Adopted Quotes

God is the designer of the family.

— Gordon B. Hinckley

“Superman was adopted.”

— Ryan Ringbloom

My parents adopted me from foster care.

— Jon Husted

“Children are God's gift.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

We're all God's children.

— Dolly Parton

Life is not for the faint of heart.

— Natasha Lyonne

Adopted. Big Deal; so was Superman

— Chris Crutcher

Technology has to be invented or adopted.

— Jared Diamond

It is the pride of my heart to have been one of the earliest adopted sons of America.

— Marquis de Lafayette

You are more than human. You are a child of God.

— Lawrence E. Corbridge

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

— DaShanne Stokes

My mother remarried when I was young, and my stepfather adopted me.

— Steven Van Zandt

“Hey, pretty girl. How you doing?” “Adopted,” she says.”

— Gabrielle Zevin

I am a living testament you can be adopted and successful.

— Daunte Culpepper

Never forget for a single minute, you didnt grow under my heart but in it.

— Anonymous

My father was adopted. He grew up in the Italian household.

— Louis Gossett, Jr

When I started in fashion, I had already adopted the sailor-striped sweater as my uniform; that way, I wouldn't have to drive…

— Jean Paul Gaultier

Today Saint Paul has told us that in Christ we have become God’s adopted children, brothers and sisters in Christ. This is…

— Pope Francis

I love the French very much, and I think they know that. I've been adopted here. They treat me as one of…

— Jane Birkin

The old spelling MAGICK has been adopted throughout in order to distinguish the Science of the Magi from all its counterfeits.

— Aleister Crowley

When I was little, I knew that I was not adopted, but I actually imagined and hoped that I was - and…

— Gloria Steinem

Whoever the Lord has adopted ought to prepare themselves for hard, toilsome and unquiet living.

— John Calvin

My children range in age from 5 to 31. We adopted the 5-year-old, but people are often impressed with my wife before knowing that.

— Kevin Cramer

I adopted a pet because I have been wanting one for the longest time. In fact, I am really close to Ravi…

— Rithvik Dhanjani

Livestock adopted in Africa were Eurasian species that came in from the north. Africa's long axis, like that of the Americas, is…

— Jared Diamond

Some of our kids are adopted and some kids are natural-born - I forget which ones are which. Family's just amazing. We…

— Kirk Cameron

My friends back in Barcelona called me by that name (Picasso). It was stranger, more resonant, than "Ruiz." And those are probably…

— Pablo Picasso

There's a book called 'The Shack' - it had a lot to do with me coming full circle, meeting my birth mother.…

— Rodney Atkins

Having been adopted, I really have a strong sense- a necessity almost- for stability, a foundation where my family is concerned. [Success]…

— Faith Hill

In childbirth, as in other human endeavors, fashions start with the rich, are then adopted by the aspirant middle class with an…

— Jessica Mitford

this last establishment will probably be within a mile of Charlottesville, and four from Monticello, if the system should be adopted at…

— Thomas Jefferson

What Christopher Nolan and I have done with 'Superman' is try to bring the same naturalistic approach that we adopted for the…

— David S. Goyer

Emergency does not increase granted power or remove or diminish the restrictions imposed upon power granted or reserved. The Constitution was adopted…

— Charles Evans Hughes

Japan suffered terribly from the atomic bomb but never adopted a pose of moral superiority, implying: 'We would never have done it!'…

— George Mikes

Mr. Browborough, whose life had not been passed in any strict obedience to the Ten Commandments, and whose religious observances had not…

— Anthony Trollope

Mixture of assimilation to earlier schemas and adaptation to the actual conditions of the situation is what defines motor intelligence. But and…

— Jean Piaget

To avert the danger [posed by theory] to life, Nietzsche could choose one of two ways: he could insist on the strictly…

— Leo Strauss

When the Constitution of the United States was framed and adopted, those high contracting parties did positively agree that they would not…

— John Taylor

“There are times in every person’s life when they feel lonely, isolated, like maybe they don’t belong. For adoptees, this is often…

— Janet Louise Stephenson

So in this case, Kalamas, don't go by reports, by legends, by traditions, by scripture, by logical conjecture, by inference, by analogies,…

— Gautama Buddha