30 Orphan Quotes and Sayings
In this post, you will find amazing orphan quotes and sayings.
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Short Orphan Quotes and Sayings
“Late children are early orphans.” —John Wilmot
“Never abandon widows, widowers and orphans.” —Lailah Gifty Akita
“The orphan does not rejoice after a heavy breakfast.” —African Proverb
“Success has many fathers, but failure is an orphan.” —Unknown
“Without father half orphan, without mother complete orphan.” —Unknown
“Truth is orphan without matter and matter is impotent without truth.” —Kedar Joshi
“Victory has a thousand fathers, but defeat is an orphan.” —John F. Kennedy
“Children without families are the most vulnerable people in the world.” —Brooke Randolph
“I can’t know everything, pretend you’re an orphan.” —Cheshire Cat
Orphan Quotes and Sayings
“Orphans are the only ones who get to choose their fathers, and they love them twice as much.” —Adam Johnson
“I don’t even know how it is to have a home. I feel like an orphan or something.” —Fred Korematsu
“Marry an orphan: you’ll never have to spend boring holidays with the in-laws.” —George Carlin
“Every politician should have been born an orphan and remain a bachelor.” —Lady Bird Johnson
“The answer to 168 million orphans in our world can be summed up in two words: family and church.” —Kay Warren
“You can’t avoid orphan stories, child. Every story is an orphan story. We are all orphaned sooner or later.” —Gabrielle Zevin
“Do not let Sunday be taken from you. If your soul has no Sunday, it becomes an orphan.” —Albert Schweitzer
“I believe that God is the Great Companion, that we are not left orphans, that we may have comradeship with him.” —Lyman Abbott
“Life without a father is silence but! Life without a mother is graveyard.” —Unknown
“If I could relive my life, I would devote my entire ministry to reaching children for God!” —Dwight L. Moody
“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
“People think you are an orphan when you are a child, and don’t believe that old people can feel that they are orphans.” —Agnes Varda
“We probably looked like starving orphan children. Hey! We were starving orphan children.” —James Patterson
“The truth is you can be orphaned again and again and again. The truth is, you will be. And the secret is, this will hurt less and less each time until you can’t feel a thing.” —Chuck Palahniuk
Top Ten Orphan Quotes and Sayings
Here you will find top ten orphan quotes and sayings selected by our team.
- “You can’t avoid orphan stories, child. Every story is an orphan story. We are all orphaned sooner or later.” —Gabrielle Zevin
- “Orphans are the only ones who get to choose their fathers, and they love them twice as much.” —Adam Johnson
- “The orphan does not rejoice after a heavy breakfast.” —African Proverb
- “If I could relive my life, I would devote my entire ministry to reaching children for God!” —Dwight L. Moody
- “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
- “Truth is orphan without matter and matter is impotent without truth.” —Kedar Joshi
- “Do not let Sunday be taken from you. If your soul has no Sunday, it becomes an orphan.” —Albert Schweitzer
- “Marry an orphan: you’ll never have to spend boring holidays with the in-laws.” —George Carlin
- “The answer to 168 million orphans in our world can be summed up in two words: family and church.” —Kay Warren
- “Children without families are the most vulnerable people in the world.” —Brooke Randolph
