Adopt A Child Quotes

#1. If I was madly in love with someone who offered the opportunity to spend our lives together, I would love to have a child or adopt a child.

Charlie Rose

#2. I would love to adopt a child from a Spanish speaking country, because I want to have Spanish in the home.

Valerie Cruz

#3. My life has been shaped by the decision two people made over 24 years ago. They decided to adopt a child. They got me, and I got a chance at the kind of life all children deserve.

Karen Fowler

#4. To Western parents that want to adopt a child, I would say to people that money is not everything, wealth does not matter.

Lemn Sissay

#5. There are many children who need help, and anyone who wants to reach out and adopt a child from foster care or from a Russian orphanage should reach out and do it.

Melissa Fay Greene

#6. I'm from Naples. I was born in a poor neighborhood and I always, in my heart, felt like it would be amazing to be able to adopt a child from Naples. I could give someone the opportunity I had. I would love to give back in that way and pay it forward.

Giuliana Rancic

#7. and she had been unable to have any. So by 1955, after nine years of marriage, they were looking to adopt a child.

Walter Isaacson

#8. If it feels right to recycle our waste or purchase solar panels for our house or rescue an animal or adopt a child or stop someone from hurting another or donate our time, money, or goods to charity, then do it.

Bryan Kest

#9. The reality is that most gay couples don't want to adopt a child. Those who do, though, are often prepared to devote themselves entirely to their adoptive child.

Jens Spahn

#10. What I find problematic is the suggestion that when, say, Madonna adopts an African child, she is saving Africa. It's not that simple. You have to do more than go there and adopt a child or show us pictures of children with flies in their eyes. That simplifies Africa.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

#11. A child is not a bargaining chip or a learning tool. Your focus, if you adopt a child of a different race, should be on nurturing and protecting your child from bigotry, not deploying him or her as an anti-racist Mr. Fix-It.

Mallory Ortberg

#12. I really want to adopt a child ... I want to be called 'Mom.' It really is the most beautiful word in the English language.

Patti Stanger

#13. My dream is to have a baby, not to adopt one, because I am not up to it and I don't feel strong enough. I want my own child, a biological child, the fruit of my sperm, conceived through artificial insemination because it wouldn't make sense for me to make love to a woman I don't love.

Stefano Gabbana

#14. I'd like to adopt an older child, maybe 5 years old.

Patti Stanger

#15. Training began with children who were taught to sit still and enjoy it. They were taught to use their organs of smell, to look where there was apparently nothing to see, and to listen intently when all seemingly was quiet. A child who cannot sit still is a half-developed child.

Luther Standing Bear

#16. Adults must aim to diminish their egocentric and authoritarian attitude toward the child and adopt a passive attitude in order to aid in his devleopment.

Paula Polk Lillard

#17. Poetry is the image of man and nature

William Wordsworth

#18. Adopting a child is a blessing. Those who perceive themselves as "doing someone a favor" are not ready to adopt. Pity is such an insult. When making a lifetime commitment to someone, it's no time to let guilt or excessive altruism take over.

William R. Cutrer

#19. You don't adopt a single child, you adopt the pain of the world. It's a litmus test of your incapacity.

Margaret Mazzantini

#20. Oh!" cried the young man. "A little deaf child! How sweet! We should adopt her and teach her to write symphonies. She'll be all the rage in town. I'll buy her a powdered wig and a tricorne!

Catherynne M Valente

#21. I'd love to adopt, but having a daughter, Daisy, who's in the middle of her teens, I'm now thinking: Is this a time to start all over again or is this a time to realise those child-rearing years are over?

Joely Richardson

#22. Well-apparel'd April on the heel
Of limping Winter treads.

William Shakespeare

#23. A person at an eminent position does not need money. A chairman of a big company or something like that, I can't buy him and the country does not have enough money to 'buy' him.

Arnon Milchan

#24. I'd like another child, and maybe if it doesn't work out, I'll adopt.

Courteney Cox

#25. No bird in a cage ever speaks. What is there to say? The sky is everywhere, churning above its head, blue and endless, calling out to it. But the caged bird can't answer anything except 'I cannot'.

Sonya Hartnett

#26. I always questioned if I was CALLED to adopt, but then I realized no child was ever CALLED to be an orphan.

David Platt

#27. I always said if it gets to a point where I really want a child, I would adopt; kids are amazing, so I'm getting the selfish stuff out of my system so when I have them I can say, 'Go, run. I have plenty of money, go play.'

Sandra Bullock

#28. There is also an epidemic of infertility in this country. There are more women who have put off child-bearing in favor of their professional lives. For them, the only way they are going to have a family is to adopt from China.

Iris Chang

#29. To know whom to write for is to know how to write.

Virginia Woolf

#30. I think I can allow myself one child - and from then on, I think I would have to adopt. It makes sense not to add to the population problem.

Evangeline Lilly

#31. The thing I want more than anything else? I want to have children. I used to feel for every child I had, I would adopt another.

Marilyn Monroe

#32. But Nita had always seen having a child as selfish. Why bring another soul into this world, she'd say, when there are so many out there that need our help?

Ramez Naam

#33. when you are a child you unconsciously adopt certain beliefs. Yet, there comes
the necessity to upgrade these beliefs as you grow older.

Derric Yuh Ndim

#34. It wasn't easy to adopt an American child. Actually it's quite simple, but finding out how to do it was the hard part.

Nia Vardalos