#ado

It was such a paradox for me that the only thing I know how to do is act, but that the first thing I abandoned while writing were the characters. ↗

— Bryce Dallas Howard

#act #characters #first #first thing #how

Follow thy fair sun, unhappy shadow. ↗

— Thomas Campion

#follow #shadow #sun #thy #unhappy

If it went on the ballot in Colorado, I would vote to lower the drinking age. ↗

— Pete Coors

#ballot #colorado #drinking #i #lower

And because he knows that we don't have an ounce of talent to waste, the president took action to lift the shadow of deportation from a generation of young, law-abiding immigrants called dreamers. ↗

— Julian Castro

#because #called #deportation #dreamers #generation

I adore the theater and I am a painter. I think the two are made for a marriage of love. I will give all my soul to prove this once more. ↗

— Marc Chagall

#am #give #i #i am #i think

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. ↗

— Iris Chang

#also #child-bearing #china #country #epidemic

It is my hope and my belief that you will be able to report that I died with dignity, without animal fear and without bravado. I owe that much to myself. ↗

— Caryl Chessman

#animal #belief #bravado #died #dignity

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. ↗

— Kelly Clarkson

#adopted #again #aunt #because #being

I wear my shadows where they're harder to see, but they follow me everywhere. I guess that should tell me I'm travelling toward light. ↗

— Bruce Cockburn

#follow #guess #harder #i #light

Those who are wounded wound others. Moses was wounded profoundly when he lost his birth family, his heritage, and his history. In the years to come, he would come to know Jehovah-rophe, the Healer of life’s sicknesses and sorrows. Exodus 15: 26b says, “…for I am the Lord, who heals you.” (from Under His Wings: Healing Truth for Adoptees of All Ages) ↗

— Beth Willis Miller

#healing #wounds #age