#orphan

My father was brought up in an orphanage in the Catskills. He was a factory worker. And because his family wasn't there for him, family was everything. We could disagree inside the house, but outside the house it was us against the world. So when I became a drag actor, he looked sideways but said okay. ↗

— Harvey Fierstein

#against #became #because #brought #could

I thought back to Meg’s advice about Hemingway sentences—simple declarative statements that showed the truth and distilled the meaning. My first attempt at that had been cynical and messed up. I gave it a go again. Find one lost sheep. The angels rejoice. ↗

— Laura Anderson Kurk

#college #cynicism #dating #faith #glass-girl

Orphans, dead parents, lonely children at Christmas, morose spoken word recordings, everything you love about the holidays. Move the turkey over so you can fit your head in the oven. ↗

— April Winchell

#children #christmas #dead #everything #fit

Nothing is so silly as the expression of a man who is being complimented. ↗

— Andre Gide

#orphan

If you know anything about James Whitcomb Riley, you know that Little Orphan Annie is one of the most fantastic characters who ever lived in America before Charlie Chaplin. ↗

— Marguerite Young

#america #annie #anything #before #chaplin

Not everyone can be an orphan. ↗

— Andre Gide

#orphan

Old hands soil, it seems, whatever they caress, but they too have their beauty when they are joined in prayer. Young hands were made for caresses and the sheathing of love. It is a pity to make them join too soon. ↗

— Andre Gide

#orphan

You are ugly when you love her, you are beautiful and fresh, vital and free, modern and poetic when you don't... you are more beautiful as an orphan than as your mother's son. ↗

— Witold Gombrowicz

#free #fresh #her #love #modern

When they asked Jack Benny to do something for the Actor's Orphanage - he shot both his parents and moved in. ↗

— Bob Hope

#asked #benny #both #his #jack

If I lose show business - I'll really be an orphan! ↗

— Red Buttons

#i #lose #orphan #really #show