200 Best Adoption Quotes & Sayings for Adoptees – Inspire Quotes
Adoption Quotes for Adoptees
“Little souls find their way to you, whether they’re from your womb or someone else’s.” —Sheryl Crow
“Adoption is not about finding children for families, it’s about finding families for children.” —Joyce Maguire Pavao
“If we adopted jack,” I quip, “we’d have to give him combat pay for an allowance.” —Daven Anderson
“Our principal role as designers is to accelerate new ideas and the adoption of new ideas.” —Yves Behar
“You don’t choose your family. They are God’s gift to you, as you are to them.” —Desmond Tutu
“I have worked positively and successfully with Senator Sessions on issues like adoption and human trafficking.” —Amy Klobuchar
“They may not have my eyes, they may not have my smile, but they have all my heart.” —Unknown
“Orphanages are the only places that ever left me feeling empty and full at the same time.” —John M. Simmons
“It’s important to realize that we adopt not because we are rescuers. No, we adopt because we are rescued.” —David Platt
“It takes a huge amount of effort to move from a successful high-tech prototype to broader adoption of an imaging technology.” —Eric Betzig
“The bond that links your true family is not one of blood, but of respect and joy in each other’s life.” —Richard Bach
“I’m eternally grateful to {our birth mother}, but wish I had never needed her. It’s a loaded friendship, a complex connection.” —Jana Wolff
Best Adoption Quotes
“Do you want to do something beautiful for God? There is a person who needs you. This is your chance.” —Mother Teresa
“The thought that being a mother will complete a woman has ruined the opportunity of thousands of orphan kids getting a home, a family.” —Nitya Prakash
“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
“To adoptees. Never be afraid of searching for the truth. The joy that may await you will far outweigh the burden of your long journey.” —Diamond Mike Watson
“Adoption comes from the heart, but the adoption process comes from the Law. You should follow your heart, but be sure you also follow the law.” —Irina ORear
“Women who give up their children for adoption are years and years later talking about how painful it was, much more than women who have abortions.” —Katha Pollitt
“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
“If it gets to the point where I actually physically cannot have a child, there’s plenty of children in the world that need a stable home and loving parent. I’m so down for adoption.” —Joy Bryant
“There are so many kids in this world, and in this country, which need homes. And so we’re perfectly content to look into adoption one day, if for some reason we aren’t able to have a biological child.” —Lisa Ling
Inspirational Adoption Quotes
“Adopted. Big deal; so was Superman.” —Chris Crutcher
“However motherhood comes to you, it’s a miracle.” —Valerie Harper
“Adoption is the most intentional process on Earth.” —Jody Cantrell Dyer
“Biology is the least of what makes someone a mother.” —Oprah Winfrey
“Adoption is a journey of faith, from beginning to end.” —Johnny Carr
“I have four children. Two are adopted. I forget which two.” —Bob Constantine
“Adoptive Mom? I am a Mom. I need no other label or prefix.” —Joanne Greco
“A birthmother puts the needs of her child above the wants of her heart.” —Skye Hardwick
“All our dreams can come true if we have the courage to pursue them.” —Walt Disney
“You are not just waiting in vain. There is a purpose behind every delay.” —Mandy Hale
“We should not be asking who this child belongs to, but who belongs to this child.” —Jim Gritter
“Families don’t have to match. You don’t have to look like someone else to love them.” —Leigh Anne Tuohy
“Somehow destiny comes into play. These children end up with you and you end up with them. It’s something quite magical.” —Nicole Kidman
“We must let go of the life we have planned, so as to accept the one that is waiting for us.” —Joseph Campbell
“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
“Not flesh of my flesh, nor bone of my bone, but still miraculously my own. Never forget for a single minute, you didn’t grow under my heart but in it.” —Fleur Conkling Heyliger
Adoption Quotes for Birth Mothers
“For when a child is born, the mother also is born again.” —Gilbert Parker
“A birthmother puts the needs of her child above the wants of her heart.” —Skye Hardwick
“Children and mothers never truly part, bound together by the beating of one another’s heart.” —Charlotte Gray
“The circumstances surrounding your birth are not as important as the opportunity to live life.” —Lailah Gifty Akita
“Forgive yourself for not having the foresight to know what now seems so obvious in hindsight.” —Judy Belmont
“A baby is born with a need to be loved – and never outgrows it.” —Frank A. Clark
“If you love someone unconditionally and with your whole heart, than you will do what is best for them not you.” —Talitha
“To attain to a place of acceptance of an adoption decision is an honorable goal, but often an arduous journey.” —Sandra Cantrell
“The love of a mother is the veil of a softer light between the heart and the heavenly father.” —Samuel Taylor Coleridge
“Making the decision to have a child – it is to decide forever to have your heart go walking outside your body.” —Elizabeth Stone
“He is mine in a way that he will never be hers, yet he is hers in a way that he will never be mine, and so together, we are motherhood.” —Desha Woodall
