#adopt

The thing I want more than anything else? I want to have children. I used to feel for every child I had, I would adopt another. ↗

— Marilyn Monroe

#another #anything #child #children #else

'Yes' is a far more potent word than 'no' in American politics. By adopting the positions which animate the political agenda for the other side, one can disarm them and leave them sputtering with nothing to say. ↗

— Dick Morris

#agenda #american #american politics #animate #disarm

Teach your children how to behave with animals. Adopt a pet. Don't go buy one. Please. That's a sin. Let's get these puppy mills out of business. ↗

— Shelley Morrison

#behave #business #buy #children #get

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

#child #children #dreams

It is better, however, for his own reputation that the story-teller should risk a few actions for libel on account of these unfortunate coincidences than that he should adopt the melancholy device of using blanks or asterisks. ↗

— James Payn

#actions #adopt #asterisks #better #blanks

To be alive, to be able to see, to walk, to have houses, music, paintings - it's all a miracle. I have adopted the technique of living life miracle to miracle. ↗

— Arthur Rubinstein

#adopted #alive #houses #i #life

The spirit of logical analysis should in practice blend with the practical pressure for the adoption of some form of international language, but it should not allow itself to be stampeded by it. ↗

— Edward Sapir

#allow #analysis #blend #form #international

Adopting the right attitude can convert a negative stress into a positive one. ↗

— Hans Selye

#adopting #convert #into #negative #positive

I identify with Superman. I am adopted, I am an only child, and I love the idea that he comes from another world, that he's the ultimate immigrant. He has all these extraordinary powers, and he has a righteousness about him. ↗

— Bryan Singer

#adopted #am #another #child #comes

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

#dating