Widows Quotes - Page 3

• Persecute them. ... Let them be put to shame and perish. ... Let his children be fatherless, and his wife a widow. ... Let his children be continually vagabonds, and beg. Let there be none to extend mercy unto him, neither let there be any to favour his fatherless children.

  Wiley Drake

  Children, Wife, Scary

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• We tend to think of divorced or complicated families as a modern invention, and that is not at all true. You only have to read the Greek myths to see broken homes, widows, divorce, stepchildren, children trying to get along with new parents.

  Rick Riordan

  Children, Divorce, Home

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• The first dead man on Omaha Beach must be a sailor!

  Paddy Chayefsky

  Beach, War, Men

  Paddy Chayefsky (1995). “The Collected Works of Paddy Chayefsky: The Screenplays”, Applause Theatre & Cinema Books

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• A speculator is a man who, if he dies at the right time, has a rich widow.

  Christina Stead

  Men, Rich, Right Time

  Christina Stead (2012). “House of All Nations”, p.322, Open Road Media

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• A lot of people who work with wildlife work with wildlife to satisfy their own egos. And I don't really agree with that. What I do is get in nice and close to the animal to make the animal look good. My aim in this world is to make that brown snake, that crocodile, that koala, that red-backed spider, that black widow, look good. That's my job. I have absolutely no problem with my ego or my staff's ego.

  Steve Irwin

  Jobs, Nice, Animal

  Source: www.reptilesmagazine.com

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• My profession brought me in contact with various minds. Earnest, serious discussion on the condition of woman enlivened my business room; failures of banks, no dividends from railroads, defalcations of all kinds, public and private, widows and orphans and unmarried women beggared by the dishonesty, or the mismanagement of men, were fruitful sources of conversation; confidence in man as a protector was evidently losing ground, and women were beginning to see that they must protect themselves.

  Harriot Kezia Hunt

  Business, Men, Widows And Orphans

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• Widows are more skillful anglers for husbands than spinsters, and many marry several times. This is a social injustice to spinsters. "One man one woman," is surely as fair a cry as "One man one vote." As there is scarcely one man for each woman, what right has one woman to two, three, or four men in succession? She may reply, "By the right of conquest." But, then, is she not reducing others to unhappy courses or to become old maids?... Society, for the interests of all, should discourage the remarriage of widows.

  Tennessee Celeste Claflin

  Husband, Men, Two

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• The repentant, run-to-seed ultra-Leftists who have converted to humanitarianism, artificial inseminators of the widow and the orphan, themselves orphans of reality and malades imaginaires of politics, premature ejaculators of posthistory and hyperchondriacs of the dead body of ideology and morality.

  Jean Baudrillard

  Running, Reality, Body

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• The widow cries out at the door, The light of my mind has gone out, O my mother, with his death. So cry out, O soul brides of the Husband Lord, and dwell on the Glorious Praises of the True Lord.

  Guru Nanak

  Mother, Husband, Light

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• We shall always be a small minority in the world, but, when a small nation accomplishes something with its limited means, what it achieves has an immense and exceptional value, like the widow's mite. It is a deliberate and discerning love of a nation that appeals to me, not the indiscriminate love that assumes everything to be right because it bears a national label. Love of one's own nation should not entail non-love of other nations. Institutions by themselves are not enough.

  Tomas Garrigue Masaryk

  Mean, Patriotism, World

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• Dr. Holmes says, both wittily and truly, that crying widows are easiest consoled.

  Josh Billings

  Grief, Drs, Cry

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• Have you ever been through a painful season in life and wished for something new, something fresh, or even something healing to come along? Take this journey with Robin Price, a widow and single mother with a big heart and passion for those closest to her as she wades through trying to live, let go, and love again. Wishing on Willows is a story of hope that will find you stepping up to the willow tree and daring to make wishes

  Jane Kirkpatrick

  Letting Go, Mother, Healing

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• To mark the 0-year anniversary of 9/, I wanted to launch an FDNY shirt that pays tribute to the brave first responders who, like my father, risk their lives in the line of duty on a regular basis. All of the proceeds raised from the sale of the T-shirt benefit the New York Police & Fire Widows' & Children's Benefit Fund.

