Adoption Quotes · Page 8

I remember my mum explaining to me what adoption meant when I was still at primary school. 'Son,' she said to me,…

— Michael Gove

“She's bewitched you! What good could she do us?" "Well, now... We could do some good for her .”

— Mariah Marsden

The journey into adoption started for my parents, as it does with so many families: my mother and father desperately wanted to…

— Marcus Samuelsson

“Laws forbidding adoptees from accessing their original birth certificates are outdated and need to be changed today.”

— DaShanne Stokes

“I took my menial life for granted until it became clear, why my early years resulted in a lack of adoption.- J.D.…

— J.D. Stroube

Adoption is rewarding. But the process, as we have already detailed in some particulars, can be expensive, exhausting, and hard to sustain…

— Scott Simon

We need a spirit of adoption to take us out of the foundling hospital of the world, and to put us into…

— George Dana Boardman Pepper

I would like to have a child, depending on my work and financial security. I will take that step as soon as…

— Sara Khan

Austria, Germany and the U.S. South did not disappear as a result of their currencies' ruin. Although many people suffered, most people…

— Robert Higgs

“There were two types of survivors in life: those, like her, who found the requisite strength in having once been loved with…

— Dean Koontz

I started using Twitter about year after its very early adoption and ended up investing in it around that same time. I'm…

— Anonymous

“Meeting your adoptive baby is like being set up on a blind date with someone you will have to spend the next…

— Jana Wolff

I was looking for a dog when I was around 9 or 10 years old. I'd just moved to L.A. and I…

— Skai Jackson

In some states, it is illegal to turn down a same-sex couple when you're placing children for adoption. That's discrimination. But in…

— Tom Gjelten

Speaking of happy successes, after years of struggling to lose those few extra pounds every mother puts on during adoption, particularly when…

— Paula Poundstone

I think the adoption rate with respect to social media and how companies leverage that varies by the company. Cisco is probably…

— Padmasree Warrior

Conceit of the anti-gay law in Russia is to protect children, then the people who have the most to fear are LGBT…

— Masha Gessen

In man's life, the absence of an essential component usually leads to the adoption of a substitute. The substitute is usually embraced…

— Eric Hoffer

“This is much worse than losing a cat. You do not wish the cat dead, for example, after the first two days.…

— Suzanne Finnamore

And I want you to notice that one of them, one of the men almost has his tongue hanging out like he's…

— Gordon Klingenschmitt

The abuse of the veto power has become so predictable that frequently resolutions are not even tabled because of the certainty of…

— Alfred-Maurice de Zayas

While spay neuter is important, our goal has never been no more births, even though reducing birth rates might help. Our goal…

— Nathan Winograd

People need to understand, we can come together as a nation. We can create a culture of life. More and more young…

— Mike Pence

“The other trait particularly influenced by upbringing is appreciation. The twin and adoption studies show that “parents have a noticeable effect on…

— Kevin DeYoung

I'd love kids of my own, but if that's not possible I'd definitely adopt. The fact that it's becoming so hard to…

— Michaela DePrince

It takes a huge amount of effort to move from a successful high-tech prototype to broader adoption of an imaging technology.

— Eric Betzig

“The Friends Thou Hast And Their Adoption Tried Grapple Them To Thy Soul With Hooks Of Steel”

— William Shakespeare

“But Nita had always seen having a child as selfish. Why bring another soul into this world, she'd say, when there are…

— Ramez Naam

I finally had my beautiful baby girl. Her name is Michelle Lee. Ugh she's so perfect but unfortunately we're giving up for…

— Lexi

In Calcutta alone, we have given more than 1,000 children in adoption. I cannot calculate how many babies we get a year.…

— Mother Teresa

I am convinced, completely convinced, that there was nothing random about [the adoption], she is the daughter I should have.

— Meg Ryan

“Because now I know what I have been waiting for. I know exactly why the other processes didn't work. I know I…

— Nia Vardalos

You can keep 'consumer' DNA at the center of your product. That will always mean that adoption is easier.

— Aaron Levie

Adoption is wonderful and beautiful and the greatest blessing I have ever experienced. Adoption is also difficult and painful. Adoption is a…

— Anonymous

The colonized is elevated above his jungle status in proportion to his adoption of the mother country's cultural standards.

— Frantz Fanon

“A role model is a person whose roles can be modelled. If the roles you conceive and give birth to today cannot…

— Israelmore Ayivor

“You don’t adopt a single child, you adopt the pain of the world. It’s a litmus test of your incapacity.”

— Margaret Mazzantini

For a couple that wants to have a child, there's the option of IVF, but then have a look at adoption as…

— Saroo Brierley

To give them what I never had heals me. Some days I look at them and almost start to cry. I think,…

— Rosie O'Donnell

Healthcare has been the last major industry that hasn't been touched by technology in terms of productivity and consumer adoption in the…

— John Sculley