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Letter "O" » orphaned
«Poetry is an orphan of silence. The words never quite equal the experience behind them.»
«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»
Author: Joseph Roux
| Keywords:
Father, His father, holds, immense, impotence, losing, orphan, orphaned, unhappiness, widower, widowers
«Post-modernism has cut off the present from all futures. The daily media add to this by cutting off the past. Which means that critical opinion is often orphaned in the present.»
Author: John Berger
(Painter)
| Keywords:
add to, cutting off, cut off, futures, modernism, orphaned, post
«What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans, and the homeless, whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism or the holy name of liberty or democracy?»
Author: Mohandas Gandhi
| Keywords:
destruction, Holy Name, homeless, orphaned, orphans, The Dead, The name, totalitarianism, wrought
«He reminds me of the man who murdered both his parents, and then when sentence was about to be pronounced pleaded for mercy on the grounds that he was an orphan»
«The orphan does not rejoice after a heavy breakfast. - Cape Coast, Ghana»
Author: African Proverb
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breakfast, cape, Cape Coast, coast, coasting, Coast to Coast, Ghana, orphan, orphaned, rejoice
«Do not let Sunday be taken from you If your soul has no Sunday, it becomes an orphan.»
Author: Albert Schweitzer
(Missionary, Musician, Philosopher, Theologian)
| Keywords:
orphan, orphaned, Sunday, taken
«Marry an orphan: you'll never have to spend boring holidays with the in-laws (at most an occasional visit to the cemetery)»
Author: George Carlin
(Actor, Author, Comedian)
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at most, cemeteries, cemetery, holidays, occasional, orphan, orphaned, visit
«On this side of the grave we are exiles, on that, citizens; on this side, orphans; on that, children; on this side, captives; on that, free men.»
Author: Henry Ward Beecher
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captives, exiled, exiles, on that, orphaned, orphans, The Captive, The Exile, The Grave
«These concerns (for orphan children in India and elsewhere in the world) are very good, but often these same people are not concerned with the millions that are killed by the deliberate decision of their own mothers. And this is what is the greatest destroyer of peace today, Abortion...For the pregnant women who don't want their children, give them to me.»
Author: Mother Teresa of Calcutta
(Founder, Missionary)
| About:
Abortion,
Love,
Murder,
Violence
| Keywords:
abortion, and elsewhere, concerns, deliberate, destroyer, elsewhere, India, mothers, orphan, orphaned, pregnant, The Destroyers
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