Quotes of: Orphaned Keyword

This country was filled with violent children orphaned by war.

Blood Meridian, or the Evening Redness in the West

There's no shortage of orphans in 19th-century literature, but it's hard to find a single happy, communicative, functional parental relationship in the whole of 'Great Expectations,' even among the minor characters.

David Nicholls

'Peter Pan' is my favorite. I love the idea that all the Lost Boys were orphans, and that they wanted Wendy to be their mom.

Edward Kitsis

Your mind gives birth to an action and, whether you like it or not, it will never let it become orphaned

Dean Cavanagh

Walter: I've been to the orphan home before. I don't wanna go back.

Secondhand Lions

'Orphans' reflects unconscious elements in myself that were, at the time, indigestible and butting up against each other in my psyche; issues I wasn't really in touch with but was trying to put into a dramatic framework.

Lyle Kessler

The next second a great blast of hot light erupted over Toad and Jed, but they didn't stop. Toad was trying to punch every bit of Jed that he could reach. There was a great howling of fright and a heavy-booted foot nearly missed Toad's fingers. Jed k...

The Orphan and the Thief

While many of us give to the hungry orphan, we have forgotten to love her.

Radically Ordinary

They are orphans again, with no true home but each other and whatever life they can make together on the other side of the sea.

Shadow and Bone

In the English language there are orphans and widows, but there is no word for the parents who lose a child.

My Sister's Keeper

Just knowing that they could read made the Baudelaire orphans feel as if their wretched lives could be a little brighter.

The Miserable Mill

A man can work from sun to sun, But a woman's work is never done.

Orphan at My Door: The Home Child Diary of Victoria Cope

All I could do was laugh, but it wasn’t funny. I find it incredibly sad to be tickled by an orphan.

This Book is Not FOR SALE

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

P.G. Wodehouse

Christmas without a murder plot is like a day without giant spiders eaten orphans" (quote on my special gift holiday mugs)

Roma Gray

A woman always has her man, but the man unconsciously leans on his roots, his heritage. He feels like an orphan without his parents.

Raj Kapoor

Something like 'Rust and Bone' would be a dream. Very pared down. 'Orphan Black' is such a challenge. I just need something that isn't as full-on intense as that.

Tatiana Maslany

I don't know about Brad Pitt leaving that beautiful woman to go hold orphans for Angelina. I mean how long is that going to last?

Michael Douglas

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

A person may rightfully be happy if in this life he could do a great favor for widows and orphans, could assist support than, and facilitate fate of people.

Islom Karimov

Divorce in a young-adult novel means what being orphaned meant in a fairy tale: vulnerability, danger, unwanted independence.

Caitlin Flanagan