Top 373 Adoption Quotes & Sayings

Adoption is a beautiful picture of redemption. It is the Gospel in my living room.

Under Islamic law, adoption is difficult.

To me there's nothing different in principle with a Catholic adoption agency, or indeed Methodist adoption agency, saying the rules in our community are different and therefore the law shouldn't apply to us. Why not then say sharia can be applied to different parts of the country? It doesn't work.

I think adoption is a blessing all around when it's done right.

Adoption is the visible Gospel.

Our wise men flattered us into the adoption of the banking system under the idea that boundless wealth would result from the adoption.

Spiritual adoption is the excellency and apex of God's salvation.

It would be a lie to say that people are coming to adoption with joy at all times. Hope, perhaps, but it would be disingenuous to say that every part coming to an adoption isn't seriously grieving.

Open adoption, when it works, is fabulous. But when it goes wrong, it's so traumatizing for everybody.

I think adoption becomes complicated whenever the biological parents are alive.

Adoption is a redemptive response to tragedy that happens in this broken world.

All great movements, it is written, go through three stages: ridicule, discussion, adoption. It is the realisation of this third stage, adoption, that requires our passion and our discipline, our hearts and our heads. The fate of animals is in our hands.

'Now we are the sons of God'. This is the starting point of adoption. However, 'it does not yet appear what we shall be: but we know that, when He shall appear, we shall be like Him; for we shall see Him as He is' (I Jn. 3:2). This is the perfection of adoption of sons and renewal which God bestowed on us in Christ, and of which John says in his Gospel that, 'Christ gave power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on His name: which were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh nor of the will of man, but of God' (Jn. 1:12-13).

God has blessed me with the mission to place nonviolence before the nation for adoption.

My adoption journey fully fuels my inspiration, my drive, what my vision of success is.

The Gospel is not a picture of adoption, adoption is a picture of the Gospel.

Software was changing so fast, so unbelievable, that that got very quick adoption.

I had this sister that was born who was given up for adoption, and I never knew it.

Shame on those breasts of stone that cannot melt in soft adoption of another's sorrow.

We had a bunch of models for user adoption of Robinhood Gold. The data team had some silly names for a range of adoption levels: 'Mediocre expectations,' 'middle-of-the-road expectations' and 'great expectations.' The numbers we ended up with were significantly higher than 'great expectations.'

Adoption is an answer to a tragedy that has already happened, but may it never be the impetus for one that hasn’t.

In an open adoption agreement, you agree to a minimum number of visits - a floor, not a ceiling. It's enforceable.

I'm also very pleased at the fact we're well on our way in Indiana to becoming the most pro-adoption state in America. I think if you're going to be pro-life, you should - you should be pro-adoption.

It can be a huge help to parents considering the adoption of an older child, when college is just a few years away, to know that there are post-adoption resources and specific financial assistance opportunities available to them.

With technological advances, there's a very natural curve between cost and complexity and adoption. When the cost and complexity are high, the adoption rate is - let's call it 'modest.'

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.

We've heard some theories, but there is a lot of mystery surrounding my adoption.

We stand today at the threshold of a great event both in the life of the United Nations and in the life of mankind. This declaration may well become the international Magna Carta for all men everywhere. We hope its proclamation by the General Assembly will be an event comparable to the proclamation in 1789 [of the French Declaration of the Rights of Man], the adoption of the Bill of Rights by the people of the U.S., and the adoption of comparable declarations at different times in other countries.

I married the man I love when the state of California said I could. We made a family through adoption, as New York State said we could. From the outside, our family - two dads, two sons via adoption - seems like an experiment, but what family isn't an experiment?

I've been involved in the offering-up-adoption-as-another-choice business for a long time.

My adoption was treated as a celebration.

On gay adoption I have changed my mind.

When the error is universal, it is supposed to end. The adoption of the foundling establishes its consanguinity.

Adoption is the highest privilege the gospel offers.

We are fighting abortion through adoption.

Foursquare's adoption of a game dynamic when it launched is a particularly clever implementation of a social hook.

I tried to put myself up for adoption several times.

My mantra is: 'Good design accelerates the adoption of new ideas.'

Catalyzed by the Recovery Act, adoption of electronic health records is increasing dramatically.

I want to say that, in general, when it works, open adoption is great.

If women understand by emancipation the adoption of the masculine role then we are lost indeed.

Through adoption, Americans can forever change not only a child's life but also their own.

What I love about the 'Kitten Bowl' is all of the participants, all of our 'players' are up for adoption.

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.

I would like to clarify that the only adoption I am involved is through the Blue Cross Animal Welfare Shelter where we provide healthy and friendly homeless animals for adoption.

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.

Gay adoption is discrimination against children

For decades, I have supported adoption, and have helped tens of thousands of children worldwide.

[Adoption] could turn you into an exquisite comedian. Ask Richard Pryor's ghost.

I don't think 3D television gets huge adoption until the consumer experience is no different than HD television. Until you can sit down on your couch and just turn on your TV, and it's 3D without anything else happening, I don't think it'll be a massive adoption.

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

Before I met my husband, I was just about to look into adoption.

I've started the adoption process... I really want to be a mommy.

I say to everybody, 'Adoption is not for the faint of heart.'

For a couple that wants to have a child, there's the option of IVF, but then have a look at adoption as well.

Adoption is wonderful and beautiful and the greatest blessing I have ever experienced. Adoption is also difficult and painful. Adoption is a beautiful picture of redemption.

In some states, it is illegal to turn down a same-sex couple when you're placing children for adoption. That's discrimination. But in the Catholic church, the sacrament of marriage is defined officially as the union of a man and a woman. So a Catholic adoption agency is torn between its faith doctrine and what it sees as a faith obligation to help orphans.

A crisis of confidence is so common that it should be considered a universal part of the adoption process.

Faith is the evidence of divine adoption.

I think my mom threatened to put me up for adoption a few times.