#adopted

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 go to Malawi twice a year. It's where two of my children were adopted from, and I have a lot of projects there that I go and check up on and children who I look after. It's sort of a commitment that I've made to this country and the hundreds of thousands of children there who have been orphaned by AIDS. ↗

— Madonna Ciccone

#after #aids #been #check #children

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

Those who govern, having much business on their hands, do not generally like to take the trouble of considering and carrying into execution new projects. The best public measures are therefore seldom adopted from previous wisdom, but forced by the occasion. ↗

— Benjamin Franklin

#best #business #carrying #considering #execution

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

— Rich Lowry

#al #al gore #debates #different #gore

I have adopted clothes from all the projects I'm in. It's really been a while since I've bought anything myself. ↗

— Judd Nelson

#anything #been #bought #clothes #i

It has adopted the geometry most advantageous to the species or, in other words, the most convenient. ↗

— Henri Poincare

#advantageous #convenient #geometry #in other words #most

Adopted kids are such a pain - you have to teach them how to look like you. ↗

— Gilda Radner

#how #kids #like #look #pain

My opinion, my conviction, gains immensely in strength and sureness the minute a second mind as adopted it. ↗

— Malcolm Muggeridge

#conviction #gains #immensely #mind #minute

Indeed, the very first resolution of the General Assembly of the United Nations - adopted unanimously - called for the elimination of nuclear weapons. ↗

— Joseph Rotblat

#assembly #called #elimination #first #general