Adoption Quotes

• Do you want to do something beautiful for God? There is a person who needs you. This is your chance.

  Mother Teresa

  Beautiful, Needs, Want

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• Anyone who ever wondered how much they could love a child who did not spring from their own loins, know this: it is the same. The feeling of love is so profound, it's incredible and surprising.

  Nia Vardalos

  Children, Spring, Love Is

  FaceBook post by Nia Vardalos from Feb 14, 2013

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• It's important to realize that we adopt not because we are rescuers. No. We adopt because we are rescued.

  David Platt

  Inspirational, Important, Realizing

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

  Oprah Winfrey

  Inspirational, Mothers Day, Mom

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• Being a parent wasn't just about bearing a child. It was about bearing witness to its life.

  Jodi Picoult

  Inspirational, Children, Parent

  Jodi Picoult (2009). “Handle with Care: A Novel”, p.136, Simon and Schuster

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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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• I say to everybody, 'Adoption is not for the faint of heart.'

  Mariska Hargitay

  Heart, Faint Of Heart, Adopting

  "My Faith Pulled Me Through" by Sheila Weller, www.goodhousekeeping.com. April 4, 2012.

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• When we adopt—and when we encourage a culture of adoption in our churches and communities—we’re picturing something that’s true about our God. We, like Jesus, see what our Father is doing and do likewise (John 5:19). And what our Father is doing, it turns out, is fighting for orphans, making them sons and daughters.

  Russell D. Moore

  Daughter, Jesus, Father

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• Every child deserves a home and love. Period.

  Dave Thomas

  Children, Home, And Love

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• Adoption has the dimension of connection - not only to your own tribe, but beyond, widening the scope of what constitutes love, ties and family. It is a larger embrace. By adopting, we stretch past our immediate circles and, by reaching out, find an unexpected sense of belonging with others.

  Isabella Rossellini

  Love, Inspirational, Family

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• After all, children are children no matter their background.

  Julie Andrews

  Children, Matter, Backgrounds

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• People ask me. 'What about gay adoptions? Interracial? Single Parent?' I say. "Hey fine, as long as it works for the child and the family is responsible." My big stand is this: Every child deserves a home and love. Period.

  Dave Thomas

  Children, Home, Gay

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• The future battle on the ground will be preceded by battle in the air. This will determine which of the contestants has to suffer operational and tactical disadvantages and be forced throughout the battle into adoption compromise solutions.

  Erwin Rommel

  Air, Suffering, Battle

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• He who can reach a child's heart can reach the worlds heart.

  Rudyard Kipling

  Children, Heart, World

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• Those friends thou hast, and their adoption tried, Grapple them to thy soul with hoops of steel; But do not dull thy palm with entertainment Of each new-hatch'd, unfledg'd comrade.

  William Shakespeare

  Friendship, Real Friends, Soul

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 1, sc. 3, l. 58

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• It bothers me that I won't live to see the end of the century, because, when I was young, in St. Louis, I remember saying to Marilyn, my sister by adoption, that that was how long I wanted to live: seventy years.

  Harold Brodkey

  Years, Long, Remember

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• As we grew to love South Australia, we felt that we were in an expanding society, still feeling the bond to the motherland, but eager to develop a perfect society in the land of our adoption.

  Catherine Helen Spence

  Love, Land, Australia

  Catherine Helen Spence “An Autobiography”, Library of Alexandria

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• Any new technology tends to go through a 25-year adoption cycle.

  Marc Andreessen

  Technology, Years, Cycles

  "Conversation With Marc Andreessen". Interview with Joanna Glasner, www.wired.com. February 14, 2003.

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• You well know, sir, that when the Constitution was submitted to the People of the respective States for their adoption or rejection, it awakened the warmest debates of the several State conventions.

  Caleb Cushing

  People, Rejection, Constitution

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• Leadership is not for the faint of heart

  Bill Hybels

  Heart, Spider Man, Small Business

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

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• My adoption was treated as a celebration.

  Michael Reagan

  Celebration, Treated

  Michael Reagan, Joe Hyams (1988). “On the outside looking in”, Zebra Books

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• Life is not for the faint of heart.

  Natasha Lyonne

  Heart, Life Is, Spider Man

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.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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• 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, Looks, Done

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• 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

  Doe, Want, Painful

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

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