Top 1200 Being Adopted Quotes & Sayings - Page 3

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

I have many friends who had kids solo, who adopted, who used surrogates - no one was judging them - it's a new world!

Muddy Waters was, like, the king! He had a lot of adopted sons and daughters. I was just happy to be one of them.

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

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

I have always adopted nondiscriminatory policies toward the LGBTQ community in my public offices in local and state government.

I used to have a phrase: Liberalism is spreading misery equally. And now the ruling class throughout Washington seems to have adopted this.

I was a tomboy and I didn't have a bunch of brothers but I always wanted them and so I sort of adopted a few of my great friends to be my brother.

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 was raised in Brooklyn and in Baltimore. My father was a bookkeeper. When I was 36 years old, my mother told me I was adopted.

In the United States, if one family out of every four churches adopted a child, there would be no orphans in the country

My children range in age from 5 to 31. We adopted the 5-year-old, but people are often impressed with my wife before knowing that.

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

On November 15th, 2008, in over 300 cities, 4,000 children were adopted in one day.

In Australia, everyone gets a nickname and people started calling me "Izzy" and I hated it so I just adopted Bella.

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

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

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

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

Despite the best of efforts, many foster children are neither reunited with their families, nor adopted.

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.

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.

Innovation transforms the useful seeds of invention into widely adopted solutions valued above every existing alternative.

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

When we use the term pig, for example, we are referring to the people who systematically violate the peoples' constitutional rights - whether they be monopoly capitalists or police. The term is now being adopted by radicals, hippies, and minority peoples. Even the workers, when the pigs supported strike-breakers like they did as Union Oil where 100 local police came in a cracked strikers' heads, began to call them by their true name.

I have made speeches urging women to adopt methods of rebellion such as have been adopted by men in every revolution.

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

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

Innovation is the running theme and spirit of the policies adopted by the Chinese government, and it is the banner that we will always hold high.

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.

So I didn't adopt Homer because he was cute and little and sweet, or because he was helpless and needed me. I adopted him because when you think you see something so fundamentally worthwhile in someone else, you don't look for the reasons - like bad timing or a negative bank balance - that might keep it out of your life. You commit to being strong enough to build your life around it, no matter what. In doing so, you begin to become the thing you admire.

Where else but in America could a schoolteacher from Kansas City end up the governor of her adopted state?

In 'Snehithiye,' I adopted a Hitchcockian approach on the premise that a woman's only friend after marriage is her husband.

My sister is Korean and my parents adopted her about three years before I was born and that is how I grew up.

The conservative in financial circles I have often described as a man who thinks nothing new ought ever to be adopted for the first time.

It seems in America you are stuck with the position you adopted, even when events change, in order to claim absolute consistency. That can't be good.

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

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

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

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

When did it become unconstitutional to exclude homosexual couples from marriage? 1791? 1868, when the 14th Amendment was adopted?

Charlie and I decided long ago that in an investment lifetime, it's too hard to make hundreds of smart decisions. That judgment became ever more compelling as Berkshire's capital mushroomed and the universe of investments that could significantly affect our results shrank dramatically. Therefore, we adopted a strategy that required our being smart and not too smart at that, only a very few times. Indeed, we now settle for one good idea a year.

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

Religions have always adopted rich symbolic languages to signify the different aspects of their respective forms of faith and mythology.

I'm concerned about the plight of children. But I'm not on a mission to get all the available orphans in the world adopted into Christian homes.

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.

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.

Today, Angelina Jolie met with Pope Francis at the Vatican. Long story short: She adopted him.

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

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

I've adopted a diet that minimises high glycemic index carbs, coupled with lean protein sources and a mix of vegetables.

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

You may not know it, but I was adopted as a baby by my wonderful parents, Allan and Margaret Atkins of Cumberland Gap, Tenn.