Orphan Quotations

I love creating opportunities for people. I think it's my orphan mentality.

If I lose show business - I'll really be an orphan!

My father is a silent cinema freak, so he took me to 1925 silent films that took forever, like 5-hour movies, but I've seen a lot of that stuff since I was young. And then I saw the film 'Annie,' and I just wanted to be Annie; I just wanted to be that orphan kid and wanted to sing and dance.

I'd always been insecure. Being the fourth of five kids means attention is divided five ways, and to do this equally is impossible. I grew up feeling like the little orphan in the family, the one who didn't fit in.

The most surprising thing, honestly, is that so few Americans know about the orphan trains. I was also surprised at the resilience and fortitude of the riders I met, their pragmatism and grace. I don't know whether this is a Midwestern trait or simply a human one.

Autobiography begins with a sense of being alone. It is an orphan form.

The orphan in children's literature allows the child protagonist to move the story forward themselves. I think that, however happy a family, every intelligent child thinks: 'How did I come to be born to these parents?' - it is about finding your place in the world.

I'd seen 'Punky Brewster,' I'd seen 'Webster,' I saw 'Annie,' and it was time to either be an orphan or an actress.

I write sets of books, but I've also written a lot of orphans.

The bottom line is that finding orphan planets - small, faint, and located who-knows-where - is not for the faint of heart. The task is comparable to observing a match flame at the distance of Pluto. The WISE satellite, a hi-tech, space-based infrared telescope especially suited for such work, has found only a few.

Recent results from astronomers who study the occasional gravitational lensing of unknown worlds by intervening stars suggest that orphan planets could be at least as numerous as the stars. In other words, there could be hundreds of billions of orphan worlds shuffling through our galaxy.

Poetry is an orphan of silence.

Houses of evil similarity appeared like rows of disciplined, humiliated orphans.

Lender's number one market share position, strong brand equity and orphan status within the Kellogg's organization makes this an ideal acquisition for Aurora,

New orphan problems such as the insufficient basic maintenance and the incomplete orphanage salvation system have frequently emerged.

I would like to restore, to the West, its genealogy, ... We have less and less history and it seems to me if you don't know where you came from you're an orphan and you don't know really who you are. You don't know your own name.

You alone know Your mystery; You are the Perfect Architect of Destiny. I am a helpless orphan - please keep me under Your Protection and save me.

U S West was dealt some bad cards with geography (a sparsely populated region), and from 1984-2000 it took a bad hand and made it worse. That's the reason why Qwest is the orphan Bell and is likely to remain so.

You look at Superman, the story of an orphan coming to America, keeping his identity secret and even the names, Kal-El and Jor-El, you can trace lines to the background of the creators, Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster, both Jewish. Overall, there was a remarkable confluence of events that led to the medium and the Jewish participation.

Orphans are the only ones who get to choose their fathers, and they love them twice as much.

Not everyone can be an orphan.

Orphans are easier to ignore before you know their names; but once you know, everything changes.

I always questioned if I was CALLED to adopt, but then I realized no child was ever CALLED to be an orphan.

The orphan does not rejoice after a heavy breakfast. - Cape Coast, Ghana

The Orphan Car Show is very different from other enthusiast events in that it showcases hundreds of forgotten and unusual vehicles. Visitors can enjoy an outstanding collection of cars, trucks and motorcycles -- many they may never have seen before. Our colorfully entertaining pass-in-review is a rolling history lesson that breathes new life into each vehicle.

Everything about 'Hugo' to me is poignant, from the broken orphan to the old man losing his past to the fragility of film itself.

The song is called 'Orphan Child,' ... Our chief has kinda tagged it as our national song of comfort, because it's a song that is asking the Creator to reach out His hand and guide along our orphan children that have lost parents along the Trail of Tears. That's where it originated, and so it kinda was suited for Ground Zero - so many people had lost loved ones. So it is kind of a prayer, too.

Qwest is definitely the orphan Bell. I really don't see Qwest as an attractive acquisition target for several years.

This approval is another example of the benefits of the Orphan Drug program, which provides incentives for the development of treatments for diseases affecting fewer than 200,000 patients in the United States a year. Until now, Pompe disease has had no approved treatment.

There's an old saying that victory has hundred fathers and defeat is an orphan

Industry data shows it's not unusual for an IT environment to have 30 to 60 per cent of all identities being orphan identities.

If you're going to develop an orphan drug, you're going to have to charge a substantial price for the drug in order to make it worthwhile.

He's this kid growing up in a small town in Ireland in the 70's--you know the height of the troubles in Ireland, ... He discovers he's an adopted orphan and that his father is actually this parish priest, played by Liam Neeson. So it's just this crazy mad journey that he goes on to find his love.

Don't ye know that ev'ry Soul on Earth feels itself to be an Orphan?

Where can we hide in fair weather, we orphans of the storm?

Life Insurance Motto - Robbing the widows early and orphan.

Orphan Black is the new black.

If I find a little orphan child in a war zone, how do I help him? ... Make this movie. Make people think. Change attitudes.

Is this a generation of orphans who are going to the improv to do stand-up?

And I, as I lived, in an alien landWill die a slave and an orphan.

I believe that God is the Great Companion, that we are not left orphans, that we may have comradeship with him.

Late children are early orphans.

The images just mutated into our own sort of thing. So it's interesting that there's this kind of full circle thing happening. We're like the orphan child of Second City.

How many more people right now feel connected to Mumbai because of Slumdog Millionaire, or suddenly are interested in the plight of orphans on Mumbai after seeing that film? The same thing with the Kite Runner and A Thousand Splendid Suns.

We probably looked like starving orphan children. Hey! We were starving orphan children.

Among adults – and among orphans – Wilbur Larch noted that delirious happiness was rare.

You can't avoid orphan stories, child. Every story is an orphan story. We are all orphaned sooner or later.

My passion is kids, more than just kids is underprivileged kids and orphans.

I'm an orphan!" Constance cried gleefully. "I'm an orphan!" ~ The Prisoner's Dilemma

I love the holiday season, almost as much as I love touching myself in front of orphans.

He reminds me of the man who murdered both his parents, and then when sentence was about to be pronounced pleaded for mercy on the grounds that he was an orphan

ORPHAN, n. A living person whom death has deprived of the power of filial ingratitude . . .