Adoption Quotes for Adoptive Parents
“After all, children are children no matter their background.” —Julie Andrews
“Every child deserves a home and love. Period.” —Dave Thomas
“Every single minute matters, every single child matters, every single childhood matters.” —Kailash Satyarthi
“You are not just waiting in vain. There is a purpose behind every delay.” —Mandy Hale
“If you have a heart for adoption, don’t let fear stand in the way.” —Doug Chapman
“Patience is not the ability to wait but to keep a good attitude while waiting.” —Joyce Meyer
“History will judge us by the difference we make in the everyday lives of children.” —Nelson Mandela
“Being a parent wasn’t just about bearing a child. It was about bearing witness to its life.” —Jodi Picoult
“My birth mother brought me into this world, but it was my adoptive parents who gave me life.” —Christina Romo
“Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at its destination full of hope.” —Maya Angelou
“Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.” —Henry Ford
“One of the greatest titles in the world is parent, and one of the biggest blessings in the world is to be one.” —Jim Demint
“Adoption is not the call to have the perfect, rosy family. It is the call to give love, mercy, and patience.” —Hope For Orphans
“We must let go of the life we have planned, so as to accept the one that is waiting for us.” —Joseph Campbell
“Not flesh of my flesh, nor bone of my bone, But still miraculously my own. Never forget for a single minute, you didn’t grow under my heart but in it.” —Fleur Conkling Heyliger
Short Adoption Quotes
“Everything is hard before it is easy.” —Goethe
“Beauty seen is never lost.” —John Greenleaf Whittler
“Life is lived in the waiting.” —Jonathan Lockwood Huie
“However motherhood comes to you, it’s a miracle.” —Valerie Harper
“Every child deserves a home and love. Period.” —Dave Thomas
“I love russia because russia gave me you.” —John M. Simmons
“After all, children are children no matter their background.” —Julie Andrews
“My mantra is: ‘Good design accelerates the adoption of new ideas’.” —’Yves Behar
“Being a mother is an attitude, not a biological relation.” —Robert A. Heinlein
“Adopting any child is a walk into the unknown. It takes Faith.” —Unknown
“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
“Adoptive Mom? I am Mom. I need no other label or prefix.” —Joanne Greco
“Adoption is when a child grew in its mommy’s heart instead of her tummy.” —Unknown
“Adopting one child won’t change the world: but for that child, the world will change.” —Unknown
“Family is not defined by our genes, it is built and maintained through love.” —Amalia G.
“It is not imitation that makes sons. It is son ship that make imitators.” —Martin Luther
“If you have a heart for adoption don’t let fear stand in the way.” —Doug Chapman
Best Adoption Quotes And Sayings
“She wasn’t tracking down her father to learn more about him. She was tracking him down to learn more about herself.” —Brad Meltzer
“Think about it: if the world could see how much adoption means from a cat’s point of view, shelters would be empty.” —Hannah Simone
“They had always dreamed of a large family but have now realized that they would be equally blessed to have even one child.” —Jane Green
“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
“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 Fischer
“A child born to another woman calls me mom. The depth of the tragedy and the magnitude of the privilege are not lost on me.” —Jody Landers
“We look at adoption as a very sacred exchange. It was not done lightly on either side. I would dedicate my life to this child.” —Jamie Lee Curtis
“Because now I know what I have been waiting for. I know exactly why the other processes didn’t work. I know I was supposed to wait for this little girl.” —Nia Vardalos
“Adoption carries the added dimension of connection not only to your own tribe but beyond, widening the scope of what constitutes love, ties, and family. It is the larger embrace.” —Isabella Rossellini
“Market type determines the startup’s customer feedback and acquisition activities and spending. It changes customer needs, adoption rates, product features, and positioning as well as its launch strategies, channels and activities.” —Steve Blank
“For over 200 years after the adoption of the Second Amendment, it was uniformly understood as not placing any limit on either federal or state authority to enact gun control legislation.” —John Paul Stevens
“Why was the amendment, expressly declaring the right of the people to exclude slavery, voted down? Plainly enough now, the adoption of it would have spoiled the niche for the Dred Scott decision.” —Abraham Lincoln
“That the object of the Brahmins in giving up beef-eating was to snatch away from the Buddhist Bhikshus the supremacy they had acquired is evidenced by the adoption of vegetarianism by Brahmins.” —B. R. Ambedkar
“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
“There are so many animals in shelters that need homes. Rather than going to a breeder and buying a dog, or a puppy mill or anything like that, I’ve always been a big fan of adoption.” —Gus Kenworthy
“Anyone who ever wondered how much they could love a child who did not spring from their own loins, know this: it is the same. The feeling of love is so profound, it’s incredible and surprising.” —Nia Vardalos
