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Frankly, I adore your catchy slogan, "Adoption, not Abortion," although no one has been able to figure out, even with expert counseling, how to use adoption as a method of birth control, or at what time of the month it is most effective. -- Barbara Ehrenreich
My adoption was treated as a celebration. -- Michael Reagan
Too many children in foster care are falling through cracks. Be a hero, take the time learn about adoption today. -- Bruce Willis
The future battle on the ground will be preceded by battle in the air. This will determine which of the contestants has to suffer operational and tactical disadvantages and be forced throughout the battle into adoption compromise solutions. -- Erwin Rommel
There is so much work to be done to treat gays and lesbians and gay and lesbian couples with the respect that they're entitled to. They deserve, in my judgment, partnership benefits. They deserve to be treated fairly when it comes to adoption and immigration. -- John Edwards
Adoption is grief in reverse. -- Jody Cantrell Dyer
Adoption is the visible Gospel. -- John Piper
Adoption is a beautiful, burdensome blessing. -- Jody Cantrell Dyer
However motherhood comes to you, it's a miracle. -- Valerie Harper
Adoption is the most intentional process on Earth. -- Jody Cantrell Dyer
Adoption is the highest privilege the gospel offers. -- J. I. Packer
Biology is the least of what makes someone a mother. -- Oprah Winfrey
Every great movement must experience three stages: ridicule, discussion, adoption. -- John Stuart Mill
Any new technology tends to go through a 25-year adoption cycle -- Marc Andreessen
[Adoption] could turn you into an exquisite comedian. Ask Richard Pryor's ghost. -- Keegan-Michael Key
Adoption gives us the privilege of sons, regeneration the nature of sons. -- Stephen Charnock
I think adoption is a blessing all around when it's done right. -- Hugh Jackman
He who can reach a child's heart can reach the worlds heart. -- Rudyard Kipling
Adoption is a redemptive response to tragedy that happens in this broken world. -- Katie Davis
I say to everybody, 'Adoption is not for the faint of heart.' -- Mariska Hargitay
Adoption is not about finding children for families, it's about finding families for children -- Joyce Maguire Pavao
Adoption was a bumpy ride - very bumpy. But, God, was it worth the fight. -- Mariska Hargitay
Adoption is a beautiful picture of redemption. It is the Gospel in my living room. -- Katie Davis
Tis often seen Adoption strives with nature; and choice breeds A native slip to us from foreign lands. -- William Shakespeare
Do you want to do something beautiful for God? There is a person who needs you. This is your chance. -- Mother Teresa
I am convinced, completely convinced, that there was nothing random about [the adoption], she is the daughter I should have. -- Meg Ryan
Somehow destiny comes into play. These children end up with you and you end up with them. It's something quite magical. -- Nicole Kidman
Adoption is an answer to a tragedy that has already happened, but may it never be the impetus for one that hasn't. -- Jen Hatmaker
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
By choice, we have become a family, first in our hearts, and finally in breath and being. Great expectations are good; great experiences are better. -- Richard W. Fisher
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
Adoption is a global issue these days - it's certainly current - and it's encouraging for a lot of couples whether they're straight or gay. -- Sara Ramirez
Adoption is wonderful and beautiful and the greatest blessing I have ever experienced. Adoption is also difficult and painful. Adoption is a beautiful picture of redemption. -- Katie Davis
Adoption should be an empowering option for young women in crisis, knowing that the people around them - family, friends, church - will respect their choice. -- Nina Easton
Adoption has been a part of my life and a part of my family, so it was how I wanted to start. It felt natural and right to me. -- Katherine Heigl
Adoption is rewarding. But the process, as we have already detailed in some particulars, can be expensive, exhausting, and hard to sustain on a dream, much less a whim. -- Scott Simon
Those friends thou hast, and their adoption tried, Grapple them to thy soul with hoops of steel; But do not dull thy palm with entertainment Of each new-hatch'd, unfledg'd comrade. -- William Shakespeare
The adoption by Jefferson and the Republicans of the political structure of their opponents is of an importance hardly inferior to that of the adoption of the Constitution by the states. -- Herbert Croly
Italy advocates the adoption of a legal instrument on cultural diversity, guaranteeing every country the protection of its own historical identity and the uniqueness of its physical and intangible cultural heritage. -- Carlo Azeglio Ciampi
You well know, sir, that when the Constitution was submitted to the People of the respective States for their adoption or rejection, it awakened the warmest debates of the several State conventions. -- Caleb Cushing
Adoption is a wonderful way of becoming a family. If being a biological parent is any better or more rewarding than being an adoptive parent, I really don't think I could stand it! -- Kathleen Silber
Almost everyone believes that at some level birthmothers make a choice to give their babies away. ...Adoption is rarely about mothers' choices; it is, instead, about the abject choicelessness of some resourceless women. -- Rickie Solinger
As we grew to love South Australia, we felt that we were in an expanding society, still feeling the bond to the motherland, but eager to develop a perfect society in the land of our adoption. -- Catherine Helen Spence
