Adopted Quotes

328 Adopted quotes by 288 unique authors

It is not because I do not love my adopted land - it is the natural feeling of one far from home, who remembers those… — Erich von Stroheim
We have been adopted as sons by the Lord with this one condition; that our life expresses Christ, the bond of our adoption. Accordingly, unless… — John Calvin
The maxim that men are not to be praised before their death was invented by envy and too lightly adopted by philosophers. — Luc de Clapiers
Good ideas are not adopted automatically. They must be driven into practice with courageous impatience. Once implemented they can be easily overturned or subverted through… — Hyman Rickover
I was aware of Darwin's views fourteen years before I adopted them and I have done so solely andentirely from an independent study of the… — Joseph Dalton Hooker
I think, you know, it was something that I really wanted. I wanted so much to have a son or daughter. We adopted a son.… — Connie Chung
Men of integrity are generally pretty obstinate, in adhering to an opinion once adopted. — William Cobbett
If those states which did not have right-to-carry concealed gun provisions had adopted them in 1992, approximately 1,570 murders; 4,177 rapes; and over 60,000 aggravate… — John R. Lott Jr.
All necessary steps needed to be taken to tackle terrorism will be adopted...but we will keep in mind that a particular religion or section of… — Manmohan Singh
In regard to the past, where contemplation is not obscured by desire and the need for action, we see, more clearly than in the lives… — Bertrand Russell
It is sometimes suggested that the [Nazi economic] recovery was a product of a specific fascist economic strategy, which distinguished it from the recovery efforts… — Richard Overy
As a result of continuous work with these highly toxic substances, our minds were so numbed that we no longer had any scruples about the… — Otto Hahn
I adopted the theory of reincarnation when I was 26. Genius is experience. Some think to seem that it is a gift or talent, but… — Henry Ford
I adopted the theory of reincarnation when I was twenty-six. Religion offered nothing to the point. Even work could not give me complete satisfaction. Work… — Henry Ford
Our adversaries [ the Confederate States of America ] have adopted some declarations of independence in which, unlike the good old one penned by Jefferson,… — Abraham Lincoln
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
The mother of the year should be a sterilized woman with two adopted children — Paul R. Ehrlich
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
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
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
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
By such innovations are languages enriched, when the words are adopted by the multitude, and naturalized by custom. — Miguel de Cervantes
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
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
I am a living testament you can be adopted and successful. — Daunte Culpepper

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