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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.
— Jean-Paul Sartre
Turkeys are misunderstood. Once I adopted turkeys, I understood this large bird to be a great companion.
— Linda Blair
But if they are adopted there is no traitor blood issue,
— David Baldacci
The seventies was a time when a lot of people didn't tell their children they were adopted.
— Anika Noni Rose
I'm a farm boy from Connecticut, and I adopted urban life.
— William Atherton
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.
— Andrew Vachss
Indeed, the very first resolution of the General Assembly of the United Nations - adopted unanimously - called for the elimination of nuclear weapons.
— Joseph Rotblat
No surprise that, as companies have adopted social media en masse, demand for software and applications to manage and monitor social use has exploded.
— Ryan Holmes
Laws forbidding adoptees from accessing their original birth certificates are outdated and need to be changed today.
— DaShanne Stokes
Christianity did not destroy paganism; it adopted it.
— Will Durant
[To her frequently needed plumber:] How would you like to be adopted? I'm sure it would be cheaper.
— Mary Roberts Rinehart
On her daughter Melissa: The only time she really cried is when I sat her down and told her that she was not adopted.
— Joan Rivers
Where else but in America could a schoolteacher from Kansas City end up the governor of her adopted state?
— Jane D. Hull
If Children are God's Gift then adopted are God's child.
— Revathi Sankaran
If Scripture were to describe the downfall of an empire in the style adopted by political historians, the common people would not be stirred.
— Baruch Spinoza
When I was little, I knew that I was not adopted, but I actually imagined and hoped that I was - and that my real parents were going to come get me.
— Gloria Steinem
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.
— Russell Simmons
Ridiculous modes, invented by ignorance, and adopted by folly.
— Tobias Smollett
The line, often adopted by strong men in controversy, of justifying the means by the end.
— St. Jerome
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.
— Michael Franti
Men of integrity are generally pretty obstinate, in adhering to an opinion once adopted.
— William Cobbett
I have adopted clothes from all the projects I'm in. It's really been a while since I've bought anything myself.
— Judd Nelson
Truthfully, my films don't get funded, they get adopted - and are made thanks to the generosity of others.
— Josephine Decker
I am Cuban, my parents are Cuban, and I was not adopted.
— Oscar Nunez
People know that I have adopted four principles in living my life: simple living, punctuality, hard work and prudence.
— Abdul Sattar Edhi
I was not allowed to talk about being adopted when growing up. I walked around feeling like I was going to explode.
— Michael Nyqvist
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
If we think there is an undermining now, just wait if Sharia is adopted or utilized by justices in the United States.
— Donald Trump
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.
— Faith Hill
My children range in age from 5 to 31. We adopted the 5-year-old, but people are often impressed with my wife before knowing that.
— Kevin Cramer
Al Gore adopted three utterly different personas in three national presidential debates.
— Rich Lowry
Innovation is the running theme and spirit of the policies adopted by the Chinese government, and it is the banner that we will always hold high.
— Li Keqiang
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.
— Will.i.am
Are you sure you weren't adopted?"
"Mom would like to think so, but it was a natural birth, so her memory's real clear. — Jana Deleon
"Mom would like to think so, but it was a natural birth, so her memory's real clear. — Jana Deleon
People are created in God's image. Homosexuality is an identity adopted through societal factors. It's an identity disorder.
— Christine O'Donnell
At what age do you think it's appropriate to tell a highway it's adopted?
— Zach Galifianakis
My sister is Korean and my parents adopted her about three years before I was born and that is how I grew up.
— Katherine Heigl
I Like this quote I dislike this quoteMy house is run, essentially, by an adopted, fully clawed cat with a mean nature.
— Anthony Bourdain
Who is going to cast out an error to which he has given birth and replace it with an adopted truth?
— Karl Kraus
Innovation transforms the useful seeds of invention into widely adopted solutions valued above every existing alternative.
— Braden Kelley
New solutions win by virtue of adoption, and they don't get adopted if they're bad solutions.
— John Perry Barlow
I have made speeches urging women to adopt methods of rebellion such as have been adopted by men in every revolution.
— Emmeline Pankhurst
Judge, Curtis is also Green and Ruxs' adopted son, but he belongs to me now," Genesis said, smugly. "I
— A.E. Via
All I ever want is to return to either Bangladesh, my motherland, or India, my adopted home.
— Taslima Nasrin
In the United States, if one family out of every four churches adopted a child, there would be no orphans in the country
— Kay Warren
Never cease to act because you fear you may fail.
Spoken to to her adopted daughter | january 1917 — Queen Liliuokalani
Spoken to to her adopted daughter | january 1917 — Queen Liliuokalani
Well, just remember this. When my ma got me, she picked what she wanted. But when your ma got you, she had to take what she got.
— Karen Abbott
The Open Internet principles were not legal rules adopted by the FCC; they were effectively a press statement posted on the FCC website.
