Adopted Quote by John Patrick Shanley

The first four months of my life were spent in care, before I was adopted by my wonderful parents - my mum and dad…

— Michael Gove

I was a sickly baby, and after two sets of adoptive parents took me home, they returned me to the orphanage because of a…

— Rodney Atkins

I made a conscious decision that I was not going to have children. I didn't want others raising them, and looking after them myself…

— Stevie Nicks

Meanwhile I married and I adopted three kids who were all from one family and then later I was divorced.

— Betty Hill

Both my parents were doctors, and my mother had her surgery in the house. There were six children.

— Diane Cilento

I was the seventh child in a family of eight siblings. We lost our father very young, and my mother had pretty much single-handedly…

— Shiv Nadar

My father went to college for drama in Pittsburgh, and so did my mother, and then my mother was a steadily working New York…

— Ethan Suplee

When I was very young, my father had an accident. He fell down a flight of stairs, fractured his skull, and lost sight in…

— Janet Yellen

I had a very turbulent and painful childhood, like many people. I left for college when I was 16 years old and up until…

— Sharon Salzberg

I was raised an orphan... My mother died when I was 2 years old.

— Diego Luna

My mother was working on her college degree throughout my childhood, and being the youngest in the family, that meant being dragged to a…

— Valorie Curry

Before it was decided that I was going to be adopted, my mother was going to abort me. I was born with tangled legs;…

— Lindsay Pearce