All I wanted to do was please my adopted family.

I was raised by my great-great aunt. I was adopted within our family. My mother had me when she was, I think, 15, 16.…

— Eric Dickerson

I hate that blacks and Hispanics are pitted against each other I really do, call me naive, I grew up in an adopted family…

— Andrew Breitbart

“ I was adopted there for I was not put in a family by random I was chosen i was wanted by another then…

— Michael J Barron

I'm an orphan. But the public has adopted me, and that has been my only family. The biggest family in the world is my…

— Eartha Kitt

I don't understand people whose gratification is a BMW. You don't know what joy is until you see a kid who was tortured get…

— Andrew Vachss

One of my brothers in my adopted family converted to Islam and I love him with all my heart. I have Muslim women who…

— Kola Boof

“We all walked down the street together, looking like a sort of pick-and-mix adopted family: dad, disabled mum, and two differently mixed-race kids. Madonna…

— J.L. Merrow

A son or daughter in any human family is either born to or adopted by the parents. By definition, a child can't be both.…

— Jerry Bridges

I had no idea what to expect! When the series began, I was new to comics, so I really had to keep my head…

— Robin Furth

We may argue eloquently that 'Honesty is the best Policy' - unfortunately, the moment honesty is adopted for the sake of policy it mysteriously…

— Dorothy L. Sayers

Susan, an only child who never had any roots, and I, a lone wolf who got married 20 years to late, were adopted by…

— Harpo Marx

I'm not at all against white people adopting black children, because we're all human beings who need to give love and be nurtured in…

— Kola Boof

Azerbaijan unleashed the war, and was defeated in that war; Azerbaijan asked for truce (including from the Commander of Karabakh's forces) and later started…

— Serzh Sargsyan

Somehow destiny comes into play. These children end up with you and you end up with them. It's something quite magical.

— Nicole Kidman

Amongst the financial Twitterati, the term 'muppets' has come to describe any client used and abused by some financial predator. I've adopted the term…

— Barry Ritholtz