Quotes and Sayings About Adoption
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Shame on those breasts of stone that cannot melt in soft adoption of another's sorrow.
-- Aaron HillSource : Aaron Hill, Colley Cibber, John Vanbrugh, George Farquhar (1817). “Tragedy of Alzira with the Life of the Author and a Critique by Richard Cumberland”, p.14
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The Government should create, issue, and circulate all the currency and credits needed to satisfy the spending power of the Government and the buying power of consumers. By the adoption of these principles, the taxpayers will be saved immense sums of interest. Money will cease to be master and become the servant of humanity.
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Nothing is impossible,' said one of the seven sages of Greece, 'to industry.' Let us change the word, 'industry,' to 'persevering prayer,' and the motto will be more Christian and more worthy of universal adoption.
-- Adoniram Judson -
In all of us there is a hunger, marrow-deep, to know our heritage- to know who we are and where we have come from. Without this enriching knowledge, there is a hollow yearning. No matter what our attainments in life, there is still a vacuum, an emptiness, and the most disquieting loneliness.
-- Alex Haley -
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The abuse of the veto power has become so predictable that frequently resolutions are not even tabled because of the certainty of a veto against their adoption. Necessary discussion is thereby suppressed. Concerted action by the Security Council, the General Assembly and other United Nations agencies is necessary to prevent major human rights violations, stop ongoing breaches and provide remedies to victims.
-- Alfred-Maurice de Zayas -
CAFE standards have little impact on greenhouse gas emissions, and the environmental benefits of increasing CAFE standards are frequently overstated. Their impact on human health is more certain: CAFE standards have resulted in tens of thousands of deaths since their adoption.
-- Amy Ridenour -
Both life-planning and the adoption of lifestyle options become (in principle) integrated with bodily regimes. It would be quite short-sighted to see this phenomenon only in terms of changing ideals of bodily appearance (such as slimness or youthfulness), or as solely brought about by the commodifying influence of advertising. We become responsible for the design of our own bodies, and in a certain sense noted above are forced to do so the more post-traditional the social contexts in which we move.
-- Anthony GiddensSource : Anthony Giddens (2013). “Modernity and Self-Identity: Self and Society in the Late Modern Age”, p.107, John Wiley & Sons
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Frankly, I adore your catchy slogan, "Adoption, not Abortion," although no one has been able to figure out, even with expert counseling, how to use adoption as a method of birth control, or at what time of the month it is most effective.
-- Barbara EhrenreichSource : Barbara Ehrenreich (1990). “WORST YEARS OF OUR LIVES”, Pantheon
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Short of preventing harm to the child, the standard of 'best interest of the child' is insufficient to serve as a compelling state interest overruling a parent's fundamental rights.... To suggest otherwise would be the logical equivalent to asserting that the state has the authority to break up stable families and redistribute its infant population to provide each child with the 'best family.' It is not within the province of the state to make significant decisions concerning the custody of children merely because it could make a 'better' decision.
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the end result of the adoption of permaculture strategies in any country or region will be to dramatically reduce the area of the agricultural environment needed by the households and the settlements of people, and to release much of the landscape for the sole use of wildlife and for re-occupation by endemic flora.
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"Salvation is always "good news." It is news of God's love and forgiveness-adoption into His family- fellowship with His people-freedom from the penalty of sin- liberation from the power of sin."
-- Billy Graham -
Abortion is an act of desperation. It's an awful solution to a situation that God can work out for good through adoption.
-- Bob Carlisle -
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She wasn't tracking down her father to learn more about him. She was tracking him down to learn more about herself.
-- Brad Meltzer -
The planet's hope and salvation lies in the adoption of revolutionary new knowledge being revealed at the frontiers of science.
-- Bruce H. Lipton -
I am sure that God keeps no one waiting unless he sees that it is good for him to wait.
-- C. S. Lewis -
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 -
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Italy advocates the adoption of a legal instrument on cultural diversity, guaranteeing every country the protection of its own historical identity and the uniqueness of its physical and intangible cultural heritage.
-- Carlo Azeglio Ciampi -
Open adoption, when it works, is fabulous. But when it goes wrong, it's so traumatizing for everybody.
-- Caroline Leavitt -
Inner child work is essential. It's the essence of growth as a whole person
-- Cheryl Richardson -
Adopted. Big Deal; so was Superman
-- Chris CrutcherSource : Chris Crutcher (2009). “Whale Talk”, p.2, Harper Collins
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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 -
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 BockSource : Darrell Bock (2010). “Recovering the Real Lost Gospel”, p.19, B&H Publishing Group
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I had this sister that was born who was given up for adoption, and I never knew it.
-- Dominique MoceanuSource : "Champion Gymnast's Hidden Life: Dominique Moceanu on Secret Sister" by Alison Lynn, abcnews.go.com. June 8, 2012.
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State Farm is pleased to support the Common Core State Standards Initiative. State by State adoption of these standards is an important step towards maintaining our country s competitive edge. With a skilled and prepared workforce, the business community will be better prepared to face the challenges of the international marketplace.
-- Edward B. Rust, Jr. -
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The spirit of logical analysis should in practice blend with the practical pressure for the adoption of some form of international language, but it should not allow itself to be stampeded by it.
-- Edward Sapir -
As comfortable as I was with my adoption, the nature-versus-nurture question has been a big one for me. I adore my parents, but I always wondered if I would feel a different kind of love-not more or less, just different-for someone who was biologically related.
-- Emily Procter -
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 -
The colonized is elevated above his jungle status in proportion to his adoption of the mother country's cultural standards.
-- Frantz Fanon -
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Foursquare's adoption of a game dynamic when it launched is a particularly clever implementation of a social hook.
-- Fred Wilson -
All we can say is that, as the result of a process which went on from the fourth century to about the eighth, a standard type of text was produced, which is found in the vast majority of the manuscripts that have come down to us. At least ninety-six per cent of the extant manuscripts of the Greek New Testament are later than the eighth century; and of those only a handful preserve traces of the other types of text which were in existence before the adoption of the standard text, and out of which it was created.
-- Frederic G. KenyonSource : "The Story Of The Bible" by Frederic G. Kenyon. Ch. IV, From manuscript To Print, p. 39, 1949.