's an emotionally draining experience. I saw and met patients who were abandoned by their families, and there is complete sense of hopelessness. Ever since, I have been a supporter for the need for funding and awareness of palliative care. Chinmayi
Time Me Experience Care First Met Few Sense Awareness Draining Complete Saw Visited Abandoned Hopelessness Emotionally Supporter Since First Time Were Been Years Years Ago Families Moved Patients Centre Who Ever Funding Need
Many people, for many reasons, feel rootless - but orphans and abandoned or abused children have particular cause. Christina Baker Kline
People Cause Abandoned Feel Abuse Particular Children Reasons Many Orphans
I was stunned to learn that more than 200,000 abandoned, neglected, or orphaned children had been sent from the East Coast to the Midwest on trains between 1854 and 1929. Christina Baker Kline
Neglected East Abandoned East Coast More Had Between Stunned Learn Been Than Trains Children Midwest Sent Coast Orphaned
People need to know that they are not alone, that they have not been abandoned; but that there is One Who loves them for what they are, Who cares about them. Dada Vaswani
Alone People Cares Abandoned About Know Been Loves Them Who Who Cares Need
As a girl, I abandoned a promising singing career due to violent harassment by Islamists. Deeyah Khan
Girl Singing Abandoned Promising Islamists Due Harassment Career Violent
The sigh of History rises over ruins, not over landscapes, and in the Antilles there are few ruins to sigh over, apart from the ruins of sugar estates and abandoned forts. Derek Walcott
History Few Sugar Ruins Sigh Abandoned Rises Over Estates Apart Landscapes
The Democratic Party has pretty much abandoned all the things that they cherish. Dick Armey
Party Abandoned Pretty Democratic Democratic Party Cherish Much Things
In 1595, by order of the Privy Council, the English armed services abandoned the longbow and fought with muskets for the next two centuries and more. Nobody is sure why. Edmund Morgan
Abandoned More Council Nobody Armed Armed Services Sure Privy Order Centuries Next English Fought Why Services Two
To die is as if one's eyes had been put out and one cannot see anything any more. Perhaps it is like being shut in a cellar. One is abandoned by all. They have slammed the door and are gone. One does not see anything and notices only the damp smell of putrefaction. Edvard Munch
Eyes Smell Gone Damp Abandoned Out See More Only Had Put Like Perhaps Does Been Die Cellar Any Being Door Anything Cannot Notices Slammed Shut
Abandoned homes are everyone's problem, afflicting communities all over the state. Eric Schneiderman
Problem State Everyone Abandoned Over Communities Homes
We had a big controversy in the United States when there was a limited number of dialysis machines. In Seattle, they appointed what they called a 'God committee' to choose who should get it, and that committee was eventually abandoned. Society ended up paying the whole bill for dialysis instead of having people make those decisions. Ezekiel Emanuel
God People Big Society States Those Machines Abandoned Having Had Instead Make Limited Up Get Ended Committee Controversy Decisions Should Bill Choose Paying Who Whole United Eventually United States Seattle Appointed Number
I would say that I am an academic in politics. I have never abandoned my academic approach to observe reality, independently from the subject and its constant changes. Fernando Haddad
Politics Reality Changes Approach Say Abandoned Independently Would Constant Never Observe Academic Am Subject
The challenge of a president himself struggling to find the conjunction between the right words and honest expression, a use of language that respects intellect, truth, and sincerity, has largely been abandoned. Fred Kaplan
Truth Words Language Challenge President Right Words Respects Abandoned Find Struggling Between Sincerity Himself Been Intellect Use Conjunction Expression Largely Right Honest
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