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Adopted. Big Deal; so was Superman -- Chris Crutcher
My theory of evolution is that Darwin was adopted. -- Steven Wright
Good ideas are not adopted automatically. They must be driven into practice with courageous patience. -- Hyman Rickover
Internationally, President Obama has adopted an appeasement strategy. He believes America's role as leader in the world is a thing of the past. I believe a strong America must - and will - lead the future. -- Mitt Romney
As you know, I'm an immigrant. I came over here as an immigrant, and what gave me the opportunities, what made me to be here today, is the open arms of Americans. I have been received. I have been adopted by America. -- Arnold Schwarzenegger
I speak about family and adoption because it 100% changed my life and who I am. It definitely played a very large role into just learning how to be grateful for what you have and being fulfilled in a way that a lot of adopted kids don't feel. -- Jenna Ushkowitz
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
I am a living testament you can be adopted and successful. -- Daunte Culpepper
At what age do you think it's appropriate to tell a highway it's adopted? -- Zach Galifianakis
Despite the best of efforts, many foster children are neither reunited with their families, nor adopted. -- Charles Bass
Adopted kids are such a pain - you have to teach them how to look like you. -- Gilda Radner
In the United States, if one family out of every four churches adopted a child, there would be no orphans in the country -- Kay Warren
The prejudices of ignorance are more easily removed than the prejudices of interest; the first are all blindly adopted, the second willfully preferred. -- George Bancroft
New legislation has just been adopted by the International Labour Organization on the Worst Forms of Child Labor, such as bonded labour, prostitution and hazardous work. -- Carol Bellamy
Having been adopted, I really have a strong sense- a necessity almost- for stability, a foundation where my family is concerned. [Success] would be meaningless without anyone to share it with. -- Faith Hill
We have adopted the convenient theory that the Bible is a Book to be explained, whereas first and foremost it is a Book to be believed (and after that to be obeyed.) -- Leonard Ravenhill
Harder still it has proved to rule the dragon Money... A whole generation adopted false principles, and went to their graves in the belief they were enriching the country they were impoverishing. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Insist on yourself; never imitate. Your own gift you can offer with the cumulative force of a whole life's cultivation, but of the adopted talent of another, you have only an extemporaneous, half possession. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
I went to Texas a few times for gigs and adopted the cowboy look. Every man, at some point in his life, goes through a cowboy stage - everyone! Well, at least everyone that I look up to! -- Theophilus London
Adopted pets are the best pets you can have. Most adoptable pets come from loving homes that simply cannot care for them anymore. Or, they are strays who've been on their own without the loving care they deserve. -- Josh Duhamel
If anybody understands God's order for his children, it's someone who has rescued an orphan from despair, for that is what God has done for us. God has adopted you. God sought you, found you, signed the papers and took you home. -- Max Lucado
Doctrines, scriptures, sutras, essays, are not to be regarded as systems to be followed. They merely contribute to understanding. They should be for us a source of stimulation, and nothing more... Adopted, rather than used as a stimulus, they are a hindrance -- Wei Wu Wei
No matter where I am in the world or what's on my schedule, I begin each day by reading an inspirational book and then meditating and praying. I adopted this healthy habit many years ago to ensure that my first thoughts of the day were positive. -- Doreen Virtue
On every question of construction (of the Constitution) let us carry ourselves back to the time when the Constitution was adopted, recollect the spirit of the debates, and instead of trying what meaning may be squeezed out of the text, or invented against it, conform to the probable one in which it was passed. -- Thomas Jefferson
Believing the right things about Jesus isn't enough. You're not adopted as God's child until you confess and turn away from your wrongdoing and receive the freely offered gift of forgiveness and eternal life that Jesus purchased with his death on the cross. Until you do that, you'll always be on the outside looking in. -- Lee Strobel
It is an object of vast magnitude that systems of education should be adopted and pursued which may not only diffuse a knowledge of the sciences but may implant in the minds of the American youth the principles of virtue and of liberty and inspire them with just and liberal ideas of government and with an inviolable attachment to their own country. -- Noah Webster
Technology has to be invented or adopted. -- Jared Diamond
My house is run, essentially, by an adopted, fully clawed cat with a mean nature. -- Anthony Bourdain
All I ever want is to return to either Bangladesh, my motherland, or India, my adopted home. -- Taslima Nasrin
The uniform makes for brotherhood, since when universally adopted it covers up all differences of class and country. -- Robert Baden-Powell
Somebody said the key to life is to work hard, play hard, rest hard, and I've pretty much adopted that. -- James Patterson
I'm an orphan. But the public has adopted me, and that has been my only family. The biggest family in the world is my fans. -- Eartha Kitt
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
