Adopted Quotes

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People know that I have adopted four principles in living my life: simple living, punctuality, hard work and prudence.

The uniform makes for brotherhood, since when universally adopted it covers up all differences of class and country.

All distinctions of birth or of rank have been abolished. All citizens, whether native or adopted, are placed upon terms of precise equality. All are entitled to equal rights and equal protection.

Good ideas are not adopted automatically. They must be driven into practice with courageous impatience.

There is no opinion, however absurd, which men will not readily embrace as soon as they can be brought to the conviction that it is generally adopted.

The mother of the year should be a sterilized woman with two adopted children

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.

I am a living testament you can be adopted and successful.

There are two ways of destroying a people. Either condemn them en bloc or force them to repudiate the leaders they adopted. The second is the worse.

A motto I've adopted is, if at first you don't succeed, hide all evidence that you ever tried.

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 slavery.

My theory of evolution is that Darwin was adopted.

Time and progress are synonymous terms--nothing can stop either. Truth will prevail and that is why I know that my teachings will reach the masses and finally be adopted as universal.

You know I’m the first rapper to adopt a tabby cat. You know I adopted straight from the ASPCA, you feel me? Just breaking the boundaries, man.

As Buffett has often observed, value investing is not a concept that can be learned and gradually applied over time. It is either absorbed and adopted at once, or it is never truly learned.

Whomever the Lord has adopted and deemed worthy of His fellowship ought to prepare themselves for a hard, toilsome, and unquiet life, crammed with very many and various kinds of evil.

Men of integrity are generally pretty obstinate, in adhering to an opinion once adopted.

Urban transport is a political and not a technical issue. The technical aspects are very simple. The difficult decisions relate to who is going to benefit from the models adopted.

You reach a certain age -- sometimes it's fifteen, sometimes it's forty-six -- and you realize the cliche you have adopted for yourself isn't working.

At what age do you think it's appropriate to tell a highway it's adopted?

The line, often adopted by strong men in controversy, of justifying the means by the end.

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.)

Technology has to be invented or adopted.

Sometimes, the hardest foster children to take are teenage boys, which I was one, and I was never adopted or anything, and so I think if people up more for teenage boys, that might be beneficial.

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.

History has no record of a nation having adopted nonviolent resistance.

Adopted. Big Deal; so was Superman

Despite the best of efforts, many foster children are neither reunited with their families, nor adopted.

The prejudices of ignorance are more easily removed than the prejudices of interest; the first are blindly adopted; the second wilfully preferred.

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.

By such innovations are languages enriched, when the words are adopted by the multitude, and naturalized by custom.

In the United States, if one family out of every four churches adopted a child, there would be no orphans in the country

The making of an American begins at the point where he himself rejects all other ties, any other history, and himself adopts the vesture of his adopted land.

His answer to every problem, every setback was “I will work harder!” —which he had adopted as his personal motto.

Ideas really do matter. But in any organization a good idea will only go so far unless its proponents are willing to fight the political games to get the idea adopted.

Muddy Waters was, like, the king! He had a lot of adopted sons and daughters. I was just happy to be one of them.

Whatever be the means adopted, you must at last return to the Self, so why not abide as the Self here and now?

How much you discipline your mind to step out of its routines and look into new ways of doing things that you haven't yet adopted, is what will determine your economic potential.

It is bad luck for world history that of all people the Russians adopted Communism, because they are totally unfit for it.

China adopted a capitalist system in the 1980s, and they went from a 60% poverty rate to 10%.

I was raised in Brooklyn and in Baltimore. My father was a bookkeeper. When I was 36 years old, my mother told me I was adopted.

Prejudice does not mean false ideas, but only ... opinions adopted before examination.

Don’t start. I saw Marcie climb inside your Jeep.” “She needed a ride.” I adopted a hands-on-hips pose. “What kind of ride?” “Not that kind of ride,” he said slowly.

The constitutional reform is supposed to give autonomy to eastern Ukraine and to be adopted by the end of 2015. This has not happened, and the year is over. That's not Russia's fault.

Feminazis have adopted abortion as a kind of sacrament for their religion/politics of alienation and bitterness.

In dealing with Englishmen you can be sure of one thing only, that the logical solution will not be adopted.

Adopted kids are such a pain - you have to teach them how to look like you.

I adopted the theory of reincarnation when I was 26. Genius is experience. Some think to seem that it is a gift or talent, but it is the fruit of long experience in many lives

Justice was born outside the home and a long way from it; and it has never been adopted there

Christianity did not destroy paganism; it adopted it.