Quotes About International Adoption

#1. I think Angelina Jolie has done amazing, amazing things, and the international adoption rate just since her has skyrocketed. It's unbelievable.

Jessica Simpson

#2. I'm going to be mad at you for the rest of my life.

Cheryl Strayed

#3. when you have a reasonable reason to dare, dare swiftly and unrelentingly

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

#4. With the adoption of the Declaration on the Elimination of Violence against Women, the international community sent out a clear message that gender based violence will not be tolerated.

Jenny Shipley

#5. Anger was better than tears, better than grief, better than guilt.

George R R Martin

#6. We, who have so much, need to reach out to the orphans of this world and show them the care, hope, and love they deserve.

Kim De Blecourt

#7. I didn't come here to be average.

Michael Jordan

#8. The spirit of logical analysis should in practice blend with the practical pressure for the adoption of some form of international language, but it should not allow itself to be stampeded by it.

Edward Sapir

#9. Both Pup and Tanner now knew who she belonged to. And it sure as fuck wasn't him.

T.M. Frazier

#10. You are stranded in a culture where you can't trust many, you don't fully understand the language, and you can't read the signs - and at the same time you try not to let on that you can't do those things.

Kim De Blecourt

#11. Dear Diary,
We flew to the other side of the world, and I never stopped holding you close to my chest. You were empty and so was I. My only friend in the world. The only one who understood where I began and where I was going. We flew together and everything we knew before was gone.

Diane Rene Christian

#12. Fear gripped me as my children and I arrived at the Ukraine-Moldova border crossing.

Kim De Blecourt

#13. Beethoven for listening; Liszt, Chopin, and Beethoven for playing as well as Bach and Prokofiev and so on. If I kept going, this list would spiral. It's as wide as literature; in fact, it is probably wider.

William Golding

#14. Adoption is the most intentional process on Earth.

Jody Cantrell Dyer

#15. Imagine you're visiting a place where there's little to no English spoken and you wake up one day to find that the group you went with has all gone home and you are left there alone.

Kim De Blecourt

#16. But I'm here. I will love him. I will be his mother.

Kim De Blecourt

#17. I want to win championships.

Victor Cruz

#18. It's a selfish habit. I never learn anything from listening to myself.

Barbara Kingsolver

#19. The vitamin, mineral, metal and oil content of the human body drastically alters its reactivity to radiation exposures.

Steven Magee

#20. 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

#21. War is not a state of being. It is meant to be a temporary chaos between periods of peace. Some want it to be a course of things: a default fact of existence. But I will not let that be so.

Chuck Wendig

#22. It is no longer unusual for people who choose surrogacy, gay adoption, IVF, international and domestic adoption, fostering, and childlessness to live side by side and quietly judge each other. We can all live in peace thinking our way is the best way and everything else is cuckoo.

Amy Poehler

#23. For a small, open economy like Cyprus, Euro adoption provides protection from international financial turmoil.

Jean-Claude Trichet

#24. Books are educational; so you can buy as many as you want. Sophie Kinsella, shopping at the Limelight Marketplace

Sophie Kinsella

#25. I brushed it until it shone and looked somewhat like it used to look,
only far thinner, and less glorious.

V.C. Andrews

#26. 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