  Mark Sanchez

  Anniversary, New York, Children

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• But I am a Widow’s Son, outlawed and my orders must be obeyed.

  Ned Kelly

  Son, Order

  Jerilderie Letter, www.nma.gov.au. 1879.

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• Truly, sister, you were born to be a widow. (Tyrion to Cersei)

  George R. R. Martin

  Born, Tyrion

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• Mrs. Jennings was a widow, with an ample jointure. She had only two daughters, both of whom she had lived to see respectably married, and she had now therefore nothing to do but to marry all the rest of the world.

  Jane Austen

  Daughter, Two, World

  Jane Austen (2005). “Jane Austen: 8 Books in 1”, p.11, Shoes & Ships & Sealing Wax

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• Little fussy Otto, in his red-lined black opera cloak with pockets for all his gear, his shiny black shoes, his carefully cut widow's peak and, not least, his ridiculous accent that grew thicker or thinner depending on who he was talking to, did not look like a threat. He looked funny, a joke, a music-hall vampire. It had never previously occurred to Vimes that, just possibly, the joke was on other people.

  Terry Pratchett

  Cutting, Talking, Shoes

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• Beli at thirteen believed in love like a seventy-year-old widow who's been abandoned by family, husband, children and fortune believes in God.

  Junot Diaz

  Children, Husband, Believe

  Junot Diaz (2008). “The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao”, p.88, Faber & Faber

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• It means 'Shadowhunters: Looking Better in Black Than the Widows of our Enemies Since 1234'.

  Cassandra Clare

  Humor, Mean, Black

  Cassandra Clare (2012). “Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instruments Series (5 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass; City of Fallen Angels, City of Lost Souls”, p.175, Simon and Schuster

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• Or perhaps a widow found him and took him in: brought him an easy chair, changed his sweater every morning, shaved his face until the hair stopped growing, took him faithfully to bed with her every night, whispered sweet nothings into what was left of his ear, laughed with him over black coffee, cried with him over yellowing pictures, talked greenly about having kids of her own, began to miss him before she became sick, left him everything in her will, thought of only him as she died, always knew he was fiction but believed in him anyway.

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Sweet, Morning, Coffee

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• escape from the black widow spider is a miracle as great as art. what a web she can weave slowly drawing you to her she'll embrace you then when she's satisfied she'll kill you still in her embrace and suck the blood from you.

  Charles Bukowski

  Art, Blood, Drawing

  Charles Bukowski (2009). “Love is a Dog From Hell”, p.37, Harper Collins

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• In the Fiji islands, it appears, cannibalism is now familiar. They eat thier own wives and children. We only devour widows' houses, and great merchants outwit and absorb the substance of small ones, and every man feeds on his neighbor's labor if he can. It is a milder form of cannibalism.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Children, Men, Islands

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• Martin, at my age, eroticism is reduced to enjoying caramel custard and looking at widows' necks.' - Senor Sempere.

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon

  Age, Necks, Caramel

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• Chicken,' Josie said. 'Have you ever been in love?' Peter looked at Josie, and thought of how they had once tied a note with their addresses to a helium balloon and let it go in her backyard, certain it would reach Mars. Instead, they had received a letter from a widow who lived two blocks away. 'Yeah,' he said. 'I think so.

  Jodi Picoult

  Block, Thinking, Two

  Jodi Picoult (2012). “The Jodi Picoult Reader's Companion: A Collection of Excerpts”, p.420, Simon and Schuster

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• Actually, it’s my younger brother who has me ticked, but since you brought up the boyfriend thing, take my advice; Be the black widow. Find a guy, have fun with him, then eviscerate him in the morning before he can brag about it to his friends. (Chrissy)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Morning, Brother, Fun

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2016). “Phantom Lover”, p.89, St. Martin's Press

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