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Last time I was in Jamaica I financed a teacher to teach in an orphanage.

Every politician should have been born an orphan and remain a bachelor.

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.

I feel akin to the Platypus. An orphan in a family. A swimmer a recluse. Part bird part fish part lizard.

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.

The one phrase you can use is that success has a thousand fathers and failure is an orphan.

I was a sickly baby and after two sets of adoptive parents took me home they returned me to the orphanage because of a serious respiratory infection. But as they say the third time's a charm because my mom and dad adopted me and took me into their home where I was raised in a family full of love.

Autobiography begins with a sense of being alone. It is an orphan form.