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Quotes About Adoption

Even in the developing parts of the world, kids take to computers like fish to water.
~ Nicholas Negroponte
The planet's hope and salvation lies in the adoption of revolutionary new knowledge being revealed at the frontiers of science.
~ Bruce Lipton
Has the smartphone begun to mature, plateau out?
~ Walt Mossberg
I like to make people feel more comfortable, and it's great to have this platform and be able to shed light on adoption and how it's a beautiful thing, instead of being tiptoed around.
~ Lana Condor
I never thought of playing for any other franchise other than CSK. Chennai is my second home. Fans here have adopted me as one of their own.
~ MS Dhoni
I always said if it gets to a point where I really want a child, I would adopt; kids are amazing, so I'm getting the selfish stuff out of my system so when I have them I can say, 'Go, run. I have plenty of money, go play.'
~ Sandra Bullock
Think about it: if the world could see how much adoption means from a cat's point of view, shelters would be empty.
~ Hannah Simone
I adopted this feeling that the stage is my home, so just keep my coat on and not wear anything else.
~ Benjamin Clementine
I got my first computer when I was 6, and I was part of that early generation of children who grew up with computers always being around. I fell in love with them early on.
~ Tobias Lutke
There are so many times there could have been a left turn instead of a right turn in all people's lives. I think mine are pretty crystal clear, because of being adopted, being born in Ethiopia, being adopted to Sweden.
~ Marcus Samuelsson
I came into this environment where there was so much love, so much positive energy. I never heard my parents say, 'We have adopted kids.' The minute my sister Linda and I landed in Sweden, we were their kids.
~ Marcus Samuelsson
For many years, when still a Yugoslav citizen, I was already a Swiss patriot, and in 1959, I obtained Swiss citizenship. However, I consider myself a world citizen, and I am very grateful to my adopted country that it allows me to be one.
~ Vladimir Prelog
We want enough people adopting Bitcoin for a robust infrastructure. It's an act of patriotism. It gives the country a robust parallel system.
~ Patrick M. Byrne
School districts in the US don't adopt technology very quickly.
~ Reed Hastings
But Anne got lucky when she was adopted by people who let her be who she wanted to be, who loved her and praised her for her talents, and who were not afraid to tell her they were proud of her.
~ Reyna Grande
First, never underestimate the power of inertia. Second, that power can be harnessed. If private companies or public officials think that one policy produces better outcomes, they can greatly influence the outcome by choosing it as the default.
~ Richard H. Thaler
One of the causes of status quo bias is a lack of attention. Many people adopt what we will call the "yeah, whatever" heuristic.
~ Richard H. Thaler
Society takes enormous trouble over who is allowed to adopt a child, but none about who is allowed to produce one. This has led the psychologist David Lykken to suggest that parents should have to get a licence before child-bearing, or otherwise risk the danger that their child will be taken away for adoption.
~ Richard Layard
He'd learned years ago it was better not to dwell too much on who was related to whom on the godly side of things. After Tyson the Cyclops adopted him as a brother, Percy decided that that was about as far as he wanted to extend the family.
~ Rick Riordan
I was stolen from my family by Navajo raiders when I was fourteen, and taken in by a Navajo family who had lost a daughter of their own." Josefina
~ Kathleen Ernst
You know, Helen,' Mr Vance said, 'this is a strange tactic you're adopting here. Favoritism, like any other form of corruption, works best when it remains unacknowledged.
~ Kazuo Ishiguro
Children who had inherited money, or a warehouse full of cloth or corn, were sometimes adopted by unscrupulous neighbors greedy to get their hands on the legacy. The prospect of something for nothing brought out the worst in people..
~ Ken Follett
The spirit of prayer is the fruit and token of the Spirit of adoption.
~ John Newton
You're 40 and he's 22. Do you have to marry him? Couldn't you just adopt him?
~ Ann Dunham