Top 156 Orphan Quotes & Sayings

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.

As always, victory finds a hundred fathers but defeat is an orphan.

Poetry is an orphan of silence.

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

I was raised an orphan... My mother died when I was 2 years old.

When you're an orphan, you don't wake up every day and tell yourself, "I'm an orphan again today. Why did this happen to me?" You just get on with your life. I've had other challenges that were much greater than that.

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

Harry's status as orphan gives him a freedom other children can only dream about (guiltily, of course). No child wants to lose their parents, yet the idea of being removed from the expectations of parents is alluring. The orphan in literature is freed from the obligation to satisfy his/her parents, and from the inevitable realization that his/her parents are flawed human beings. There is something liberating, too, about being transported into the kind of surrogate family which boarding school represents, where the relationships are less intense and the boundaries perhaps more clearly defined.

I grew up with my dad. He was very eccentric. I had zero supervision in New York. It's kind of like I was an orphan.

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.

The Christian who does not feel that the Virgin Mary is his or her mother is an orphan.

Not everyone can be an orphan.

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

You show me a boy who brings a snake home to his mother and I'll show you an orphan.

The Duke of Dunstable had one-way pockets. He would walk ten miles in the snow to chisel an orphan out of tuppence.

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

There's an old saying that victory has a hundred fathers and defeat is an orphan.... I'm the responsible officer of the Government.

You are in the field to defend the public interest, the financial truth for investors and the funds that should support the widow and the orphan.

The victory always has a lot of parents but the defeat is always an orphan.

Biography is, simply, the orphan of academia.

Technical perfection is insufficient. It is an orphan without the true soul of the dancer.

and every day I thank [God] that I am alive, not because I fear death, but because my wife has a husband and my son is not an orphan.

Seven years ago when I came, I said to you that I'll teach you how to be healthy, happy and holy and we will build a family which shall not have any facet of human life as an orphan; to build an exclusive family in which there is no facet of our life which is an orphan. 'In God we trust,' We are the trust of God and let us live it.

I’ve discovered a new affliction; it’s called Orphan Black Eyes. When people ask me what I’m working on and I tell them Orphan Black…they usually clutch a part of my body and their eyes go wide and a little crazy. People are MAD for this show. As am I.

I recall an 18-year-old girl named Rachel in Zambia who was given a grant to start a business of her choosing. She decided to breed goats so she could sell the meat and the milk, and donate the kids to orphan children. She herself was an orphan, stepping into young adulthood with no resources, and it was her first opportunity to earn her own money.

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

ORPHAN, n. A living person whom death has deprived of the power of filial ingratitude . . .

It's odd to think of yourself as an orphan at 55.

Victory has a hundred fathers but defeat is an orphan.

Adolescents are attracted to tragic heroes. That's why rock stars dress like homeless people. Adolescence is a fall. It's when every child becomes an orphan.

Success has many fathers and failure is an orphan.

Marry an orphan: you'll never have to spend boring holidays with the in-laws.

I'm a big fan of 'Orphan Black,' and to be one of the original cast members is something that will always be dear to me.

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

I love creating opportunities for people. I think it's my orphan mentality.

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

Please don't let the illegal ivory trade orphan even more baby elephants.

He will regard his people's cry, the widow's tear, the orphan's moan.

The women laughed and wept; the crowd stamped their feet enthusiastically, for at that moment Quasimodo was really beautiful. He was handsome — this orphan, this foundling, this outcast.

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

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.

These concerns (for orphan children in India and elsewhere in the world) are very good, but often these same people are not concerned with the millions that are killed by the deliberate decision of their own mothers.

I'd seen 'Punky Brewster,' I'd seen 'Webster,' I saw 'Annie,' and it was time to either be an orphan or an actress.

I am a freak in secondhand velour, a leper who uses L'Oreal Anti-sticky Mega Gel. I am rootless, ripped from all foundations, an orphan raising an orphan and wanting to take away everything there is and replace it with stuff I've made.

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

Recent results from astronomers who study the occasional gravitational lensing of unknown worlds by intervening stars suggest that orphan planets could be at least as numerous as the stars. In other words, there could be hundreds of billions of orphan worlds shuffling through our galaxy.

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

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.

There’s a day that is coming when all the last will be first and every orphan will be home.

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

People think you are an orphan when you are a child, and don't believe that old people can feel that they are orphans.

Hypocrite: The man who murdered his parents, and then pleaded for mercy on the grounds that he was an orphan.

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

Life Insurance Motto - Robbing the widows early and orphan.

I wasn't the only orphan in Guatemala. There are many others, and it's not my grief alone, it's the grief of a whole people.

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

I can't know everything, pretend you're an orphan.

I always questioned if I was CALLED to adopt, but then I realized no child was ever CALLED to be an orphan.

And I, as I lived, in an alien landWill die a slave and an orphan.

Everything about 'Hugo' to me is poignant, from the broken orphan to the old man losing his past to the fragility of film itself.