Open adoption, when it works, is fabulous. But when it goes wrong, it's so traumatizing for everybody. — Caroline Leavitt
I think adoption is a blessing all around when it's done right. — Hugh Jackman
I've been a big advocate of adopt-don't-shop. — Joe Gatto
Too many children in foster care are falling through cracks. Be a hero, take the time learn about adoption today. — Bruce Willis
Orphans are the only ones who get to choose their fathers, and they love them twice as much. — Adam Johnson
Despite the reams of paperwork, obstacles worthy of a horse show, and a wait that can rival an elephant's gestation, adoption feels no different on the inside. — Scott Simon
The mother of the year should be a sterilized woman with two adopted children — Paul R. Ehrlich
Acquiring a dog may be the only opportunity a human ever has to choose a relative. — Mordecai Wyatt Johnson
I think a child should be allowed to take his father's or mother's name at will on coming of age. Paternity is a legal fiction. — James Joyce
Every child deserves a home and love. Period. — Dave Thomas
Families don't have to match. You don't have to look like someone else to love them. — Leigh Anne Tuohy
You're 40 and he's 22. Do you have to marry him? Couldn't you just adopt him? — Ann Dunham
If you need a baby that bad, go down to the pound and get one. Not even a baby - go get an old man. There's unwanted people of all ages, pre-made and waiting for you. — Doug Stanhope
Every child deserves a chance at a life
filled with love, laughter, friends and family. — Marlo Thomas
Friends are the family we choose for ourselves. — Edna Buchanan
Short Open Adoption Quotes
Although there are many trial marriages... there is no such thing as a trial child. — Gail Sheehy
Love and freedom are vital to the creation and upbringing of a child. — Sylvia Pankhurst
Friends are the family that you choose. — Jess C Scott
we must take care of our families wherever we find them. — Elizabeth Gilbert
A family is a family not because of gender but because of values, like commitment, trust and love. — Gray Davis
I feel sure that unborn babies pick their parents. — Gloria Swanson
Parents have a right to know about their kids: that shouldn’t be controversial. —
Reading is dreaming with open eyes.
Adoption Quotes
People know that I have adopted four principles in living my life: simple living, punctuality, hard work and prudence. — Abdul Sattar Edhi
One should remain as a witness to whatever happens, adopting the attitude, 'Let whatever strange things that happens happen, let us see!' This should be one's practice. Nothing happens by accident in the divine scheme of things. — Ramana Maharshi
The uniform makes for brotherhood, since when universally adopted it covers up all differences of class and country. — Robert Baden-Powell
Now back in 1927 an American socialist, Norman Thomas, six times candidate for president on the Socialist Party ticket, said the American people would never vote for socialism. But he said under the name of liberalism the American people will adopt every fragment of the socialist program. — Ronald Reagan
No rational argument will have a rational effect on a man who does not want to adopt a rational attitude. — Karl Popper
If you eyes are opened, you'll see the things worth seeing.
Every miserable fool who has nothing at all of which he can be proud, adopts as a last resource pride in the nation to which he belongs; he is ready and happy to defend all its faults and follies tooth and nail, thus reimbursing himself for his own inferiority. — Arthur Schopenhauer
We must not adopt the world's view and then tweak it to make it Christian. We must draw a line in the sand and stand firm in the radical teachings of Christ and His gospel. We must preach the truth and be the examples of the truth we preach. — Paul Washer
I was admonished ot adopt feminine clothes; I refused, and still refuse. As for other avocations of women, there are plenty of other women to perform them. — Joan of Arc
Vegetarian food leaves a deep impression on our nature. If the whole world adopts vegetarianism, it can change the destiny of humankind. — Albert Einstein
Adoptive Parents Quotes
As comfortable as I was with my adoption, the nature-versus-nurture question has been a big one for me. I adore my parents, but I always wondered if I would feel a different kind of love-not more or less, just different-for someone who was biologically related. — Emily Procter
The right of parents to direct the upbringing of their children is among the unalienable rights with which the Declaration of Independence proclaims 'all Men are endowed by their Creator.' — Antonin Scalia
However motherhood comes to you, it's a miracle. — Valerie Harper
A positive attitude opens the door to positive opportunities, which leads to a positive life.
Being a mother is an attitude, not a biological relation. — Robert A. Heinlein
People ask me. 'What about gay adoptions? Interracial? Single Parent?' I say. "Hey fine, as long as it works for the child and the family is responsible." My big stand is this: Every child deserves a home and love. Period. — Dave Thomas
Adoption was a bumpy ride - very bumpy. But, God, was it worth the fight. — Mariska Hargitay
Everything becomes a lesson when youre open to learn.
