Adopted Quote by Marcus Samuelsson

I grew up in a family that had young people adopted from all over the world.

— Ronan Farrow

There's a lot of people in my family who've adopted children.

— Jonathan Banks

The journey into adoption started for my parents, as it does with so many families: my mother and father desperately wanted to have kids,…

— Marcus Samuelsson

It is not because I do not love my adopted land - it is the natural feeling of one far from home, who remembers…

— Erich von Stroheim

I was adopted by two amazing people: a Salvadoran mother and a white father who were incredibly supportive of me and my work. I…

— Gina Prince-Bythewood

In Sweden, we've moved away from the notion that mothers have some magical, special bond with children.

— Camilla Lackberg

When I was growing up, I wanted to adopt, because I was aware there were kids that didn't have parents.

— Angelina Jolie

I'm not adopted. But that longing and that sense of absence ... are perhaps other ways of expressing the actualities of my family. Different…

— Andrea Barrett

“That so many thousands of children around the world are available for adoption is a sign of our impoverished humanity. That so many persons…

— Deborah A. Beasley

I just wanted to be able to say that I raised my kids and my family around a better environment than I was brought…

— Polo G

My children grew up very resourceful and strong in spite of them having to live with different families and that I had to drag…

— Dolores Huerta

I grew up in Gothenburg, Sweden. I also lived in Ghana for four years and in Australia for one year. My dad was working…

— Kelly Gale