Adoptee Quotes

#1. The odds against an adoptee ending up as the child of the President of the United States are staggering. But then, so are the odds against a movie star becoming president.

Michael Reagan

#2. The adoptee benefits because his collective parents are permitted to grow secure in their particular roles in his life. His adoptive parents are not unwittingly encouraged to compete to possess him. Nor are his birth parents punished and banished from a place in his life.

Kathleen Silber

#3. Adoptee rights are everyone's rights, and they deserve to be protected.

DaShanne Stokes

#4. The life of an adoptee is like an ancient voyager who searches for the unknown. The stars guided their destiny. They had their sights on the wonders that lay ahead of them. An adoptee travels in the opposite direction.

Diamond Mike Watson

#5. You think you know someone, but that person always changes, and you keep changing, too. I understood it suddenly, how that's what being alive means. Our own invisible plates shifting inside of our bodies, beginning to align into the people we are going to become.

Ava Dellaira

#6. I know of no one who would be a good High Commissioner of Palestine except God.

John Chancellor

#7. Lenders look at potential borrowers from many angles before extending credit: How much of its income will a household need to put into debt repayment? How large is the down payment? Does the borrower have a job with a stable income? What is the borrower's credit score?

Mark Zandi

#8. A coerced choice does not reflect virtue, only compliance.

Wendy McElroy

#9. You're supposed to remember, and still forgive.

Delta Burke

#10. 'Doctor Who' was the first mythology that I learned, before ever I ran into Greek or Roman or Egyptian mythologies.

Neil Gaiman

#11. The wrinkled pages of the Bible crackled as Mom leafed back to the beginning of Matthew. I had always felt I was conceived from the powers of the universe. Maybe I was chosen to fulfill a divine mission.

Diamond Mike Watson

#12. Vincent to Kate: The day I stop seeing you as one of the strongest people I know is the day I wake up human.

Amy Plum

#13. It is far more difficult, I assure you, to live for the truth than to die for it.

Horace Mann

#14. It is salutary to train oneself to be no more affected by censure than by praise.

W. Somerset Maugham

#15. Never give out while there is hope; but hope not beyond reason, for that shows more desire than judgement.

William Penn

#16. Laws forbidding adoptees from accessing their original birth certificates are outdated and need to be changed today.

DaShanne Stokes

#17. Saying hello to something new means saying good-bye to something old and loved.

Phyllis Reynolds Naylor

#18. Why treat people only to send them back to the conditions that made them sick in the first place?

Rishi Manchanda

#19. I'm no actor and I never have been. What people see on the screen is me.

Clark Gable

#20. Other people may not have had high expectations for me ... but I had high expectations for myself.

Shannon Miller

#21. The thought of only being a creature of the present and the past was troubling. I longed for a future too, with hope in it. The desire to be free, awakened my determination to act, to think, and to SPEAK.

Frederick Douglass