Adoption Quotes - Page 8

• Through adoption, Americans can forever change not only a child's life but also their own.

  George W. Bush

  Children, Forever

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• Contrary to what some parents might believe or hope for, children are not born a blank slate. Rather, they come into the world with predetermined abilities, proclivities and temperaments that nurturing parents may be able to foster or modify, but can rarely reverse.

  Jane Brody

  Children, Believe, Parent

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• The right of parents to direct the upbringing of their children is among the unalienable rights with which the Declaration of Independence proclaims 'all Men are endowed by their Creator.'

  Antonin Scalia

  Children, Men, Rights

  "Troxel v. Granville". "A Year at the Supreme Court". Book by Neal Devins and Davison M. Douglas, 2004.

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• Becoming a mother is the best thing that has ever happened to me, I am happy to once again be a part of National Adoption Day. We were matched with our daughter through the U.S. foster care system, and my goal is to share information about the more than 120,000 foster care children in this country who are waiting for a family.

  Nia Vardalos

  Daughter, Mother, Country

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• Unfortunately, marketing textbooks is like marketing fishing lures: the point is to catch fishermen, not fish. Thus many adopted textbooks are flashy to catch the eye of adoption committees but dull when read by students.

  James W. Loewen

  Eye, Fishing, Marketing

  James W. Loewen (2013). “Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong”, p.347, The New Press

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• The planet's hope and salvation lies in the adoption of revolutionary new knowledge being revealed at the frontiers of science.

  Bruce H. Lipton

  Lying, Revolutionary, Salvation

  "Has Modern Science Bankrupted Our Souls?" by Bruce Lipton, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 2, 2011.

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• We forget the gospel when we neglect our adoption and think that we're still just a hired servant. The Father doesn't let us come to him on those terms. We will either come as sons or we will stay with the pigs. He won't let us earn anything from him because there will be no boasting in his sight. It will either be that Jesus and his glorious gospel has the preeminence or we will go it on our own.

  Elyse Fitzpatrick

  Jesus, Father, Son

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• Adoption is the highest privilege that the gospel offers: higher even than justification.. . To be right with God the Judge is a great thing, but to be loved and cared for by God the Father is greater.

  J. I. Packer

  Father, Judging, Privilege

  J. I. Packer, Carolyn Nystrom (2009). “Knowing God Devotional Journal: A One-Year Guide”, p.231, InterVarsity Press

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• As not every instance of similitude can be considered as a proof of imitation, so not every imitation ought to be stigmatised as plagiarism. The adoption of a noble sentiment, or the insertion of a borrowed ornament, may sometimes display so much judgment as will almost compensate for invention; and an inferior genius may, without any imputation of servility, pursue the paths of the ancients, provided he declines to tread in their footsteps.

  Samuel Johnson

  Writing, Ornaments, Noble

  Samuel Johnson (1782). “The Beauties of Johnson: Consisting of Maxims and Observations, Moral, Critical, and Miscellaneous”, p.117

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• Your constitution guarantees to every citizen, even the humblest, the enjoyment of life, liberty, and property. It promises to all, religious freedom, the right to all to worship God beneath their own vine and fig tree, according to the dictates of their conscience. It guarantees to all the citizens of the several states the right to become citizens of any one of the states, and to enjoy all the rights and immunities of the citizens of the state of his adoption.

  Joseph Smith, Jr.

  Religious, Freedom, America

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• Seeing your mother naked is not something you easily recover from. Seeing your mother naked and jumping from one side of a king-sized bed to the other with a nurse's hat on while your father, who is also naked, is chasing her with a bandanna around his neck, is reason to put yourself up for adoption.

  Chelsea Handler

  Mother, Kings, Father

  Chelsea Handler (2005). “My Horizontal Life: A Collection of One-Night Stands”, p.2, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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• Adoption is the highest privilege the gospel offers.

  J. I. Packer

  Privilege, Offers, Highest

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• Adoption gives us the privilege of sons, regeneration the nature of sons.

