Adopted Quotes

328 quotes by 295 authors

That the state of knowledge in any country will exert a directive influence on the general system of instruction adopted in it, is a principle… — Charles Babbage
The uniform makes for brotherhood, since when universally adopted it covers up all differences of class and country. — Robert Baden-Powell
The prejudices of ignorance are more easily removed than the prejudices of interest; the first are all blindly adopted, the second willfully preferred. — George Bancroft
Although all new ideas are born in France, they are not readily adopted there. It seems that they must first commence to prosper in a… — Sarah Bernhardt
My house is run, essentially, by an adopted, fully clawed cat with a mean nature. — Anthony Bourdain
I'm not Ted Nugent. My house is run, essentially, by an adopted, fully clawed cat with a mean nature. I would never hunt. I would… — Anthony Bourdain
In college, I think I probably positioned myself as an aspiring writer, meaning I dressed sort of extravagantly and adopted all the semi-Byronic affectations, as… — Anthony Bourdain
I separated from the Southern Baptists when they adopted the discriminatory attitude towards women, because I believe what Paul taught in Galatians that there is… — Jimmy Carter
I go to Malawi twice a year. It's where two of my children were adopted from, and I have a lot of projects there that… — Madonna Ciccone
I would not be a good mother. I mean, I love being an aunt to my niece and nephew. And I used to want to,… — Kelly Clarkson
The making of an American begins at the point where he himself rejects all other ties, any other history, and himself adopts the vesture of… — James A. Baldwin
this last establishment will probably be within a mile of Charlottesville, and four from Monticello, if the system should be adopted at all by our… — Thomas Jefferson
We must, therefore, be confident that the general measures we have adopted will produce the results we expect. most important in this connection is the… — Carl von Clausewitz
When did it become unconstitutional to exclude homosexual couples from marriage? 1791? 1868, when the 14th Amendment was adopted? — Antonin Scalia
The most important rules that I ever adopted to help me in achieving my goals were those I learned from a very successful man who… — Tony Robbins
Whoever the Lord has adopted ought to prepare themselves for hard, toilsome and unquiet living. — John Calvin
It seems very strange ... that in the course of the world's history so obvious an improvement should never have been adopted. ... The next… — Arthur Conan Doyle
Emergency does not increase granted power or remove or diminish the restrictions imposed upon power granted or reserved. The Constitution was adopted in a period… — Charles Evans Hughes
It is an object of vast magnitude that systems of education should be adopted and pursued which may not only diffuse a knowledge of the… — Noah Webster
Experience teaches, that men are often so much governed by what they are accustomed to see and practice, that the simplest and most obvious improvements… — Alexander Hamilton

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