Fatherless

Now, that we've had two presidents, Bill Clinton and Barack Obama, and one Supreme Court Justice, Sonia Sotomayor, who spent at least part of their childhood in fatherless households we should begin to be more careful and critical in our thinking about these families. ❋ Algernon Austin (2010)

Meeting his double and delving into his life reveals deeper likenesses: raised in fatherless families and poor black neighborhoods, both felt the lure of the money and status to be gained from dealing drugs. ❋ Unknown (2010)

When he wanted to take children in fatherless homes and place them in orphanges. girlymen love the GOP ❋ Unknown (2009)

Both grew up with single mothers in fatherless homes. ❋ Unknown (2010)

There are that pluck the fatherless from the breast, and take a pledge of the poor. ❋ Unknown (2010)

This sort of crime is typically found amongst populations living on benefits housed by the rest of us, usually in fatherless communities where employment is rare and 90% marginal rates of tax keeps it that way. ❋ Newmania (2007)

Were both Amy and Isabelle particularly vulnerable because they lived in fatherless homes? ❋ Unknown (1999)

"Well, a father of the fatherless is God in his holy habitation." ❋ Unknown (1869)

They take a pledge of the poor, and so they rob the spital; nay, they take the poor themselves for a pledge (as some read it), and probably it was under this pretence that they plucked the fatherless from the breast, distraining them for slaves, as Neh.v. 5. ❋ Unknown (1721)

Some understand those barbarous actions (v. 9, 10) to be done by those oppressors that pretend law for what they do: They pluck the fatherless from the breast; that is, having made poor infants fatherless, they make them motherless too; having taken away the father's life, they break the mother's heart, and so starve the children and leave them to perish. ❋ Unknown (1721)

9 They pluck the fatherless from the breast, and take a pledge of the poor. ❋ Unknown (1721)

Sam had done it without fanfare, as if the fatherless were the natural concern of every man. ❋ William Kent Krueger (2004)

The engagement of the grace and compassion of God, who hath called the fatherless and helpless to rest upon him; nor did ever soul fail of supplies, who, in a sense of want, rolled itself on him, on the account of his gracious invitation. ❋ 1616-1683 (1967)

Therefore Mrs. Browning's words, "No child can be called fatherless who has God and his mother; no youth can be called friendless who has God and the companionship of good books." ❋ Dale Carnagey (1906)

I am sure that sermon yesterday about the widow and the fatherless was the most beautiful thing I ever heard, and that you have ever said. ❋ Unknown (1897)

They stood for the thought of the world outside -- the idea fatherless, unsponsored, the aspiration of the great masses -- a breath of fresh air in the sick-room of a chronic invalid forever dying, forever unburiable. ❋ Vicente Blasco Ib����ez (1897)

The widows and the fatherless are our brothers and sisters and our flesh and blood, and should be at home in our hearts and on our hearths. ❋ Robert Blatchford (1897)