Adoption famous quotes
04-09-2025
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Shame on those breasts of stone that cannot melt in soft adoption of another's sorrow.
-- Aaron Hill -
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.
-- Abraham Lincoln -
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 -
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 Giddens -
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 Ehrenreich -
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.
-- Barbara Madsen -
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.
-- Bill Mollison -
"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 -
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 -
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 -
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 Bock -
I had this sister that was born who was given up for adoption, and I never knew it.
-- Dominique Moceanu -
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. -
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 -
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. Kenyon -
I think I have made it clear that I never intended to make enemies. But in an age when anti-foreign sentiment was running high, it was unavoidable that in my position as an advocate of open intercourse and free adoption of Western culture, I should make some adversaries.
-- Fukuzawa Yukichi -
There will be no room, here, for the smug myopia which views American civilization as the final solution to all world problems; which recommends our institutions for universal adoption and turns away with contempt from the serious study of the institutions of peoples whose civilizations may seem to us to be materially less advanced.
-- George F. Kennan -
Through adoption, Americans can forever change not only a child's life but also their own.
-- George W. Bush -
If women understand by emancipation the adoption of the masculine role then we are lost indeed.
-- Germaine Greer -
It bothers me that I won't live to see the end of the century, because, when I was young, in St. Louis, I remember saying to Marilyn, my sister by adoption, that that was how long I wanted to live: seventy years.
-- Harold Brodkey -
The full impact of printing did not become possible until the adoption of the Bill of Rights in the United States with its guarantee of freedom of the press. A guarantee of freedom of the press in print was intended to further sanctify the printed word and to provide a rigid bulwark for the shelter of vested interests.
-- Harold Innis -
He who rejects change is the architect of decay.
-- Harold Wilson -
The second great channel through which the impulse towards the control of procreation for the elevation of the race is entering into practical life is by the general adoption, by the educated—of methods for the prevention of conception except when conception is deliberately desired.
-- Havelock Ellis -
The adoption by Jefferson and the Republicans of the political structure of their opponents is of an importance hardly inferior to that of the adoption of the Constitution by the states.
-- Herbert Croly -
I've started the adoption process... I really want to be a mommy.
-- Holly Madison -
I think my mom threatened to put me up for adoption a few times.
-- Ivanka Trump -
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 -
Adoption is the highest privilege the gospel offers.
-- J. I. Packer -
I was born to a woman I never knew and raised by another who took in orphans. I do not know my background, my lineage, my biological or cultural heritage. But when I meet someone new, I treat them with respect.... For after all, they could be my people.
-- James A. Michener -
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 -
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 -
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 -
Before I met my husband, I was just about to look into adoption.
-- Jane Leeves -
The adoption of agriculture, supposedly our most decisive step toward a better life, was in many ways a catastrophe from which we have never recovered.
-- Jared Diamond -
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 -
I will say, in open adoption, all these choices you make about race, about the amount of mental illness you can deal with, about special needs and physical maladies, you have to lay all this out there before you know anybody's story.
-- Jennifer Gilmore -
The process of open adoption is not discussed in the way it should be. Everyone I know who has adopted domestically has at least one tragic story. It was important to me to be able to describe those situations.
-- Jennifer Gilmore -
I want to say that, in general, when it works, open adoption is great.
-- Jennifer Gilmore -
With domestic adoption, you get a form, you fill it out, and there are these boxes: African-American, African-American and Hispanic, and you check the boxes that you're comfortable with. Race is completely open in that regard.
-- Jennifer Gilmore -
With the adoption of the Declaration on the Elimination of Violence against Women, the international community sent out a clear message that gender based violence will not be tolerated.
-- Jenny Shipley -
I've never been keen on open adoption. It doesn't seem to solve the main problem with adoption, which is that somebody feels she was abandoned by someone else.
-- Joan Didion -
Spiritual adoption is the excellency and apex of God's salvation.
-- Joel Beeke -
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 -
People cannot endure inexplicable worthlessness
-- John D. MacDonald -
There is so much work to be done to treat gays and lesbians and gay and lesbian couples with the respect that they're entitled to. They deserve, in my judgment, partnership benefits. They deserve to be treated fairly when it comes to adoption and immigration.
-- John Edwards -
Our collaboration with Datapipe on a managed hybrid cloud solution for AWS removes many of the common barriers to cloud adoption. It offers customers the best of both worlds by providing Equinix's secure data center platform, including private access to AWS, along with Datapipe's expertise in designing and managing an optimal IT architecture for enterprises.
