Adopted Quotes

• My theory of evolution is that Darwin was adopted.

  Steven Wright

  Funny, Science, Theory Of Evolution

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• Despite the best of efforts, many foster children are neither reunited with their families, nor adopted.

  Charles Bass

  Children, Effort, Reuniting

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• Having been adopted, I really have a strong sense- a necessity almost- for stability, a foundation where my family is concerned. [Success] would be meaningless without anyone to share it with.

  Faith Hill

  Strong, Adoption, Foundation

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• The prejudices of ignorance are more easily removed than the prejudices of interest; the first are blindly adopted; the second wilfully preferred.

  George Bancroft

  Wise, Wisdom, Ignorance

  "Literary and Historical Miscellanies" by George Bancroft, New York: Harper, (p. 430), 1855.

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• I think, you know, it was something that I really wanted. I wanted so much to have a son or daughter. We adopted a son. And it was just the most wonderful thing. I think the only thing that was difficult for both Maury and myself were the sleepless nights.

  Connie Chung

  Daughter, Mother, Son

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• New legislation has just been adopted by the International Labour Organization on the Worst Forms of Child Labor, such as bonded labour, prostitution and hazardous work.

  Carol Bellamy

  Children, Organization, Child Labor

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• I speak about family and adoption because it 100% changed my life and who I am. It definitely played a very large role into just learning how to be grateful for what you have and being fulfilled in a way that a lot of adopted kids don't feel.

  Jenna Ushkowitz

  Grateful, Kids, Who I Am

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• Somehow destiny comes into play. These children end up with you and you end up with them. It's something quite magical.

  Nicole Kidman

  Inspirational, Children, Destiny

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• Time and experience have taught me a priceless lesson: Any child you take for your own becomes your own if you give of yourself to that child. I have born two children and had seven others by adoption, and they are all my children, equally beloved and precious.

  Dale Evans

  Inspirational, Children, Two

  Dale Evans Rogers (1971). “DALE My Personal Picture Album”

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• Adoption was a bumpy ride - very bumpy. But, God, was it worth the fight.

  Mariska Hargitay

  Fighting, Adoption, Birth Parents

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• Internationally, President Obama has adopted an appeasement strategy. He believes America's role as leader in the world is a thing of the past. I believe a strong America must - and will - lead the future.

  Mitt Romney

  Strong, Believe, Past

  "Mitt Romney victory speech in New Hampshire". www.politico.com.

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• By choice, we have become a family, first in our hearts, and finally in breath and being. Great expectations are good; great experiences are better.

  Richard W. Fisher

  Heart, Expectations, Choices

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• However motherhood comes to you, it's a miracle.

  Valerie Harper

  Inspirational, Motherhood, Adoption

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• Biology is the least of what makes someone a mother.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Inspirational, Mothers Day, Mom

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• Leadership is not for the faint of heart

  Bill Hybels

  Heart, Adoption, Spider Man

  Bill Hybels (2014). “Simplify: Ten Practices to Unclutter Your Soul”, p.4, Tyndale House

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• I think adoption is a blessing all around when it's done right.

  Hugh Jackman

  Inspirational, Blessing, Thinking

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• As you know, I'm an immigrant. I came over here as an immigrant, and what gave me the opportunities, what made me to be here today, is the open arms of Americans. I have been received. I have been adopted by America.

  Arnold Schwarzenegger

  Opportunity, America, Arms

  "Schwarzenegger announces bid for governor". www.cnn.com. August 7, 2003.

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• The constitution of the United States is to receive a reasonable interpretation of its language, and its powers, keeping in view the objects and purposes, for which those powers were conferred. By a reasonable interpretation, we mean, that in case the words are susceptible of two different senses, the one strict, the other more enlarged, that should be adopted, which is most consonant with the apparent objects and intent of the Constitution.

  Joseph Story

  Mean, Views, Two

  Joseph Story (1851). “Commentaries on the Constitution of the United States: With a Preliminary Review of the Constitutional History of the Colonies and States, Before the Adoption of the Constitution”, p.298

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• Good ideas are not adopted automatically. They must be driven into practice with courageous impatience.

  Hyman Rickover

  Life, Motivational, Patience

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• I am a living testament you can be adopted and successful.

  Daunte Culpepper

  Successful, Adoption, Testament

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• America has invested her religion as well as her morality in sound income-paying securities. She has adopted the unassailable position of a nation blessed because it deserves to be blessed; and her sons, whatever other theologies they may affect or disregard, subscribe unreservedly to this national creed.

  Agnes Repplier

  Blessed, Son, America

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• A man's real faith is never contained in his creed, nor is his creed an article of his faith. The last is never adopted. This it is that permits him to smile ever, and to live even as bravely as he does. And yet he clings anxiously to his creed, as to a straw, thinking that that does him good service because his sheet anchor does not drag.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Faith, Real, Men

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated)”, p.71, Delphi Classics

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• [Middleton] contended that the religious leaders of the fourth century had admitted, eulogised, and habitually acted upon principles that were diametrically opposed, not simply to the aspirations of a transcendent sanctity, but to the dictates of the most common honesty. He showed that they had applauded falsehood, that they had practised the most wholesale forgery, that they had habitually and grossly falsified history, that they had adopted to the fullest extent the system of pious frauds, and that they continually employed them to stimulate the devotion of the people.

  William Edward Hartpole Lecky

  Religious, Honesty, People

  William Edward Hartpole Lecky (1870). “History of the Rise and Influence of the Spirit of Rationalism in Europe”, p.154

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• Christianity did not destroy paganism; it adopted it.

  Will Durant

  Paganism, Christianity

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• The childhood that Paul and Clara Jobs created for their new son was, in many ways, a stereotype of the late 1950s. When Steve was two they adopted a girl they named Patty, and three years later they moved to a tract house in the suburbs.

  Walter Isaacson

  Girl, Jobs, Son

  Walter Isaacson (2011). “Steve Jobs”, p.5, Simon and Schuster

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