#adopt

And you know when I was growing up, I knew I wanted to have kids, but I knew I didn't want to do it alone. Then once I was 41, 42, I had to accept that I probably wouldn't have kids unless I decided to adopt later on, but even then it would be with a partner. ↗

— Rachel Dratch

#adopt #alone #decided #even #growing

Good ideas are not adopted automatically. They must be driven into practice with courageous patience. ↗

— Hyman Rickover

#adopted #automatically #courageous #driven #good

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. ↗

— Jeffrey Sachs

#american #economy #gave #ideas #innovative

I adopt a very simple approach. I observe and reflect real life and ordinary people and sooner or later that raises a laugh. ↗

— Alberto Sordi

#approach #i #later #laugh #life

On gay adoption I have changed my mind. ↗

— Theresa May

#changed #gay #i #mind

Susan, an only child who never had any roots, and I, a lone wolf who got married 20 years to late, were adopted by the kids as much as they were by us. ↗

— Harpo Marx

#any #child #got #had #i

You understand. I don't know. I am not sure how I would feel in your shoes. My mother wanted me. ↗

— Donna K. Childree

#adventure-stories #coming-of-age-novel #the-wayward-gifted #age

The Biblical account describing God as an eagle teaching his eaglets to fly is exactly the process readers go through as they work through the chapters of this book. "Like an eagle that stirs up its nest and hovers over its young, that spreads its wings to catch them and carries them on its pinions." Deut. 32:11 ↗

— Beth Willis Miller

#eagle-s-wings #age

No rational argument will have a rational effect on a man who does not want to adopt a rational attitude. ↗

— Karl Popper

#argument #attitude #does #effect #man

Rather than lose the public because television is here, wouldn't it be smart to adopt television as our instrument? ↗

— Adolph Zukor

#because #here #instrument #lose #our