#adopted

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

#bmw #family #get #gratification #i

Men of integrity are generally pretty obstinate, in adhering to an opinion once adopted. ↗

— William Cobbett

#adopted #generally #integrity #men #obstinate

Where else but in America could a schoolteacher from Kansas City end up the governor of her adopted state? ↗

— Jane D. Hull

#america #city #could #else #end

I want to be adopted by the French. I want to go to live in Paris. ↗

— Asia Argento

#french #go #i #live #paris

I used to joke for years that I was a black man. I adopted the black culture, the black race. I married a black woman, and I had black kids. I always considered myself a 'brother.' ↗

— Tommy Chong

#always #black #brother #considered #culture

In Holland, they have come to precisely the same conclusion. There they have adopted a system of secular education, because they have found it impracticable to unite the religious bodies in any system of combined religious instruction. ↗

— Richard Cobden

#any #because #bodies #combined #come

You were tossed away like a pair of beautiful, brand new shoes that did not quite fit. ↗

— Donna K. Childree

#adoption #dysfunctional-families #dysfunctional-family #mothers #the-wayward-gifted

When I started in fashion, I had already adopted the sailor-striped sweater as my uniform; that way, I wouldn't have to drive myself crazy trying to figure out what to wear. ↗

— Jean Paul Gaultier

#already #crazy #drive #fashion #figure

Al Gore adopted three utterly different personas in three national presidential debates. ↗

— Rich Lowry

#al #al gore #debates #different #gore

The friend that I based Heffer on was adopted, and it all played into his total personality. ↗

— Joe Murray

#based #friend #his #i #into