Quotes About Adoption

My opinion, my conviction, gains immensely in strength and sureness the minute a second mind as adopted it.

Any new technology tends to go through a 25-year adoption cycle.

elements of Roman social organization may have been adopted by the Saxons

Such attitude," I said to Jane. "She gets it from your side." "She's adopted," Jane said. "And I'm not the smart-ass in the family.

If every Christian family brought in a child who needed a family we would put the foster care system out of business.

All I wanted to do was please my adopted family.

I hadn't thought about the fact that I was a foster child but, did notice that (in films) I'm often without a mother or father or both.

I'm adopted, so I didn't know my father, but apparently he was pretty tall.

had begun, one fine day, to regard him as stupid and absurd because the friends that she had among the younger writers and actors had assured her that he was, and she duly repeated what they had said with that passion, that lack of reserve which we show whenever we receive from without, and adopt as our own, opinions or customs of which we previously knew nothing.

In order to deploy the means necessary to ensure her return, I was condemned to act once more as if I were not in love with her and were not suffering from her departure, I was condemned to continue lying to her—not that I had ever been very successful with this course of action, but because I had always adopted it since I had been in love with Albertine.

parents were dead. We hadn't found his birth parents yet. He hadn't gone to college, his high school records were archived somewhere—we had unis working on it—and his elementary school

And yet, there are still people in American politics who, for some reason, cling to this belief that America is better off adopting the economic policies of nations whose people who immigrate here from there.

Just us two men," my father said, my father who had so longed for a son that he had flown paper planes--adoption forms in triplicate--all the way to Africa to make his dream come true.

Just us two men," my father said, my father who had so longed for a son that he had flown paper plans--adoption forms in triplicate--all the way to Africa to make his dream come true.

You don't adopt a single child, you adopt the pain of the world. It's a litmus test of your incapacity.

Then I'll help Fionn with her refuge for lost frogs, or whatever she thinks she's doing. She seems to be adopting them.

I adopted a baby. I wanted a highway, but it was a lot of red tape.

"Salvation is always "good news." It is news of God's love and forgiveness-adoption into His family- fellowship with His people-freedom from the penalty of sin- liberation from the power of sin."

Rock and roll is catching on all over . . . France . . . England . . . They even have it in Japan, only over there they call it judo.

If you need a baby that bad, go down to the pound and get one. Not even a baby - go get an old man. There's unwanted people of all ages, pre-made and waiting for you.

The thing I want more than anything else? I want to have children. I used to feel for every child I had, I would adopt another.

Music is an act of creation. A musician gives life to a song, even if he or she didn't write it. I would say that learning to play someone else's song is different from writing on yourself, a different kind of commitment. Syke would say it's like raising an adopted child" -Star

I reckon I got to light out for the Territory ahead of the rest, because Aunt Sally she's going to adopt me and sivilize me and I can't stand it. I been there before.

Funny thing about Americans. They are the first to adopt weird lifestyles and radical views but they are the most conservative race on earth.