Best 55 quotes in «adopted quotes» category

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.

All I wanted to do was please my adopted family.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

A vendor neutral, standards-based approach must be adopted

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

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

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

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

Christianity did not destroy paganism; it adopted it.

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.

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 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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

I was an adopted child of my grandparents, and I don’t know how I can ever express my gratitude for that because my parents would have been a mess.

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

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.

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

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

Since I was five, I've known that I was adopted, which is a politically correct term for being clueless about one's own origins.

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

Technology has to be invented or adopted.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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?

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

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