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Quotes About Adoption

That the object of the Brahmins in giving up beef-eating was to snatch away from the Buddhist Bhikshus the supremacy they had acquired is evidenced by the adoption of vegetarianism by Brahmins.
~ B. R. Ambedkar
My husband was like, 'Sure, we can adopt cats, but you know, I love my dog.' But I have to say he's just as in love with these cats as he is with Bianca the bulldog, and they've really enriched our lives to the point of just complete bliss.
~ Beth Ostrosky Stern
I adopted two children, then I got eye disease and five rounds of surgery. I went blind in one eye, then the other eye, and that went on for three or four years. I got very enamored and involved with the theater and did a lot of plays.
~ John Patrick Shanley
There's a book called 'The Shack' - it had a lot to do with me coming full circle, meeting my birth mother. Awhile back, my birth mom and my adopted mom came to my show together, and it was pretty surreal.
~ Rodney Atkins
We love and adore our surrogate, we speak to her and her family constantly, I'm sure our son will speak to her for the rest of his life as well.
~ Dustin Lance Black
He's just a lost dog," she added with a cool smile. "Perhaps you can find a home for him. He's housebroken—more or less." And
~ Raymond Chandler
Gamina may not have been the daughter of my body, but she was the daughter of my heart, and I love all her children and grandchildren none the less for this.
~ Raymond E. Feist
There were a few things she knew about Will Trent. He was tall, at least six-three, with a runner's lean body and the most beautiful legs she had ever seen on a man. His mother had been killed when he was less than a year old. He'd grown up in a children's home and never been adopted. He was a special agent with the GBI. He was one of the smartest men she had ever met, and he was so dyslexic that, as far as she could tell, he read no higher than a second-grade level.
~ Karin Slaughter
Men are so constituted that every one undertakes what he sees another successful in, whether he has aptitude for it or not.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
It is your attitude about yourself that a man will adopt.
~ Sherry Argov
I moved up over Lower East Side and I was adopted by eight foster parents; I lived all over New York City with these parents, man, till I was about ten years old.
~ Gregory Corso
For behavior, men learn it, as they take diseases, one of another.
~ Francis Bacon
I'd like to have and adopt children. I think I'd be a great mom, honestly. I don't think I'll have any problem giving them all the love in the world. Discipline will be the hard part.
~ Queen Latifah
I really want to adopt a child... I want to be called 'Mom.' It really is the most beautiful word in the English language.
~ Patti Stanger
To bring out a new technology for consumers first, you just had a very long road to go down to try to find people who actually would pay money for something.
~ Marc Andreesen
The mother of the year should be a sterilized woman with two adopted children
~ Paul R. Ehrlich
My mother found a letter, though, that I wrote her when I was 8 years old and it was a letter where I asked if she could take me to the orphanage because I would like to adopt a little baby.
~ Kristen Stewart
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 my play find her fascinating. Heavens, what have I done?!
~ Edward Albee
My father has passed away. He was African-American. My mother is white. So I was adopted by a couple that was of a similar dynamic as my biological parents.
~ Keegan-Michael Key
Adoption gives us the privilege of sons, regeneration the nature of sons.
~ Stephen Charnock
My house is run, essentially, by an adopted, fully clawed cat with a mean nature.
~ Anthony Bourdain
Tis often seen Adoption strives with nature; and choice breeds A native slip to us from foreign lands.
~ William Shakespeare
~Wyatt [my adopted son] is definitely all mine. Little souls find their way to you whether they're from your womb or someone else's.~
~ Sheryl Crow
Teach your children how to behave with animals. Adopt a pet. Don't go buy one. Please. That's a sin. Let's get these puppy mills out of business.
~ Shelley Morrison