Adoption Quotes - Page 6

• Unfortunately, marketing textbooks is like marketing fishing lures: the point is to catch fishermen, not fish. Thus many adopted textbooks are flashy to catch the eye of adoption committees but dull when read by students.

  James W. Loewen

  Eye, Fishing, Marketing

  James W. Loewen (2013). “Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong”, p.347, The New Press

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• The paramount duty of maintaining public order and defending the interests of our own people may require the adoption of measures of restriction, but they should not tolerate the oppression of individuals of a special race.

  Grover Cleveland

  Race, Order, People

  Grover Cleveland (2006). “State of the Union Addresses”, p.126, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• [The adoption of the Constitution] will demonstrate as visibly the finger of Providence as any possible event in the course of human affairs can ever designate it.

  George Washington

  Events, Constitution, Affair

  Jay A. Parry, Andrew M. Allison, George Washington (1991). “The real George Washington”, Natl Center for Constitutional

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• North Shore Animal League America is so dear to my heart not only for the amazing people that work there, the innovative life-saving programs they have, and the mission to rescue, nurture, and adopt but also for the hard work and dedication this organization has to the cause. They have saved over one million lives since their inception, and they are the world's largest no-kill animal rescue and adoption organization.

  Beth Ostrosky Stern

  Hard Work, Heart, Dedication

  "Beth Stern: Speaking Up for Our Furry Friends". Interview with Barbi Twins, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. September 9, 2014.

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• And I want you to notice that one of them, one of the men almost has his tongue hanging out like he's licking his chops. Like this baby is ours now. And that's fine. You may call that love. But it looks to me a little bit like lust. And when they crave to bring the children of heterosexual couples through adoption into their homes, so that they can raise them in the homosexual lifestyle. And studies now show, that up to 20% kids raised by gay couples become gay themselves. It is a recruiting tool. And it is a child abuse tool.

  Gordon Klingenschmitt

  Baby, Children, Couple

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• I do believe that General Washington had not a firm confidence in the durability of our government. He was naturally distrustful of men, and inclined to gloomy apprehensions; and I was ever persuaded that a belief that we must at length end in something like a British constitution, had some weight in his adoption of the ceremonies of levees, birthdays, pompous meetings with Congress, and other forms of the same character, calculated to prepare us gradually for a change which he believed possible, and to let it come on with as little shock as might be to the public mind.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Believe, Character, Men

  Thomas Jefferson (1829). “Memoir, Correspondence, and Miscellanies: From the Papers of Thomas Jefferson”, p.237

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• Adoption is an answer to a tragedy that has already happened, but may it never be the impetus for one that hasn’t.

  Jen Hatmaker

  Tragedy, Answers, May

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• I think it is a worthy goal in America to have every child protected by law and welcomed in life. I also think we ought to continue to have good adoption law as an alternative to abortion.

  George W. Bush

  Faith, Children, Thinking

  Presidential candidate debate in St. Louis, Missouri, www.cnn.com. October 9, 2004.

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• I think open adoption is a great idea, because it allows a relationship between the birth mother and her child so that the kid isn't like, "Where did I come from?" And to have it be like, "Look, you have a bunch of people who love you."

  Kathleen Hanna

  Mother, Children, Love You

  "Kathleen Hanna on buffalo chicken, Destiny's Child, and the sketchy things she did to McDonald's apple pies". Interview with Marah Eakin, www.avclub.com. February 10, 2015.

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• Abortion is an act of desperation. It's an awful solution to a situation that God can work out for good through adoption.

  Bob Carlisle

  Work Out, Abortion, Awful

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• State Farm is pleased to support the Common Core State Standards Initiative. State by State adoption of these standards is an important step towards maintaining our country s competitive edge. With a skilled and prepared workforce, the business community will be better prepared to face the challenges of the international marketplace.

  Edward B. Rust, Jr.

  Country, Educational, Support

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• Nothing is impossible,' said one of the seven sages of Greece, 'to industry.' Let us change the word, 'industry,' to 'persevering prayer,' and the motto will be more Christian and more worthy of universal adoption.

