Adopted Quotes
328 Adopted quotes by 288 unique authors
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I'm still not sure I made the right choice when I told my wife about the bakery attack.But then,it might not have been a question…
— Haruki Murakami
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But it's precisely in this cold, loathsome half-despair, half-belief, in this deliberate burying of yourself underground for forty years out of sheer pain, in this…
— Fyodor Dostoevsky
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Best friends are always together, always whispering and laughing and running, always at each other's house, having dinner, sleeping over. They are practically adopted by…
— Jerry Spinelli
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It might not be perfect, but the fundamental stance I adopted with regard to my home was to accept it, problems and all, because it…
— Haruki Murakami
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Come into our home, daughters of Earth; dwell in our tunnels, harvest our fields; what we cannot do, you are now our hands to do…
— Orson Scott Card
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Since I was five, I've known that I was adopted, which is a politically correct term for being clueless about one's own origins.
— Jodi Picoult
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His answer to every problem, every setback was “I will work harder!†—which he had adopted as his personal motto.
— George Orwell
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So I didn't adopt Homer because he was cute and little and sweet, or because he was helpless and needed me. I adopted him because…
— Gwen Cooper
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But keeping secrets is a discipline. I never use to think of myself as a good liar, but after having had some practice I had…
— Lionel Shriver
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Don’t start. I saw Marcie climb inside your Jeep.†“She needed a ride.†I adopted a hands-on-hips pose. “What kind of ride?†“Not that kind…
— Becca Fitzpatrick
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The thing is that I am a member of that sad, ever-dwindling minority... the child of an unbroken home. I have carried this albatross since…
— Martin Amis
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In the war room, love? What if someone comes in?†I stood and removed his shirt. “Then they’ll have a good story to tell.†“Good? 
— Maria V. Snyder
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I am an ambassador," Akretenesh warned me, anger bringing his confidence back. "You cannot shoot." "I don't mean to," I reassured him, still smiling. I…
— Megan Whalen Turner
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I contemplate the idea that maybe I'm an alcoholic. I get this occassionally, the need to define myself as something-or-the-other, and at various times in…
— David Nicholls
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Though our brother is upon the rack, as long as we ourselves are at ease, our senses will never inform us of what he suffers.…
— Adam Smith
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Sherman made the terrible discovery that men make about their fathers sooner or later... that the man before him was not an aging father but…
— Tom Wolfe
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Now I see some family resemblance. I was starting to wonder if Jill was adopted, but you two kind of look like each other." "So…
— Richelle Mead
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You reach a certain age -- sometimes it's fifteen, sometimes it's forty-six -- and you realize the cliche you have adopted for yourself isn't working.
— Matt Haig
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My name is Kirby Rose, and I'm adopted. I don't mean to make it sound like an AA confession, although sometimes that's how people take…
— Emily Giffin
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…the Genesis story is just one that happened to have been adopted by one particular tribe of Middle Eastern herders. It has no more special…
— Richard Dawkins
Who Wrote These Adopted Quotes
288 authors contributed a total of 328 Adopted Quotes, led by these top contributors: