Adopted Quotes

I was aware of Darwin's views fourteen years before I adopted them, and I have done so solely and entirely from an independent study of plants themselves.

The maxim that men are not to be praised before their death was invented by envy and too lightly adopted by philosophers.

My opinion, my conviction, gains immensely in strength and sureness the minute a second mind as adopted it.

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.

The old spelling MAGICK has been adopted throughout in order to distinguish the Science of the Magi from all its counterfeits.

Each university should have a Young Scholars' Committee. I became the chairman of this Committee, and immediately it was permitted to have this plan officially adopted.

A vendor neutral, standards-based approach must be adopted

The only time that I've adopted characterization again since that point, for my own albums, has been an album called "Outside" that I did with Brian Eno.

I don't ever worry about whether I'm being true to my country roots. My country roots were adopted. I never worry about what I can do and what I should do. I just do what I want to do.

In America, Qualification is simply an attitude. I've adopted it. So, yes. I am qualified.

I was adopted into this incredible home, a loving, positive environment, yet I had this yearning, this kind of darkness that was also inside me.

Oh, you think the darkness is your ally, but you merely adopted the dark. I was born in it. Molded by it.

When 9/11 happened, 12 of our neighborhood firemen were killed. I looked around at the country that had adopted me and I became an American.

I was an adopted child of my grandparents, and I don’t know how I can ever express my gratitude for that because my parents would have been a mess.

Where else but in America could a schoolteacher from Kansas City end up the governor of her adopted state?

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.

Indeed, the very first resolution of the General Assembly of the United Nations - adopted unanimously - called for the elimination of nuclear weapons.

I was not allowed to talk about being adopted when growing up. I walked around feeling like I was going to explode.

I was a tomboy and I didn't have a bunch of brothers but I always wanted them and so I sort of adopted a few of my great friends to be my brother.

Although all new ideas are born in France, they are not readily adopted there. It seems that they must first commence to prosper in a foreign country.

~Wyatt [my adopted son] is definitely all mine. Little souls find their way to you whether they're from your womb or someone else's.~

The seventies was a time when a lot of people didn't tell their children they were adopted.

People are created in God's image. Homosexuality is an identity adopted through societal factors. It's an identity disorder.

Donald Trump hates the Common Core, created by governors and state education commissioners, and initially adopted by 45 states. [Betsy] DeVos has actually supported the Common Core until now.

It was intended that when Newspeak had been adopted once and for all and Oldspeak forgotten, a heretical thought...should be literally unthinkable, at least so far as thought is dependent on words.

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.

There is an infinity of political errors which, being once adopted, become principles.

When I started in fashion, I had already adopted the sailor-striped sweater as my uniform; that way, I wouldn't have to drive myself crazy trying to figure out what to wear.

I was adopted when I was a baby. My mother carried me for nine months and she held me for one hour, and didn't see me again.

Today Saint Paul has told us that in Christ we have become God’s adopted children, brothers and sisters in Christ. This is who we are. This is our identity.

Al Gore adopted three utterly different personas in three national presidential debates.

I used to have a phrase: Liberalism is spreading misery equally. And now the ruling class throughout Washington seems to have adopted this.

I always say neediness is the cause of suffering. I'm not the only one who says it. It's something I adopted and I believe.

It is much more difficult to recede from a scale of expenditure once adopted than it is to extend the accustomed scale in response to an accession of wealth.

Pop is the most competitive form of music there is. You are always fighting to be adopted and accepted by the masses, and it's always shifting.

I'm concerned about the plight of children. But I'm not on a mission to get all the available orphans in the world adopted into Christian homes.

Innovation transforms the useful seeds of invention into widely adopted solutions valued above every existing alternative.

Religious doctrines do not and clearly cannot be adopted as the criminal code of a state.

We may argue eloquently that 'Honesty is the best Policy' - unfortunately, the moment honesty is adopted for the sake of policy it mysteriously ceases to be honesty.

Hundreds of thousands of kids now have a chance to be adopted because I worked to change our adoption and foster care system.

Whoever the Lord has adopted ought to prepare themselves for hard, toilsome and unquiet living.

Who is going to cast out an error to which he has given birth and replace it with an adopted truth?

Amnesty International adopted me as a prisoner of conscience, and that led to my - it touched me in a way that really led to me opening up my heart, I've called it the re-humanisation process.

People in Finland have also adopted me because of my dad, and that's great, but it's the one language I can't speak.

I'm very proud of my pro-life record, and I've always adopted the idea that, the position that the method of conception doesn't change the definition of life.

He adopted a role called Being a Father so that his child would have something mythical and infinitely important: a Protector.

Persuasion, kind, unassuming persuasion, should be adopted to influence the conduct of men. The opposite course would be a reversal of human nature, which is God's decree and can never be reversed.

If the Constitution is adopted (and it was) the Union will be in fact and in theory an association of States or a Confederacy.

...truth-telling may be an ethic, adopted by photojournalists as a behavior, but experience shows us that it is not embedded in the medium like silver salts in film.