156 Adopted Quotes for You to Enjoy

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

Ignorance First Blindly Easily Adopted More Than Interest Preferred Prejudices Second

So my father grew up in an orphanage in Boston. He was then adopted by an elderly childless couple from Maine, who gave him the name of Mitchell. He moved to Maine, and there he met my mother and was married. George J. Mitchell

I want kids: two adopted and three of my own. Georgina Bloomberg

Three Own Kids Adopted My Own Want Two

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

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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

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Seattle is a place I've lived only a couple of years, but I feel like I've been adopted by this city. It's like a hug. I've been recognized on planes, in the airport and by cabdrivers. I don't get that anywhere else in the country. Hari Kondabolu

Susan, an only child who never had any roots, and I, a lone wolf who got married 20 years to late, were adopted by the kids as much as they were by us. Harpo Marx

There should be resolutions adopted in top international institutions, which are binding on all states and governments in the world, to forbid the defamation of religions. Hassan Nasrallah

World Top States Religions Adopted Institutions Forbid Governments Which Should International International Institutions Binding Defamation Resolutions

I think American guys tend to be a bit more forward, a bit more chatty and open than the Brits. The Brits seem to have a darker sense of humor, though I have met some Americans who have adopted bits of the British dry sense of humor as well. Hayley Atwell

Sense Of Humor Humor Met Sense Think Brits Bit Bits Though Darker Some Seem Adopted Guys More Tend Open Well Dry Than American Who Forward British

After Hurricane Sandy, we adopted 19 elementary schools in tough neighborhoods. We took each kid in those schools and gave the family a prepaid Visa card. Howard Lutnick

Family Tough Gave Took Visa Kid Those Neighborhoods Hurricane Adopted Schools After Sandy Each Elementary Card

China has adopted and is implementing its national climate change program. This includes mandatory national targets for reducing energy intensity and discharge of major pollutants and increasing forest coverage and the share of renewable energy for the period of 2005 through 2010. Hu Jintao

Change National Mandatory Energy Increasing Adopted Through Share Implementing Major Period Discharge Renewable Renewable Energy Climate Climate Change Reducing Coverage Forest Targets Intensity China Program

To reason logically is so to link one's propositions that each should contain the reason for the one succeeding it, and should itself be demonstrated by the one preceding it. Or at any rate, whatever the order adopted in the construction of one's own exposition, it is to demonstrate judgments by each other. Jean Piaget

Construction Whatever Own Other Logically Rate Adopted Contain Judgments Demonstrate Link Itself Any Order Succeeding Should Reason Exposition Each

We were proposing, in a sense, that the rest of the world be made safe for American ideas, as they adopted intellectual property rights that gave patent protection to our very innovative economy. Jeffrey Sachs

Property Rights World Protection Made Rest Sense Gave Innovative Our Adopted Property Rights Proposing Economy Ideas Safe Were Intellectual Intellectual Property Very Patent American

The Federal Reserve and other central banks have adopted broad public policy objectives to guide the development and oversight of the payments system. At the Fed, we have identified efficiency and safety as our most fundamental objectives, as set forth in our Policy on Payment System Risk. Jerome Powell

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

Personality Total Adopted His Friend Based Played

In 1984, when I was a rookie member of the House, there was a bill introduced to make Martin Luther King's birthday a state holiday. It didn't have a chance. As time passed, though, more and more states adopted the holiday. Finally, after about five years, we passed it and, I think, almost unanimously. As I said, change is slow and hard. John Grisham

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Romney has adopted almost every position conservatives want their candidate to espouse: He's pro-life, he wants to repeal ObamaCare, he wants to cut taxes and cut the federal budget, and he wants an unapologetic foreign policy dedicated to the proposition that this too will be the American century. John Podhoretz

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Both of our children are adopted, and my wife and I didn't go out of ways to find kids that looked like us. We were just happy to have some kids. And people tell me all the time that they look like us, and that's because they learn to smile and laugh and move their head a certain way from studying their parents' faces. John Wells

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I am adopted, and I am so grateful for my story, and that's what makes me who I am. Jordan Fisher

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