  Adoniram Judson

  Christian, Prayer, Sage

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• No organization engaged in any specific field of work ever invents any important developers in that field, or adopts any important development in that field until forced to do so by outside competition.

  Reginald Fessenden

  Hard Work, Science, Organization

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• When people are least sure, they are often most dogmatic.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Acceptance, People, Rejection

  John Kenneth Galbraith (1997). “The Great Crash, 1929”, p.171, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Old ideas give way slowly; for they are more than abstract logical forms and categories. They are habits, predispositions, deeply ingrained attitudes of aversion and preference.

  John Dewey

  Attitude, Acceptance, Ideas

  John Dewey, Larry A. Hickman (2007). “The Influence of Darwin on Philosophy and Other Essays in Contemporary Thought”, p.11, SIU Press

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• A game of great charm in the adoption of mathematical measurements to the timing of human movements, the exactitudes and adjustments of physical ability to hazardous chance. The speed of the legs, the dexterity of the body, the grace of the swing, the elusiveness of the slide - these are the features that make Americans everywhere forget the last syllable of a man's last name or the pigmentation of his skin.

  Branch Rickey

  Baseball, Men, Swings

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• Conceit of the anti-gay law in Russia is to protect children, then the people who have the most to fear are LGBT parents. And sure enough, in conjunction with the homosexual propaganda law, they instituted a ban on adoptions by same-sex couples, or single people from countries where same-sex marriage is legal. That has very scary potential for any LGBT person with adopted kids, because Russian courts practice this particular legal concept called "annulment of adoption." So an adopted child is never exactly the same as a biological child, even if he or she was adopted ten years ago.

  Masha Gessen

  Country, Children, Couple

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• Despite all the hype about local or green food, the single biggest impediment to wider adoption is not research, programs, organizations, or networking. It is the demonizing and criminalizing of virtually all indigenous and heritage-based food practices.

  Joel Salatin

  Practice, Organization, Hype

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• An important scientific innovation rarely makes its way by gradually winning over and converting its opponents: What does happen is that the opponents gradually die out.

  Max Planck

  Change, Acceptance, Winning

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• Shame on those breasts of stone that cannot melt in soft adoption of another's sorrow.

  Aaron Hill

  Sorrow, Tears, Stones

  Aaron Hill, Colley Cibber, John Vanbrugh, George Farquhar (1817). “Tragedy of Alzira with the Life of the Author and a Critique by Richard Cumberland”, p.14

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• The abuse of the veto power has become so predictable that frequently resolutions are not even tabled because of the certainty of a veto against their adoption. Necessary discussion is thereby suppressed. Concerted action by the Security Council, the General Assembly and other United Nations agencies is necessary to prevent major human rights violations, stop ongoing breaches and provide remedies to victims.

  Alfred-Maurice de Zayas

  Agency, Rights, Abuse

  "Promotion of a democratic and equitable international order". August 07, 2013.

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• An incessant change of means to attain unalterable ends is always going on; we must take care not to let these sundry means undo eminence in the perspective of our minds; for, since the beginning, there has been an unending cycle of them, and for each its advocates have claimed adoption as the sole solution of successful war.

  George S. Patton

  War, Military, Mean

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• A war minister is able to force the adoption of any measure desired by the Camp or to block any measure that meets his disapproval.

  Sadao Araki

  Block, War, Able

  "Shakai kagaku tokyu" by Waseda Daigaku Shakai Kagaku Kenkyujo, Waseda Daigaku Ajia Taiheiyo Kenkyu Senta, (p. 883), 1992.

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• It is one thing to see the kingdom of God, and another thing to enter into it. We must have a change of heart to see the kingdom of God, and subscribe the articles of adoption to enter therein.

  Joseph Smith, Jr.

  Heart, Kingdoms, Kingdom Of God

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• I think I have made it clear that I never intended to make enemies. But in an age when anti-foreign sentiment was running high, it was unavoidable that in my position as an advocate of open intercourse and free adoption of Western culture, I should make some adversaries.

  Fukuzawa Yukichi

  Running, Thinking, Enemy

  Yukichi Fukuzawa, Eiichi Kiyooka (1966). “The Autobiography of Yukichi Fukuzawa”, p.225, Columbia University Press

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