Adoption Quotes · Page 6

The Gospel is not a picture of adoption, adoption is a picture of the Gospel.

— John Piper

“Adoptee rights are everyone's rights, and they deserve to be protected.”

— DaShanne Stokes

If you are only skeptical, then no new ideas make it through to you.

— Carl Sagan

I've started the adoption process... I really want to be a mommy.

— Holly Madison

God has blessed me with the mission to place nonviolence before the nation for adoption.

— Mahatma Gandhi

My adoption journey fully fuels my inspiration, my drive, what my vision of success is.

— Jordan Fisher

I think if you're gonna be pro-life, you should be pro adoption.

— Mike Pence

“If we adopted Jack," I quip, "we'd have to give him combat pay for an allowance”

— Daven Anderson

In Calcutta alone, we have given more than 1,000 children in adoption. I cannot calculate how many babies we get a year.…

— Mother Teresa

I am convinced, completely convinced, that there was nothing random about [the adoption], she is the daughter I should have.

— Meg Ryan

We need a spirit of adoption to take us out of the foundling hospital of the world, and to put us into…

— George Dana Boardman Pepper

I would like to have a child, depending on my work and financial security. I will take that step as soon as…

— Sara Khan

I'd love kids of my own, but if that's not possible I'd definitely adopt. The fact that it's becoming so hard to…

— Michaela DePrince

It takes a huge amount of effort to move from a successful high-tech prototype to broader adoption of an imaging technology.

— Eric Betzig

“But Nita had always seen having a child as selfish. Why bring another soul into this world, she'd say, when there are…

— Ramez Naam

“The Friends Thou Hast And Their Adoption Tried Grapple Them To Thy Soul With Hooks Of Steel”

— William Shakespeare

“I firmly believe that I have received the same child I was meant to receive, whether I gave birth or adopted. The…

— Debra Shiveley Welch

Adoptive parents are taking on enormous responsibility, both emotionally and financially. Quite frankly, they need as much disclosure as possible about the…

— Pat Robertson

She [Hillary Clinton] and Bill [Clinton] supported the NAFTA, the adoption of NAFTA that sent our jobs overseas, and they both supported…

— Jill Stein

I wanted a baby of color, to be honest, because I wasn't attached to the idea that I look like the biological…

— Jennifer Gilmore

All the criticism is ultimately a blessing in disguise. Because now people know about Malawi [due to the child adoption]. And now…

— Madonna Ciccone

God's decree is the very pillar and basis on which the saint's perseverance depends. That decree ties the knot of adoption so…

— Thomas Watson

I've teamed up with PetSmart Charities to celebrate the five million homeless pets who've found homes through their in-store adoption centers, and…

— Josh Duhamel

I want to adopt a child or a baby with an intellectual disability one day. I mean, that's in the distant future,…

— Brooklyn Decker

A game of great charm in the adoption of mathematical measurements to the timing of human movements, the exactitudes and adjustments of…

— Branch Rickey

Every colonized people-in other words, every people in whose soul an inferiority complex has been created by the death and burial of…

— Frantz Fanon

“The baby explodes into an unknown world that is only knowable through some kind of a story - of course that is…

— Jeanette Winterson

I cannot... perceive any ground for hoping that any practical good would, while the funding system exists in its present extent, result…

— William Cobbett

Because adoption meets the needs of children so successfully, and because there have long been waiting lists of couples hoping to adopt…

— Mona Charen

Friday morning, Kylie, Miranda, and Della, each carting suitcases, walked the trail to meet up with their parents. They walked slowly, like…

— C.C. Hunter

“I hold my daughter in my arms and thank God for bringing her to me. If the standard route for creating a…

— Nia Vardalos

“I must acknowledge that though his adoption embodies graciousness, it is also a reminder this world is not as it should be.…

— Natalie Brenner

Whether of not it is clear to you, no doubt the universe is unfolding as it should...

— Max Ehrmann

Adoption saves lives, provides kids with safe and permanent homes and makes families whole.

— Jon Husted

The best ideas lose their owners and take on lives of their own.

— Nolan Bushnell

“Adoption is a beautiful, burdensome blessing.”

— Jody Cantrell Dyer

Adoption was a bumpy ride - very bumpy. But, God, was it worth the fight.

— Mariska Hargitay

Gay adoption is discrimination against children

— Pope Francis

I've been involved in the offering-up-adoption-as-another-choice business for a long time.

— John Schneider

I think adoption becomes complicated whenever the biological parents are alive.

— James Haven