Quotes About Adoptive Parents

#1. You realize you've never walked in another person's shoes. Never have. Never will. The same is true in adoption. There are three sets of adoption shoes sitting at the end of the boardwalk. The adoptees ... the birth parents' ... and the adoptive parents'. Each is unique and each has a story to tell.

Sherrie Eldridge

#2. All anti-abortion protesters should be presented, on the spot, with an application to sign up as foster parents. They should also be given the names of children in their area in need of adoptive parents. And if they won't sign or volunteer, they should shut up.

Kurt Eichenwald

#3. A full accounting of adoption as an option would not underestimate its emotional challenges - the grief and loss for birth mothers, the uncertainties for adoptive parents operating under a patchwork of state laws.

Nina Easton

#4. Adoptive parents often say about adoption day: "It was the happiest day of our lives!" While most of us are happy to be adopted, our own hearts tell us that adoption day was the most painful day of our lives, for the person with whom we shared deep intimacy suddenly disappeared from our world.

Sherrie Eldridge

#5. I believe one of the most sacrificial acts of love adoptive parents can do is to give up their preconceptions and agendas about what their child's views "should" be and be open to hear the conflicting emotions and thoughts their child often experiences.

Sherrie Eldridge

#6. My mother birthed three children and she adopted myself and another African-American son. My adoptive parents were Finnish. I grew up in a white picket neighborhood.

Michael Franti

#7. Adoptive parents are taking on enormous responsibility, both emotionally and financially. Quite frankly, they need as much disclosure as possible about the child's background and health to assure the best fit and be prepared.

Pat Robertson

#8. 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

#9. Adoption was such a positive alternative to abortion, a way to save one life and brighten two more: those of the adoptive parents.

George W. Bush

#10. Would-be adoptive parents have to struggle for years through a bureaucratic obstacle course at an average cost of $30,000.

Foster Friess

#11. Cindy and I are adoptive parents. We know what a treasure and joy it is to have an adopted child in our lives.

John McCain

#12. Art is not truth. Truth conforms to reality. Art invents reality.

Walter Darby Bannard

#13. For to him that is pitiless the deeds of pity are ever strange and beyond reckoning.

J.R.R. Tolkien

#14. I was really young, just playing with puppets a lot and doing all the voices and acting it out - normal kid stuff. But then I'd hear my mother talking about it to her relatives, marveling at it as if it was something unique. And it made me realize, 'Oh, maybe I do have a talent for something.'

Steve Buscemi

#15. I want to question societal norms, encourage people to think in new ways.

Carla H. Krueger

#16. The woman I wanted to spend my life with was gone. I wasn't in the mood to find a backup.

Nicole Williams

#17. What's that?"
"Jane!" Gansey said joyfully.
Adam said, "It's a wizard in a box."
"It will do your homework," Noah added.
"And it's been dating your girlfriend," Ronan finished.
Blue scowled. "Are you all drunk?

Maggie Stiefvater

#18. Soon it began to drizzle for the second time that night. The drops grew heavier and became visible in the headlights of the cars. It was said by some of the police on the scene that God was crying for the girl in the garden. To others, it was only rain. (final lines)

George Pelecanos

#19. I like to think that I could praise the good book of someone I personally dislike. I try not to comment on the person, to be insulting, but I have no trouble being insulting to the work.

Walter Kirn

#20. There was a rustle of chirruping sparrows in the green lacquer leaves of the ivy, and the blue cloud-shadows chased themselves across the grass like swallows.

Oscar Wilde

#21. Ignorance is more than bliss, it is a recipe for potential disaster.

Steven Redhead

#22. I don't want plastic surgery or fillers or Botox.

Sofia Vergara

#23. Cynically speaking, one could say that it is true to life to be cynical about it.

Paul Tillich

#24. I am not all sneers and scathings, you see, I have my gentler side.

John Banville

#25. Hide until everybody goes home. Hide until everybody forgets about you. Hide until everybody dies.

Yoko Ono

#26. As for the screening process, we already do that for adoptive/foster parents. Why do we cling to the irrational belief that biological parents are necessarily competent parents - in the face of overwhelming evidence to the contrary?

Anonymous

#27. A saint is not someone who never sins, but one who sins less and less frequently and gets up more and more quickly.

Bernard Of Clairvaux