Why, young orphan, all this wailing?
Why, young orphan, all this wailing?
Not everyone can be an orphan.
We call that person who has lost his father, an orphan; and a widower that man who has lost his wife. But that man who has known the immense unhappiness of losing a friend, by what name do we call him? Here every language is silent and holds its peace in impotence.
You are ugly when you love her, you are beautiful and fresh, vital and free, modern and poetic when you don't... you are more beautiful as an orphan than as your mother's son.
Autobiography begins with a sense of being alone. It is an orphan form.
Every politician should have been born an orphan and remain a bachelor.
I feel akin to the Platypus. An orphan in a family. A swimmer, a recluse. Part bird, part fish, part lizard.
Do not let Sunday be taken from you If your soul has no Sunday, it becomes an orphan.
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.
If I lose show business - I'll really be an orphan!
The one phrase you can use is that success has a thousand fathers, and failure is an orphan.
This country owes them all a debt of gratitude. The down payment on that debt is making sure that we live up to Lincoln's charge: to care for him who shall have borne the battle, and for his widow, and his orphan.
A woman always has her man, but the man unconsciously leans on his roots, his heritage. He feels like an orphan without his parents.
Victory has a hundred fathers but defeat is an orphan.
Victory has a thousand fathers, but defeat is an orphan.
Poetry is an orphan of silence. The words never quite equal the experience behind them.
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© 2020 Inspirational Stories