Widow Quotations

For many women, becoming a widow does not just mean the heartache of losing a husband, but often losing everything else as well.

Therefore I do pray and entreat you in the name of Jesus Christ to do so much as to make my being here in Japan known to my poor wife, in a manner a widow and my two children fatherless; which thing only is my greatest grief of heart and conscience.

She was in a difficult position being the widow of a great American hero, a role that carried high expectations but she did a credible job of continuing Dr King's dream especially in the face of a changing and often hostile American public.

I would love to do a Black Widow movie. That's perfect, I would love to do that. That character is really interesting: she doesn't have any superpowers; she just has extraordinary skills, and the world that she comes from, being this ex-K.G.B. assassin, I find that really fascinating, yeah.

When I arrived at the broken pip, after crawling several yards under my house in the mud, grumpily; the black widow spiders noted my ire and fled. So, I was able to fix the leak unharmed by neurotoxic venom.

Let not a widow be taken into the number under threescore years old, having been the wife of one man.

Since Michael is not listed with a wife in 1880, I must conclude he did not leave a widow or children.

My father died when I was seven, leaving a widow and five sons, ranging in age from five to seventeen. My mother was the most highly-disciplined and hardest working person I have ever known, and this, combined with her love and gentleness, enabled her to make a success of each of her children.

Growing up in the Midwest, I was very close to my maternal grandmother, who, as a young widow running a small business in 1920s Kansas City, had known firsthand the old Pendergast regime and its classic combine of politics and organized crime.

Give us a chance to show you that those so-called protective laws to aid women - however well intentioned originally - have become in fact restraints, which keep wife, abandoned wife, and widow alike from supporting her family.

Here's an interesting thing about L.A. - it's overrun with black widow spiders. I could find you one on the street in 10 minutes.

When I spoke with his widow today, she spoke touchingly about how important he felt this work was and how much he felt he was making a difference. His loss touches us all.

breaks the social compact that gives government its legitimacy. ... It used to be that if a widow didn't want to sell her home to a developer, she didn't have to. ... The government was there to protect her. Now government has become the thug." ()

Doctors refer to the left anterior descending artery as the widow maker. It was about 90 percent blocked. He needed to get this done much sooner than later. I talked to him today and he was in good spirits. He'll be fine.

Coretta Scott King was clearly more than the widow of Dr. Martin Luther King. She was an icon in her own right.

Some undone widow sits upon mine arm,/ And takes away the use of it; 1 and my sword,/ Glued to my scabbard with wronged orphans' tears,/ Will not be drawn.

says Garcia, widow of Jerry Garcia of the Grateful Dead, ''was the whole takeover of the food industry by big corporations.

It's heartbreaking to leave a widow and four children.

It's unbelievable. No one, let alone the widow of a former president, should live like this. The least we could do is fix the hole in the living room ceiling.

Not having John Ritter will always be a problem, just because of how good of an actor he is. John's widow wants the show to go on and the cast wants the show to go on.

I want the troops home, and I want the president to tell me why my husband had to go to Iraq, and why I had to become a widow at age 26, and why my son will never meet his daddy,

Social Security is based on a principle. It's based on the principle that you care about other people. You care whether the widow across town, a disabled widow, is going to be able to have food to eat.

That's a nightmare, ... Somebody will point out to the aged widow of some composer that they heard a snatch of (his) song. It can take time.

By 1835, Mozart's star was rising and any relic connected to him was sought after. We don't know whether his widow was given money for the manuscript or whether it was a sweetener for some kind of financial favor.

He that would woo a maid must feign, lie and flatter, but he that woos a widow must down with his britches and at her

All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy - and Jill a rich widow

The lonely widow gives her body to a stranger; but without her husband, she is never satisfied.

Ave you 'eard o' the Widow at Windsor / With a hairy gold crown on 'er 'ead?

Alexander's widow came to Galesburg for the movie showing at the Orpheum. I think it opened at several theatres around the country at the same time.