Adoption Quotes - Page 3

• Inner child work is essential. It's the essence of growth as a whole person

  Cheryl Richardson

  Children, Essence, Growth

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• If the standard route for creating a family had worked for me, I wouldn't have met this child. I needed to know her. I needed to be her mother. She is, in every way my daughter.

  Nia Vardalos

  Inspirational, Daughter, Mother

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• In an open adoption agreement, you agree to a minimum number of visits - a floor, not a ceiling. It's enforceable.

  Dan Savage

  Agreement, Numbers, Ceilings

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• Forgiveness isn't an end in itself. The point of forgiveness is to remove the barrier that stands between us and God so that He can give us His Spirit and bring us into His everlasting family.

  Darrell Bock

  Giving, Spirit, Ends

  Darrell Bock (2010). “Recovering the Real Lost Gospel”, p.19, B&H Publishing Group

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• If anybody understands God's order for his children, it's someone who has rescued an orphan from despair, for that is what God has done for us. God has adopted you. God sought you, found you, signed the papers and took you home.

  Max Lucado

  Inspirational, Children, Home

  Max Lucado (2011). “The Great House of God”, p.15, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• For decades, I have supported adoption, and have helped tens of thousands of children worldwide.

  Pat Robertson

  Children, Decades

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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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• Adoption has been a part of my life and a part of my family, so it was how I wanted to start. It felt natural and right to me.

  Katherine Heigl

  My Family, Natural, Wanted

  "The Girl Who Changed Katherine Heigl's Life". Interview with Susan Dominus, www.redbookmag.com. October 19, 2010.

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• I am convinced, completely convinced, that there was nothing random about [the adoption], she is the daughter I should have.

  Meg Ryan

  Daughter, Should Have, Convinced

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• Whether of not it is clear to you, no doubt the universe is unfolding as it should.

  Max Ehrmann

  Doubt, Should, Unfolding

  "Desiderata" (1927)

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• Everything I did in my life that was worthwhile, I caught hell for.

  Earl Warren

  Life, Determination, Experience

  "Do It : Let's Get Off Our Buts". Book by Peter John Roger McWilliams, 1992.

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

  Rudyard Kipling

  Children, Heart, World

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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