Adoption Quotes

For decades, I have supported adoption, and have helped tens of thousands of children worldwide.
Pat Robertson

Children, Thousands, Helped

Madonna remains the most visible performer on the planet, as well as one of the wealthiest, but would anyone seriously say that artistic self-development is her primary motivating principle? She is too busy with Kabbalah, fashion merchandising, adoption melodramas, the gym, and ill-starred horseback riding to study art.
Camille Paglia

Art, Busy, Fashion

Too many children in foster care are falling through cracks. Be a hero, take the time learn about adoption today.
Bruce Willis

Time, Today, Care

Any new technology tends to go through a 25-year adoption cycle.
Marc Andreessen

Technology, Through, Cycle

I think Angelina Jolie has done amazing, amazing things, and the international adoption rate just since her has skyrocketed. It's unbelievable.
Jessica Simpson

Amazing, Done, Her

Adoption has been a part of my life and a part of my family, so it was how I wanted to start. It felt natural and right to me.
Katherine Heigl

Life, Family, Wanted

The future battle on the ground will be preceded by battle in the air. This will determine which of the contestants has to suffer operational and tactical disadvantages and be forced throughout the battle into adoption compromise solutions.
Erwin Rommel

Future, Battle, Compromise

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

Work, Respect, Gay

On gay adoption I have changed my mind.
Theresa May

Mind, Gay, Changed

I say to everybody, 'Adoption is not for the faint of heart.'
Mariska Hargitay

Heart, Everybody, Faint

I've never been keen on open adoption. It doesn't seem to solve the main problem with adoption, which is that somebody feels she was abandoned by someone else.
Joan Didion

Someone, Problem, Else

In an open adoption agreement, you agree to a minimum number of visits - a floor, not a ceiling. It's enforceable.
Dan Savage

Open, Number, Agree

We've heard some theories, but there is a lot of mystery surrounding my adoption.
Patti Stanger

Heard, Mystery, Theories

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

Parents, Someone, Different

My adoption was treated as a celebration.
Michael Reagan

You well know, sir, that when the Constitution was submitted to the People of the respective States for their adoption or rejection, it awakened the warmest debates of the several State conventions.
Caleb Cushing

Rejection, State, Sir

I've started the adoption process... I really want to be a mommy.
Holly Madison

Started, Process, Mommy

The spirit of logical analysis should in practice blend with the practical pressure for the adoption of some form of international language, but it should not allow itself to be stampeded by it.
Edward Sapir

Spirit, Language, Pressure

I speak about family and adoption because it 100% changed my life and who I am. It definitely played a very large role into just learning how to be grateful for what you have and being fulfilled in a way that a lot of adopted kids don't feel.
Jenna Ushkowitz

Life, Family, Learning

The way I heard about The American Giving Awards was from the people that I work with. My publicist and I had a conversation a while back about wanting to really get involved more and more. We've been working with the National Council for Adoption with the children's home that I was adopted from called Holston Home.
Rodney Atkins

Work, Home, Children

I've teamed up with PetSmart Charities to celebrate the five million homeless pets who've found homes through their in-store adoption centers, and to spread the word about how we can work together to save millions more pets' lives and, ultimately, end pet homelessness.
Josh Duhamel

The adoption by Jefferson and the Republicans of the political structure of their opponents is of an importance hardly inferior to that of the adoption of the Constitution by the states.
Herbert Croly

Political, Importance, Structure

I'm not opposed to adoption. It's not in my immediate future because I'm on the move a lot and if I were going to be father I would like to be more grounded.
John Corbett

Future, Father, Move

It bothers me that I won't live to see the end of the century, because, when I was young, in St. Louis, I remember saying to Marilyn, my sister by adoption, that that was how long I wanted to live: seventy years.
Harold Brodkey

Live, End, Long

As we grew to love South Australia, we felt that we were in an expanding society, still feeling the bond to the motherland, but eager to develop a perfect society, in the land of our adoption.
Catherine Helen Spence

Love, Society, Feeling

With the adoption of the Declaration on the Elimination of Violence against Women, the international community sent out a clear message that gender based violence will not be tolerated.
Jenny Shipley

Women, Violence, Against

I think my mom threatened to put me up for adoption a few times.
Ivanka Trump

To me there's nothing different in principle with a Catholic adoption agency, or indeed Methodist adoption agency, saying the rules in our community are different and therefore the law shouldn't apply to us. Why not then say sharia can be applied to different parts of the country? It doesn't work.
Trevor Phillips

Work, Nothing, Saying

Every day I get to 'Think' and work on everything from digitizing electric grids so they can accommodate renewable energy and enable mass adoption of electric cars, helping major cities reduce congestion and pollution, to developing new micro-finance programs that help tiny businesses get started in markets such as Brazil, India, Africa.
Ginni Rometty

Work, Help, Everything

Italy advocates the adoption of a legal instrument on cultural diversity, guaranteeing every country the protection of its own historical identity and the uniqueness of its physical and intangible cultural heritage.
Carlo Azeglio Ciampi

Legal, Country, Physical

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