I believe there are too many children who need loving parents to deny one group of people adoption rights. A child will benefit from a healthy, loving home, whether the parents are gay or not. — Barack Obama
I've never tried to find my real parents. I'm very grateful to my mum and dad for adopting me - they're completely incredible people. It was my dad who encouraged me to question everything, to forge my own path, to think, to read. I always felt it was my right to question everything. — Dan Stevens
The first four months of my life were spent in care, before I was adopted by my wonderful parents - my mum and dad - Ernie and Christine. They went on to adopt my sister, who is profoundly deaf, and invested both of us with a love and support that informs everything I do today. — Michael Gove
Somehow destiny comes into play. These children end up with you and you end up with them. It's something quite magical. — Nicole Kidman
Gay Adoption Quotes
There are people who've said that I'm being brave for being openly supportive of gay marriage, gay adoption... With all due respect, I humbly dissent. I am not being brave, I'm a decent human being... Love is a human experience, not a political statement — Anne Hathaway
Love is a human experience, not a political statement. — Anne Hathaway
When did it become unconstitutional to exclude homosexual couples from marriage? 1791? 1868, when the 14th Amendment was adopted? — Antonin Scalia
Failure is a great teacher, and, if you are open to it, every mistake has a lesson to offer.
There is so much work to be done to treat gays and lesbians and gay and lesbian couples with the respect that they're entitled to. They deserve, in my judgment, partnership benefits. They deserve to be treated fairly when it comes to adoption and immigration. — John Edwards
I mean, there are lots of people who get married who can't have children. To take a state that does allow adoption and say-there, what is the justification for saying no gay marriage? Certainly not the one you said, is it? — Stephen Breyer
Any home where there is love constitutes a family and all families should have the same legal rights, including the right to marry and have or adopt children. Why shouldn't gay people be able to live as open and freely as everybody else? — Elizabeth Taylor
Don't give up. Normally it is the last key on the ring that opens the door.
Gay men should not adopt the sophomoric model of heterosexual dating; gay men should always have sex first. — John Rechy
Be able to see people's humanity. I think the way that you do that and see people for more than their surface value is, say, you're reading something in the news: the gender pay gap, or gay adoption, anything that involves a group of people being marginalized. — Jonathan Van Ness
Trying to conceal the fact that I was a gay, effeminate, hyperactive, adopted child with a serious lisp in southern Louisiana would have been like trying to hide Dolly Parton in a string bikini! — Kevyn Aucoin
Respect gay couples but no gay adoptions. — Mike Huckabee
Adopted Children Quotes
You are a child of the universe, no less than the trees and the stars; you have a right to be here. And whether or not it is clear to you, no doubt the universe is unfolding as it should. — Max Ehrmann
He who can reach a child's heart can reach the worlds heart. — Rudyard Kipling
If a child is born and raised in a home that is loving and nurturing, where there is complete truth about who we are, you can’t give a child any greater place from which to fly. — Amanda Bearse
Why do you stay in prison, when the door is so wide open?
Anyone who ever wondered how much they could love a child who did not spring from their own loins, know this: it is the same. The feeling of love is so profound, it's incredible and surprising. — Nia Vardalos
Mary seeks for those who approach her devoutly and with reverence, for such she loves, nourishes, and adopts as her children. — Bonaventure
There are times when the adoption process is exhausting and painful and makes you want to scream. But, I am told, so does childbirth. — Scott Simon
Everything becomes a lesson when you're open to learn.
Time and experience have taught me a priceless lesson: Any child you take for your own becomes your own if you give of yourself to that child. I have born two children and had seven others by adoption, and they are all my children, equally beloved and precious. — Dale Evans
My experience as a school nurse taught me that we need to make a concerted effort, all of us, to increase physical fitness activity among our children and to encourage all Americans to adopt a healthier diet that includes fruits and vegetables, but there is more. — Lois Capps
The central struggle of parenthood is to let our hopes for our children outweigh our fears. — Ellen Goodman
Despite the best of efforts, many foster children are neither reunited with their families, nor adopted. — Charles Foster Bass
China will continue to adopt multiple measures to advance the reform and opening up of its financial sector so that its financial market can better adapt to financial modernization and globalization. — Xi Jinping
It is better to keep your mouth closed and let people think you are a fool, than to open it and remove all doubt.
