Top 1200 Adopted Children Quotes & Sayings - Page 3

I'm trying to imitate Jesus in the fact that he said to be like children, to love children, to be as pure as children and to make yourself as innocent and to see the world through eyes of wonderment and the whole magical quality of it all.

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

You'll call me damned Jew, a Christ murderer, a secret worshipper of pigs and a kidnapper of Christian children. How absurd! Who would want to kidnap children, Christian or otherwise? Vile things. The only mercy of children is that they grow up, as my son has but then, tragically, they beget more children. We do not learn life's lessons.

A Child of Happiness always seems like an old soul living in a new body, and her face is very serious until she smiles, and then the sun lights up the world. ... Children of Happiness always look not quite the same as other children. They have strong, straight legs and walk with purpose. They laugh as do all children, and they play as do all children, they talk child talk as do all children, but they are different, they are blessed, they are special, they are sacred.

In America, Qualification is simply an attitude. I've adopted it. So, yes. I am qualified.

A vendor neutral, standards-based approach must be adopted

We provide a secure, stable space for children to grow up in, so children will be able to take risks and have adventures and do things that are unexpected. If there isn't a risk that your children can fail, then you haven't succeeded as a parent.

Even though I'm a family guy, there is something that feels really beautiful about eliminating all children from flying. So, children have to fly on child-only planes. And the pilots have to be children as well.

I was never obsessed with being adopted. I was simply curious about my biological parents.

In dealing with Englishmen you can be sure of one thing only, that the logical solution will not be adopted.

Men of integrity are generally pretty obstinate, in adhering to an opinion once adopted.

In my first book, Under Fire, I wrote that I revered Ronald Reagan. That was a dozen years ago. I still feel that way. I think he changed the world for the better for my children and my children's children.

There is an infinity of political errors which, being once adopted, become principles.

It is not unusual for children to follow the paths cut by their parents. You frequently see the children of doctors enter medicine, military members' children enlist. In my family, we witnessed different forms of public and community service.

I will never forget that it is the people who speak directly through the constitution they have adopted.

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

My house is run, essentially, by an adopted, fully clawed cat with a mean nature.

Good ideas are not adopted automatically. They must be driven into practice with courageous impatience.

Clearly, children need to be aware of the news and current affairs. I buy my own children a children's newspaper so they can form their own views.

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

Winthrop and his shipmates and their children and their children's children just wrote their own books and pretty much kept their noses in them up until the day God created the Red Sox.

Growing up, music was an important part of my childhood. I see it being just as important in my children and all children's growth and development, and in a parent's connection with their children.

I would like to have children while I've still got the energy. But then I have the feeling that when I have children I'll stop performing in the same way, because you don't really need to perform if you have children.

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

What parents need to make clear to their children post-divorce is that whoever comes into their lives is not a threat to the children in any manner because the position that they occupy cannot be occupied by the children.

Is there someone who passively watches his children growing up? We constantly and maximally invest ourselves into our children to realize our vision of happiness. But not for us - for those children. It's not enough that we molest ourselves, so we have to molest the children as well.

The essence of White Supremacy is this: they are people who want to keep things as they are. That their children's children's children might be a different color is something very alarming to them - in short they are committed to the maintenance of the static image.

Being adopted was my motivation to help others by first becoming successful.

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

Amory Lovins says the primary design criteria he uses is the question How do we love all the children? Not just our children, not just the ones who look like us or who have resources, not just the human children but the young of birds and salmon and redwood trees. When we love all the children, when that love is truly sacred to us in the sense of being most important, then we have to take action in the world to enact that love. We are called to make the earth a place where all the children can thrive.

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

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

I grew up in a family that had young people adopted from all over the world.

I hated my part in the charade of murder and horror. My efforts were contributing to the deaths, to the burning alive of children - especially the children. The photographs of young Vietnamese children burned by napalm destroyed me.

To say 'A High Wind in Jamaica' is a novel about children who are abducted by pirates is to make it seem like a children's book. But that's completely wrong; its theme is actually how heartless children are.

Of course humans like to explore, and we should. There's nothing wrong with that. But it's more than that. It's essential for your children and your children's children.

We have adopted zero-tolerance policy against terrorism. We have not fed biryani to terrorists.

I was supposed to be adopted when I was five, but then my adoption was pushed back by two years.

If the Constitution is adopted (and it was) the Union will be in fact and in theory an association of States or a Confederacy.

I have six siblings but grew up an only child. I was adopted by my aunt and uncle.

I have been a spokesperson for Operation Smile for twenty years helping children with facial deformities. I also have worked with a children's mission called Compassion International. Both are doing amazing work for the children of the world.

I want children who can make eye contact. I want children who know how to resolve conflicts with their peers. I want children who understand the dynamics of interpersonal relationships that are physical and tactile. I do not want children that only know how to interface with the world through a screen.

Children are to be born into a family where the parents hold the needs of children equal to their own in importance. And children are to love parents and each other.

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

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

My vision for the future always centers around our children - it always centers around our children. So anytime anybody asks me what are the three most important issues facing the Congress, I always say the same thing: 'Our children, our children, our children.'

Our contemporary society is experimenting with the diminishment of caregivers for children. Some children are raised through crucial stages of life by only one person. This one person, who strives to give the best, may be overwhelmed, busy, trying to raise many children. And even in homes with two parents, many children are essentially alone.

Growing up, I kind of adopted that mentality, going all out, being a warrior.

All I ever want is to return to either Bangladesh, my motherland, or India, my adopted home.

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

The line, often adopted by strong men in controversy, of justifying the means by the end.

Feminazis have adopted abortion as a kind of sacrament for their religion/politics of alienation and bitterness.

I think of the people who commit these acts as children. They're in their 20s, but like certain children, they have been told only one story, over and over. Like most children, they believe in an easily identifiable good and evil, and like most children, they are capable of unthinkable cruelty.

Ever since I had my first child I have been passionate in my commitment to preserve our precious resources for my children and their children's children. This is the obligation of all of us visiting this planet for a limited time.

Justice was born outside the home and a long way from it; and it has never been adopted there

What's wrong with our children? Adults telling children to be honest while lying and cheating. Adults telling children to not be violent while marketing and glorifying violence... I believe that adult hypocrisy is the biggest problem children face in America.

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

China adopted a capitalist system in the 1980s, and they went from a 60% poverty rate to 10%.

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

I have been adopted by the millennials, and I'm enjoying every minute of it! I'm learning a new language.