Adoptive Quotes
16 quotes by 15 authors
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Very few people who met my adoptive mother in the last 20 years of her life could abide her, while many people who have seen…
— Edward Albee
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Adoption was such a positive alternative to abortion, a way to save one life and brighten two more: those of the adoptive parents.
— George W. Bush
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To allow same-sex couples to adopt children and then to label their families as second-class because the adoptive parents are of the same sex is…
— Stephen Reinhardt
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As an adoptive parent myself of foster children, I have seen firsthand the glaring problems of the system currently facing this Nation.
— Dennis Cardoza
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I was a sickly baby, and after two sets of adoptive parents took me home, they returned me to the orphanage because of a serious…
— Rodney Atkins
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Adopting means opening your home, and heart, to a life you've never known. But there is nothing as richly rewarding as being an adoptive parent.
— Michael Gove
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Cindy and I are adoptive parents. We know what a treasure and joy it is to have an adopted child in our lives.
— John McCain
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My mother is a realist, and she's had biological and adoptive children, and she said it's no different: No matter what, they're putting a stranger…
— Katherine Heigl
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Adoptive parents are taking on enormous responsibility, both emotionally and financially. Quite frankly, they need as much disclosure as possible about the child's background and…
— Pat Robertson
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She turned back to Jace. "Do you have to be so-," she began, but stopped when she saw his face. It looked stripped down, oddly…
— Cassandra Clare
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Alec watched them through the half-open door, Jace leaned against the sink as his adoptive sister sponged his wrists and wrapped them in a white…
— Cassandra Clare
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I should’ve been furious, but for some reason I wasn’t. Maybe because I knew he was telling the truth. Maybe because Voron left me just…
— Ilona Andrews
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My mother birthed three children and she adopted myself and another African-American son. My adoptive parents were Finnish. I grew up in a white picket…
— Michael Franti
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Would-be adoptive parents have to struggle for years through a bureaucratic obstacle course at an average cost of $30,000.
— Foster Friess
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The Heart Gallery premise is very simple. It is a special traveling exhibit of photographs featuring Los Angeles foster youth, designed to highlight the need…
— Angela Featherstone
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The herd of mankind can hardly be said to think; their notions are almost all adoptive; and, in general, I believe it is better that…
— Philip Dormer Stanhope
Who Wrote These Adoptive Quotes
15 authors contributed a total of 16 Adoptive Quotes as follows: