Widows Quotes

I make chicks consider themselves widows whose husbands ain't even died yet.

Fidel Castro looked after the poor, he looked after the weak, he looked after the widow, he looked after the orphan - he did all the things that Prophet Muhammad did from the spiritual perspective.

The church that is married to the spirit of this age, becomes a widow in the next.

The Charkha in the hands of a poor widow brings a paltry price to her, in the hands of Jawaharlal; it is an instrument of India's freedom.

I'm not upset about my divorce. I'm only upset that I'm not a widow.

I'm not sentimental about war. I see nothing noble in widows.

It seems to me that women are freed from their responsibilities only when they are merry widows or eccentric old spinsters.

A widow is like a frigate of which the first captain has been shipwrecked.

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.

We beg one hour of death, that neither she With widow's tears may live to bury me, Nor weeping I, with wither'd arms, may bear My breathless Baucis to the sepulchre.

The determination of life insurance salesmen to succeed has made life pretty soft for widows.

I read 'Scarlett' recently, and that was a killer comic book. The 'Black Widow' was pretty rockin'. There is a big list of killer chicks that are just rockin'.

War I abhor, and yet how sweet The sound along the marching street Of drum and fife, and I forget Wet eyes of widows, and forget Broken old mothers, and the whole Dark butchery without a soul.

I've always been passionate about what I do and want to do it well, ... My wife says she's a widow to the computer.

War - after all, what is it that the people get? Why-widows, taxes, wooden legs and debt.

Bride knoweth bride at the glance of an eye. And between them swiftly passes comfort and meaning in a language that man and widows wot not of.

women used to be elected only when their husbands died and they became widows. The men found this was too hard on them. That's why they've become feminists.

I'm doing a collaborative project with another artist, Mary Hamill. My project is to gather the oral history of war widows, starting with the women of my village, Kop Nymit.

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.

A speculator is a man who, if he dies at the right time, has a rich widow.

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.

Drying a widow's tears is one of the most dangerous occupations known to man.

Apuleius married a rich widow, then wrote _The Golden Ass_.

Life Insurance Motto - Robbing the widows early and orphan.

The family I grew up in had three generations of widows.

During high school I worked in a retirement home. I spent many wonderful hours hearing from service men and their widows about WWI.

A widow, the mother of a family, and from her heart she produces chords to which my whole being responds.

Take heed of a person marked, and a Widdow thrice married. [Take heed of a person marked, and a widow thrice married.]

Truly, sister, you were born to be a widow. (Tyrion to Cersei)

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 .

[T]he departing world leaves behind... not an heir, but a pregnant widow.

To marry a girl just to make her a widow,” said Gabriel Lightwood. “Many would say that was not a kindness.

Martin, at my age, eroticism is reduced to enjoying caramel custard and looking at widows' necks.' - Senor Sempere.

Rich widows are the only secondhand goods that sell at first-class prices.

One can with dignity be wife and widow but once.

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.

There's something in it when a body like the widow or the parson prays, but it don't work for me, and I reckon it don't work for only just the right kind.

Young widows still bide their time.

Every widow I have met has recognized in the wheel a dear forgotten friend.

In the name of religion, we force widowhood upon our three lakh girl-widows who could not understand the import of the marriage ceremony.

Some of the common occurrences of injustice are the presence of poverty, starvation, gender inequality, neglected widows and orphans and the injustice towards other vulnerable groups of people.

May a man live well-, and long-enough, to leave many joyful widows behind him.

I realized, it is not the time that heals, but what we do within that time that creates positive change.

I think first of the children. What the hell am I supposed to tell them? Then I think about money, the house, all those things no widow will tell you ever crossed her mind.

You can’t live your life in a bubble, Charlie. And you can’t live Evan’s life for him. He won’t thank you if you try to wrap him in bubble wrap and set him on a shelf.

Whenever justice to ordinary men, widows, orphans, poor, disadvantaged and the general mass is delayed or denied, that leads to God’s frustration. At a time like that, God laments, WHERE IS A MAN

Never abandon widows, widowers and orphans.

May a man live well-enough and long-enough, to leave many joyful widows behind him.