Adoption Quotes - Page 11

• Big ideas are little ideas that no-one killed too soon.

  Seth Godin

  Acceptance, Ideas, Rejection

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• He who rejects change is the architect of decay.

  Harold Wilson

  Change, Life Changing, Acceptance

  Speech to the Consultative Assembly of the Council of Europe, Strasbourg, France, quoted in "The New York Times", (p. 12), January 24, 1967.

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• The best ideas lose their owners and take on lives of their own.

  Nolan Bushnell

  Acceptance, Ideas, Rejection

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

  Ivanka Trump

  Mom, Thinking, Threatened

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• We are fighting abortion through adoption.

  Mother Teresa

  Fighting, Abortion

  Source: mattersindia.com

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• The number who actually consented to the Constitution of the United States, at the first, was very small. Considered as the act of the whole people, the adoption of the Constitution was the merest farce and imposture, binding upon nobody.

  Lysander Spooner

  Numbers, People, United States

  Lysander Spooner (1867). “No Treason: No. 1-”

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

  Daunte Culpepper

  Successful, Adopted, Testament

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

  Jessica Simpson

  Thinking, Done, Unbelievable

  "Jessica Simpson May Want to Adopt Kids". www.foxnews.com. March 29, 2006.

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• To us, waiting is wasting. To God waiting is working.

  Louie Giglio

  Inspirational, God, Religious

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• One person can make a difference, and everyone should try.

  John F. Kennedy

  Inspirational, Bullying, Morning

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• In my view, the pro-life movement at this point should focus on seeking to reduce the number of abortions. At times it will require political education and legal fights, at times it will require education and the establishment of alternatives to abortion, such as adoption centers. Unfortunately, such measures are sometimes opposed by so-called hard-liners in the pro-life movement. These hard-liners are fools. Because they want to outlaw all abortions, they refuse to settle for stopping some abortions; the consequence is that they end up preventing no abortions.

  Dinesh D'Souza

  Fighting, Views, Numbers

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• 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.

  Jodi Picoult

  Clueless, Term, Adopted

  Jodi Picoult (2012). “The Jodi Picoult Collection #4: Change of Heart, Handle with Care, and House Rules”, p.467, Simon and Schuster

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• i was raped, too sexually assaulted in seventh grade, tenth grade. the summer after graduation, at a party i was 16 i was 14 i was 5 and he did it for three years i loved him i didn't even know him he was my best friend's brother, my grandfather, father, mommy's boyfriend, my date, my cousin, my coach i met him for the first time that night and- 4 guys took turns, and- i'm a boy and this happened to me, and- ...i got pregnant i gave up my daughter for adoption... did it happen to you, too?

  Laurie Halse Anderson

  Summer, Daughter, Cousin

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• This is an historic day for American public education and for our nation as we begin the journey to level the academic playing field for every student. State Boards of Education are ready to play an active role in this process and some have already started the progression of adoption. We are eager to move this agenda forward.

  William Bradley Bryant

  Educational, Moving, Journey

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• There is no disease, bodily or mental, which adoption of vegetable diet, and pure water has not infallibly mitigated, wherever the experiment has been fairly tried.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Vegetables, Water, Disease

  Queen Mab Notes

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• CAFE standards have little impact on greenhouse gas emissions, and the environmental benefits of increasing CAFE standards are frequently overstated. Their impact on human health is more certain: CAFE standards have resulted in tens of thousands of deaths since their adoption.

  Amy Ridenour

  Impact, Environmental, Cafes

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• At the time of the adoption of the constitution, and of the amendment to it, now under consideration [i.e., the First Amendment], the general, if not the universal sentiment in America was, that Christianity ought to receive encouragement from the state, so far as was not incompatible with the private rights of conscience, and the freedom of religious worship.

  Joseph Story

  Religious, Encouragement, America

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• Healthcare has been the last major industry that hasn't been touched by technology in terms of productivity and consumer adoption in the way so many other industries have.

  John Sculley

  Technology, Way, Lasts

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• There is a natural opposition among men to anything they have not thought of themselves.

  Barnes Wallis

  Acceptance, Men, Rejection

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• Were I asked to focus the New Testament message in three words, my proposal would be ADOPTION THROUGH PROPITIATION, and I do not expect ever to meet a richer or more pregnant summary of the gospel than that.

  J. I. Packer

  Focus, Would Be, Three

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• A crisis of confidence is so common that it should be considered a universal part of the adoption process.

  Patricia McConnell

  Common, Process, Should

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• Adoption is rewarding. But the process, as we have already detailed in some particulars, can be expensive, exhausting, and hard to sustain on a dream, much less a whim.

  Scott Simon

  Dream, Process, Whim

  Scott Simon (2010). “Baby, We Were Meant for Each Other: In Praise of Adoption”, p.49, Random House

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• Legal ethics is a misnomer ... lawyers conducting themselves legally are not necessarily conducting themselves morally ."...and ..."The zero sum nature of the legal system, combined with the universal adoption of zealotry as the marching orders of practioners and prosecutors, transforms the moral mission of the legal system from one of truth-seeking, storytelling, and justice, to one of fabrication, distortion, and manipulation in pursuit of victory. These victories, however, make us all losers.

  Thane Rosenbaum

  Zero, Order, Justice

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• 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

  Horse, Elephants, Waiting

  Scott Simon (2010). “Baby, We Were Meant for Each Other: In Praise of Adoption”, p.76, Random House

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• The adoption of agriculture, supposedly our most decisive step toward a better life, was in many ways a catastrophe from which we have never recovered.

  Jared Diamond

  Agriculture, Way, Steps

  "The Worst Mistake in the History of the Human Race" by Jared Diamond, discovermagazine.com. May 01, 1999.

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