Top 51 Adoption Children Quotes
#1. Yet the evidence, from twin studies, from the children of immigrants and from adoption studies, is now staring us in the face: people get their personalities from their genes and from their peers, not from their parents.
Matt Ridley
#2. Not sure how much longer she can continue her fight for the children or how much more of her there is to give, she pledged to keep going until she no longer can.
Kay Bratt
#3. The nurse pointed out that identical twins were already clones in a sense, and Mother Emmanuel suggested that the soul to worry about belonged to the person who would have himself cloned at great expense when so many unwanted children were going hungry.
Mark Salzman
#5. Fear gripped me as my children and I arrived at the Ukraine-Moldova border crossing.
Kim De Blecourt
#6. They had always dreamed of a large family but have now realized that they would be equally blessed to have even one child.
Jane Green
#7. That so many thousands of children around the world are available for adoption is a sign of our impoverished humanity. That so many persons around the world open their hearts and homes each year to embrace a few of these children is a lasting testimony to humanity's enduring nobility.
Deborah A. Beasley
#9. Every child deserves a home and love. Period.
Dave Thomas
#10. Gay adoption is discrimination against children
Pope Francis
#11. Too many children in foster care are falling through cracks. Be a hero, take the time learn about adoption today.
Bruce Willis
#12. People think that LGBTs adopting children will hurt them, but it's not being in loving homes that hurts children most.
DaShanne Stokes
#13. We are entitled to personal revelation, especially when it concerns our own or our children's lives and what has been foreordained for them. This is true whether our children number one or ten, and whether the Lord sends them to us through natural means or adoption. This is a glorious knowledge.
Richard M. Eyre
#14. I don't have children, but I have 17 nieces and nephews, and they more than make up for anything that I can do. I have a stepdaughter, and I adore her to pieces, and I think about adoption. There are so many kids at different ages and stages that need families.
Lauren Velez
#16. What would it be like to feel so attached, so intrinsically bonded, so protective of one's own best connection with time and the ages, of generations past and future, of another human life, of their time?
J.R. Tompkins
#17. But wouldn't we see more women willing to give their children life if they'd seen with their own eyes what an adoption culture looks like? And wouldn't these mothers and fathers, who may themselves feel unwanted, be a bit more ready to hear our talk about a kingdom where all are welcomed?
Russell D. Moore
#18. Time and experience have taught me a priceless lesson: Any child you take for your own becomes your own if you give of yourself to that child. I have born two children and had seven others by adoption, and they are all my children, equally beloved and precious.
Dale Evans
#19. We look at adoption as a very sacred exchange. It is not done lightly on either side. I would dedicate my life for this child.
Jamie Lee Curtis
#20. I mean, there are lots of people who get married who can't have children. To take a state that does allow adoption and say-there, what is the justification for saying no gay marriage? Certainly not the one you said, is it?
Stephen Breyer
#21. There's nothing more important in this world than caring for a child.
Seth Adam Smith
#22. The primary purpose of adoption is to provide a home for a child, not a child for a home.
Virginia Linder
#23. Through adoption, Americans can forever change not only a child's life but also their own.
George W. Bush
#24. You are real! Everyone has to be different or the world would be really boring. If we all looked the same, then no one could tell us apart. -Janelle
Tara Michener
#25. 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
#26. What makes a family is neither the absence of tragedy nor the ability to hide from misfortune, but the courage to overcome it and, from that broken past, write a new beginning.
Steve Pemberton
#27. He's a unique dog, Mr. Bell had said. There is no other in the world that looks or acts just like him.
Martha McKiever
#28. That is very important to me, to make fertility mainstream so everyone understands it. If you want to have your miracle child, there are options: adoption, surrogacy, fertility procedures. It is also sadly very expensive, and not all insurance companies cover it.
Cindy Margolis
#29. Contrary to what some parents might believe or hope for, children are not born a blank slate. Rather, they come into the world with predetermined abilities, proclivities and temperaments that nurturing parents may be able to foster or modify, but can rarely reverse.
Jane Brody
#30. Thus bound together, they sheltered the child from the cold, dark night, enveloping him in warmth.
Seth Adam Smith
#31. 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
#32. We must work tirelessly to make sure that every boy and girl in America who is up for adoption has a family waiting to reach him or her ... This is a season of miracles, and perhaps there is no greater miracle than finding a loving home for a child who needs one.
William J. Clinton
#33. For decades, I have supported adoption, and have helped tens of thousands of children worldwide.
Pat Robertson
#35. After all, children are children no matter their background.
Julie Andrews
#36. I think it is a worthy goal in America to have every child protected by law and welcomed in life. I also think we ought to continue to have good adoption law as an alternative to abortion.
George W. Bush
#37. Read Talking With Young Children About Adoption by Susan Fisher, M.D., and Mary Watkins, Ph.D. (Yale University Press, 1995).
Sherrie Eldridge
#38. Orphans? Would you really? Adopt children?"
"There are advantages. If they turn out badly, we can blame their natural parents. We can also choose our own assortment of ages and genders. We can even get them ready-grown, if we wish.
Loretta Chase
#39. I have never left you. And I never told you you couldn't go outside. Take your children and go outside and play and shop. Resume your life. What are you afraid of?
Kim De Blecourt
#40. And now the fight continues for all orphans and children who need families who will love and care for them - until they too can all go home.
Kim De Blecourt
#41. I don't know anyone who remembers meeting their parents when they were a baby so i'm just like everybody else. -Zoey (100% Real)
Tara Michener
#42. All the criticism is ultimately a blessing in disguise. Because now people know about Malawi [due to the child adoption]. And now people know about the orphans there. And hopefully it's gonna turn around. And a positive is gonna come out of the negative.
Madonna Ciccone
#43. The only [child welfare] systems that succeed emphasize family preservation.
Richard Wexler
#44. If it gets to the point where I actually physically cannot have a child, there's plenty of children in the world that need a stable home and loving parent. I'm so down for adoption.
Joy Bryant
#45. The children we bring into the world are small replicas of ourselves and our husbands; the pride and joy of grandfathers and grandmothers. We dream of being mothers, and for most of us that dreams are realised naturally. For this is the Miracle of Life.
Azelene Williams
#46. Inner child work is essential. It's the essence of growth as a whole person
Cheryl Richardson
#47. He who can reach a child's heart can reach the worlds heart.
Rudyard Kipling
#48. I believe there are too many children who need loving parents to deny one group of people adoption rights. A child will benefit from a healthy, loving home, whether the parents are gay or not.
Barack Obama
#49. At that point the child is eligible for adoption and can be placed with a family that can love the child and can raise the child.
Henry Ford
#50. There," she said. She rocked him back and forth. "There, you foolish, beautiful boy who wants to change the world. There, there. And who could keep from loving you? Who could keep from loving a boy so brave and true?
Kate DiCamillo
#51. I think open adoption is a great idea, because it allows a relationship between the birth mother and her child so that the kid isn't like, "Where did I come from?" And to have it be like, "Look, you have a bunch of people who love you."
Kathleen Hanna
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