Adoption is the highest privilege that the gospel offers: higher even than justification.. . To be right with God the Judge is a great thing, but to be loved and cared for by God the Father is greater. -- J. I. Packer
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
Frankly, I adore your catchy slogan Adoption, not abortion, although no one has been able to figure out, even with expert counseling, how to use adoption as a method of birth control, or at what time of the month it is most effective -- Barbara Ehrenreich
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
Adoption has the dimension of connection - not only to your own tribe, but beyond, widening the scope of what constitutes love, ties and family. It is a larger embrace. By adopting, we stretch past our immediate circles and, by reaching out, find an unexpected sense of belonging with others. -- Isabella Rossellini
If you got to [abortion] centers, young women are provided very few options, in many places they're not told anything about, for example, adoption services that may be available to them. The idea that, in essence, you come in and it's already pre-determined, this is what place this place does. It provides abortions, and we are going to channel you in this direction. -- Marco Rubio
Any new technology tends to go through a 25-year adoption cycle. -- Marc Andreessen
My mantra is: 'Good design accelerates the adoption of new ideas.' -- Yves Behar
The planet's hope and salvation lies in the adoption of revolutionary new knowledge being revealed at the frontiers of science. -- Bruce Lipton
Too many children in foster care are falling through cracks. . . . Be a hero -- take the time learn about adoption today -- Bruce Willis
I think Angelina Jolie has done amazing, amazing things, and the international adoption rate just since her has skyrocketed. It's unbelievable. -- Jessica Simpson
We believe widespread adoption of home solar will significantly improve life in cities by phasing out polluting coal plants, eliminating miles of ugly new transmission lines, and ensuring cleaner, healthier lives. -- Lynn Jurich
It was an honour for me to have been able to work with Mr. Mandela in the process that led to the adoption of the interim constitution and our first democratic elections in April 1994. -- F. W. de Klerk
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
Despite all the hype about local or green food, the single biggest impediment to wider adoption is not research, programs, organizations, or networking. It is the demonizing and criminalizing of virtually all indigenous and heritage-based food practices. -- Joel Salatin
In the real world, I see conservatives volunteering at adoption agencies, at churches, at bake sales and the local American Legion Post while the only charity a progressive sends is a smug sermon on fair share and what fairness is. -- Allen West
The number who actually consented to the Constitution of the United States, at the first, was very small. Considered as the act of the whole people, the adoption of the Constitution was the merest farce and imposture, binding upon nobody. -- Lysander Spooner
There are young people having babies every day that cannot possibly take care of them, and, as people who believe that every life is beautiful, we need to make them aware of another choice - to give that beautiful life up for adoption. -- John Schneider
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
Madonna remains the most visible performer on the planet, as well as one of the wealthiest, but would anyone seriously say that artistic self-development is her primary motivating principle? She is too busy with Kabbalah, fashion merchandising, adoption melodramas, the gym, and ill-starred horseback riding to study art. -- Camille Paglia
My biological mother later found out that my mother had never graduated from college and that my father had never graduated from high school. She refused to sign the final adoption papers. She only relented a few months later when my parents promised that I would someday go to college. -- Steve Jobs
With all the chaos, pain and suffering in the world, the fact that my adoption of a child from who was living in an orphanage, you know, was the number one story for a week in the world. To me, that says more about our inability to focus on the real problems. -- Madonna Ciccone
Every day I get to 'Think' and work on everything from digitizing electric grids so they can accommodate renewable energy and enable mass adoption of electric cars, helping major cities reduce congestion and pollution, to developing new micro-finance programs that help tiny businesses get started in markets such as Brazil, India, Africa. -- Ginni Rometty
We know that Google Earth and Google Maps have had a tremendous impact on Google traffic, users, brand, adoption, and advertisers. We also know Google News, for example, which we don't monetize, has had a tremendous impact on searches and on query quality. We know those people search more. Because we've measured it. -- Eric Schmidt
What I wish is that people would look beyond the tribbles and see I've written some other books that I really would like people to notice. There's 'The Man Who Folded Himself,' there's 'The Martian Child,' which is about my son and the adoption. There's 'The War Against The Chtorr,' which is my magnum opus, my great epic story. -- David Gerrold
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
We are fighting abortion through adoption. -- Mother Teresa
Gay adoption is discrimination against children -- Pope Francis
Under Islamic law, adoption is difficult. -- Richard Engel