— Marvin Ammori
The author says his young son, adopted from South Korea, occasionally burps and says thank you but otherwise is doing all right.
— Jim Bouton
Whatever be the means adopted, you must at last return to the Self, so why not abide as the Self here and now?
— Ramana Maharshi
Andrew Carnegie was an inventor only in the sense that he adopted and adapted the discoveries of others.
— H.W. Brands
I was born and raised in East Los Angeles by a single mom who had three biological kids and adopted four more. I never met my dad.
— Will.i.am
It is now clear that faith is a singular pledge of paternal love, treasured up for the sons whom he has adopted.
— John Calvin
[A] practitioner of any spiritual path must have complete confidence that his adopted path is, for him, superior to all others. (57)
— Prem Prakash
Despite the best of efforts, many foster children are neither reunited with their families, nor adopted.
— Charles Bass
The United States, adopted by Congress on June 14, 1777, had thirteen stripes and thirteen stars, each
— Joey Green
The oppressed, having internalized the image of the oppressor and adopted his guidelines, are fearful of freedom.
— Paulo Freire
Style, personality - deliberately adopted and therefore a mask - is the only escape from the hot-faced bargainers and money-changers.
— William Butler Yeats
Whoever the Lord has adopted ought to prepare themselves for hard, toilsome and unquiet living.
— John Calvin
You were tossed away like a pair of beautiful, brand new shoes that did not quite fit.
— Donna K. Childree
The FCC sided with the public and adopted extremely strong net neutrality rules that should be a global model for Internet freedom.
— Marvin Ammori
I have adopted you so gloves are off. You now matter to me, so I don't have to be nice." "Wait.
— Alanea Alder
For my 11th birthday, I asked to be adopted.
— Kaui Hart Hemmings
Cold and hunger seem more friendly to my nature than those methods which men have adopted and advise to ward them off.
— Henry David Thoreau
I used to have a phrase: Liberalism is spreading misery equally. And now the ruling class throughout Washington seems to have adopted this.
— Rush Limbaugh
I think a lot of people have a problem with the fact that I've adopted an African child, a child who has a different color skin than I do.
— Madonna Ciccone
My theory of evolution is that Darwin was adopted.
— Steven Wright
If Youku had adopted YouTube's business model, we just would not be here. We would not exist.
— Victor Koo
Justice was born outside the home and a long way from it; and it has never been adopted there
— Walter Cronkite
Adoption isn't just a childhood experience, it's a life-long experience.
— DaShanne Stokes
You may not know it, but I was adopted as a baby by my wonderful parents, Allan and Margaret Atkins of Cumberland Gap, Tenn.
— Rodney Atkins
A vendor neutral, standards-based approach must be adopted
— Carly Fiorina
By such innovations are languages enriched, when the words are adopted by the multitude, and naturalized by custom.
— Miguel De Cervantes
Adoptee rights are everyone's rights, and they deserve to be protected.
— DaShanne Stokes
I've adopted the guideline of Warren Buffett's partner, Charlie Munger, who says I wanna know where I'll be when I die - so I never go there.
— Tom Brokaw
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Big Deal; so was Superman — Chris Crutcher
Big Deal; so was Superman — Chris Crutcher
The uniform makes for brotherhood, since when universally adopted it covers up all differences of class and country.
— Robert Baden-Powell
...There is no worse way to abuse a man's patriotism than to estrange him from his homeland, be it his ancestral or adopted land...
— Janvier Chouteu-Chando
They're mine; I adopted them' Meryn declared cheerfully
— Alanea Alder
Theodore Roosevelt was a conservative who adopted progressive policies.
— Walter Lippmann
I'm so lucky to have a family, adopted or not! I'm so lucky to be alive! Judy Ellis Taylor tells her three school-age girls ... They roll their eyes.
— Shireen Jeejeebhoy
Good ideas are not adopted automatically. They must be driven into practice with courageous patience.
— Hyman Rickover
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.
— Andy Stanley
Moore, Russell D. Adopted for Life: The Priority of Adoption for Christian Families & Churches.
— Rosaria Champagne Butterfield
Working in some corporations was like going to prison. You adopted the views of the people around you.
— James S.A. Corey
In Australia, everyone gets a nickname and people started calling me "Izzy" and I hated it so I just adopted Bella.
— Bella Heathcote
God loves us and has adopted us exactly as we are, knowing every single thing about us. And if He's not ashamed of us, then why should we be?
— Matt Chandler
Somebody said the key to life is to work hard, play hard, rest hard, and I've pretty much adopted that.
— James Patterson
Cindy and I are adoptive parents. We know what a treasure and joy it is to have an adopted child in our lives.
— John McCain
As anyone who's ever adopted a dog will tell you, there's always the fear that one day the birth parents will come scratching at the door ...
— Dana Gould
It is the pride of my heart to have been one of the earliest adopted sons of America.
— Marquis De Lafayette