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

  Mariska Hargitay

  Fighting, Adoption, Birth Parents

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

  Oprah Winfrey

  Inspirational, Mothers Day, Mom

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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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• 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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• 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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• Where else but in America could a schoolteacher from Kansas City end up the governor of her adopted state?

  Jane D. Hull

  Cities, Kansas City, America

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• My sister is Korean and my parents adopted her about three years before I was born and that is how I grew up.

  Katherine Heigl

  Years, Parent, Three

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• Those who govern, having much business on their hands, do not generally like to take the trouble of considering and carrying into execution new projects. The best public measures are therefore seldom adopted from previous wisdom, but forced by the occasion.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Hands, Execution, Trouble

  Benjamin Franklin (2008). “The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin”, p.201, Applewood Books

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• Historically, religion has given people another world to live in, a world more adaptive to the human spirit. As a student of world religions, I see religion as the winnower of the wisdom of the human race. Of course, not everything about these religions is wise. Their social patterns, for example - master-slave, caste, and gender relations - have been adopted from the mores of their time. But in their view of the nature of reality, there is nothing in either modernity or postmodernity that rivals them.

  Huston Smith

  Wise, Reality, People

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• Neal stood, kicking free of the clinging curtain. "I'll kill you." I drew the firestar and pointed it at him. "I don't think so." "She is pack now," Sylvie said. "You fight one of us, and you fight all of us." Edward raised his eyebrows at me. "What is going on, Anita?" "I think I've been adopted," I said.

  Laurell K. Hamilton

  Fighting, Thinking, Eyebrows

  Laurell K. Hamilton (2011). “Laurell K. Hamilton's Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter collection 6-10”, p.146, Penguin

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