Adoptee Rights Quotes

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

DaShanne Stokes

#2. All life is a nap. The more naps you take the better.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#3. If somebody gave you several thousand dollars and nothin' to do but write, would you be a writer then? Would you tell your stories, your family's stories, then?

Dorothy Allison

#4. A truth does not become greater by repetition.

Maimonides

#5. Like the whale who swallowed Jonah, we have engulfed all national dishes known to civilized man and made them in delight, if not in name our own.

Louis Pullig De Gouy

#6. I suspected, however, that I wasn't homesick for anything I would find at home when I returned. The longing was for what I wouldn't find: the past and all the people and places there were lost to me.

Alice Steinbach

#7. No country that lets its leaders lie like that deserves a single soldier to die for it." She

Ben Fountain

#8. I occasionally get glimpses, but I have to reprioritize, because that's how it naturally progresses - things like family, responsibilities, and your job all take precedent.

Drew Magary

#9. Probably been sure he'd got the right god, the right king, the right cause. Everyone finds a way to make their side the right one, after all.

Joe Abercrombie

#10. We forgive but not forgotten

Nelson Mandela

#11. I have great faith that Heaven's there and I'll see my brothers and my mom and dad when I get there.

Ernie Harwell

#12. While we do not ask for accolades, we must defend ourselves from repeated public attacks.

Andrew Thomas

#13. Any idiot can be brave, but courage is about knowing what's at stake, and moving forward anyway.

Meg Ryan

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 Laws forbidding adoptees from accessing their original birth certificates are outdated and need to be changed today.

DaShanne Stokes

#15. Emily said ... Well, I read that it's important to sleep. While you sleep, the hippopotamus in your brain replays things that happend during the day, e.g. what you studied. So therefore it remembers it for you.

Jaclyn Moriarty

#16. By nature you instinctively seek out the middle road, midway between dangerous passion and soul-destroying indifference.

Richard Russo

#17. Time is all we have. One lifetime under this name to produce a body of work that says, This is how I saw the world. Your work is worthy of whatever time it takes.

Jan Phillips