I Was Adopted Quotes

#1. I was adopted when I was a baby. My mother carried me for nine months and she held me for one hour, and didn't see me again.

Michael Franti

#2. I was adopted into this incredible home, a loving, positive environment, yet I had this yearning, this kind of darkness that was also inside me.

Faith Hill

#3. Even though I only just found out that I was adopted, God has always known, and he has always loved me. And since that has never changed, therefore nothing has essentially changed. I may not be who I thought I was, but I still am who he says I am. I am more. I am loved. I am his.

Christine Caine

#4. I was adopted my black Americans, I feel that I'm a 'Hybrid'. When I'm around Africans'I suddenly feel very black American. And when I'm around black Americans'I feel very North African. North Africa and black America are both the creators of Kola Boof.

Kola Boof

#5. I've had a lot of different lives. I was adopted, I grew up in Nebraska, and then I went to Northwestern ... Then I had this really extraordinary, different life than my parents.

Dan Chaon

#6. I was adopted into the Muchquauh, the Bear Clan, of the Muhheconneok people when I reached manhood. The grannies got so tired of my bein' forever at their fires eatin' their food that they decided to make me part of the family so they could quit treatin 'me like a guest and send me out to fish.

Pamela Clare

#7. My father has passed away. He was African-American. My mother is white. So I was adopted by a couple that was of a similar dynamic as my biological parents.

Keegan-Michael Key

#8. Since I was five, I've known that I was adopted, which is a politically correct term for being clueless about one's own origins.

Jodi Picoult

#9. You may not know it, but I was adopted as a baby by my wonderful parents, Allan and Margaret Atkins of Cumberland Gap, Tenn.

Rodney Atkins

#10. 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

#11. I moved up over Lower East Side and I was adopted by eight foster parents; I lived all over New York City with these parents, man, till I was about ten years old.

Gregory Corso

#12. I was adopted by two amazing people: a Salvadoran mother and a white father who were incredibly supportive of me and my work. I am eternally grateful for them.

Gina Prince-Bythewood

#13. My grandmother got approved right before the law changed, so naturally she got grandfathered in. In related news, but completely unrelated, I was adopted.

Jarod Kintz

#14. I was adopted legally around age three, but it's not like this thing I think about when I wake up every day. I was adopted by my foster parents, so I was comfortable with them. I wasn't in this alien place.

Angel Olsen

#15. I did nothing to deserve God's love; in fact, I was living as an orphan, without hope. Yet God chose to pursue a relationship with me, and through the death of his son Jesus, I was adopted into God's family.

Steven Curtis Chapman

#16. I was adopted by a Salvadorian mother and a white father. Growing up having complete identity crisis. Then my search for my mother and trying to find out why I was given up, and how could a mother give up a child, then finding out the circumstances of my birth was pretty traumatizing.

Gina Prince-Bythewood

#17. I've always known I was adopted.

Emily Procter

#18. I was raised in Brooklyn and in Baltimore. My father was a bookkeeper. When I was 36 years old, my mother told me I was adopted.

Harry Frankfurt

#19. I adopted the theory of reincarnation when I was 26. Genius is experience. Some think to seem that it is a gift or talent, but it is the fruit of long experience in many lives

Henry Ford

#20. I used to joke for years that I was a black man. I adopted the black culture, the black race. I married a black woman, and I had black kids. I always considered myself a 'brother.'

Tommy Chong

#21. I was a tomboy and I didn't have a bunch of brothers but I always wanted them and so I sort of adopted a few of my great friends to be my brother.

Olivia Wilde

#22. Each university should have a Young Scholars' Committee. I became the chairman of this Committee, and immediately it was permitted to have this plan officially adopted.

Anatoly Chubais

#23. 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

#24. The records of adopted children are sealed in California. That seal is considered inviolable ... The judge ruled that, because I was famous, he didn't have the same rights as other kids.

Danielle Steel

#25. My parents adopted me, and then, by the age of four or five, I was asking all sorts of questions, and they found themselves with a son who was interested in the sorts of things that they valued but weren't natural to them.

Michael Gove

#26. I admired how perfectly matched they seemed to be, and I started to wonder about my own, personal definition of love. Had it been wrong? Had it been the cause of my misery all these years? Was it possible that I had somehow adopted a skewed version somewhere along the way?

Morgan Parker

#27. 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

#28. It might not be perfect, but the fundamental stance I adopted with regard to my home was to accept it, problems and all, because it was something I myself had chosen. If it had problems, these were almost certainly problems that had originated within me.

Haruki Murakami

#29. It is natural for a translator to be prejudiced in favour of his adopted work. More impartial readers may not be so much struck with the beauties of this piece as I was. Yet I am not blind to my author's defects.

Horace Walpole

#30. I was growing up with a single mom who'd be at work when I came home from school. So I'd just turn on the TV. I grew up watching old Clint Eastwood westerns. I adopted him as one of my male role models.

Bailey Chase

#31. 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

#32. I'm adopted, so I didn't know my father, but apparently he was pretty tall.

Keegan-Michael Key

#33. As for complicating the black metal aesthetic, I don't care about that since it was never a goal of mine to lay out any particular preconceived aesthetic, let alone one of traditional black metal where pseudonyms are adopted.

Colin Marston

#34. The friend that I based Heffer on was adopted, and it all played into his total personality.

Joe Murray

#35. His answer to every problem, every setback was "I will work harder!" - which he had adopted as his personal motto.

George Orwell

#36. All I wanted to do was please my adopted family.

Reese Hoffa

#37. 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

#38. For many years, when still a Yugoslav citizen, I was already a Swiss patriot, and in 1959, I obtained Swiss citizenship. However, I consider myself a world citizen, and I am very grateful to my adopted country that it allows me to be one.

