Adopted Quotes · Page 4

On November 15th, 2008, in over 300 cities, 4,000 children were adopted in one day.

— Nia Vardalos

We are the sons of Light and children of God. Glory unto the Lord, we will succeed.

— Swami Vivekananda

We, by our arts may be called the grandsons of God.

— Leonardo da Vinci

I adopted England as least as much as England adopted me.

— Tom Stoppard

Adopted kids are such a pain - you have to teach them how to look like you.

— Gilda Radner

The day we were born, we were all God's children.

— Ray Davies

“If she had not adopted me, then I would've died.”

— Youko Nogiri

If we call ourselves children of God, then others are also children of God.

— Sri Chinmoy

For {she} had adopted the standard of the young: what there was in the moment was everything. And moments followed one another…

— Anonymous

“We are God's chosen people. We are God's treasured possession. Let us rise in mighty strength to possess our rightful places as…

— Lailah Gifty Akita

You may not know it, but I was adopted as a baby by my wonderful parents, Allan and Margaret Atkins of Cumberland…

— Rodney Atkins

You reach a certain age -- sometimes it's fifteen, sometimes it's forty-six -- and you realize the cliche you have adopted for…

— Matt Haig

When will we learn that childhood is in a great sense not simply a preparation for adult life but a thing unique…

— Carl Schmitt

The conservative in financial circles I have often described as a man who thinks nothing new ought ever to be adopted for…

— Frank A. Vanderlip

Every child is a thought in the mind of God, and our task is to recognize this thought and help it toward…

— Eberhard Arnold

We should treat children as God does us, who makes us happiest when He leaves us under the influence of innocent delusions.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

. . . by natural selection our mind has adapted itself to the conditions of the external world. It has adopted the…

— Henri Poincare

I cannot see him. I cannot have a relationship with my father and be morally consistent... I lived with all these adopted…

— Ronan Farrow

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

— Kola Boof

There are some who would like to see the oil rigs removed right down to the ground once their job is done,…

— Sylvia Earle

The constitutional reform is supposed to give autonomy to eastern Ukraine and to be adopted by the end of 2015. This has…

— Vladimir Putin

I've had a lot of different lives. I was adopted, I grew up in Nebraska, and then I went to Northwestern... Then…

— Dan Chaon

The immigrant's heart marches to the beat of two quite different drums, one from the old homeland and the other from the…

— Mary McAleese

When the conduct of men is designed to be influenced, persuasion, kind, unassuming persuasion, should ever be adopted. It is an old…

— Abraham Lincoln

So I didn't adopt Homer because he was cute and little and sweet, or because he was helpless and needed me. I…

— Gwen Cooper

But keeping secrets is a discipline. I never use to think of myself as a good liar, but after having had some…

— Lionel Shriver

“The gospel of submission, commitment, decision, and victorious living is not good news about what God has achieved but a demand to…

— Anonymous

Dysfunctions can occur in each of the self-regulatory subfunctions-in how personal experiences are self-monitored and cognitively processed, in the evaluative self-standards that…

— Albert Bandura

Being blunt with your feelings is very American. In this big country, I can be as brash as New York, as hedonistic…

— Martina Navratilova

New Zealand's nuclear free movement is a broad-based and popular movement. Our nuclear free status is a challenge to much that is…

— David Lange

There are Arab countries providing arms I don't know who they are, nobody comes and tells you 'we are providing arms', but…

— Nabil Elaraby

the Egyptians were the first to discover the solar year, and to portion out its course into twelve parts both the space…

— Herodotus

There is an infinity of political errors which, being once adopted, become principles.

— Guillaume Thomas Francois Raynal

Growing up, I kind of adopted that mentality, going all out, being a warrior.

— Nonito Donaire

The ultimate goal of fostering is to get kittens and cats adopted.

— Beth Ostrosky Stern

“Adoption isn't just a childhood experience, it's a life-long experience.”

— DaShanne Stokes

I'm a farm boy from Connecticut, and I adopted urban life.

— William Atherton

I am adopted, and I am so grateful for my story, and that's what makes me who I am.

— Jordan Fisher

God wants a child's heart and a grownup's head.

— C. S. Lewis

It is [children] who are God's presence, promise and hope for mankind.

— Marian Wright Edelman