Quotes with orphan

  • An orphan's curse would drag to hell, a spirit from on high; but oh! more horrible than that, is a curse in a dead man's eye!

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  • Samuel Taylor Coleridge An orphan's curse would drag to hell, a spirit from on high; but oh! more horrible than that, is a curse in a dead man's eye!
    Samuel Taylor Coleridge
    English poet and critic (1772 - 1834)
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  • John Berger Autobiography begins with a sense of being alone. It is an orphan form.
    John Berger
    English art critic, novelist, painter and poet (1926 - 2017)
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  • Charles Dickens For not an orphan in the wide world can be so deserted as the child who is an outcast from a living parent's love.
    Charles Dickens
    English writer (1812 - 1870)
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  • Abraham Lincoln He reminds me of the man who murdered both his parents, and then when the sentence was about to be pronounced, pleaded for mercy on the grounds that he was orphan.
    Abraham Lincoln
    American statesman (1809 - 1865)
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  • André Gide Not everyone can be an orphan.
    André Gide
    French writer and Nobel laureate in literature (1947) (1869 - 1951)
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  • John F. Kennedy Victory has a hundred fathers, but defeat is an orphan.
    Press conferentie, 21-04-1961 (na de Bay of Pigs)
    John F. Kennedy
    American politician (1917 - 1963)
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  • Joseph Roux 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.
    Joseph Roux
    French priest, writer and poet (1834 - 1905)
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  • Bill Bryson You don't have to know anything about baseball to respond to Babe Ruth because he's just this magnificent human being. And a really good story because he was this kid who grew up essentially as an orphan, you know, had a tough life, and then he became the most successful baseball player ever. But he was also a really good guy.
    Bill Bryson
    American-British author (1951 - )
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  • Albert Schweitzer Do not let Sunday be taken from you If your soul has no Sunday, it becomes an orphan.
    Albert Schweitzer
    German physician, theologian, philosopher, musician (1875 - 1965)
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