  Stephen Charnock

  Religious, Nature, Son

  Stephen Charnock (1840). “The Doctrine of Regeneration: Selected from the Writings of Stephen Charnock”, p.102

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• 'Now we are the sons of God'. This is the starting point of adoption. However, 'it does not yet appear what we shall be: but we know that, when He shall appear, we shall be like Him; for we shall see Him as He is' (I Jn. 3:2). This is the perfection of adoption of sons and renewal which God bestowed on us in Christ, and of which John says in his Gospel that, 'Christ gave power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on His name: which were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh nor of the will of man, but of God' (Jn. 1:12-13).

  Gregory Palamas

  Christian, Believe, Son

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• 'Go to My brethren, and say unto them, I ascend unto My Father, and your Father, and to My God, and your God' (Jn. 20:!7). He is our Father by grace through the Spirit of adoption (Rom. 8:15), but His Father by nature on account of His divinity. Similarly, He is our God as the creator of our human nature, but His God by reason of the dispensation whereby He became man. He made these distinctions so that we might understand the difference.

  Gregory Palamas

  Christian, Father, Men

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• Be we reminded that the gathering of Israel is not the ultimate endpoint. It is but the beginning. The true endpoint is eternal life. It is that God’s children, in a covenant relationship with Him either by lineage or by adoption, will be able to dwell with Him and their families forever. That is God’s glory-eternal life for His children!

  Russell M. Nelson

  Children, Israel, Forever

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• And I want you to notice that one of them, one of the men almost has his tongue hanging out like he's licking his chops. Like this baby is ours now. And that's fine. You may call that love. But it looks to me a little bit like lust. And when they crave to bring the children of heterosexual couples through adoption into their homes, so that they can raise them in the homosexual lifestyle. And studies now show, that up to 20% kids raised by gay couples become gay themselves. It is a recruiting tool. And it is a child abuse tool.

  Gordon Klingenschmitt

  Baby, Children, Couple

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• I do believe that General Washington had not a firm confidence in the durability of our government. He was naturally distrustful of men, and inclined to gloomy apprehensions; and I was ever persuaded that a belief that we must at length end in something like a British constitution, had some weight in his adoption of the ceremonies of levees, birthdays, pompous meetings with Congress, and other forms of the same character, calculated to prepare us gradually for a change which he believed possible, and to let it come on with as little shock as might be to the public mind.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Believe, Character, Men

  Thomas Jefferson (1829). “Memoir, Correspondence, and Miscellanies: From the Papers of Thomas Jefferson”, p.237

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• Adoption is an answer to a tragedy that has already happened, but may it never be the impetus for one that hasn’t.

  Jen Hatmaker

  Tragedy, Answers, May

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• I'm not opposed to adoption. It's not in my immediate future because I'm on the move a lot and if I were going to be father I would like to be more grounded.

  John Corbett

  Father, Moving, Grounded

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• Before I met my husband, I was just about to look into adoption.

  Jane Leeves

  Husband, Looks, Mets

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• To me there's nothing different in principle with a Catholic adoption agency, or indeed Methodist adoption agency, saying the rules in our community are different and therefore the law shouldn't apply to us. Why not then say sharia can be applied to different parts of the country? It doesn't work.

  Trevor Phillips

  Country, Agency, Law

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• Every day I get to 'Think' and work on everything from digitizing electric grids so they can accommodate renewable energy and enable mass adoption of electric cars, helping major cities reduce congestion and pollution, to developing new micro-finance programs that help tiny businesses get started in markets such as Brazil, India, Africa.

  Ginni Rometty

  Thinking, Cities, Car

  "IBM Names Rometty to Succeed Palmisano as First Female CEO" by Carol Hymowitz, www.sfgate.com. November 30, 2011.

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• I certainly don't think it's inevitable that we don't love children who don't carry our own DNA. If that were true we wouldn't have millions of successful adoptions to consider. I do think that it's harder to love a child when you come into that child's life after the unrequited passion of infancy and early childhood has passed.

  Ayelet Waldman

  Children, Passion, Successful

  "‘Impossible Pursuits’ on film: A Q&A with Ayelet Waldman". Interview with Katie Hafner, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 4, 2011.

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• I want to say that, in general, when it works, open adoption is great.

  Jennifer Gilmore

  Want, Open Adoption

  "Fictional 'Mothers' Reveal Facts Of A Painful Adoption Process". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. May 22, 2013.

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