(24 quotes found)
“Poetry is an orphan of silence. The words never quite equal the experience behind them.”
Charles Simic
“The orphan does not rejoice after a heavy breakfast. - Cape Coast, Ghana”
African Proverb
“Every politician should have been born an orphan and remain a bachelor.”
Claudia Lady Bird Johnson
“As always, victory finds a hundred fathers but defeat is an orphan”
Count Galeazzo Ciano
“Not everyone can be an orphan.”
Andre Gide
“He was 16, a French immigrant, nobody knew who he was ? he was an orphan. He was nobody, and then all of the sudden because he's a survivor and cannibalism was said to have taken place, he's suddenly elevated to stardom and infamy. He probably made the whole thing sound as sexy and gory and sensational as possible.”
Julie Schablitsky
“And give to the orphans their property, and do not substitute worthless (things) for (their) good (ones), and do not devour their property (as an addition) to your own property; this is surely a great crime.”
quran
“The faces of the women and children in far-away Spain, widows and orphans of this July third rose before me so vividly that I had to draw comfort from the thought that a decisive victory is... more merciful than a prolonged struggle.”
Charles Clark
“I think we're going full circle. We started with widows and orphans, then we started deregulating and developing non-regulated generation and that'll split off and we'll be back to where we were, stocks that are less volatile, with good dividends and more predictable earnings.”
Ronald Tanner
“Hedge funds have become increasingly sexy for the average widow, widower and orphan.”
James Cox
