Top 1200 Being Adopted Quotes & Sayings - Page 2

Being blunt with your feelings is very American. In this big country, I can be as brash as New York, as hedonistic as Los Angeles, as sensuous as San Francisco, as brainy as Boston, as proper as Philadelphia, as brawny as Chicago, as warm as Palm Springs, as friendly as my adopted home town of Dallas, Fort Worth, and as peaceful as the inland waterway that rubs up against my former home in Virginia Beach.

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

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

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

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

I've always known I was adopted.

A vendor neutral, standards-based approach must be adopted

Christianity did not destroy paganism; it adopted it.

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

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

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

Just look at the transformation Taylor Swift made from being pop country to pop pop. There are very specific things she cut out and very specific things she adopted.

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

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

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

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

The seventies was a time when a lot of people didn't tell their children they were adopted.

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

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

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

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

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

All I wanted to do was please my adopted family.

My theory of evolution is that Darwin was adopted.

Adopted. Big Deal; so was Superman

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?

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

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

The basis and firm groundwork of the material, and its primary contribution, lies in the concept that consciousness itself indeed creates matter, that consciousness is not imprisoned by matter but forms it, and that consciousness is not limited or bound by time or space; time and space in your terms being necessary distortions, or adopted conditions, forming a strata for physical existence.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

I was a violent, self-destructive teenager, who was adopted right at the end of World War II. I was lied to and abused by my parents. I hated life in Utah. I resented the Mormon Church, its sense of superiority and its certitude. I escaped through the Beat writers and discovered poetry and have devoted my entire life to the practice of poetry in varying ways. Poetry gave me a reason for being. And I'm not exaggerating when I say that.

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

Everyone caved, adopted loose [accounting] standards, and created exotic derivatives linked to theoretical models. As a result, all kinds of earnings, blessed by accountants, are not really being earned. When you reach for the money, it melts away. It was never there. It [accounting for derivatives] is just disgusting. It is a sewer, and if I'm right, there will be hell to pay in due course. All of you will have to prepare to deal with a blow-up of derivative books.

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

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

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

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

Technology has to be invented or adopted.

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

Musicians have always adopted Macs.

I want adopted people to know they were chosen.

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

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

My parents both worked; I was a 'latchkey kid.' We were lower-middle class, and they did everything that they could to give me anything I wanted, within reason. We were not rich by any stretch of the imagination, but being an adopted kid, I think we had a different connotation. My parents tried extra hard, I think.

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

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

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

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

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'm so thankful because of my relationship with Jesus Christ and being adopted in the family of God that I don't have to live the highs and the lows and the roller coaster that the rest of the world lives, because I know where my identity lies. My identity lies as a child of God, and that's something that will never be shaken.

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

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

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

My sister and I know our lives could have been different - radically, unthinkably, irretrievably different - if we had not been adopted. We might have found ourselves in homes without love, stability or kindness. We might have found ourselves in care for much longer, without the secure attachment that being cradled in a mother's arms brings.