Adoption Quotes
220 quotes by 191 authors
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Every day I get to 'Think' and work on everything from digitizing electric grids so they can accommodate renewable energy and enable mass adoption of…
— Ginni Rometty
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The spirit of logical analysis should in practice blend with the practical pressure for the adoption of some form of international language, but it should…
— Edward Sapir
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I certainly don't think it's inevitable that we don't love children who don't carry our own DNA. If that were true we wouldn't have millions…
— Ayelet Waldman
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It bothers me that I won't live to see the end of the century, because, when I was young, in St. Louis, I remember saying…
— Harold Brodkey
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As comfortable as I was with my adoption, the nature-versus-nurture question has been a big one for me. I adore my parents, but I always…
— Emily Procter
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If it gets to the point where I actually physically cannot have a child, there's plenty of children in the world that need a stable…
— Joy Bryant
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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 going to be…
— John Corbett
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Both life-planning and the adoption of lifestyle options become (in principle) integrated with bodily regimes. It would be quite short-sighted to see this phenomenon only…
— Anthony Giddens
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I want to say that, in general, when it works, open adoption is great.
— Jennifer Gilmore
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I wanted a baby of color, to be honest, because I wasn't attached to the idea that I look like the biological mother. I liked…
— Jennifer Gilmore
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It would be a lie to say that people are coming to adoption with joy at all times. Hope, perhaps, but it would be disingenuous…
— Jennifer Gilmore
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The process of open adoption is not discussed in the way it should be. Everyone I know who has adopted domestically has at least one…
— Jennifer Gilmore
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With domestic adoption, you get a form, you fill it out, and there are these boxes: African-American, African-American and Hispanic, and you check the boxes…
— Jennifer Gilmore
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Instant success are seldom instant and if you talk to the people behind these successes, you'll find out that they came after months of fear,…
— Guy Kawasaki
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While I was the mayor abortions in New York went down and adoptions went way up, because we worked on adoptions as an alternative, so…
— Rudy Giuliani
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In man's life, the absence of an essential component usually leads to the adoption of a substitute. The substitute is usually embraced with vehemence and…
— Eric Hoffer
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Human freedom is realised in the adoption of humanity as an end in itself, for the one thing that no-one can be compelled to do…
— Immanuel Kant
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It is with great satisfaction that I learned of the adoption by consensus of the Durban Declaration against racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and the intolerance…
— Lionel Jospin
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With the adoption of the Declaration on the Elimination of Violence against Women, the international community sent out a clear message that gender based violence…
— Jenny Shipley
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Unfortunately, marketing textbooks is like marketing fishing lures: the point is to catch fishermen, not fish. Thus many adopted textbooks are flashy to catch the…
— James W. Loewen
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