Adoption Quotes

“No one 'just adopts'.”

— Jody Cantrell Dyer

Faith is the evidence of divine adoption.

— John Calvin

Life is not for the faint of heart.

— Natasha Lyonne

Adopted. Big Deal; so was Superman

— Chris Crutcher

On gay adoption I have changed my mind.

— Theresa May

My adoption was treated as a celebration.

— Michael Reagan

Respect gay couples but no gay adoptions.

— Mike Huckabee

Leadership is not for the faint of heart

— Bill Hybels

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

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

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

— Mike Pence

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

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

— Daven Anderson

Despite the reams of paperwork, obstacles worthy of a horse show, and a wait that can rival an elephant's gestation, adoption feels…

— Scott Simon

Open adoption, when it works, is fabulous. But when it goes wrong, it's so traumatizing for everybody.

— Caroline Leavitt

“Those friends thou hast, and their adoption tried, grapple them to thy soul with hoops of steel”

— Lloyd Johnson

My sister gained 80 pounds expecting her baby. Well, you get nervous, waiting for those adoption papers to clear.

— Emo Philips

I encourage anyone who has a heart for children and the desire to expand their family to consider adoption and make a…

— John Bel Edwards

Adopting means opening your home, and heart, to a life you've never known. But there is nothing as richly rewarding as being…

— Michael Gove

A lot of the early adoption of WordPress was actually from thousands and millions of individually hosted instances, so a lot of…

— Matt Mullenweg

I don't think teachers read the textbooks. And I don't think adoption committees read the textbooks before they adopt them. I think…

— James W. Loewen

I mean, there are lots of people who get married who can't have children. To take a state that does allow adoption…

— Stephen Breyer

The oppressed should rebel, and they will continue to rebel and raise disturbance until their civil rights are fully restored to them…

— Thomas Jefferson

“The children we bring into the world are small replicas of ourselves and our husbands; the pride and joy of grandfathers and…

— Azelene Williams

Italy advocates the adoption of a legal instrument on cultural diversity, guaranteeing every country the protection of its own historical identity and…

— Carlo Azeglio Ciampi

“By adopting, I was not a full-fledged mother in their eyes. I hadn't paid the price of pregnancy, hadn't earned the badge…

— Jana Wolff

Salvation is always "good news." It is news of God's love and forgiveness-adoption into His family- fellowship with His people-freedom from the…

— Billy Graham

Governments and their hired negotiators are designing the supranational rules and pressing for their adoption and for compliance - and the US…

— Thomas Pogge

It bothers me that I won't live to see the end of the century, because, when I was young, in St. Louis,…

— Harold Brodkey

“To begin with, homosexuality has nothing to do with pedophilia; one is sexual orientation and the other is sexual perversion. Yet, in…

— Albino Luciani

“The Adoption When Paul Jobs was mustered out of the Coast Guard after World War II, he made a wager with his…

— Walter Isaacson

When my sons arrived in the family, their legal status was not ambiguous at all. They were our kids. But their wants…

— Russell D. Moore

“Adoption, I was to learn although not immediately, is hard to get right. As a concept, even what was then its most…

— Joan Didion

“Being adopted felt like reading a book that had the first chapter ripped out. You might be enjoying the plot and the…

— Jodi Picoult

North Shore Animal League America is so dear to my heart not only for the amazing people that work there, the innovative…

— Beth Ostrosky Stern

The adoption of the required attitude of mind towards ideas that seem to emerge "of their own free will" and the abandonment…

— Sigmund Freud

The supreme duty of the Nation is the conservation of human resources through an enlightened measure of social and industrial justice. We…

— Theodore Roosevelt