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.
Autobiography begins with a sense of being alone. It is an orphan form.
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.
Technical perfection is insufficient. It is an orphan without the true soul of the dancer.
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.
And I, as I lived, in an alien landWill die a slave and an orphan.
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. '
The Christian who does not feel that the Virgin Mary is his or her mother is an orphan.
If I lose show business - I'll really be an orphan!
Please don't let the illegal ivory trade orphan even more baby elephants.
We probably looked like starving orphan children. Hey! We were starving orphan children.
I decided that it might be interesting to have terrible things happen to orphans over and over again.
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.
I always questioned if I was CALLED to adopt, but then I realized no child was ever CALLED to be an orphan.
Among adults – and among orphans – Wilbur Larch noted that delirious happiness was rare.
There is something very romantic about the orphan figure in American literature.
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.
Houses of evil similarity appeared like rows of disciplined, humiliated orphans.
Life Insurance Motto - Robbing the widows early and orphan.