Children without families are the most vulnerable people in the world. Brooke Randolph

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When you lose your parents as a child, you are indoctrinated into a club, you re taken into life's severest confidence. You are undeceived. Hilary Thayer Hamann

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Dead mothers are rather fashionable these days. They lend such an attractive air of tragedy. Heidi Schulz

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ORPHAN, n. A living person whom death has deprived of the power of filial ingratitude --a privation appealing with a particular eloquence to all that is sympathetic in human nature. When young the orphan is commonly sent to an asylum, where by careful cultivation of its rudimentary sense of locality it is taught to know its place. It is then instructed in the arts of dependence and servitude and eventually turned loose to prey upon the world as a bootblack or scullery maid. Ambrose Bierce

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There's no shortage of orphans in 19th-century literature, but it's hard to find a single happy, communicative, functional parental relationship in the whole of 'Great Expectations,' even among the minor characters. David Nicholls

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I will not leave you as orphans, I will come to you Jesus in John 14:18

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Orphans, are the one who has no parents, but have many parents. But having ones parents is more valuable than the other having many parents (it doesn't depend on numbers, but the feelings matters). Siddwin S. Shetty

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Late children are early orphans. John Wilmot

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The orphan is not a cause. The orphan is not an issue. The orphan has a human face, and that face is Galilean. Jesus tells us that when we see the poor, the weak, the vulnerable, the tossed aside, we see Him there. Russell D. Moore

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The answer to 168 million orphans in our world can be summed up in two words: family and church. Kay Warren

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The orphan does not rejoice after a heavy breakfast. African Proverb

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

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Not everyone can be an orphan. Andre Gide

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There are orphans that can be cared for; but this some will not venture to undertake, for it brings them work more than they care to do, leaving them but little time to please themselves. Ellen G. White

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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

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Marry an orphan: you'll never have to spend boring holidays with the in-laws (at most an occasional visit to the cemetery) George Carlin

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Orphans are easier to ignore before you know their names. They are easier to ignore before you see their faces. It is easier to pretend they're not real before you hold them in your arms, but once you do, everything changes. David Platt

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A woman always has her man, but the man unconsciously leans on his roots, his heritage. He feels like an orphan without his parents. Raj Kapoor

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Orphanages are the only places that ever left me feeling empty and full at the same time. John M. Simmons

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For a child, the loss of a parent is the loss of memory itself. Svetlana Alexievich

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Orphaned children are equally deserving of unconditional support and love, the world is much stronger when the vulnerable are also strengthened. Wayne Chirisa

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I guess that’s the soft spot for orphans, eh? We’re so hungry for a father that we go blind. Emory R. Frie

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Beyond the orphanage is a journey full of hopes and aspirations. Deborah Dzifah Tamakloe

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Never abandon widows, widowers and orphans. Lailah Gifty Akita

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

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

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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

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Victory has a thousand fathers, but defeat is an orphan. John F. Kennedy

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A door without a knocker should keep its peace; a fatherless child does not fight an unjust fight. Yoruba Proverb

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Sometimes I feel like a motherless child / A long way from home. Black Spiritual

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