Adopting Quotes:

I could see myself adopting a kid someday. But, obviously, I'd prefer it to be aborted.

- Anthony Jeselnik

source: Twitter post from May 10, 2010

topic: Kids, Someday, Adopting

I even thought of adopting a child as a single mother.

- Diana Ross

topic: Mother, Children, Single Mother, Adopting

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

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

topic: Adoption, Want, Doe, Adopted Children, Adopting

Leadership is not for the faint of heart

- Bill Hybels

topic: Heart, Faint Of Heart, Spider Man, Spider Man Movie, Faint Hearted

Life is not for the faint of heart.

- Natasha Lyonne

source: Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

topic: Heart, Adoption, Life Is, Spider Man, Spider Man Movie

Biology is the least of what makes someone a mother.

- Oprah Winfrey

topic: Inspirational, Mom, Mother, Mom And Daughter, Joys Of Motherhood

Adoption was a bumpy ride - very bumpy. But, God, was it worth the fight.

- Mariska Hargitay

topic: Fighting, Adoption, Adopting, Gay Adoption, Birth Parents

Somehow destiny comes into play. These children end up with you and you end up with them. It's something quite magical.

- Nicole Kidman

topic: Inspirational, Children, Destiny, Open Adoption, Adopted Children

However motherhood comes to you, it's a miracle.

- Valerie Harper

topic: Inspirational, Motherhood, Miracle, Open Adoption, Adopting

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

topic: Children, Home, Gay, Open Adoption, Adopted Children

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

- Mariska Hargitay

topic: Heart, Adoption, Faint Of Heart, Adopting

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

topic: Children, Adoption, Looks, Open Adoption, Adopted Children

Time and experience have taught me a priceless lesson: Any child you take for your own becomes your own if you give of yourself to that child. I have born two children and had seven others by adoption, and they are all my children, equally beloved and precious.

- Dale Evans

topic: Inspirational, Children, Two, Open Adoption, Adopted Children

Too many children in foster care are falling through cracks. Be a hero, take the time learn about adoption today.

- Bruce Willis

topic: Children, Fall, Hero, Foster Care, Foster Children

Families don't have to match. You don't have to look like someone else to love them.

- Leigh Anne Tuohy

source: "'Blind Side' Story's Real-Life Happy Ending: Super Bowl Victory". abcnews.go.com. February 4, 2013.

topic: Looks, Care, Foster Care, Raising Children, Fostering

You are a child of the universe, no less than the trees and the stars; you have a right to be here. And whether or not it is clear to you, no doubt the universe is unfolding as it should.

- Max Ehrmann

topic: Inspiring, Wisdom, Stars, Life Unfolding, Adopted Children

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

- Max Ehrmann

source: "Desiderata" (1927)

topic: Doubt, Should, Unfolding, Life Unfolding, Adopting

Having been adopted, I really have a strong sense- a necessity almost- for stability, a foundation where my family is concerned. [Success] would be meaningless without anyone to share it with.

- Faith Hill

topic: Strong, Foundation, Would Be, Adopting

Was it the act of giving birth that made you a mother? Did you lose that label when you relinquished your child? If people were measured by their deeds, on the one hand, I had a woman who had chosen to give me up; on the other, I had a woman who'd sat up with me at night when I was sick as a child, who'd cried with me over boyfriends, who'd clapped fiercely at my law school graduation. Which acts made you more of a mother? Both, I realized. Being a parent wasn't just about bearing a child. It was about bearing witness to its life.

- Jodi Picoult

topic: Mother, Children, School, Adopted Children, Adopting

I think adoption is a blessing all around when it's done right.

- Hugh Jackman

topic: Inspirational, Blessing, Thinking, Adopting, Adoptive Parents

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

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

topic: Adoption, My Family, Natural, Adopting

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

- Rudyard Kipling

topic: Children, Heart, Adoption, Adopted Children, Adopting

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

source: FaceBook post by Nia Vardalos from Feb 14, 2013

topic: Children, Spring, Love Is, Adopting

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

topic: Heart, Expectations, Adoption, Open Adoption, Family First

After all, children are children no matter their background.

