Autobiography begins with a sense of being alone. It is an orphan form.
I decided that it might be interesting to have terrible things happen to orphans over and over again.
I always questioned if I was CALLED to adopt, but then I realized no child was ever CALLED to be an orphan.
Not everyone can be an orphan.
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've always been a bit of an orphan, because actors say, 'Well, he's more of a dancer. ' And dancers say, 'No. He's really a singer. ' And singers say, 'No. He's an actor. '
You can't avoid orphan stories, child. Every story is an orphan story. We are all orphaned sooner or later.
There is something very romantic about the orphan figure in American literature.
Do not let Sunday be taken from you. If your soul has no Sunday, it becomes an orphan.
Marry an orphan: you'll never have to spend boring holidays with the in-laws.
There are no words to describe the pain of burying a child, and specifically there is no word to label their new, lifelong status. If you lose a spouse, you are a widow; if you lose a parent, you are an orphan. But what about when you lose a child? How do you name something you cannot comprehend?
Where can we hide in fair weather, we orphans of the storm?
I believe that God is the Great Companion, that we are not left orphans, that we may have comradeship with him.
I can't know everything, pretend you're an orphan.
Mad, malevolent, and incantatory, The Orphan Palace reads like the hagridden fever dream of one who has not only stared the Abyss in Its black and fathomless face, but welcomed Its gaze in return. . . and become Its living embodiment. It is a journey to be taken by none but the bravest of readers, and by souls with an ardent desire to savor their own damnation.
Don't ye know that ev'ry Soul on Earth feels itself to be an Orphan?
The love of wisdom is a way of life; that is to say, it's a set of practices that have to do with mustering the courage to think critically about ourselves, society, and the world; mustering the courage to empathize; the courage, I would say, to love; the courage to have compassion with others, especially the widow and the orphan, the fatherless and the motherless, poor and working peoples, gays and lesbians, and so forth - and the courage to hope.
If I lose show business - I'll really be an orphan!
If anybody understands God's order for his children, it's someone who has rescued an orphan from despair, for that is what God has done for us. God has adopted you. God sought you, found you, signed the papers and took you home.
Without me, rap is just a bunch of orphans.