-- John Landy -
New solutions win by virtue of adoption, and they don't get adopted if they're bad solutions.
-- John Perry Barlow -
Healthcare has been the last major industry that hasn't been touched by technology in terms of productivity and consumer adoption in the way so many other industries have.
-- John Sculley -
Every great movement must experience three stages: ridicule, discussion, adoption.
-- John Stuart Mill -
It is one thing to see the kingdom of God, and another thing to enter into it. We must have a change of heart to see the kingdom of God, and subscribe the articles of adoption to enter therein.
-- Joseph Smith, Jr. -
I've teamed up with PetSmart Charities to celebrate the five million homeless pets who've found homes through their in-store adoption centers, and to spread the word about how we can work together to save millions more pets' lives and, ultimately, end pet homelessness.
-- Josh Duhamel -
If it gets to the point where I actually physically cannot have a child, there's plenty of children in the world that need a stable home and loving parent. I'm so down for adoption.
-- Joy Bryant -
As consumer adoption of wireless devices continues to soar, Wi-Fi congestion is becoming a critical problem for consumers and innovators.
-- Julius Genachowski -
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 -
[Adoption] could turn you into an exquisite comedian. Ask Richard Pryor's ghost.
-- Keegan-Michael Key -
It is with great satisfaction that I learned of the adoption by consensus of the Durban Declaration against racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and the intolerance associated with it
-- Lionel Jospin -
To us, waiting is wasting. To God waiting is working.
-- Louie Giglio -
The number who actually consented to the Constitution of the United States, at the first, was very small. Considered as the act of the whole people, the adoption of the Constitution was the merest farce and imposture, binding upon nobody.
-- Lysander Spooner -
Any new technology tends to go through a 25-year adoption cycle
-- Marc Andreessen -
Adoption was a bumpy ride - very bumpy. But, God, was it worth the fight.
-- Mariska Hargitay -
I say to everybody, 'Adoption is not for the faint of heart.'
-- Mariska Hargitay -
I am convinced, completely convinced, that there was nothing random about [the adoption], she is the daughter I should have.
-- Meg Ryan -
You often hear attacks on international adoption as robbing a child of his or her culture, and that's both true and false. It's true that an internationally adopted child loses the rich background of history and religion and culture and language that the child was born into, but the cruel fact is that most children don't have access to the local, beautiful culture within an orphanage.
-- Melissa Fay Greene -
International adoption does not begin to solve the problems of the world's orphaned children. It's truly not the answer. At the same time, it solves a problem for a few. I think it can be a brilliant solution to the problem of adults wanting a child in their lives or wanting more children in their lives and the problem of children who want parents in their lives.
-- Melissa Fay Greene -
Do you want to do something beautiful for God? There is a person who needs you. This is your chance.
-- Mother Teresa -
A crisis of confidence is so common that it should be considered a universal part of the adoption process.
-- Patricia McConnell -
We've heard some theories, but there is a lot of mystery surrounding my adoption.
-- Patti Stanger -
The loony tuners are at it again. The cost of doing business in Oakland is already about the highest in the state. Compared with other cities, adoption of the proposed
-- Randy Hamilton -
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 -
The only [child welfare] systems that succeed emphasize family preservation.
-- Richard Wexler -
He who can reach a child's heart can reach the worlds heart.
-- Rudyard Kipling -
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 -
The real threat to Linux adoption is Apple, not Microsoft. If you didn't know, now you know.
-- Ryan C. Gordon -
A war minister is able to force the adoption of any measure desired by the Camp or to block any measure that meets his disapproval.
-- Sadao Araki -
When the error is universal, it is supposed to end. The adoption of the foundling establishes its consanguinity.
-- Samuel Laman Blanchard -
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 -
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 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 -
Adoption gives us the privilege of sons, regeneration the nature of sons.
-- Stephen Charnock -
Almost as soon as I went vegan, people started telling me that my skin looked great, and that I appeared younger, slimmer, and healthier. I'm convinced that of all the changes I've made to my lifestyle, it's the adoption of a vegan diet that has been best for me - physically, mentally, and certainly spiritually.
-- Steve-O -
The primary purpose of adoption is to provide a home for a child, not a child for a home.
-- Virginia Linder
