Quotes and Sayings About Widows
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[T]he departing world leaves behind... not an heir, but a pregnant widow.
-- Alexander Herzen -
A widow is like a frigate of which the first captain has been shipwrecked.
-- Alphonse Karr -
WIDOW, n. A pathetic figure that the Christian world has agreed to take humorously, although Christ's tenderness towards widows was one of the most marked features of his character.
-- Ambrose Bierce -
These esoteric, intellectual debates-I want them to come to New Jersey and sit across from the widows and the orphans and have that conversation,
-- Chris Christie -
You are in the field to defend the public interest, the financial truth for investors and the funds that should support the widow and the orphan.
-- Clarence W. Barron -
I did not want to make the widow record. I still haven't made the widow record.
-- Courtney Love -
My mother turned into a professional widow. She couldnt understand why I wanted to be an engineer; she thought I should be a chicken farmer.
-- David Antin -
Drying a widow's tears is one of the most dangerous occupations known to man.
-- Dorothy Dix -
He will regard his people's cry, the widow's tear, the orphan's moan.
-- Eliza R. Snow -
Life Insurance Motto - Robbing the widows early and orphan.
-- Ethel Mumford -
I've certainly had to go through trying to change the fact that I was always identified as the widow of Notorious B.I.G. You know, I'm never going to be able to get away from having been married to him, but that's not what identifies me. You know, my life isn't just about that.
-- Faith Evans -
Truly, sister, you were born to be a widow. (Tyrion to Cersei)
-- George R. R. Martin -
Just as the Torah and Bible teach concern for those in distress, the Koran instructs all Muslims to make caring for widows, orphans, and refugees a priority.
-- Greg Mortenson -
If a woman abandoned by her husband, or a widow, of her own accord contracts a second marriage and bears ,a son , he is called the son of a re married woman .
-- Guru Nanak -
Just love the one in front of you. Take in the orphan, take in the widow. Just love the one in front of you.
-- Heidi Baker -
Handsome widows, after a twelve-month, enjoy a latitude and longitude without limit.
-- Honore de Balzac -
Take care! Kingdoms are destroyed by bandits, houses by rats, and widows by suitors.
-- Ihara Saikaku -
Continuous persecution of widows and orphans is a crime. Even the Bible says there is a specific place in hell for those who oppress widows.
-- Imelda Marcos -
I will tell you one thing. They will never drag me out like a little old widow like they did Mrs. Wilson when President Wilson died. I will never be used that way.
-- Jackie Kennedy -
Tonight the American flag floats from yonder hill or Molly Stark sleeps a widow,
-- John Stark -
One can with dignity be wife and widow but once.
-- Joseph Joubert -
My landlady, who is only a tailor's widow, reads her Milton; and tells me, that her late husband first fell in love with her on this very account: because she read Milton with such proper emphasis.
-- Karl Philipp Moritz -
Black widows may be powerful predators, but every predator is somebody else's prey.
-- Lionel -
Except for the con men borrowing money they shouldn't get and the widows who have to visit with the handsome young men in the trust department, no sane person ever enjoyed visiting a bank.
-- Martin Mayer -
children had no place in love affairs. Children ought to be born to widows and old maids.
-- Mary Borden -
I got so lucky on my 'Red Widow' cast. It was just the universe looking out for me that I got those actors. It's a big ensemble cast, a very international cast. I don't know how that happened.
-- Melissa Rosenberg -
Since I've got on the Internet, it's opened a whole world of wasted time for me. My wife says she's an Internet widow.
-- Mick Ralphs -
When I did that interview with Hepburn, the only ground rule was, you did not discuss Spencer Tracy. Spencer Tracy's widow is still alive, and she respected that.
-- Morley Safer -
Always be civil to the girls, you never know who they may marry' is a aphorism which has saved many an English spinster from being treated like an Indian widow.
-- Nancy Mitford
