30 Orphan Quotes for You to Enjoy

Victory has a thousand fathers, but defeat is an orphan. John F. Kennedy

Success Victory Defeat Fathers Thousand Orphan

When you lose a parent, you realize how vital they are to the foundation of your life. It's impossible to understand what it means until that curtain is pulled. You're an orphan. But then I think that life is kind of remarkable, and the thing that causes the biggest pain can also bring amazing energy. Neneh Cherry

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When you lose a spouse, you're a widow or widower; when you lose your parents, you're an orphan. When you lose a child, there's no word in the English language for that position, that place that you're left. Frances McDormand

You Word Language Parents Lose Spouse Left Child Place Your English English Language Orphan Widow Position

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

Friendship Man Peace Losing Language Father Wife Lost Every Immense Silent Name Call Him Known His Impotence Friend Person Holds Unhappiness Who Orphan Here

Poetry is an orphan of silence. The words never quite equal the experience behind them. Charles Simic

Silence Experience Words Poetry Never Equal Quite Behind Them Orphan

Victory has a hundred fathers but defeat is an orphan. Galeazzo Ciano

Victory Defeat Fathers Hundred Orphan

I did nothing to deserve God's love; in fact, I was living as an orphan, without hope. Yet God chose to pursue a relationship with me, and through the death of his son Jesus, I was adopted into God's family. Steven Curtis Chapman

The one phrase you can use is that success has a thousand fathers, and failure is an orphan. Alan Price

Success Failure You Fathers Thousand Phrase Use Orphan

I don't even know how it is to have a home. I feel like an orphan or something. Fred Korematsu

Home Something Feel Like Know How Even Orphan

Every politician should have been born an orphan and remain a bachelor. Lady Bird Johnson

Politics Politician Every Bachelor Born Remain Been Should Orphan

When I was an orphan, I was the richest kid at the orphanage because everyone else was complaining about not having anything. But when I discovered that you could get two cents for a Coca-Cola bottle, I would follow people around who were drinking it and ask them if they were almost through with it. Wayne Dyer

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'Orphan Black' tends to, for their auditions, shroud it in secrecy and change names. Ari Millen

Change Black Secrecy Tends Names Auditions Shroud Orphan

I was a hot-dog stand lady, I was an orphan housemother, I was a waitress 3 or 4 times. All of those jobs did not have good bosses. They basically told you what to do, when to do and when to hop. And I just didn't like that very much. Barbara Corcoran

Good You Those Hop Jobs Bosses Like Waitress Very Times Did Just Lady Much Stand Orphan Basically

The most surprising thing, honestly, is that so few Americans know about the orphan trains. I was also surprised at the resilience and fortitude of the riders I met, their pragmatism and grace. I don't know whether this is a Midwestern trait or simply a human one. Christina Baker Kline

Grace Met Few Honestly About Simply Know Most Also Pragmatism Surprised Surprising Surprising Thing Trains Trait American Human Whether Midwestern Fortitude Riders Orphan Thing Resilience

This country owes them all a debt of gratitude. The down payment on that debt is making sure that we live up to Lincoln's charge: to care for him who shall have borne the battle, and for his widow, and his orphan. Dave Obey

For me, in general, it's always about the material. Obviously, it's about the material and hoping that someone wants to hire me for a job, too, but I've certainly seen films like 'Orphan' and movies like that where I know that if I had had the opportunity to read that script or had an opportunity to do it, I would have wanted to do it. Jennifer Morrison

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Autobiography begins with a sense of being alone. It is an orphan form. John Berger

Alone Sense Begins Autobiography Being Form Being Alone Orphan

For 'Orphan Black,' all I got was the pilot script, and that was enough for me. I was daydreaming about this part. I kept thinking about how certain scenes were going to play out and how these interactions were going to take place. Jordan Gavaris

We're huge fans of 'Game of Thrones' for example, 'Orphan Black.' And even though those shows don't necessarily correlate directly with 'Arrow,' I'm a very big believer that writers are the product of their inspirations. Marc Guggenheim

Game Fans Black Example Big Those Though Correlate Directly Inspirations Writers For Example Big Believer Arrow Huge Very Product Game Of Thrones Even Shows Believer Orphan Necessarily

If you know anything about James Whitcomb Riley, you know that Little Orphan Annie is one of the most fantastic characters who ever lived in America before Charlie Chaplin. Marguerite Young

You Before Chaplin Characters Charlie Charlie Chaplin About Annie Know Most America James Anything Little Fantastic Who Lived Ever Orphan

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

Business Lose Really Show Show Business Orphan

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