Orphan Quotes - Page 10

• So, then, Oxford Street, stonyhearted stepmother, thou that listenest to the sighs of orphans, and drinkest the tears of children, at length I was dismissed from thee.

  Thomas de Quincey

  Children, Oxford, Tears

  'Confessions of an English Opium Eater' (1822) pt. 1

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• I'm concerned about the plight of children. But I'm not on a mission to get all the available orphans in the world adopted into Christian homes.

  Andy Stanley

  Christian, Children, Home

  Source: paulsohn.org

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• The United States, which has been called the home of the persecuted and the dispossessed, has been since its founding an asylum for emotional orphans. For over three hundred years, refugees from political oppression, religious persecution, famine, poverty, and a rigid class system which limited educational and economic opportunities have been leaving their native villages and cities and coming to the United States in search of freedom and a better life.

  Eileen Simpson

  Religious, Educational, Home

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• We did a show called The Orphan Train, during the depression, when families didn't have enough money to support their children, they'd put them on the train and hope someone would pick them up who had enough money to support their children.

  Robert Stack

  Children, Support, Had Enough

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• Perhaps you have heard about the college executives who were discussing what they wanted to do after retirement age. One hoped to run a prison or school of correction so that the alumni would never come back to visit. Another chose to manage an orphan asylum so that he would not be plagued with advice from parents.

  Robert H. Jackson

  Education, Running, Retirement

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• Fairies, black, grey, green, and white,
  You moonshine revellers, and shades of night,
  You orphan heirs of fixed destiny,
  Attend your office and your quality.

  William Shakespeare

  Night, Destiny, White

  William Shakespeare (1998). “The Merry Wives of Windsor”, p.211, Oxford University Press, USA

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• Adolescents are attracted to tragic heroes. That's why rock stars dress like homeless people. Adolescence is a fall. It's when every child becomes an orphan.

  Heather O'Neill

  Stars, Children, Fall

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• Do you remember the classic example of chutzpah? It's the young man who kills his parents and then asks the judge for mercy on the grounds that he's an orphan. The Bush administration's updated version of that was starting a wholly illegal, immoral, and devastating war and then dismissing all kinds of criticism of its action on the grounds that 'we're at war.

  William Blum

  War, Men, Judging

  William Blum (2014). “America's Deadliest Export: Democracy – The Truth about US Foreign Policy and Everything Else”, p.55, Zed Books Ltd.

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• A wife who loses a husband is called a widow. A husband who loses a wife is called a widower. A child who loses his parents is called an orphan. There is no word for a parent who loses a child. That's how awful the loss is.

  Jay Neugeboren

  Children, Husband, Losing A Loved One

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