#orphan

Every politician should have been born an orphan and remain a bachelor. ↗

— Lady Bird Johnson

#bachelor #been #born #every #orphan

Victory has a thousand fathers, but defeat is an orphan. ↗

— John F. Kennedy

#fathers #orphan #thousand #victory

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

#call #every #father #friend #here

My mother left me for seven years in an orphanage. ↗

— Vidal Sassoon

#me #mother #orphanage #seven #years

Do not let Sunday be taken from you If your soul has no Sunday, it becomes an orphan. ↗

— Albert Schweitzer

#orphan #soul #sunday #taken #you

We did a show called The Orphan Train, during the depression, when families didn't have enough money to support their children, they'd put them on the train and hope someone would pick them up who had enough money to support their children. ↗

— Robert Stack

#children #depression #did #during #enough

I want to set up orphanages for underprivileged and abused children. ↗

— Lindsay Lohan

#i #orphanages #set #underprivileged #up

Evocative. . . . Aldrich astutely portrays a colorful cast of aunts, uncles, cousins and hangers-on—clinging to the family legacy long after the money is gone. One can’t help but cheer as she breaks away from the others to make a name for herself. ↗

— ELLIOTT HOLT AUTHOR OF YOU ARE ONE OF THEM

#astor-orphan #family

A brick is a biographical film in which a young orphan brick from the wrong side of the track grows up to be one of the most important bricks in all brick kind, as it is now quite literally the cornerstone of one of America’s greatest ballparks.(Fenway) ↗

— Nicole McKay

#baseball #brick-and-blanket-iq-test #brick-and-blanket-responses #brick-and-blanket-test #brick-and-blanket-uses

There," she said. She rocked him back and forth. "There, you foolish, beautiful boy who wants to change the world. There, there. And who could keep from loving you? Who could keep from loving a boy so brave and true? ↗

— Kate DiCamillo

#boys #children #love #orphans #beauty