Adult Orphan Quotes & Sayings

Avery started coughing. — Jack Conner

You take away all the other luxuries in life, and if you can make someone smile and laugh, you have given the most special gift: happiness. — Brad Garrett

Most people carrying heavy loads begin to doubt themselves & their own worth. We lighten their loads as we are patient with their weaknesses & celebrate whatever goodness we can see in them. The Lord does that. — Henry B. Eyring

Nic's Charlie is something very particular. You can't really put them together. It's a phantasm. — Tilda Swinton

When Gandhi was asked what he thought of Western civilization, he famously replied that "it would be a very good idea. — Yanis Varoufakis

That's why we have rules to begin with, Richie: because you can't trust your mind to tell you what's right and wrong. — Tana French

Youth enters the world with very happy prejudices in her own favour. — Samuel Johnson

Eighth Doctor: I love humans. Always seeing patterns in things that aren't there. — Matthew Jacobs

This is extremely challenging when you sound like a 12-year-old girl, and you decide your first personal endeavor is to play, like, a - like, a very macho dude. — Mindy Kaling

From the earliest times, human civilization has been no more than a strange luminescence growing more intense by the hour, of which no one can say when it will begin to wane and when it when fade away. — W.G. Sebald

Some addicts do not even have basic parenting and instead are beaten, sexually abused, left to be looked after by a dysfunctional 'carer', put in orphan homes or rejected by their community. If you calculate the millions of emotionally neglected children and observe them growing up together trying to 'get by in life', you will understand why many adults (adult children) have addictive personalities. — Christopher Dines

As to your Newton, I confess I do not understand his void and his gravity; I admit he has demonstrated the movement of the heavenly bodies with more exactitude than his forerunners; but you will admit it is an absurdity to maintain the existence of Nothing.
[Letter to Voltaire, 25 Nov. 1777] — Frederick The Great

My mother neither encouraged the reading of science fiction nor did she disparage it. She told me later that there was a scheme of things. Young people were first drawn to fiction, but as they grew older they were pulled more and more into nonfiction and biography, because nonfiction is so much more tragic, engrossing, and hilarious than anything else that could be invented. In this grand scheme, comic books and science fiction were just fine. They filled the need for a certain amount of time, and you moved on when that need was no longer filled. — Don Borchert

I would like to leave the world a better place than when I entered it. I would hope that by the time I die I could have learned from the years of living and hand something down. — Albert Hammond Jr.

So many Christmas films either are twee, or try and go super edgy, then stick on something Christmassy at the end of the movie. — Peter Baynham