Scott Simon famous quotes

03-26-2025

Despite the reams of paperwork, obstacles worthy of a horse show, and a wait that can rival an elephant's gestation, adoption feels no different on the inside.
-- Scott Simon

#Horse #Elephants #Adoption
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

#Adoption #Want #Doe
So: this is where we are going to become parents. You walk into the building as a couple, and leave a few minutes later as a family. You walk in recollecting long romantic dinners, nights at the theater, and care-free vacations. You leave worrying about where to get diapers, milk, and Cheerios.
-- Scott Simon

#Couple #Night #Vacation
Race, blood, lineage, and nationality don't matter; they're just the way that small minds keep score. All that matters about blood is that it's warm and that it beats through a loving heart.
-- Scott Simon

#Heart #Blood #Race
Almost every continent in the world, including our own, has refugees. But how often when we hear the word do we pause to remind ourselves what being a refugee means?
-- Scott Simon

#Mean #World #Refugee
Janis Joplin didn't just sing a song, she took it over. She swallowed it whole, then sent it back through her gut and her heart.
-- Scott Simon

#Song #Heart #Guts
Reading will put you into the minds and hearts of others. It might help you understand why other people do what they do sometimes.
-- Scott Simon

#Reading #Heart #People
Murder is easy. Comedy is hard.
-- Scott Simon

#Comedy #Murder #Easy
I've always been passionate about what I do and want to do it well, ... My wife says she's a widow to the computer.
-- Scott Simon

#Wife #Passionate #Want
I know end might be near as this is only day of my adulthood Iâ€™ve seen my mother and she hasnâ€™t asked, â€˜Why that shirt?â€™
-- Scott Simon

#Mother #Might #T Shirt
In journalism, when we want to get a story over the jumps, we refer to it as a universal experience, but it almost never is. There is one universal experience, that's death. That is something we are all going to experience at some distance in the lives of loved ones, strangers and friends, people around us and certainly our own,
-- Scott Simon

#Distance #People #Stories
Believe me, those great death bed speeches are written ahead of time.
-- Scott Simon

#Believe #Speech #Bed
One of the reasons we think this market will start to run out of gas at some point is that you've essentially created as much gold from straw as you can from this financial alchemy
-- Scott Simon

#Running #Thinking #Gold
When they mention great little things in life, they usually forget flossing.
-- Scott Simon

#Littles #Forget #Little Things
Imagine the talented love-child of Andr Previn and Lucille Ball.
-- Scott Simon

#Children #Balls #Imagine
Fifteen-year-old girls produce children with sixteen-year-old boys in the backseat of cars and in the stairwells of apartment buildings. Why can't two loving adults who have contemplated parenthood and are prepared to offer love, patience, and devotion come up with enough chromosomal matter to stick together and create a child?
-- Scott Simon

#Girl #Children #Boys
It's not the cost (although that pinches), or the time (though that grinds). After a while, it's the sheer galling indignity of being asked to prove, pay, and prove all over again that you're a worthy parent. Any true parent will tell you that that is impossible to prove in advance.
-- Scott Simon

#Parent #Cost #Pay
Adoption is rewarding. But the process, as we have already detailed in some particulars, can be expensive, exhausting, and hard to sustain on a dream, much less a whim.
-- Scott Simon

#Dream #Adoption #Whim
Srebrenica's not simply another reminder of man's inhumanity to man, but how intelligent people can always come up with intelligent reasons to do nothing.
-- Scott Simon

#Intelligent #Men #People

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