Being Adopted Quotes:

I was not allowed to talk about being adopted when growing up. I walked around feeling like I was going to explode.

- Michael Nyqvist

source: "Michael Nyqvist obituary" by Michael Carlson, www.theguardian.com. June 29, 2017.

topic: Growing Up, Feelings, Growing, Being Adopted

There are only two ways out for animals at pounds--being adopted or being killed. And cats have such a low rate of adoption that many pounds, even in some larger cities, don't bother to take them in at all. Not for nothing is it always the "dog pound" and never the "cat pound.

- Cleveland Amory

source: Cleveland Amory (2002). “The cat who came for Christmas ; The cat and the curmudgeon ; The best cat ever”

topic: Dog, Cat, Animal, Being Adopted

When we use the term pig, for example, we are referring to the people who systematically violate the peoples' constitutional rights- whether they be monopoly capitalists or police. The term is now being adopted by radicals, hippies, and minority peoples. Even the workers, when the pigs supported strike-breakers like they did as Union Oil where 100 local police came in a cracked strikers' heads, began to call them by their true name.

- Bobby Seale

source: The Guardian Interview, February 1970.

topic: Hippie, Names, Oil, Strikers, Being Adopted

I am still baffled by those who feel that criticizing America is unpatriotic, a view increasingly being adopted in the United States since 9/11 as an excuse to render suspect what has always been an American right. An active, brave, outspoken (and heard) citizenry is essential to a healthy democracy.

- Jane Fonda

source: Jane Fonda (2006). “My Life So Far”, Ebury Press

topic: Views, America, Brave, Being Adopted, Unpatriotic

Going out in the field, it's always enlightening to see what's working and what's not and to sit down and talk - I was with young girls in south Africa - understanding why our tools for prevention aren't being adopted, and what way may need to invent to help protect them.

- Bill Gates

source: Source: www.ctvnews.ca

topic: Being Adopted, Understanding Why