To be alive, to be able to see, to walk, to have houses, music, paintings - it's all a miracle. I have adopted the technique of living life miracle to miracle. -- Arthur Rubinstein
I adopted a healthier diet. I take at least a tablespoon of apple-cider vinegar a day. It's an old wives' tale, but it really is one of the best things you can put in your mouth. -- Melissa Etheridge
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
There are so many times there could have been a left turn instead of a right turn in all people's lives. I think mine are pretty crystal clear, because of being adopted, being born in Ethiopia, being adopted to Sweden. -- Marcus Samuelsson
The man who makes everything that leads to happiness depends upon himself, and not upon other men, has adopted the very best plan for living happily. This is the man of moderation, the man of manly character and of wisdom. -- Plato
Those who govern, having much business on their hands, do not generally like to take the trouble of considering and carrying into execution new projects. The best public measures are therefore seldom adopted from previous wisdom, but forced by the occasion. -- Benjamin Franklin
The viral power of online media has proven how fast creative ideas can be spread and adopted, using tools like cellphones, digital cameras, micro-credit, mobile banking, Facebook, and Twitter. A perfect example? The way the Green Movement in Iran caught fire thanks to social media. -- Tina Brown
I wish I could go to the school where my close friends go, but I obviously can't. The good thing is, they're really good about inviting me to all the football games and all that stuff. So I end up having an adopted team spirit for a school I don't go to. -- David Gallagher
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
Christ commands those who believe to be baptized. Pedobaptists adopt a system which tends to preclude the baptism of believers. They baptize the involuntary infant and deprive him of the privilege of ever professing his faith in the appointed way. If this system were universally adopted, it would banish believers' baptism out of the world. -- Adoniram Judson
I can only say that there is not a man living who wishes more sincerely than I do, to see a plan adopted for the abolition of it - but there is only one proper and effectual mode by which it can be accomplished, and that is by Legislative authority: and this, as far as my suffrage will go, shall never be wanting. -- George Washington
I do have the most adorable little Chihuahua mix. I adopted him about 3 1/2 years ago from Much Love pet adoption, and he has been the love of my life ever since. His name is Beau, or as my sister and I like to call him ' mushy mush' because he truly is just a pile of loving mush that just melts in your arms. -- Torrey DeVitto
I grew up on a farm in Oregon, an adopted child, with one sibling, and parents the age of all my peers' grandparents. We lived in isolation from the people around us, and it was always a struggle to cope with as a child. The heart can really expire under those conditions. I always felt like I was looking at the world from the outside. -- Larry Harvey
Musicians have always adopted Macs. -- Trent Reznor
I've always known I was adopted. -- Emily Procter
Christianity did not destroy paganism; it adopted it. -- Will Durant
A vendor neutral, standards-based approach must be adopted -- Carly Fiorina
I want adopted people to know they were chosen. -- Kym Whitley
Ridiculous modes, invented by ignorance, and adopted by folly. -- Tobias Smollett
All I wanted to do was please my adopted family. -- Reese Hoffa
History has no record of a nation having adopted nonviolent resistance. -- Mahatma Gandhi
My father was adopted. He grew up in the Italian household. -- Louis Gossett, Jr.
I'm a farm boy from Connecticut, and I adopted urban life. -- William Atherton
Prejudice does not mean false ideas, but only ... opinions adopted before examination. -- Joseph de Maistre
Al Gore adopted three utterly different personas in three national presidential debates. -- Rich Lowry
On November 15th, 2008, in over 300 cities, 4,000 children were adopted in one day. -- Nia Vardalos
I feel like I have adopted the Philippines as my second country. -- Dan Hill
I am Cuban, my parents are Cuban, and I was not adopted. -- Oscar Nunez
There is an infinity of political errors which, being once adopted, become principles. -- Guillaume Thomas Francois Raynal
Children have adopted a consumerist attitude - I dare you to entertain me. -- Walter Dean Myers
I'm adopted, so I didn't know my father, but apparently he was pretty tall. -- Keegan-Michael Key
Growing up, I kind of adopted that mentality, going all out, being a warrior. -- Nonito Donaire
Pop music has always adopted the style of marrying upbeat melodies to dour lyrics. -- Colin Meloy
The mother of the year should be a sterilized woman with two adopted children -- Paul R. Ehrlich
Men of integrity are generally pretty obstinate, in adhering to an opinion once adopted. -- William Cobbett
Whoever the Lord has adopted ought to prepare themselves for hard, toilsome and unquiet living. -- John Calvin
In America, Qualification is simply an attitude. I've adopted it. So, yes. I am qualified. -- Eugene Mirman
China adopted a capitalist system in the 1980s, and they went from a 60% poverty rate to 10%. -- Bill Gates
Innovation transforms the useful seeds of invention into widely adopted solutions valued above every existing alternative. -- Braden Kelley
New solutions win by virtue of adoption, and they don't get adopted if they're bad solutions. -- John Perry Barlow
I want to be adopted by the French. I want to go to live in Paris. -- Asia Argento
The line, often adopted by strong men in controversy, of justifying the means by the end. -- St. Jerome
