Top Orphan Quotes
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
Victory has a thousand fathers, but defeat is an orphan.
John F. Kennedy
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
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
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
All Orphan Quotes
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 
73% of people like this quote
Victory has a thousand fathers, but defeat is an orphan.
John F. Kennedy 
68% of people like this quote
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 
58% of people like this quote
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 
55% of people like this quote
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 
55% of people like this quote
Every politician should have been born an orphan and remain a bachelor.
Lady Bird Johnson 
54% of people like this quote
Autobiography begins with a sense of being alone. It is an orphan form.
John Berger 
53% of people like this quote
The one phrase you can use is that success has a thousand fathers, and failure is an orphan.
Alan Price 
49% of people like this quote

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