“A son or daughter in any human family is either born to or adopted by the parents. By definition, a child can’t be both. But with god we’re both born of him and adopted by him.” —Jerry Bridges
“My life has been shaped by the decision two people made over 24 years ago. They decided to adopt a child. They got me, and I got a chance at the kind of life all children deserve.” —Karen Fowler
“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
“It is not a liberty of circumstance, conceded to us alone, that we wish; it is the adoption absolute of the principle that no man, born red, black or white, can be the property of his fellow man.” —Toussaint Louverture
“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
“The age of the rock star ended with the passing of physical product, the rise of automated percussion, the domination of the committee approach to hit-making, the widespread adoption of choreography, and, above all, the advent of the mystique-destroying Internet.” —David Hepworth
“The martyrdom of Lalaji has shaken the Congressmen. Pandit Jawahar Lal Nehru is planning something solid to be presented for adoption in the coming session of the Congress, but I am not sure if he would be able to do something.” —Bhagat Singh
“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
“The nurse pointed out that identical twins were already clones in a sense, and mother Emmanuel suggested that the soul to worry about belonged to the person who would have himself cloned at great expense when so many unwanted children were going hungry.” —Mark Salzman
“I believe one of the most sacrificial acts of love adoptive parents can do is to give up their preconceptions and agendas about what their child’s views “should” be and be open to hear the conflicting emotions and thoughts their child often experiences.” —Sherrie Eldridge
“Meeting your adoptive baby is like being set up on a blind date with someone you will have to spend the next eighteen years with. You care about looks, because you desperately want to fall in love with the stranger who will be your child.” —Jana Wolff
“And even though I adore the fact that Francesca has ben’s eyes, I also see now that her biological connection to us is irrelevant. She is her own little person. She is Francesca. If we weren’t her “natural” parents, we would still have loved her just as much.” —Liane Moriarty
“Be able to see people’s humanity. I think the way that you do that and see people for more than their surface value is, say, you’re reading something in the news: the gender pay gap, or gay adoption, anything that involves a group of people being marginalized.” —Jonathan Van Ness
“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
“Listen to your hearts, parents! You are the expert when it comes to knowing your child. I love the scripture that says we are to let the peace of god rule in our hearts…in other words, peace in your heart is to be like an umpire calling the shots. When in doubt–don’t.” —Sherrie Eldridge
“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
“Giving users easy access too many different kinds of digital assets on the blockchain and, particularly, tokens that are linked to assets in the real world, is crucial to seeing blockchain adoption reach the next level, and I applaud Digix Global’s initiative in being the first of many such projects to successfully launch.” —Vitalik Buterin
“Almost as soon as I went vegan, people started telling me that my skin looked great, and that I appeared younger, slimmer, and healthier. I’m convinced that of all the changes I’ve made to my lifestyle, it’s the adoption of a vegan diet that has been best for me – physically, mentally, and certainly spiritually.” —Steve-O
“To be a mother is a beautiful thing, but to be able to assume the role for a child in need is nothing less than amazing. I believe that any woman who takes on the role of a mother, whether it be naturally or through foster care or adoption, should be held in the highest regard.” —Raheem DeVaughn
“What is less often noticed is that it is precisely the kind of moral instruction that parents are constantly trying to give their children — concrete, imaginative, teaching general principles from particular instances, and seeking all the time to bring the children to appreciate and share the parent’s own attitudes and view of life… the all-embracing principles of conduct.” —J.I. Packer
“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
“The beggarly question of parentage–what is it, after all? What does it matter, when you come to think of it, whether a child is yours by blood or not? All the little ones of our time are collectively the children of us adults of the time, and entitled to our general care. That excessive regard of parents for their own children, and their dislike of other people’s, is, like class-feeling, patriotism, save-your-own-soul-ism, and other virtues, a mean exclusiveness at bottom.” —Thomas Hardy
“I hold my daughter in my arms and thank god for bringing her to me. If the standard route for creating a family had worked for me, I wouldn’t have met this child. I needed to know her. I needed to be her mother. I know now why all those events happened. Or didn’t happen. So I could meet this little girl. She is, in every way, my daughter. I am carrying my funny gift from god and all is good.” —Nia Vardalos