Widowed Quotes

Widowed Quote of the day

[To the bishop who suggested the widowed queen now consider herself 'as married to Christ':] That's what I call twaddle!

For everyone, whatever his state--single, married, widowed, or priest-chastity is a triumphant affirmation of love.

The essence of war is insanity. Destruction, death, women widowed, children orphaned, lands plundered, property destroyed, lives decimated - it's all bad.

The teeming Autumn big with rich increase, bearing the wanton burden of the prime like widowed wombs after their lords decease.

Grief is only the memory of widowed affection. The more intense the delight in the presence of the object, the more poignant must be the impression of the absence.

Right now, too many women who reach retirement age find themselves widowed or single, relying on their Social Security check for over half of their income.

I sometimes think that being widowed is God's way of telling you to come off the Pill.

[On her recently widowed father's much younger wife:] My father has been very busy in conjugating the verb to love, and I assure you he declines its moods and tenses inimitably.

Drooping along the ground the vine misses its widowed elm.

As the member of a firefighter family myself, supporting the widowed families of rescue workers is an important, personal cause of mine.

Statistically, people who have been happily married and then widowed tend to remarry.

In medieval Europe, childbirth was a leading cause of death. So widowed fathers with children were quite common, meaning stepmothers were equally common.

Gerald Boyd was a classic specimen of the self-made man. Born poor, he worked and studied his way up out of poverty under the guidance of his widowed grandmother.