#adopt

I love Russia because Russia gave me you. ↗

— John M. Simmons

#love #russia #love

Fear gripped me as my children and I arrived at the Ukraine-Moldova border crossing. ↗

— Kim De Blecourt

#international-adoption #kim-de-blecourt #orphans #ukraine #until-we-all-come-home

I don't know anyone who remembers meeting their parents when they were a baby so i'm just like everybody else. -Zoey (100% Real) ↗

— Tara Michener

#bullying #children-s-books #childrens-literature #self-esteem #literature-quotes

When you look at where the Democratic field is going relative to foreign policy, they are increasingly moving away from a policy of pre-emptive self-defense that the president has adopted since September 11. ↗

— Ed Gillespie

#away #democratic #field #foreign #foreign policy

But I'm here. I will love him. I will be his mother. ↗

— Kim De Blecourt

#ginger-kolbaba #international-adoption #kim-de-blecourt #orphans #ukraine

When I got into the film business, my aim was to adopt a positive persona, of a guy who fights against injustice. And it saved me, because my acting was atrocious to say the least! ↗

— Chuck Norris

#adopt #against #aim #atrocious #because

When I walk up on that shore in Florida, I want millions of those AARP sisters and brothers to look at me and say, 'I'm going to go write that novel I thought it was too late to do. I'm going to go work in Africa on that farm that those people need help at. I'm going to adopt a child. It's not too late, I can still live my dreams.' ↗

— Diana Nyad

#africa #brothers #child #dreams #farm

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

— Michael Nyqvist

#adopted #allowed #around #being #explode

It actually got me upset reading about adopted children. They become junkies or criminals or actors. I wanted to write a book from the children's point of view. ↗

— Michael Nyqvist

#actually #adopted #become #book #children

I hope that increasing numbers of Christians adopt the practice of wearing a cross in a simple and discreet way as a symbol of their beliefs. ↗

— Keith O'Brien

#beliefs #christians #cross #discreet #hope