When 9/11 happened, 12 of our neighborhood firemen were killed. I looked around at the country that had adopted me and I… — Iman Abdulmajid Copy Share Image
How do I let go of Maplewood? It's like Shangri-la. It's so culturally diverse, and all my children are adopted - a… — Christine Ebersole Copy Share Image
My friends back in Barcelona called me by that name (Picasso). It was stranger, more resonant, than "Ruiz." And those are probably… — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
Restricted immigration is not an offensive but purely a defensive action. It is not adopted in criticism of others in the slightest… — Calvin Coolidge Copy Share Image
I think, you know, it was something that I really wanted. I wanted so much to have a son or daughter. We… — Connie Chung Copy Share Image
“A role model is a person whose roles can be modelled. If the roles you conceive and give birth to today cannot… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
No great player blundered oftener than I done. I was champion of the world for twenty-eight years because I was twenty years… — Wilhelm Steinitz Copy Share Image
When young men or women are beginning life, the most important period, it is often said, is that in which their habits… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
It actually got me upset reading about adopted children. They become junkies or criminals or actors. I wanted to write a book… — Michael Nyqvist Copy Share Image
Pop music has always adopted the style of marrying upbeat melodies to dour lyrics. — Colin Meloy Copy Share Image
“Adoptee rights are everyone's rights, and they deserve to be protected.” — DaShanne Stokes Copy Share Image
As you know, I'm an immigrant. I came over here as an immigrant, and what gave me the opportunities, what made me… — Arnold Schwarzenegger Copy Share Image
As Enlightenment philosophers and scholars consciously adopted the methods of science to establish such abstract concepts as rights, liberty, and justice, successive… — Michael Shermer Copy Share Image
I was an adopted child of my grandparents, and I don't know how I can ever express my gratitude for that, because… — James Earl Jones Copy Share Image
People in business generally have a responsibility to the community. They have to put back into the community from which they take.… — Lindsay Fox Copy Share Image
Count Basie practically adopted me at 13. We became closer and closer and I ended up conducting for him and Sinatra. — Quincy Jones Copy Share Image
As a late teenager, the punk movement pushed me further. In particular, the Clash, which happened to leak through the time of… — Chuck D Copy Share Image
Both of our children are adopted, and my wife and I didn't go out of ways to find kids that looked like… — John Wells Copy Share Image
New legislation has just been adopted by the International Labour Organization on the Worst Forms of Child Labor, such as bonded labour,… — Carol Bellamy Copy Share Image
The oppressed, having internalized the image of the oppressor and adopted his guidelines, are fearful of freedom. — Paulo Freire Copy Share Image
The constitutional reform is supposed to give autonomy to eastern Ukraine and to be adopted by the end of 2015. This has… — Vladimir Putin Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
As Buffett has often observed, value investing is not a concept that can be learned and gradually applied over time. It is… — Seth Klarman Copy Share Image
