Adopted Quotes

All I wanted to do was please my adopted family.

I've always known I was adopted.

We were proposing, in a sense, that the rest of the world be made safe for American ideas, as they adopted intellectual property rights that gave patent protection to our very innovative economy.

On November 15th, 2008, in over 300 cities, 4,000 children were adopted in one day.

Those who govern, having much business on their hands, do not generally like to take the trouble of considering and carrying into execution new projects. The best public measures are therefore seldom adopted from previous wisdom, but forced by the occasion.

I don't know where Bush is going - yet. But, Sharon obviously - I wrote somewhere in the last several months, that Sharon has adopted, essentially, the position of the Labor Party: that the Palestinians are here to stay.

The uniform makes for brotherhood, since when universally adopted it covers up all differences of class and country.

Men of integrity are generally pretty obstinate, in adhering to an opinion once adopted.

Where else but in America could a schoolteacher from Kansas City end up the governor of her adopted state?

To be alive, to be able to see, to walk, to have houses, music, paintings - it's all a miracle. I have adopted the technique of living life miracle to miracle.

I have three adopted children with Phil, and for years I was fighting in court with him over being able to see my kids. I was always going back and forth to California, going to court, and I was never able to get a project going.

I separated from the Southern Baptists when they adopted the discriminatory attitude towards women, because I believe what Paul taught in Galatians that there is no distinction in God's eyes between men and women, slaves and masters, Jews and non-Jews - everybody is created equally in the eyes of God.

The friend that I based Heffer on was adopted, and it all played into his total personality.