Adopted Quote by Mike Faist

I have one brother, John, an airline pilot, who is seven years younger. He's adopted, though we're still blood related - he's my cousin.…

— Gary Numan

I was raised in Brooklyn and in Baltimore. My father was a bookkeeper. When I was 36 years old, my mother told me I…

— Harry Frankfurt

I was adopted when I was 4. The woman who adopted me, she was 64 years old.

— Kirk Franklin

I was born and raised in East Los Angeles by a single mom who had three biological kids and adopted four more. I never…

— will.i.am

My father moved to Hawaii from Brooklyn and my mother came there as a child from the Philippines. They met at a show where…

— Bruno Mars

My parents adopted me from foster care.

— Jon Husted

I grew up with my mom, and my mom had six kids, and I was the youngest, but I had a different father than…

— Keiynan Lonsdale

I was born to a single mom and raised by her and my grandparents.

— Anthony Foxx

My mother remarried when I was young, and my stepfather adopted me.

— Steven Van Zandt

I was adopted when I was a baby. My mother carried me for nine months and she held me for one hour, and didn't…

— Michael Franti

My adoptive mother always wanted to meet my biological mother.

— Saroo Brierley

I didn't meet my father until he was 30, and he died nine months after that.

— Jermaine O'Neal