Adopted Quotes - Page 7

• There are times when the adoption process is exhausting and painful and makes you want to scream. But, I am told, so does childbirth.

  Scott Simon

  Adoption, Doe, Want

  Scott Simon (2010). “Baby, We Were Meant for Each Other: In Praise of Adoption”, p.7, Random House

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• They're my burka... I'm a little shortsighted, and people, when they're shortsighted, they remove their glasses and then they look like cute little dogs who want to be adopted.

  Karl Lagerfeld

  Cute, Dog, Glasses

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• That’s the way it is with our Father in Heaven. When you became a son or a daughter, when you were adopted into His family, He opened up for you through His Son’s death on the cross a way of fellowship and relationship that makes it possible for you to bypass the temple and its animal sacrifices. You don’t have to talk to God through a priest. You can go right into the presence of God Almighty and He will hear you.

  David Jeremiah

  Daughter, Father, Son

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• Voshak's hair, a pale blond braid, which he bleached, was his trademark. It made him memorable. That's how the slavers operated. They adopted costumes and personas, trying to make themselves larger-than-life and hoping to inspire fear. They counted on that fear. One could fight a man, but nobody could fight a nightmare.

  Ilona Andrews

  Fear, Memorable, Fighting

  Ilona Andrews (2012). “Steel's Edge”, p.41, Penguin

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• Because adoption meets the needs of children so successfully, and because there have long been waiting lists of couples hoping to adopt babies and children, it would seem that the solution for abused or neglected kids was obvious. But not to the do-gooders. To remove a child from an abusive parent, sever the parent's parental rights, and permit the child to be adopted by a couple who would give the child a loving home began to seem too 'judgmental.'

  Mona Charen

  Baby, Couple, Children

  Mona Charen (2006). “Do-Gooders: How Liberals Hurt Those They Claim to Help and the Rest of Us”, Sentinel

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• the Egyptians were the first to discover the solar year, and to portion out its course into twelve parts both the space of time and the seasons which they delimit. It was observation of the course of the stars which led them to adopt this divisionIt is also the Egyptians who first bought into use the names of the twelve gods, which the Greeks adopted from them

  Herodotus

  Stars, Years, Names

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• When young men or women are beginning life, the most important period, it is often said, is that in which their habits are formed. That is a very important period. But the period in which the ideals of the young are formed and adopted is more important still. For the ideal with which you go forward to measure things determines the nature, so far as you are concerned, of everything you meet.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Men, Important, Habit

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• I didn't actually know what the protesters in the West really wanted. It was fantastic here, so much freedom, and that was what they were calling musty, middle-class, and fascistic, a bleak period. Bleak was what the GDR was, and it alone had adopted, almost unchanged, Nazi Germany's methods of intimidation and ideas about propaganda and the use of force.

  Gerhard Richter

  Art, Class, Ideas

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• In Australia we can take a playbook back to California from people who have actually adopted best practises, who have seen those practises play out over the years and plan for future droughts.

  Marc Levine

  Years, Play, California

  Source: www.abc.net.au

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• It was intended that when Newspeak had been adopted once and for all and Oldspeak forgotten, a heretical thought...should be literally unthinkable, at least so far as thought is dependent on words.

  George Orwell

  Forgotten, Should, Unthinkable

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• I'm not adopted. But that longing and that sense of absence ... are perhaps other ways of expressing the actualities of my family. Different facts, same emotions.

  Andrea Barrett

  Facts, Different, Way

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• Under the Dodd-Frank law, the SEC got the lion's share of the rules to write, more than 100 rules, and we have done an extraordinary amount of that. Eighty percent have been either proposed or adopted. So, a lot, a lot accomplished but of course, more to do.

  Mary Schapiro

  Writing, Law, Done

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• The maxim that men are not to be praised before their death was invented by envy and too lightly adopted by philosophers. I, on the contrary, maintain that they ought to be praised in their lifetime if they merit it; but jealousy and calumny, roused against their virtue or their talent, labour to degrade them if any one ventures to bear testimony to them. It is unjust criticism that they should fear to hazard, not sincere praise.

  Luc de Clapiers

  Men, Unjust Criticism, Envy

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• If Youku had adopted YouTubes business model, we just would not be here. We would not exist.

  Victor Koo

  Youtube, Models, Ifs

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• As anyone who's ever adopted a dog will tell you, there's always the fear that one day the birth parents will come scratching at the door.

  Dana Gould

  Dog, Doors, Parent

  FaceBook post by Dana Gould from Feb 01, 2012

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• If India adopted the doctrine of love as an active part of her religion and introduced it in her politics. Swaraj would descend upon India from heaven. But I am painfully aware that that event is far off as yet.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Heaven, India, Events

  Mahatma Gandhi (2014). “Indian Home Rule”, p.8, The Floating Press

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• However, it [singing] wasn't until halfway through high school that it dawned on me that singing wasn't just a hobby, it was something I had a growing need for in my life, and that was about when I adopted the neglected guitar I found under our piano and started singing about all the things I could never say.

  Kina Grannis

  School, Guitar, Piano

  "Rising Star: Kina Grannis". Seventeen Interview, www.seventeen.com. July 14, 2010.

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• If the Constitution is adopted (and it was) the Union will be in fact and in theory an association of States or a Confederacy.

  Alexander Hamilton

  War, Unions, Association

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• We look at adoption as a very sacred exchange. It is not done lightly on either side. I would dedicate my life for this child.

  Jamie Lee Curtis

  Children, Adoption, Looks

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• We must work tirelessly to make sure that every boy and girl in America who is up for adoption has a family waiting to reach him or her...This is a season of miracles, and perhaps there is no greater miracle than finding a loving home for a child who needs one.

  William J. Clinton

  Girl, Children, Home

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• No great player blundered oftener than I done. I was champion of the world for twenty-eight years because I was twenty years ahead of my time. I played on certain principles, which neither Zukertort nor anyone else of his time understood. The players of today, such as Lasker, Tarrasch, Pillsbury, Schlechter and others have adopted my principles, and as is only natural, they have improved upon what I began, and that is the whole secret of the matter.

  Wilhelm Steinitz

  Player, Years, Eight

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• If we think there is an undermining now, just wait if Sharia is adopted or utilized by justices in the United States.

  Donald Trump

  Thinking, Justice, Waiting

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• When 9/11 happened, 12 of our neighborhood firemen were killed. I looked around at the country that had adopted me and I became an American.

  Iman Abdulmajid

  Country, Fireman, Neighborhood

  Source: www.harpersbazaar.com

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• Innovation transforms the useful seeds of invention into widely adopted solutions valued above every existing alternative.

  Braden Kelley

  Innovation, Alternatives, Invention

  "Braden Kelley on Leading Successful Initiatives". Interview with Robert Tucker, www.innovationresource.com. January 10, 2017.

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• The eureka moment is two reasons why the output-based standard should be adopted: common sense and accountability. Input-based standards don't encourage energy diversity; they don't create any incentives; they don't produce solar, hydro, nuclear.

  Frank Luntz

  Two, Common Sense, Diversity

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