#orphan

Fear gripped me as my children and I arrived at the Ukraine-Moldova border crossing. ↗

— Kim De Blecourt

#international-adoption #kim-de-blecourt #orphans #ukraine #until-we-all-come-home

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

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

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

— Red Buttons

#i #lose #orphan #really #show

The earth is a great big orphanage for most animals. ↗

— Eric Roberts

#earth #great #most #orphanage

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

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

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