Top 717 Adopted Quotes & Sayings

D.C. basketball has adopted me, and I consider D.C. home.

I was raised by my great-great aunt. I was adopted within our family. My mother had me when she was, I think, 15, 16. They tried to get her to have an abortion and she refused. So, my 'mama' adopted me, which was really her great aunt, which was really my great-great aunt, who was named Viola Dickerson. I was told that my mother was my sister.

There are so many times there could have been a left turn instead of a right turn in all people's lives. I think mine are pretty crystal clear, because of being adopted, being born in Ethiopia, being adopted to Sweden.

My theory of evolution is that Darwin was adopted.

What happened in the early days of Disney is that Walt Disney used all of the new technologies as they came out. When matting came out, they adopted it. They adopted sound and color and xerography. Walt did that. And then, when he died, people began to think that this is just about making films, so they stopped bringing in new technologies.

'I am not adopted; I have mysterious origins.' I have said that sentence many times in the course of my life as an adopted person.

Musicians have always adopted Macs.

I have one brother, John, an airline pilot, who is seven years younger. He's adopted, though we're still blood related - he's my cousin. My parents couldn't have any more children after me, so when Dad's brother died, they adopted John, then just a baby.

My father was adopted. He grew up in the Italian household.

At what age do you think it's appropriate to tell a highway it's adopted?

I'm a farm boy from Connecticut, and I adopted urban life.

I adopted England as least as much as England adopted me.

I was adopted into an extremely right-wing religious family.

We have German Shepherds, gifted by a friend, and the rest are street dogs we have adopted.

It is the pride of my heart to have been one of the earliest adopted sons of America.

My parents told me from the time I can remember that, 'Yeah, you're adopted. But this is your family.' I can remember my mom, she tells me this story: when I was little, I was looking at her, and I was like, 'Why isn't my skin the same color as yours?' She was like, 'Oh, you're adopted, but I wish I had pretty brown skin like you.'

Ridiculous modes, invented by ignorance, and adopted by folly.

I want adopted people to know they were chosen.

When I was 6, I learned where I came from, which was one step removed from the usual circumstances. I was adopted.

I have my three brothers, and then I have my adopted sister from El Salvador, who is actually the oldest. My brother and I were already born, and then my parents adopted my sister from El Salvador during the war and had two more kids.

There's a lot of people in my family who've adopted children.

Religious doctrines do not and clearly cannot be adopted as the criminal code of a state.

I cannot see him. I cannot have a relationship with my father and be morally consistent... I lived with all these adopted children, so they are my family. To say Soon-Yi was not my sister is an insult to all adopted children.

I was adopted legally around age three, but it's not like this thing I think about when I wake up every day. I was adopted by my foster parents, so I was comfortable with them. I wasn't in this alien place.

I think most children who are adopted ultimately want to meet their biological parents and often do. I think that is an important journey for children who are adopted to go on.

I was adopted. I was born in Edinburgh, and adopted when I was about two weeks old. And it's a good thing, I think, really, that back then, in '75 when I was born, you were really given a lot more information than you're given now when you're adopted. And you know, you can access that information when you're older.

Christianity did not destroy paganism; it adopted it.

He's my father married to my sister. That makes me his son and his brother-in-law. That is such a moral transgression... I cannot see him. I cannot have a relationship with my father and be morally consistent. I lived with all these adopted children, so they are my family. To say Soon-Yi was not my sister is an insult to all adopted children.

Conceit of the anti-gay law in Russia is to protect children, then the people who have the most to fear are LGBT parents. And sure enough, in conjunction with the homosexual propaganda law, they instituted a ban on adoptions by same-sex couples, or single people from countries where same-sex marriage is legal. That has very scary potential for any LGBT person with adopted kids, because Russian courts practice this particular legal concept called "annulment of adoption." So an adopted child is never exactly the same as a biological child, even if he or she was adopted ten years ago.

The friend that I based Heffer on was adopted, and it all played into his total personality.

People, the common people, can genuinely see what I'm doing. Moreover, people know that I have adopted four principles in living my life: simple living, punctuality, hard work and prudence. These are the four principles I adopted at the very beginning and continue to use until now. People see this and give me donations.

Our adversaries [ the Confederate States of America ] have adopted some declarations of independence in which, unlike the good old one penned by Jefferson, they omit the words "all men are created equal." Why? They have adopted a temporary national constitution, in the preamble of which, unlike our good old one, signed by Washington, they omit "We, the People," and substitute "We, the deputies of the sovereign and independent States." Why? Why this deliberate pressing out of view, the rights of men, and the authority of the people?

My mother remarried when I was young, and my stepfather adopted me.

Adopted. Big Deal; so was Superman

I've always known I was adopted.

A motto I've adopted is, if at first you don't succeed, hide all evidence that you ever tried.

I am a living testament you can be adopted and successful.

I feel like I have adopted the Philippines as my second country.

A vendor neutral, standards-based approach must be adopted

I want kids: two adopted and three of my own.

My daughter is a preschooler but I have only known her for a while. She is adopted.

I'm told I was born in Canada, but I was adopted, and I grew up in Maine and Massachusetts.

The mother of the year should be a sterilized woman with two adopted children

When I ride the subway back and forth, sometimes I look at the other passengers and wonder if any of them are children who have been adopted or parents who have adopted.

We already had an adopted daughter, 10-year-old Courtney, from my previous marriage. To me, there is no difference between 'natural' and 'adopted.' My own childhood showed me that when it comes to loving your kids, concepts like that don't apply. I was the oldest of six, and three of my siblings were adopted. Mom and Dad even took in foster children. 'There are no limits to how much you can love,' Dad always said.

My son, who is five, was adopted from Ethiopia. My daughter was adopted from Guatemala. Her parents died of typhoid and malaria. We got her from an orphanage. They are the lights of my life.

All I wanted to do was please my adopted family.

When I adopted Buddhism, my master taught me not to be so rigid.

The ultimate goal of fostering is to get kittens and cats adopted.

The new millennium began with a great global dream. World leaders gathered at the United Nations in 2000 and adopted, among others, a historic goal to reduce poverty by half by 2015. Never in human history had such a bold goal been adopted by the entire world in one voice, one that specified time and size.

History has no record of a nation having adopted nonviolent resistance.

I'm adopted, so I didn't know my father, but apparently he was pretty tall.

For my 11th birthday, I asked to be adopted.

Technology has to be invented or adopted.

Adopted kids are such a pain - you have to teach them how to look like you.

I was adopted when I was 4. The woman who adopted me, she was 64 years old.

A son or daughter in any human family is either born to or adopted by the parents. By definition, a child can't be both. But with God we're both born of Him and adopted by Him.

By such innovations are languages enriched, when the words are adopted by the multitude, and naturalized by custom.

Had we adopted non-violence as the weapon of the strong, because we realised that it was more effective than any other weapon, in fact the mightiest force in the world, we would have made use of its full potency and not have discarded it as soon as the fight against the British was over or we were in a position to wield conventional weapons. But as I have already said, we adopted it out of our helplessness. If we had the atom bomb, we would have used it against the British.

Children have adopted a consumerist attitude - I dare you to entertain me.