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Many people, for many reasons, feel rootless - but orphans and abandoned or abused children have particular cause.
I closed my eyes and abandoned myself to my grief. It felt better, somehow, to be helpless. I didn't feel ashamed.
I had told one of my friends that I felt like I might be gay or that I just wasn't into girls, and I was abandoned.
Being a consumer of conservative news sites as well as a producer of one, I felt like Drudge's site abandoned that.
I've played a worrying number of orphans, children who have been abandoned or had something terrible happen to them.
While I’ve worked on many topics and written many books, I have not abandoned my interest in multiple intelligences.
Some tribes of birds will relieve and rear up the young and helpless, of their own and other tribes, when abandoned.
In my family history, there are generations of women who were abandoned by men. It's one of the themes of my family.
While I've worked on many topics and written many books, I have not abandoned my interest in multiple intelligences.
When Braniff abandoned stripes, they wound up with a flying jelly bean and that's not a good feeling for passengers.
I intentionally abandoned the hard stuff early on because not only do I think it's useless, I think it's a distraction.
To explore technology for me is something that I have to do. Otherwise, I feel completely left in the back... abandoned.
A scene is never completed, but simply abandoned when the search for perfection is no longer producing positive results.
I soon abandoned the question of who Kurban Said or Essad Bey was for the more problematic one - who was Lev Nussimbaum?
There is nothing lonelier than a cat who has been loved, at least for a while, and then abandoned on the side of the road.
Realism' has been abandoned in the search for reality: the 'principal objective' of abstract art is precisely this reality.
The news is staged, anticipated, reported, analyzed until all interest is wrung from it and abandoned for some new novelty.
God loves me and sent his son to die for me so I have to live to please him because he saved me when everyone abandoned me.
I'm not saying that a child who was abused or beaten or abandoned made that happen, but your reaction to it is always yours.
The Guardians wouldn't abandon the last Dragomir. And I wouldn't have abandoned Lissa even if there were a million Dragomirs.
My parents were avid readers. Both had ambitions to write that had been abandoned early in life in order to get on with life.
Maybe '13 Assassins' is the mortal agony and death rattle of a Japanese film industry that has abandoned its creative talent.
Novels, since the birth of the genre, have been full of rejected, seduced, and abandoned maidens, whose proper fate is to die.
I do not tweeze my eyebrows. I've been letting them grow out for years. I try to fill them in wherever nature has abandoned me.
I always had the fear of being separated and abandoned. The sewing is my attempt to keep things together and make things whole.
If the provisions of the Constitution be not upheld when they pinch as well as when they comfort, they may as well be abandoned.
And if unhappy in her love, her heart is like some fortress that has been captured, and sacked, and abandoned, and left desolate.
In the digital world, he who hesitates is abandoned. So you have to generate 3-D excitement with as many devices as you can find.
Old books that have ceased to be of service should no more be abandoned than should old friends who have ceased to give pleasure.
A practice can be helpful, but didn't the Buddha compare it to a raft, suggesting it be abandoned when you reach the other shore?
Altman was told they wouldn't do the film with me. He could easily have abandoned me, but he stood by me and really bailed me out.
The need to be loved and protected is at a peak when we feel abandoned and are particularly vulnerable to difficult circumstances.
Before you came into my life, I believed that God had abandoned me. Now I know that He has blessed me beyond measure. -sir Bannor-
Fantasy, abandoned by reason, produces impossible monsters; united with it, she is the mother of the arts and the origin of marvels.
It may be time for serious literary novelists to take back some of the subject matter we abandoned to hack novelists and the movies.
Denuclearization and the lasting peace on the Korean peninsula cannot be abandoned or delayed, as they are the historical assignment.
He obviously needed more practice, but no matter how often I abandoned him out there, his sense of direction never seemed to improve.
My dad was an only child. His father raised him all but alone after his mother abandoned the two of them. He was only three years old.
Finally, mutually, and completely, they released all doubts, abandoned all fears, unwilling and unable to deny this overpowering love.
'Matterhorn' is my metaphor of the Vietnam War - we built it, we abandoned it, we assaulted it, we lost, and then we abandoned it again.
My mother saved hundreds of animals in her life. Wherever she encountered and injured or needy or abandoned animal, she brought it home.
The Chinese are planning a manned mission to the moon sometime after 2020, and subsequently, to Mars. The U.S. has abandoned that dream.
I went to junkyards, abandoned car lots. I asked supermarkets for the big jugs they put pig guts in, to make cabinets for my bass speakers.
From the beginning of our history the country has been afflicted with compromise. It is by compromise that human rights have been abandoned.
As I grew older - collapsing into my seventies, glimpsing ahead the cliffs of the eighties, colliding into eighty-five - poetry abandoned me.
So many of my films involve houses or homes that have been abandoned. People trying to get back home. That's an idea that I keep dealing with.
All throughout Cash Money, I never abandoned the SP 1200. At the end of the day, I still use my SP 1200 'cause I like the way the drums sound.
Many feel sorry for a person like David Platt. He was abandoned by his father, his mother wanted to abort him and his stepdad wanted him dead.
In the Trump era, the Left has smartly and justifiably seized a moral high ground that the Right has abandoned by its embrace of the president.