I think American guys tend to be a bit more forward, a bit more chatty and open than the Brits. The Brits seem to have a darker sense of humor, though I have met some Americans who have adopted bits of the British dry sense of humor as well. — Hayley Atwell
The process of open adoption is not discussed in the way it should be. Everyone I know who has adopted domestically has at least one tragic story. It was important to me to be able to describe those situations. — Jennifer Gilmore
I think I have made it clear that I never intended to make enemies. But in an age when anti-foreign sentiment was running high, it was unavoidable that in my position as an advocate of open intercourse and free adoption of Western culture, I should make some adversaries. — Fukuzawa Yukichi
As you know, I'm an immigrant. I came over here as an immigrant, and what gave me the opportunities, what made me to be here today, is the open arms of Americans. I have been received. I have been adopted by America. — Arnold Schwarzenegger
There are many examples of companies and countries that have improved their competitiveness and efficiency by adopting open source strategies. The creation of skills through all levels is of fundamental importance to both companies and countries. — Mark Shuttleworth
By choice, we have become a family, first in our hearts, and finally in breath and being. Great expectations are good; great experiences are better. — Richard W. Fisher
We look at adoption as a very sacred exchange. It is not done lightly on either side. I would dedicate my life for this child. — Jamie Lee Curtis
I want to say that, in general, when it works, open adoption is great. — Jennifer Gilmore
In an open adoption agreement, you agree to a minimum number of visits - a floor, not a ceiling. It's enforceable. — Dan Savage
I think open adoption is a great idea, because it allows a relationship between the birth mother and her child so that the kid isn't like, "Where did I come from?" And to have it be like, "Look, you have a bunch of people who love you." — Kathleen Hanna
The reading of literature opens our eyes, offering us new perspectives on things that we can evaluate and adopt. — Alister E. McGrath
For a small open economy such as Cyprus, the euro adoption provides protection against international financial turmoil, which often has a disproportionate effect on smaller economies. — Jean-Claude Trichet
Amnesty International adopted me as a prisoner of conscience, and that led to my - it touched me in a way that really led to me opening up my heart, I've called it the re-humanisation process. — Maajid Nawaz
That’s the way it is with our Father in Heaven. When you became a son or a daughter, when you were adopted into His family, He opened up for you through His Son’s death on the cross a way of fellowship and relationship that makes it possible for you to bypass the temple and its animal sacrifices. You don’t have to talk to God through a priest. You can go right into the presence of God Almighty and He will hear you. — David Jeremiah
Having a mind that is open to everything and attached to nothing seems to me to be one of the most basic principles that you can adopt to contribute to individual and world peace. — Wayne Dyer
Because of rampant inflation, living standards have been dropping for the great majority of the population. The people are poorer because standards of health and education have fallen. And conditions in the rural areas are worse off than they have ever been. So, you cannot equate the so-called open-market economy adopted by the SLORC with any real development that benefits people. — Aung San Suu Kyi
I wish the constitution, which is offered, had been made more perfect; but I sincerely believe it is the best that could be obtained at this time. And, as a constitutional door is opened for amendment hereafter, the adoption of it, under the present circumstances of the Union, is in my opinion desirable. — George Washington
The Transcendentalist adopts the whole connection of spiritual doctrine. He believes in miracle, in the perpetual openness of thehuman mind to new influx of light and power; he believes in inspiration, and in ecstacy. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
With domestic adoption, you get a form, you fill it out, and there are these boxes: African-American, African-American and Hispanic, and you check the boxes that you're comfortable with. Race is completely open in that regard. — Jennifer Gilmore
Adopting means opening your home, and heart, to a life you've never known. But there is nothing as richly rewarding as being an adoptive parent. — Michael Gove
I will say in open adoption, all these choices you make about race, about the amount of mental illness you can deal with, about special needs and physical maladies, you have to lay all this out there before you know anybody's story. — Jennifer Gilmore
In the search [of a deal], we adopt the same attitude one might find appropriate in looking for a spouse: It pays to be active, interested, and open-minded, but it does not pay to be in a hurry. — Warren Buffett
The primary nature of every human being is to be open to life and love. Being guarded, armoured, distrustful and enclosed is second nature in our culture. It is the means we adopt to protect ourselves against being hurt, but when such attitudes become characterological or structured in the personality, they constitute a more severe hurt and create a greater crippling than the one originally suffered. — Alexander Lowen
Alec watched them through the half-open door, Jace leaned against the sink as his adoptive sister sponged his wrists and wrapped them in a white gauze. “Okay, now take off your shirt.” (Isabelle) “I knew there was something in this for you.” (Jace) ~pg. 329~ — Cassandra Clare
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