Adopt Quotes

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.

When I got into the film business, my aim was to adopt a positive persona, of a guy who fights against injustice. And it saved me, because my acting was atrocious to say the least!

There certainly is a lot of political pressure for states to adopt the new federal tax codes. But there is no law that requires them to do so.

No couples in Virginia can adopt other than a married couple - that's the right policy.

When I left Barcelona, staying in Spain was an important factor in my decision to join Madrid. I did not have to change country or learn a new language, adopt a different sort of lifestyle, and so on.

Any concerns that Romney will adopt McCain's milquetoast campaign model are quickly diminishing.

The video forum for me has been a source of great consternation because once you start projecting a look to a song, it robs the listener of their ability to adopt that song and make the lyric their own.

Homeowners and business owners across the country agreed to pay premiums, communities agreed to adopt building codes to mitigate flood dangers, and the Federal Government agreed to provide insurance coverage to policyholders after a disaster.

Charles Laughton signed me to my first movie contract at 17. He later asked my parents if he could adopt me.

My experience as a school nurse taught me that we need to make a concerted effort, all of us, to increase physical fitness activity among our children and to encourage all Americans to adopt a healthier diet that includes fruits and vegetables, but there is more.

Each experience through which we pass operates ultimately for our good. This is a correct attitude to adopt and we must be able to see it in that light.

When we blindly adopt a religion, a political system, a literary dogma, we become automatons. We cease to grow.

Rather than lose the public because television is here, wouldn't it be smart to adopt television as our instrument?

We cannot expect that all nations will adopt like systems, for conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.

Silence is the safest course for any man to adopt who distrust himself.

There is also an epidemic of infertility in this country. There are more women who have put off child-bearing in favor of their professional lives. For them, the only way they are going to have a family is to adopt from China.

I would love to have children, yes. Maybe even adopt them. I'm not sure that I should pass on my genes.

The laws that we adopt embody the values and mores of our constituents.

All human societies go through fads in which they temporarily either adopt practices of little use or else abandon practices of considerable use.

THE rich possess ample means to realize any theory they may chuse to adopt in the education of their children, regardless of the cost; but it is not so with him whose Subsistence is derived from industry.

I barely have time for my own children. To adopt more children and not have time for them, that would be poor parenting on my part.

We provide many options in many product areas that they seem to want to adopt, and that's working well for us.

I really have always wanted to be a parent, and when I hit 36 and had just ended a relationship, I remember thinking how much I still wanted it. But I thought I'd adopt.

If I did have the impulse to be a parent, I would adopt - or foster.

The south produced statesmen and soldiers, planters and doctors and lawyers and poets, but certainly no engineers and mechanics. Let Yankees adopt such low callings.

The State Energy Program, it provides grants to States and directs funding to State energy offices. The States use these grants to address their energy priorities, program funding to adopt emerging renewable energy and energy-efficient technologies.

I always knew I would adopt. Always.

I don't see how the party that says it's the party of the family is going to adopt an immigration policy which destroys families that have been here a quarter century.

In praising science, it does not follow that we must adopt the very poor philosophies which scientific men have constructed. In philosophy they have much more to learn than to teach.

I think that Americans should gradually begin to adopt positive behavior rather than doing evil. They should not expect an immediate reaction in return for their positive measures. It will take time.