If Youku had adopted YouTubes business model, we just would not be here. We would not exist. -- Victor Koo
My daughter is a preschooler but I have only known her for a while. She is adopted. -- Nia Vardalos
The seventies was a time when a lot of people didn't tell their children they were adopted. -- Anika Noni Rose
The oppressed, having internalized the image of the oppressor and adopted his guidelines, are fearful of freedom. -- Paulo Freire
It has adopted the geometry most advantageous to the species or, in other words, the most convenient. -- Henri Poincare
Feminazis have adopted abortion as a kind of sacrament for their religion/politics of alienation and bitterness. -- Rush Limbaugh
When did it become unconstitutional to exclude homosexual couples from marriage? 1791? 1868, when the 14th Amendment was adopted? -- Antonin Scalia
The friend that I based Heffer on was adopted, and it all played into his total personality. -- Joe Murray
Turkeys are misunderstood. Once I adopted turkeys, I understood this large bird to be a great companion. -- Linda Blair
Developing your unique thought to the level of being appreciated and adopted by the world - that's genius. -- Ogwo David Emenike
By such innovations are languages enriched, when the words are adopted by the multitude, and naturalized by custom. -- Miguel de Cervantes
My opinion, my conviction, gains immensely in strength and sureness the minute a second mind as adopted it. -- Malcolm Muggeridge
Andrew Carnegie was an inventor only in the sense that he adopted and adapted the discoveries of others. -- H.W. Brands
[To her frequently needed plumber:] How would you like to be adopted? I'm sure it would be cheaper. -- Mary Roberts Rinehart
A motto I've adopted is, if at first you don't succeed, hide all evidence that you ever tried. -- Billy Collins
Truthfully, my films don't get funded, they get adopted - and are made thanks to the generosity of others. -- Josephine Decker
Justice was born outside the home and a long way from it; and it has never been adopted there -- Walter Cronkite
Where else but in America could a schoolteacher from Kansas City end up the governor of her adopted state? -- Jane D. Hull
People know that I have adopted four principles in living my life: simple living, punctuality, hard work and prudence. -- Abdul Sattar Edhi
Style, personality - deliberately adopted and therefore a mask - is the only escape from the hot-faced bargainers and money-changers. -- William Butler Yeats
In dealing with Englishmen you can be sure of one thing only, that the logical solution will not be adopted. -- William Ralph Inge
Meanwhile I married and I adopted three kids who were all from one family and then later I was divorced. -- Betty Hill
I have adopted clothes from all the projects I'm in. It's really been a while since I've bought anything myself -- Judd Nelson
I have adopted the Roman sentiment, that it is more honorable to save a citizen than to kill an enemy. -- Samuel Johnson
Count Basie practically adopted me at 13. We became closer and closer and I ended up conducting for him and Sinatra. -- Quincy Jones
I have made speeches urging women to adopt methods of rebellion such as have been adopted by men in every revolution. -- Emmeline Pankhurst
His answer to every problem, every setback was "I will work harder!" "?which he had adopted as his personal motto. -- George Orwell
Who is going to cast out an error to which he has given birth and replace it with an adopted truth? -- Karl Kraus
In Australia, everyone gets a nickname and people started calling me "Izzy" and I hated it so I just adopted Bella. -- Bella Heathcote
The old spelling MAGICK has been adopted throughout in order to distinguish the Science of the Magi from all its counterfeits. -- Aleister Crowley
I grew up in an average middle-class family. I don't think I even knew any friends who were fostered or adopted. -- Sherri Saum
I have younger kids, and I adopted them late in life. They don't know these people [from Annie Hall] at all. -- Diane Keaton
My children range in age from 5 to 31. We adopted the 5-year-old, but people are often impressed with my wife before knowing that. -- Kevin Cramer
It is bad luck for world history that of all people the Russians adopted Communism, because they are totally unfit for it. -- Friedrich Durrenmatt
Education (the institution) has now adopted values, attitudes, and practices that make any rigorous understanding of the human self and life impossible. -- Dallas Willard
The maxim that men are not to be praised before their death was invented by envy and too lightly adopted by philosophers. -- Luc de Clapiers
Cold and hunger seem more friendly to my nature than those methods which men have adopted and advise to ward them off. -- Henry David Thoreau
Oh, you think the darkness is your ally, but you merely adopted the dark. I was born in it. Molded by it. -- Helen Keller
People in Finland have also adopted me because of my dad, and that's great, but it's the one language I can't speak. -- Nico
People in Finland have also adopted me because of my dad, and that's great, but it's the one language I can't speak. -- Nico
If we think there is an undermining now, just wait if Sharia is adopted or utilized by justices in the United States. -- Donald Trump
I was not allowed to talk about being adopted when growing up. I walked around feeling like I was going to explode. -- Michael Nyqvist
Whatever be the means adopted, you must at last return to the Self, so why not abide as the Self here and now? -- Ramana Maharshi
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
When 9/11 happened, 12 of our neighborhood firemen were killed. I looked around at the country that had adopted me and I became an American. -- Iman Abdulmajid

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