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Quotes About Adoption

A son or daughter in any human family is either born to or adopted by the parents. By definition, a child can't be both. But with God we're both born of Him and adopted by Him.
~ Jerry Bridges
Usually, the best ideas come from other people's good ideas, which then, after a short gestation period, become your ideas.
~ Amy Sedaris
Once open source gets good enough, competing with it would be insane.
~ Larry Ellison
I happen to think that there are already tons of perfectly good babies out there already born.
~ Sarah Silverman
When my grandfather died, I started adopting some of his accents, to sort of remind myself of him. A homage. He was a war hero, and he was really great with his hands.
~ Gavin DeGraw
The purpose of this book is to supply, in the form suitable for laymen, guidance in the adoption and execution of an investment policy.
~ Benjamin Graham
Health care missed the PC and Internet revolutions, but it can't afford to miss the cloud and mobile revolution.
~ John Sculley
There are many children who need help, and anyone who wants to reach out and adopt a child from foster care or from a Russian orphanage should reach out and do it.
~ Melissa Fay Greene
Headline?" he asked. "'Swing Set Needs Home,'" I said. "'Desperately Lonely Swing Set Needs Loving Home,'" he said. "'Lonely, Vaguely Pedophilic Swing Set Seeks the Butts of Children,'" I said.
~ John Green
We've gotten involved in cat rescue we take them in and find homes for them. I've always loved cats. I saw how homeless cats were living out there. We take them in, put out flyers.
~ Greg Ginn
I'm concerned about the plight of children. But I'm not on a mission to get all the available orphans in the world adopted into Christian homes.
~ Andy Stanley
The primary purpose of adoption is to provide a home for a child, not a child for a home.
~ Virginia Linder
If it gets to the point where I actually physically cannot have a child, there's plenty of children in the world that need a stable home and loving parent. I'm so down for adoption.
~ Joy Bryant
Justice was born outside the home and a long way from it and it has never been adopted there.
~ Walter Cronkite
I believe our only hope for the future is to adopt a new conception of human ecology, one in which we start to reconstitute our concept of the richness in human capacity.
~ Ken Robinson
At what age do you think it's appropriate to tell a highway it's adopted?
~ Zach Galifianakis
[Caine]"Interesting. Me, I've always wanted to know who my real parents were."[Sam]"Let me guess: you're secretly a wizard who was raised by muggles.
~ Michael Grant, Gone
Are you sure you weren't adopted?""Mom would like to think so, but it was a natural birth, so her memory's real clear.
~ Jana Deleon, Unlucky
I ask you...to adopt the principles proclaimed by yourselves, by your revolutionary fathers, and by the old bell in Independence Hall.
~ Frederick Douglass
It's important to realize that we adopt not because we are rescuers. No. We adopt because we are rescued.
~ David Platt
If the standard route for creating a family had worked for me, I wouldn't have met this child. I needed to know her. I needed to be her mother. She is, in every way my daughter.
~ Nia Vardalos
We look at adoption as a very sacred exchange. It was not done lightly on either side. I would dedicate my life to this child.
~ Jamie Lee Curtis
Are you sure you weren't adopted?" "Mom would like to think so, but it was a natural birth, so her memory's real clear.
~ Jana Deleon
We do not know whether Jewish manuscripts were usually made by Jewish artists to order in Christian workshops, but they were certainly made in the styles locally current in their countries of adoption.
~ Janet Backhouse