Adoption Quotes

• It's important to realize that we adopt not because we are rescuers. No. We adopt because we are rescued.

  David Platt

  Inspirational, Important, Realizing

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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, Parent

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

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• Was it the act of giving birth that made you a mother? Did you lose that label when you relinquished your child? If people were measured by their deeds, on the one hand, I had a woman who had chosen to give me up; on the other, I had a woman who'd sat up with me at night when I was sick as a child, who'd cried with me over boyfriends, who'd clapped fiercely at my law school graduation. Which acts made you more of a mother? Both, I realized. Being a parent wasn't just about bearing a child. It was about bearing witness to its life.

  Jodi Picoult

  Mother, Children, School

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

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• 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

  Children, Spring, Love Is

  FaceBook post by Nia Vardalos from Feb 14, 2013

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• Do you want to do something beautiful for God? There is a person who needs you. This is your chance.

  Mother Teresa

  Beautiful, Needs, Want

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• Biology is the least of what makes someone a mother.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Inspirational, Mothers Day, Mom

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• Every child deserves a home and love. Period.

  Dave Thomas

  Children, Home, And Love

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

  Mariska Hargitay

  Heart, Faint Of Heart, Adopting

  "My Faith Pulled Me Through" by Sheila Weller, www.goodhousekeeping.com. April 4, 2012.

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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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• 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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• In all of us there is a hunger, marrow-deep, to know our heritage- to know who we are and where we have come from. Without this enriching knowledge, there is a hollow yearning. No matter what our attainments in life, there is still a vacuum, an emptiness, and the most disquieting loneliness.

  Alex Haley

  Loneliness, Vacuums, Heritage

  Alex Haley (2007). “Alex Haley: The Man Who Traced America's Roots”, Reader's Digest Association

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• Every great movement must experience three stages: ridicule, discussion, adoption.

  John Stuart Mill

  Inspirational, Democracy, Experience

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• I think adoption is a blessing all around when it's done right.

  Hugh Jackman

  Inspirational, Blessing, Thinking

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• 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

  Parent, Different, Kind

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• I found real fulfillment through my children and through adopting special needs kids.

  Mia Farrow

  Children, Real, Kids

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• The bond that links your true family is not one of blood, but of respect and joy in each other's life.

  Richard Bach

  Life, Family, Spiritual

  Richard Bach (2012). “Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah”, p.65, Delta

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• 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

  Children, Home, Giving

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• Emotional sickness is avoiding reality at any cost. Emotional health is facing reality at any cost.

  M. Scott Peck

  Motivational, Reality, Emotional

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• People cannot endure inexplicable worthlessness

  John D. MacDonald

  People, Inexplicable, Endure

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• When we adopt—and when we encourage a culture of adoption in our churches and communities—we’re picturing something that’s true about our God. We, like Jesus, see what our Father is doing and do likewise (John 5:19). And what our Father is doing, it turns out, is fighting for orphans, making them sons and daughters.

  Russell D. Moore

  Daughter, Jesus, Father

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• Having been adopted, I really have a strong sense- a necessity almost- for stability, a foundation where my family is concerned. [Success] would be meaningless without anyone to share it with.

  Faith Hill

  Strong, Foundation, Would Be

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• There are so many kids in this world, and in this country, that need homes. And so we're perfectly content to look into adoption one day, if for some reason we aren't able to have a biological child.

  Lisa Ling

  Country, Children, Kids

  "Lisa Ling Helps Women Share Compassion Through Secrets". "Tell Me More" with Michel Martin, www.npr.org. December 24, 2010.

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• Frankly, I adore your catchy slogan, "Adoption, not Abortion," although no one has been able to figure out, even with expert counseling, how to use adoption as a method of birth control, or at what time of the month it is most effective.

  Barbara Ehrenreich

  Abortion, Atheism, Experts

  Barbara Ehrenreich (1990). “WORST YEARS OF OUR LIVES”, Pantheon

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• 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

  Practice, Analysis, Pressure

  Edward Sapir (1949). “Culture, Language, and Personality: Selected Essays”, p.64, Univ of California Press

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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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