Without me, rap is just a bunch of orphans.
Being an only child and losing both my parents at an early age, I have found that the friends I have made over the years are the people who help me get through life, good times and bad.
I was 28 when my father died, and I was an only child.
I'm like a child who belongs to nobody.
I lost my parents very early in my life. My mom died three weeks after I graduated from high school, and my dad died two years after I got married.
Life Insurance Motto - Robbing the widows early and orphan.
ORPHAN, n. A living person whom death has deprived of the power of filial ingratitude . . .
When one has not father, or mother, or brother, and all one's friends have barely bread enough for themselves, life cannot be very easy, nor its crusts very many at any time.
You don't have to know anything about baseball to respond to Babe Ruth because he's just this magnificent human being. And a really good story because he was this kid who grew up essentially as an orphan, you know, had a tough life, and then he became the most successful baseball player ever. But he was also a really good guy.
I'd seen 'Punky Brewster,' I'd seen 'Webster,' I saw 'Annie,' and it was time to either be an orphan or an actress.
Then my mother was taken ill and died and my father took me to St. Mary's.
I decided that it might be interesting to have terrible things happen to orphans over and over again.
I feel akin to the Platypus. An orphan in a family. A swimmer, a recluse. Part bird, part fish, part lizard.
My dad's father was a White Star Line trumpet player in the '20s. It shaped the way that I think about music. My grandfather was classically trained, military trained. He was an orphan who ended up in the Military School of Music in Kneller Hall.
When I have a family someday, I'll probably adopt. Adoption has always been something close to my heart. There are so many kids out there who really need a family.
When my mother died I was very young, And my father sold me while yet my tongue Could scarcely cry weep weep weep weep. So your chimneys I sweep, and in soot I sleep.
I'm an orphan!" Constance cried gleefully. "I'm an orphan!" ~ The Prisoner's Dilemma
I had this almost Dickensian look. I was quite fragile.
I had no father. I had no mother after I was 8.
Biography is, simply, the orphan of academia.
My passion is kids, more than just kids is underprivileged kids and orphans.
But there's food if you know how to find it. My father knew and he taught me some before he was blown to bits in a mine explosion. There was nothing even to bury. I was eleven then. Five years later, I still wake up screaming for him to run.
Not everyone can be an orphan.
I want to give a child a life who wouldn't be given a life. I want a child that nobody else wants.
I believe that God is the Great Companion, that we are not left orphans, that we may have comradeship with him.
