Adopted Little Sister Quotes

#1. Patroclus, he says, Patroclus. Patroclus. Over and over until it is sound only.

Madeline Miller

#2. Tolerance means weakness," Eicke wrote in the introduction to his rules. "In the light of this conception, punishment will be mercilessly handed out whenever the interests of the fatherland warrant it.

Erik Larson

#3. Security is elusive. It's impossible. We all die. We all get old. We all get sick. People leave us. People change us. Nothing is secure.

Eve Ensler

#4. My sister is Korean and my parents adopted her about three years before I was born and that is how I grew up.

Katherine Heigl

#5. I read five books on the Constitution. My favorite was 'Plain, Honest Men' by Richard Beeman. I went on a science jag in the same way. I kept getting in arguments about evolution and being bested. So I read Charles Darwin's 'On the Origin of the Species,' a fantastic book that is not that difficult.

Denis O'Hare

#6. What did you do to this?' he asked in a horrorstruck voice.
'It didn't want to come out of the dashboard.'
'So you felt the need to torture it?'
'You know how I am with tools. No pain was inflicted intentionally.'
He shook his head, his face a mask of faux tragedy. 'You killed it.

Stephenie Meyer

#7. The fear of being ridiculed is gruesome than death.

Aniruddha Sastikar

#8. You get what you order in life.

Alfred Armand Montapert

#9. Being of service does not mean we are less than or subservient to anyone or anything. It's a way of being that invites grace and abundance in our daily lives. Being of service means giving to others without expecting anything back.

Zeina Smidi

#10. I really loved what I was doing being creative and being funny as a stand-up comedian.

Chris Tucker

#11. We all have set-backs, use yours as fuel to burn your desire and dedication.

Jerry Gladstone

#12. Poetry
...
... a place for the genuine,
Hands that can grasp, eyes
that can dilate, hair that can rise

Marianne Moore

#13. I had a sister who was killed in a motorcycle wreck when I was around 4 years old. My parents adopted her son, and so my nephew became my brother. He was three years older than me, so through him, I was exposed to hip-hop.

Big Smo

#14. The first four months of my life were spent in care, before I was adopted by my wonderful parents - my mum and dad - Ernie and Christine. They went on to adopt my sister, who is profoundly deaf, and invested both of us with a love and support that informs everything I do today.

Michael Gove

#15. The writer was able to capture many of the feelings that I actually had as a abandoned and then adopted child. Actually I have just finished my own story along with my sister that we found each other after 56 years and what a journey.

David M. Brodzinsky

#16. I came into this environment where there was so much love, so much positive energy. I never heard my parents say, 'We have adopted kids.' The minute my sister Linda and I landed in Sweden, we were their kids.

Marcus Samuelsson

#17. This wasn't the first time I'd been fooled by a woman. Probably wouldn't be the last.

Bill H. Myers

#18. I have my three brothers, and then I have my adopted sister from El Salvador, who is actually the oldest. My brother and I were already born, and then my parents adopted my sister from El Salvador during the war and had two more kids.

Carrie Coon

#19. Reading is not work, not a chore, not a drudgery; reading is the most joyful thing, yet, in the world.

James Patterson