Best 55 quotes in «adopted quotes» category

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

Technology has to be invented or adopted.

[To her frequently needed plumber:] How would you like to be adopted? I'm sure it would be cheaper.

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

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

The only time that I've adopted characterization again since that point, for my own albums, has been an album called "Outside" that I did with Brian Eno.

Young children from Guatemala who are adopted into the United States gain considerable height relative to the standards. So the height difference cannot be genetic.

We had a rule in Tibet that anyone proposing a new invention had to guarentee that it was beneficial, or at least harmless, for seven generations of humans before it could be adopted.

When 9/11 happened, 12 of our neighborhood firemen were killed. I looked around at the country that had adopted me and I became an American.

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

Adoptee rights are everyone's rights, and they deserve to be protected.

Adoptees deserve open records because deception and partial truths do not set us free.

Adoption is a lifelong journey. It means different things to me at different times. Sometimes it is just a part of who I am. Other times it is something I am actively going through.

Adoption isn't just a childhood experience, it's a life-long experience.

A role model is a person whose roles can be modelled. If the roles you conceive and give birth to today cannot be adopted by anyone in your absence, you are no good model.

Blood can help make family, but family often transcends blood.

Being denied their original birth certificates isn't just a problem for adoptees. It's a social problem, requiring social change.

But Nita had always seen having a child as selfish. Why bring another soul into this world, she'd say, when there are so many out there that need our help?

Moses was getting to know God as Jehovah-Rohi, his Shepherd. Like a shepherd, God would feed and lead Moses as he led the people of Israel. “I will be with you,” God said earlier. What music that must have been to Moses’ ears! He took this promise by faith and thus was able to step confidently into his life purpose. “He tends his flock like a shepherd: He gathers the lambs in his arms and carries them close to his heart; he gently leads those that have young…” –Isaiah 40:11.

I certainly never felt rejected because they had given me up. My parents knew nothing about my birth mother, yet always explained with certainty that she didn't "give me up" or "give me away" - she made a plan for me, the best one she could make under her circumstances, whatever those were.

From the beginning, Kendra had assumed that Catty was from some distant planet and that her extraordinary power was actually a form of teleportation used by her people. She had cautioned Catty not to tell anyone about her unusual skill. And Catty hadn't until she met Vanessa. She had known immediately that Vanessa was different, too, when she saw the silver moon amulet hanging around her neck. It was identical to the one Catty wore. Catty looked down at her amulet now and studied the face of the moon etched in the metal. She had been wearing the charm when Kendra found her. Now, sparkling in the fluorescent lights, it didn't look silver, but opalescent. She never took it off. Kendra turned and glanced at her, her eyes asking if she was okay. Catty tried to smile back, but her lips curled in a sad imitation of one. She wished she could find the courage to tell Kendra the truth. She hated keeping any secret from her. But the words never came. It was probably easier to believe in people from outer space than to accept what Catty really was, anyway. She sometimes thought Kendra would feel disappointed if she learned the truth. Kendra was always on the Internet trying to find out more about UFO sightings, Area 51, and Roswell. She seemed to enjoy the research. Catty studied Kendra now. Her cheeks had taken on an angry red blush and her fingers frantically worked at the beads hanging around her neck. Would Kendra even believe her if she did tell her the truth... that she was a goddess, a Daughter of the Moon, on Earth to protect people from the Followers of an ancient evil called the Atrox.

If the system were designed to protect adoptees, why do so many have to fight for their rights?

It's illegal to deny people their records due to race or gender. Adoptees deserve the same rights and protections.

A vendor neutral, standards-based approach must be adopted

Well, just remember this. When my ma got me, she picked what she wanted. But when your ma got you, she had to take what she got.

Adoption was a bumpy ride - very bumpy. But, God, was it worth the fight.

The fact that [Jin] didn't know her mother was simply that, another fact. Her mother leaving her was like the breath that singers take at the beginning of a song. Just a thing that happened before her real life began.

Adopted pets are the best pets you can have. Most adoptable pets come from loving homes that simply cannot care for them anymore. Or, they are strays who've been on their own without the loving care they deserve.

All I wanted to do was please my adopted family.

As Buffett has often observed, value investing is not a concept that can be learned and gradually applied over time. It is either absorbed and adopted at once, or it is never truly learned.

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

Christianity did not destroy paganism; it adopted it.

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

Count Basie practically adopted me at 13. We became closer and closer and I ended up conducting for him and Sinatra.

Each religion, so dear to those whose life it sanctifies, and fulfilling so necessary a function in the society that has adopted it, necessarily contradicts every other religion, and probably contradicts itself.

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

I am Cuban, my parents are Cuban, and I was not adopted.

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

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.

Fortunately, the IAEA has recently tried to regain its legal role, as supporter of the rights of its members, while supervising nuclear activities. We see this as a correct approach adopted by the agency.

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

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

If Youku had adopted YouTubes business model, we just would not be here. We would not exist.

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

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

I'm under no illusion that the future will be a neat and tidy or desirable world. We will gain a lot of things through necessity and a lot of them through all sorts of fragile dysfunction - not because they're bad ideas but because they will inevitably be adopted in a chaotic, reactive way.

I was adopted my black Americans, I feel that I'm a 'Hybrid'. When I'm around Africans'I suddenly feel very black American. And when I'm around black Americans'I feel very North African. North Africa and black America are both the creators of Kola Boof.

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

It was intended that when Newspeak had been adopted once and for all and Oldspeak forgotten, a heretical thought...should be literally unthinkable, at least so far as thought is dependent on words.

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