Adopted Quotes
328 quotes by 288 authors
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There is no opinion, however absurd, which men will not readily embrace as soon as they can be brought to the conviction that it is…
— Arthur Schopenhauer
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The mother of the year should be a sterilized woman with two adopted children
— Paul R. Ehrlich
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On the whole, my family had always adopted a reserved attitude toward Zionism; my great-uncle Edmond had acted on his own in generously supporting Jewish…
— Guy de Rothschild
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If anybody understands God's order for his children, it's someone who has rescued an orphan from despair, for that is what God has done for…
— Max Lucado
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Realising the healthy international relations can be created only among populations made up of individuals who themselves are healthy and enjoy a measure a independence,…
— Albert Einstein
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This Government, the offspring of your own choice, uninfluenced and unawed, adopted upon full investigation and mature deliberation, completely free in its principles, in the…
— George Washington
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By such innovations are languages enriched, when the words are adopted by the multitude, and naturalized by custom.
— Miguel de Cervantes
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It is too probable that no plan we propose will be adopted. Perhaps another dreadful conflict is to be sustained. If, to please the people,…
— George Washington
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The constitution of the United States is to receive a reasonable interpretation of its language, and its powers, keeping in view the objects and purposes,…
— Joseph Story
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I am a living testament you can be adopted and successful.
— Daunte Culpepper
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Yet Gotama's Dhamma is more than just a series of axioms. It is to be lived rather than simply adopted and believed in. It entails…
— Stephen Batchelor
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I don't ever worry about whether I'm being true to my country roots. My country roots were adopted. I never worry about what I can…
— Emmylou Harris
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I have adopted clothes from all the projects I'm in. It's really been a while since I've bought anything myself
— Judd Nelson
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I am Cuban, my parents are Cuban, and I was not adopted.
— Oscar Nunez
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Having been adopted, I really have a strong sense- a necessity almost- for stability, a foundation where my family is concerned. [Success] would be meaningless…
— Faith Hill
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I was not allowed to talk about being adopted when growing up. I walked around feeling like I was going to explode.
— Michael Nyqvist
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It actually got me upset reading about adopted children. They become junkies or criminals or actors. I wanted to write a book from the children's…
— Michael Nyqvist
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I consider it…as subverting the fundamental and characteristic principle of the Government…and as bidding defiance to the sense in which the Constitution is known to…
— James Madison
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It is a bitter thought, how different a thing the Christianity of the world might have been, if the Christian faith had been adopted as…
— John Stuart Mill
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I'm very proud of my pro-life record, and I've always adopted the idea that, the position that the method of conception doesn't change the definition…
— Paul Ryan
Who Wrote These Adopted Quotes
288 authors contributed a total of 328 Adopted Quotes, led by these top contributors: