Top 1200 Adopted Children Quotes & Sayings - Page 4

We are children, perhaps, at the very moment when we know that it is as children that God loves us - not because we have deserved his love and not in spite of our undeserving; not because we try and not because we recognize the futility of our trying; but simply because he has chosen to love us. We are children because he is our father; and all of our efforts, fruitful and fruitless, to do good, to speak truth, to understand, are the efforts of children who, for all their precocity, are children still in that before we loved him, he loved us, as children, through Jesus Christ our lord.

The oppressed, having internalized the image of the oppressor and adopted his guidelines, are fearful of freedom.

I always say neediness is the cause of suffering. I'm not the only one who says it. It's something I adopted and I believe.

But when we have families, when we have children, this gives us a purpose for being, to protect our children, to avoid going to jail because if I'm in jail, who looks after my children, who's there for my wife?.

Whoever the Lord has adopted ought to prepare themselves for hard, toilsome and unquiet living.

There are so many families around the country that can't have children. We can improve options so families can have children, can adopt more readily those children.

All mothers love their own children as best they can, according to their temperament and circumstances, and all mothers should have done better, in their children's eyes, when the going gets tough for the children.

Beyonce, Solange, and my adopted daughter, Kelly Rowland, and I have always bonded over fashion.

I know it's become a cliche of sorts, but, nonetheless, it is true. This is the only planet we and our children and children's children will call home. We can't afford to lose this home because we didn't protect it.

We know that education is everything to our children's future. We know that they will no longer just compete for good jobs with children from Indiana, but children from India and China and all over the world.

You write not for children but for yourself. And if by good fortune children enjoy what you enjoy, why then you are a writer of children's books.

People in Finland have also adopted me because of my dad, and that's great, but it's the one language I can't speak.

I always try to see things with children's eyes. Are they happy? Sad? What do they need? Everywhere I went, I realized that children are society's victims ... We have a duty to speak to political leaders, to influence people to give these children a better future.

The maxim that men are not to be praised before their death was invented by envy and too lightly adopted by philosophers.

It is only grown-ups who want children to be children; children themselves always want to be real people.

I have younger kids, and I adopted them late in life. They don't know these people [from Annie Hall] at all.

The happiest and holiest children in the world are the children whose fathers succeed in winning both their tender affection and their reverential and loving fear. And they are the children who will come to understand most easily the mystery of the fatherhood of God.

Although adults have a role to play in teaching social skills to children, it is often best that they play it unobtrusively. In particular, adults must guard against embarrassing unskilled children by correcting them too publicly and against labeling children as shy in ways that may lead the children to see themselves in just that way.

It is bad luck for world history that of all people the Russians adopted Communism, because they are totally unfit for it.

Pop music has always adopted the style of marrying upbeat melodies to dour lyrics.

Do nothing to mar its grandeur ... keep it for your children, your children's children, and all who come after you, as the one great sight which every American should see.

I have often felt that I cheated my children a little. I was never so totally theirs as most mothers are. I gave to audiences whatbelonged to my children, got back from audiences the love my children longed to give me.

I adopted this feeling that the stage is my home, so just keep my coat on and not wear anything else.

I have a hard time with people who say they write for children but they don't really like children. I love children. I love talking with them.

Meanwhile I married and I adopted three kids who were all from one family and then later I was divorced.

My philosophy is that I am a friend of the children. I don't think anyone should see them as pitiable subjects or charity. That is old people's rhetoric. People often relate childish behaviour to stupidity or foolishness. This mindset needs to change. I want to level the playing field where I can learn from the children. Something I can learn from children is transparency. They are innocent, straightforward, and have no biases. I relate children to simplicity and I think that my friendship with children has a much deeper meaning than others.

You and I have a rendezvous with destiny. We will preserve for our children this, the last best hope of man on earth, or we will sentence them to take the first step into a thousand years of darkness. If we fail, at least let our children and our children’s children say of us we justified our brief moment here. We did all that could be done.

I was born in Vietnam, and I was adopted by an Irish lady and a Hungarian man, and then I moved to America.

Who is going to cast out an error to which he has given birth and replace it with an adopted truth?

The old spelling MAGICK has been adopted throughout in order to distinguish the Science of the Magi from all its counterfeits.

Prejudice does not mean false ideas, but only ... opinions adopted before examination.

I have adopted the Roman sentiment, that it is more honorable to save a citizen than to kill an enemy.

A society in which adults are estranged from the world of children, and often from their own childhood, tends to hear children's speech only as a foreign language, or as a lie. Children have been treated. as congenital fibbers, fakers and fantasisers.

So many women today have become so focused on their children, they've developed these romantic entanglements with their children's lives, and the husbands are secondary. They're left out. And the romantic focus is on the children.

My opinion, my conviction, gains immensely in strength and sureness the minute a second mind as adopted it.

I purposely adopted a style in my storytelling wherein I don't have to explain everything or why the story is moving in a particular way.

Children - if you think back really what it was like to be a child and what it was like to know other children - children lie all the time.

Children - if you think back really what it was like to be a child and what it was like to know other children - children lie all the time

More than a billion women around the world want to emulate western women's lifestyles and are rapidly acquiring the material ability to do so. It is therefore vital that in our leadership we display some reserve and responsibility in our spending so that the world's finite resources will be available for our children, their children and their children's children

Freedom is always just one generation away from extinction. We don't pass it to our children in the bloodstream. We have to fight for it and protect it and then hand it to them, so that they shall do the same, or we're going to find ourselves spending our sunset years telling our children and our children's children, about a time in America, back in the day, when men and women were free.

Come hell or high water, adopted or my own. I am going to have, I must have some kids.

So much of America's tragic and costly failure to care for all its children stems from our tendency to distinguish between our own children and other people's children--as if justice were divisible.

I don't want to have another baby, but my little sister is adopted, and I was hoping that one day I could do that...There are so many possibilities.

We shouldn't still be asking, 'Have you got children? Why've you not got children? Ooh, you must have children!' Bog off, d'you know what I mean?

I feel that our planet is in peril and that creating a sustainable planet for my children and my children's children is the most important thing I can do in this lifetime.

To ensure that children are protected, the abuse and exploitation of children must be brought to light and those who violate children brought to justice.

But when we have families, when we have children, this gives us a purpose for being, to protect our children, to avoid going to jail because if I'm in jail, who looks after my children, who's there for my wife?

I really, really love children and I think probably among children is when I feel mostly berated. It's not like I feel like oh, there's some children here. I have to tone it down. I go nuts with children especially when I ain't got none. So when I'm round my mates' children, I jest them kids up first. I swear at them, I get more worked up, I say crazy stuff to them, fill their heads with nonsense and then I leave them.

If we think there is an undermining now, just wait if Sharia is adopted or utilized by justices in the United States.

I have adopted clothes from all the projects I'm in. It's really been a while since I've bought anything myself.

The uniform makes for brotherhood, since when universally adopted it covers up all differences of class and country.

The middle years are ones in which children increasingly face conflicts on their own,... One of the truths to be faced by parentsduring this period is that they cannot do the work of living and relating for their children. They can be sounding boards and they can probe with the children the consequences of alternative actions.

We live in a society today where these children can be wanted children. Even if you don't want to keep this child after you've had it, there's plenty of young couples out there, that want children.

Cindy and I are adoptive parents. We know what a treasure and joy it is to have an adopted child in our lives.

I love the French very much, and I think they know that. I've been adopted here. They treat me as one of their own.

All in all, the communally reared children of Israel are far from the emotional disasters that psychoanalytic theory predicted. Neither have they been saved from all personality problems, as the founders of the kibbutz movement had hoped when they freed children from their parents. In any reasonable environment, children seem to grow up to be themselves. There is no evidence that communal rearing with stimulating, caring adults is either the ruination or the salvation of children.

Oh, you think the darkness is your ally, but you merely adopted the dark. I was born in it. Molded by it.

Edinburgh is my adopted home. It's a place where I wanted to come and live, and I managed to arrange my life so it happened.

All of my cats are adopted and all show their gratitude on a daily basis. I don't know where I would be without them.

I can't think of anything more important than the environment we leave to our children and our children's children.