Vladimir Prelog

#39. Meanwhile I married and I adopted three kids who were all from one family and then later I was divorced.

Betty Hill

#40. I firmly believe that I have received the same child I was meant to receive, whether I gave birth or adopted. The same soul, the same entity, was meant to be mine, from the beginning of time.

Debra Shiveley Welch

#41. I had severed relations with the Romanian exiles who had become politically conservative and even extremely right wing; I was giving chess lessons to earn a living. Luckily we spoke quite a bit of French at home so it wasn't too difficult for me to write in my adopted language.

Dumitru Tepeneag

#42. The process of open adoption is not discussed in the way it should be. Everyone I know who has adopted domestically has at least one tragic story. It was important to me to be able to describe those situations.

Jennifer Gilmore

#43. We need to be adopted by God through Jesus - that was what happened to me, and that's what changed my life so that now, I can see that my career can be part of a calling.

Cliff Richard

#44. I think, you know, it was something that I really wanted. I wanted so much to have a son or daughter. We adopted a son. And it was just the most wonderful thing. I think the only thing that was difficult for both Maury and myself were the sleepless nights.

Connie Chung

#45. Sometimes, the hardest foster children to take are teenage boys, which I was one, and I was never adopted or anything, and so I think if people up more for teenage boys, that might be beneficial.

Antwone Fisher

#46. I thought Marilla Cuthburt was an old fool when I heard she'd adopted a girl out of an orphan asylum," she said to herself, "but I guess she didn't make much of a mistake after all. If I'd a child like Anne in the house all the time I'd be a better and happier woman.

L.M. Montgomery

#47. I freely admit that I have many times adopted Jim Oakley's precept of a "bloody good gallop," often with spectacular results. To this day I frequently learn things from farmers, but that was one time when I learned from a postman.

James Herriot

#48. I don't understand people whose gratification is a BMW. You don't know what joy is until you see a kid who was tortured get adopted by a family.

Andrew Vachss

#49. I have three adopted children with Phil, and for years I was fighting in court with him over being able to see my kids. I was always going back and forth to California, going to court, and I was never able to get a project going.

Ronnie Spector

#50. I would not be a good mother. I mean, I love being an aunt to my niece and nephew. And I used to want to, like, adopt 10 kids - because I had friends who were adopted, and I thought that was the coolest thing, to be chosen. But again, my job is too selfish.

Kelly Clarkson

#51. I was born and raised in East Los Angeles by a single mom who had three biological kids and adopted four more. I never met my dad.

Will.i.am

#52. I am Cuban, my parents are Cuban, and I was not adopted.

Oscar Nunez

#53. Gillard has not had a political success all year. The media package, and how it was adopted, has destroyed any confidence I could have in her office and instincts.

Bob Carr

#54. On her daughter Melissa: The only time she really cried is when I sat her down and told her that she was not adopted.

Joan Rivers

#55. Monsieur Saint Laurent was pathologically shy, and he made the Saint Laurent woman in his own image. Like her, I am shy. And to protect myself, I adopted something of an androgynous look, just as his women did.

Carine Roitfeld

#56. What I discovered in Berlin was this immense freedom because it felt like you could start any kind of project and nobody would care ... and that's what I sort of adopted to my own.

Agnes Obel

#57. Trying to conceal the fact that I was a gay, effeminate, hyperactive, adopted child with a serious lisp in southern Louisiana would have been like trying to hide Dolly Parton in a string bikini!

Kevyn Aucoin

#58. Oh, I used to lie all the time as a kid. I didn't think of it as lying, though. I thought of it as playing make-believe. I told Kitty she was adopted and her real family was in a traveling circus. It's why she took up gymnastics.

Jenny Han

#59. I wanted to make a home that was similar to the kind of home that my mother made. To be able to create something like that in my adopted city, New York City, one of the toughest cities on the planet, is really special.

Tamara Tunie

#60. Now I see some family resemblance. I was starting to wonder if Jill was adopted, but you two kind of look like each other."
"So does our mailman back in North Dakota," said Adrian.

Richelle Mead

#61. I was an adopted child of my grandparents, and I don't know how I can ever express my gratitude for that, because my parents would have been a mess, you know.

James Earl Jones

#62. Happy was my adopted country, not my native land. I was still bracing to be expelled without warning.

Kimberly McCreight

#63. Muddy Waters was, like, the king! He had a lot of adopted sons and daughters. I was just happy to be one of them.

Robert Cray

#64. When I was little, I knew that I was not adopted, but I actually imagined and hoped that I was - and that my real parents were going to come get me.

Gloria Steinem

#65. For all of you who have signed on the dotted line and adopted a foster child, I personally thank you on behalf of a nation. I know it was not an easy thing to do.

Marcia Sindone

#66. I was not allowed to talk about being adopted when growing up. I walked around feeling like I was going to explode.

Michael Nyqvist

#67. Ah you think darkness is your ally? You merely adopted the dark. I was born in it, molded by it. I didn't see the light until I was already a man, by then it was nothing to me but blinding!

Bane

#68. The fellows that I played with encouraged me to bunt and beat the ball out. I was anxious to make good and did as I was told. When I came to Brooklyn, I adopted an altogether different style of hitting. I stood flat-footed at the plate and slugged. That was my natural style.

Zack Wheat

#69. I was aware of Darwin's views fourteen years before I adopted them and I have done so solely and entirely from an independent study of the plants themselves.
[Letter to W.H. Harvey]

Joseph Dalton Hooker

#70. Oh, you think the darkness is your ally, but you merely adopted the dark. I was born in it. Molded by it.

Helen Keller