- Julie Andrews

topic: Children, Adoption, Matter, Adopting

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

topic: Girl, Children, Home, Boy And Girl, Loving Home

This is your life. If you are not who you want to be, change it! It won’t be easy and it may take some time, but surround yourself with people who love and support you and go for it! No regrets! Only you dwell on your failures. Good luck and remember the inner strength you’ll achieve from adopting a healthy lifestyle far supersedes anything physical.

- Jamie Eason

topic: Regret, Good Luck, Support You, Adopting

We already have a federation. The 11, soon to be 12, member States adopting the euro have already given up part of their sovereignty, monetary sovereignty, and formed a monetary union, and that is the first step towards a federation.

- Joschka Fischer

topic: Europe, Unions, Firsts, Monetary, Adopting

When I started out, everyone seemed to be adopting these names... Johnny Rotten, Sid Vicious. I wasn't really Rotten or Vicious or Nasty, so I wanted something a bit more funny - yet something that seemed real rock 'n' roll... something that acknowledged my ambition.

- Billy Idol

source: "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Real, Ambition, Rocks, Johnny Rotten, Sids

Passionate attachment to another nation produces a variety of evils... the illusion of common interests where no real common interests exist; adopting the enmities of the other; and participation in the quarrels and wars of the other without any justification. Still another evil is that such a passionate attachment gives to ambitious, corrupted, or deluded citizens the facility to betray or sacrifice the interests of their own country.

- George Washington

topic: Country, Real, War, Deluded, Adopting

Being Missional means actually doing mission right where you are. Missional means adopting the posture of a missionary, learning and adapting to the culture around you while remaining Biblically sound.

- Ed Stetzer

topic: Mean, Sound, Missionary, Missional Church, Adopting

I found real fulfillment through my children and through adopting special needs kids.

- Mia Farrow

topic: Children, Real, Kids, Special Needs, Adopting

Our most conservative estimates show that by adopting shall-issue laws(concealed carry laws), states reduced murders by 8.5%, rapes by 5%, aggravated assaults by 7% and robbery by 3%... While support for strict gun-control laws usually has been strongest in large cities, where crime rates are highest, that's precisely where right-to-carry laws have produced the largest drops in violent crimes.

- John R. Lott Jr.

topic: Gun, Law, Cities, Concealed Carry, Crime Rates

I am persuaded that the world has been tricked into adopting some false and most pernicious notions about consistency - and to such a degree that the average man has turned the rights and wrongs of things entirely around and is proud to be "consistent," unchanging, immovable, fossilized, where it should be his humiliation.

- Mark Twain

source: Mark Twain, Caroline Thomas Harnsberger (2009). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.407, Courier Corporation

topic: Men, Rights, Average, Adopting, Rights And Wrongs

You don’t see many of these white anti-abortion women volunteering to have any black fetuses transplanted into their uterus’s, do you? No, you don’t see them adopting a whole lot of crack babies, do you? No, that might be something Christ would do.

- George Carlin

topic: Baby, White, Volunteer, Uterus, Adopting

...Any such unnatural union as the mingling of an exclusive system, such as homeopathy, with scientific medicine in a school,...(will) render every school adopting such a policy unworthy of support of the profession.

- Harris L Coulter

topic: School, Dark, Medicine, Adopting

I feel that I, and the people under my command, tried to use all the traditional methods of recruiting agents which were also used by other intelligence services; adopting also means like pressure, money, sex - but that did not characterize my service.

- Markus Wolf

topic: Money, Sex, Mean, Intelligence Services, Adopting

Parenting classes should be mandatory, whether you are adopting or not, and would include an evaluation of your current physical, mental and financial state as well as how ready you are to take on the rigors of parenthood. Our children are our most precious natural resource, and there is absolutely no other way to parent but to put them first.

