The adoption of agriculture, supposedly our most decisive step toward a better life, was in many ways a catastrophe from which we… — Jared Diamond Copy Share Image
“Well, just remember this. When my ma got me, she picked what she wanted. But when your ma got you, she had… — Karen Abbott Copy Share Image
“It's illegal to deny people their records due to race or gender. Adoptees deserve the same rights and protections.” — DaShanne Stokes Copy Share Image
“I'm eternally grateful to {our birth mother}, but wish I had never needed her. It's a loaded friendship, a complex connection.” — Jana Wolff Copy Share Image
“There is nothing more interesting than the internet right now and the same would be said of the blockchain-powered solutions like Bitcoin… — Olawale Daniel Copy Share Image
There is no disease, bodily or mental, which adoption of vegetable diet, and pure water has not infallibly mitigated, wherever the experiment… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
Gone are the days when you could go to an orphanage or a centre and apply for adopting a child there. Everything… — Mandira Bedi Copy Share Image
“What makes a family is neither the absence of tragedy nor the ability to hide from misfortune, but the courage to overcome… — Steve Pemberton Copy Share Image
You can’t really innovate for the past (your offering won’t be innovative and will be beaten easily by competitors). If you innovate… — Braden Kelley Copy Share Image
No organization engaged in any specific field of work ever invents any important developers in that field, or adopts any important development… — Reginald Fessenden Copy Share Image
“Justification has so dominated the landscape of Christian thought that adoption has been marginalized. We don't hear much about our adoption at… — C. Baxter Kruger Copy Share Image
There are so many kids in this world, and in this country, that need homes. And so we're perfectly content to look… — Lisa Ling Copy Share Image
In addition to its use in arithmetic and science, the Hindu-Arabic number system is the only genuinely universal language on Earth, apart… — Keith Devlin Copy Share Image
I would rather sustain the penalties resulting from over-conservatism than face the consequences of error, perhaps with permanent capital loss, resulting from… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
“With every beat of my heart, I believe she thought keeping her secret was in everyone's best interest. She thought the secret… — Misa Rush Copy Share Image
“A bonus in raising a child you don't have a biological tie to is you will never saddle them with watching their… — Nia Vardalos Copy Share Image
“Being adopted felt like reading a book that had the first chapter ripped out. You might be enjoying the plot and the… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
The supreme duty of the Nation is the conservation of human resources through an enlightened measure of social and industrial justice. We… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
The adoption of the required attitude of mind towards ideas that seem to emerge "of their own free will" and the abandonment… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
“We should have given up years ago. It's so clear now. We should have "explored other options." We should have adopted. We… — Liane Moriarty Copy Share Image
“...I couldn't let go of her hand. For a few moments, I looked at the shape of it, the roundness of her… — Zara Phillips Copy Share Image
“To begin with, homosexuality has nothing to do with pedophilia; one is sexual orientation and the other is sexual perversion. Yet, in… — Albino Luciani Copy Share Image
“The Adoption When Paul Jobs was mustered out of the Coast Guard after World War II, he made a wager with his… — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I've never been keen on open adoption. It doesn't seem to solve the main problem with adoption, which is that somebody feels… — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
I am opposed to looking upon logic as a kind of game. ... One might think that it is a matter of… — Karl Popper Copy Share Image
Old ideas give way slowly; for they are more than abstract logical forms and categories. They are habits, predispositions, deeply ingrained attitudes… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
Jesus' life as a foot-washing servant would eventually lead to the adoption of humility as a widely admired virtue. — John Ortberg Copy Share Image
“Even though you weren't born to us, you grew in our hearts. We will be forever connected because love is what makes… — Deanna Kahler Copy Share Image
For a small open economy such as Cyprus, the euro adoption provides protection against international financial turmoil, which often has a disproportionate… — Jean-Claude Trichet Copy Share Image
New solutions win by virtue of adoption, and they don't get adopted if they're bad solutions. — John Perry Barlow Copy Share Image
At that point the child is eligible for adoption and can be placed with a family that can love the child and… — Henry Ford Copy Share Image
I was supposed to be adopted when I was five, but then my adoption was pushed back by two years. — Oksana Masters Copy Share Image
I'm not opposed to adoption. It's not in my immediate future because I'm on the move a lot and if I were… — John Corbett Copy Share Image
Since I was five, I've known that I was adopted, which is a politically correct term for being clueless about one's own… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
What I was told is that I was born to a mother who was a Catholic, while her boyfriend was not. They… — Mary Gauthier Copy Share Image
“The papers are signed. The papers are sealed. The adoption is completed. You are the adopted sons and daughters of the Most… — Maisie A. Smikle Copy Share Image
I think most children who are adopted ultimately want to meet their biological parents and often do. I think that is an… — Madonna Ciccone Copy Share Image
Adoption is an answer to a tragedy that has already happened, but may it never be the impetus for one that hasn’t. — Jen Hatmaker Copy Share Image
There are so many animals in shelters that need homes. Rather than going to a breeder and buying a dog, or a… — Gus Kenworthy Copy Share Image
