Adopted Children Quotes

• The mother of the year should be a sterilized woman with two adopted children

  Paul R. Ehrlich

  Mother, Children, Years

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• Every child deserves a home and love. Period.

  Dave Thomas

  Children, Home, Adoption

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• Somehow destiny comes into play. These children end up with you and you end up with them. It's something quite magical.

  Nicole Kidman

  Inspirational, Children, Destiny

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• 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

  Adoption, Doe, Want

  Scott Simon (2010). “Baby, We Were Meant for Each Other: In Praise of Adoption”, p.7, Random House

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• 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.

  James Earl Jones

  Gratitude, Children, Grandparent

  "The Voice of Triumph". Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. June 29, 1996.

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• Being a parent wasn't just about bearing a child. It was about bearing witness to its life.

  Jodi Picoult

  Inspirational, Children, Adoption

  Jodi Picoult (2009). “Handle with Care: A Novel”, p.136, Simon and Schuster

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• 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

  Inspirational, Children, Two

  Dale Evans Rogers (1971). “DALE My Personal Picture Album”

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• The records of adopted children are sealed in California. That seal is considered inviolable... The judge ruled that, because I was famous, he didn't have the same rights as other kids.

  Danielle Steel

  Children, Kids, Rights

  "Lonely heart". Interview with Karen Angel, www.theage.com.au. March 19, 2006.

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• He who can reach a child's heart can reach the worlds heart.

  Rudyard Kipling

  Children, Heart, Adoption

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• 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

  Children, Adoption, Looks

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• 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

  Inspiring, Wisdom, Stars

  "Desiderata" (1927)

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• 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

  Children, Home, Gay

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• I cannot see him. I cannot have a relationship with my father and be morally consistent... I lived with all these adopted children, so they are my family. To say Soon-Yi was not my sister is an insult to all adopted children.

  Ronan Farrow

  Children, Father, Insult

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• You often hear attacks on international adoption as robbing a child of his or her culture, and that's both true and false. It's true that an internationally adopted child loses the rich background of history and religion and culture and language that the child was born into, but the cruel fact is that most children don't have access to the local, beautiful culture within an orphanage.

  Melissa Fay Greene

  Beautiful, Children, Adoption

  Source: www.cnn.com

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

  John McCain

  Children, Joy, Parent

  John McCain at The Third Presidential Candidates Debate at Hofstra University at Hempstead, New York, www.nytimes.com. October 15, 2008.

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• Virtue is the daughter of Religion; Repentance, her adopted child,--a poor orphan who, without the asylum which she offers, would not know where to hide her sole treasure, her tears!

  Sophie Swetchine

  Daughter, Children, Tears

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• The gospel of submission, commitment, decision, and victorious living is not good news about what God has achieved but a demand to save ourselves with God’s help. Besides the fact that Scripture never refers to the gospel as having a personal relationship with Jesus nor defines faith as a decision to ask Jesus to come into our heart, this concept of salvation fails to realize that everyone has a personal relationship with God already: either as a condemned criminal standing before a righteous judge or as a justified coheir with Christ and adopted child of the Father.

  Michael Horton

  Jesus, Children, Father

  Michael Horton (2008). “Christless Christianity: The Alternative Gospel of the American Church”, p.74, Baker Books

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• Today Saint Paul has told us that in Christ we have become God’s adopted children, brothers and sisters in Christ.  This is who we are.  This is our identity.

  Pope Francis

  Brother, Children, Identity

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• It actually got me upset reading about adopted children. They become junkies or criminals or actors. I wanted to write a book from the children’s point of view.

  Michael Nyqvist

  Children, Book, Reading

  "‘Mission: Impossible 4’ Villain Michael Nyqvist Talks New Movie, Memoir". Interview with Nicki Gostin, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 20, 2011.

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• For God, having given her power over his only-begotten and natural Son, also gave her power over his adopted children - not only in what concerns their body - which would be of little account - but also in what concerns their soul.

  Louis de Montfort

  Religious, Children, Son

  Saint Louis de Montfort (2016). “True Devotion to Mary: Saint Louis de Montfort”, p.24, Danka

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