For me, adoption was grief in reverse. -- Jody Cantrell Dyer
Faith is the evidence of divine adoption. -- John Calvin
On gay adoption I have changed my mind. -- Theresa May
I tried to put myself up for adoption several times. -- Chelsea Handler
Spiritual adoption is the excellency and apex of God's salvation. -- Joel Beeke
I think if you're gonna be pro-life, you should be pro adoption. -- Mike Pence
I've started the adoption process... I really want to be a mommy. -- Holly Madison
Before I met my husband, I was just about to look into adoption. -- Jane Leeves
Software was changing so fast, so unbelievable, that that got very quick adoption. -- Bill Gates
Catalyzed by the Recovery Act, adoption of electronic health records is increasing dramatically. -- Todd Park
I think my mom threatened to put me up for adoption a few times. -- Ivanka Trump
I want to say that, in general, when it works, open adoption is great. -- Jennifer Gilmore
We've heard some theories, but there is a lot of mystery surrounding my adoption. -- Patti Stanger
Through adoption, Americans can forever change not only a child's life but also their own. -- George W. Bush
For a small, open economy like Cyprus, Euro adoption provides protection from international financial turmoil. -- Jean-Claude Trichet
For decades, I have supported adoption, and have helped tens of thousands of children worldwide. -- Pat Robertson
The Gospel is not a picture of adoption, adoption is a picture of the Gospel. -- John Piper
Shame on those breasts of stone that cannot melt in soft adoption of another's sorrow. -- Aaron Hill
God has blessed me with the mission to place nonviolence before the nation for adoption. -- Mahatma Gandhi
New solutions win by virtue of adoption, and they don't get adopted if they're bad solutions. -- John Perry Barlow
If women understand by emancipation the adoption of the masculine role then we are lost indeed. -- Germaine Greer
The real threat to Linux adoption is Apple, not Microsoft. If you didn't know, now you know. -- Ryan C. Gordon
Open adoption, when it works, is fabulous. But when it goes wrong, it's so traumatizing for everybody. -- Caroline Leavitt
Foursquare's adoption of a game dynamic when it launched is a particularly clever implementation of a social hook. -- Fred Wilson
I had this sister that was born who was given up for adoption, and I never knew it. -- Dominique Moceanu
When the error is universal, it is supposed to end. The adoption of the foundling establishes its consanguinity. -- Samuel Laman Blanchard
My sister gained 80 pounds expecting her baby. Well, you get nervous, waiting for those adoption papers to clear. -- Emo Philips
The primary purpose of adoption is to provide a home for a child, not a child for a home. -- Virginia Linder
The colonized is elevated above his jungle status in proportion to his adoption of the mother country's cultural standards. -- Frantz Fanon
Jesus' life as a foot-washing servant would eventually lead to the adoption of humility as a widely admired virtue. -- John Ortberg
A crisis of confidence is so common that it should be considered a universal part of the adoption process. -- Patricia McConnell
You can keep 'consumer' DNA at the center of your product. That will always mean that adoption is easier. -- Aaron Levie
The planet's hope and salvation lies in the adoption of revolutionary new knowledge being revealed at the frontiers of science. -- Bruce Lipton
As consumer adoption of wireless devices continues to soar, Wi-Fi congestion is becoming a critical problem for consumers and innovators. -- Julius Genachowski
In an open adoption agreement, you agree to a minimum number of visits - a floor, not a ceiling. It's enforceable. -- Dan Savage
It takes a huge amount of effort to move from a successful high-tech prototype to broader adoption of an imaging technology. -- Eric Betzig
Abortion is an act of desperation. It's an awful solution to a situation that God can work out for good through adoption. -- Bob Carlisle
Hundreds of thousands of kids now have a chance to be adopted because I worked to change our adoption and foster care system. -- Hillary Clinton
There are times when the adoption process is exhausting and painful and makes you want to scream. But, I am told, so does childbirth. -- Scott Simon
The purpose of this book is to supply, in the form suitable for laymen, guidance in the adoption and execution of an investment policy. -- Benjamin Graham
I think economics, content, and the ability to interact with content in new and different ways are what will drive the adoption of e-books. -- Tom Peters
We need a spirit of adoption to take us out of the foundling hospital of the world, and to put us into the celestial family. -- George Dana Boardman Pepper
The adoption of agriculture, supposedly our most decisive step toward a better life, was in many ways a catastrophe from which we have never recovered. -- Jared Diamond
I have a question. Do you guys think it's OK to drink while you're pregnant if you're planning on giving the baby up for adoption? -- Chelsea Handler
A war minister is able to force the adoption of any measure desired by the Camp or to block any measure that meets his disapproval. -- Sadao Araki
There is no disease, bodily or mental, which adoption of vegetable diet, and pure water has not infallibly mitigated, wherever the experiment has been fairly tried. -- Percy Bysshe Shelley
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
I don't think teachers read the textbooks. And I don't think adoption committees read the textbooks before they adopt them. I think they look at them. -- James W. Loewen

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