- Dale Archer

source: "Not Everyone Deserves to Have Children" by Dale Archer, www.foxnews.com. April 15, 2010.

topic: Children, Parenting, Class, Adopting

Save a life this Thanksgiving, and join me in starting a new tradition by adopting a turkey instead of eating one through Farm Sanctuary's Adopt-A-Turkey Project.

- Ellen DeGeneres

topic: Thanksgiving, Turkeys, Sanctuary, Adopting

In the United States, except for slaves, servants and the destitute fed by townships, everyone has the vote and this is an indirect contributor to law-making. Anyone wishing to attack the law is thus reduced to adopting one of two obvious courses: they must either change the nation's opinion or trample its wishes under foot.

- Alexis de Tocqueville

source: "Democracy in America". Book by Alexis de Tocqueville. Chapter XIV, 1835.

topic: Law, Two, Feet, Destitute, Adopting

The pursuit of Fashion is the attempt of the middle class to co-opt tragedy. In adopting the clothing, speech, and personal habits of those in straitened, dangerous, or pitiful circumstances, the middle class seeks to have what it feels to be the exigent and nonequivocal experiences had by those it emulates.

- David Mamet

source: David Mamet (1986). “Writing in restaurants”, Viking Adult

topic: Fashion, Class, Tragedy, Emulate, Adopting

Adopting means opening your home, and heart, to a life you've never known. But there is nothing as richly rewarding as being an adoptive parent.

- Michael Gove

topic: Mean, Home, Heart, Adopting, Adoptive Parents

I was so sad from losing two of my dogs and my mother. I had this vision of all these animals sitting behind bars. They had no control and were scared. That's why I got into fostering and adopting animals out.

- Linda Blair

topic: Mother, Dog, Animal, Fostering, Adopting

Animal rights is a part of my everyday life. When you live by example, you create a certain level of awareness. Friends of mine - people I have never discussed animal rights or vegetarianism with - are adopting vegetarian habits because they see it.

- Joaquin Phoenix

source: "Fake leather please!". Interview for Daily News and Analysis, www.dnaindia.com. November 14, 2006.

topic: Animal, Rights, Vegetarianism, Adopting

I'm not at all against white people adopting black children, because we're all human beings who need to give love and be nurtured in safety, but I do think it's better to be adopted by blacks.

- Kola Boof

topic: Children, Thinking, White, Adopting

Because I was in psychiatric treatment for most of my childhood and had to learn English and had to adjust to a white-dominated society, I truly know what being Sudanese refugees [adopting by white family] mean. It's not something that you can explain in the confines of an interview, but there is an immediate comfort, a connection between black phenotypes that is natural.

- Kola Boof

topic: Mean, White, Childhood, Adopting

There are so many great animals in our local shelters that people don't really know about. Annually, two to four million animals are euthanized, and we can bring that number down significantly by going to our local shelter and adopting and also by spaying and neutering your pets.

- Beth Ostrosky Stern

source: "Beth Stern: Speaking Up for Our Furry Friends". Interview with Barbi Twins, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

topic: Animal, Two, Numbers, Neutering, Adopting

I was really interested in 20th century communalism and alternative communities, the boom of communes in the 60s and 70s. That led me back to the 19th century. I was shocked to find what I would describe as far more utopian ideas in the 19th century than in the 20th century. Not only were the ideas so extreme, but surprising people were adopting them.

- Christine Jennings

source: Source: therumpus.net

topic: Ideas, People, Community, Communalism, Adopting

The base skill is listening: how I'm listening to the material, how I'm listening to the space. With electronic sound, it's a similar situation of how to produce it and place it so that it works in a space. The first consideration is adopting the space and having work that resonates in the space.

- Pauline Oliveros

source: Source: www.artpractical.com

topic: Skills, Space, Listening, Adopting

I wouldn't tell the President [Barack Obama] or any other official, because we are disappointed by their behavior recently, because we expected this administration to be different from Bush's administration. They are adopting the same doctrine with different accessories.

- Bashar al-Assad

source: Source: legrandsoir.info

topic: President, Different, Doctrine, Adopting