#adoption

Madonna remains the most visible performer on the planet, as well as one of the wealthiest, but would anyone seriously say that artistic self-development is her primary motivating principle? She is too busy with Kabbalah, fashion merchandising, adoption melodramas, the gym, and ill-starred horseback riding to study art. ↗

— Camille Paglia

#anyone #art #artistic #busy #fashion

My adoption was treated as a celebration. ↗

— Michael Reagan

#celebration #treated

For decades, I have supported adoption, and have helped tens of thousands of children worldwide. ↗

— Pat Robertson

#children #decades #helped #i #supported

Any new technology tends to go through a 25-year adoption cycle. ↗

— Marc Andreessen

#any #cycle #go #new #new technology

In an open adoption agreement, you agree to a minimum number of visits - a floor, not a ceiling. It's enforceable. ↗

— Dan Savage

#agree #agreement #ceiling #enforceable #floor

With the adoption of the Declaration on the Elimination of Violence against Women, the international community sent out a clear message that gender based violence will not be tolerated. ↗

— Jenny Shipley

#against #based #clear #clear message #community

The children we bring into the world are small replicas of ourselves and our husbands; the pride and joy of grandfathers and grandmothers. We dream of being mothers, and for most of us that dreams are realised naturally. For this is the Miracle of Life. ↗

— Azelene Williams

#adoption #babies #father #icsi #infertility

YOU AND YOU ALONE ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR YOUR OWN HAPPINESS, NOT ANYONE ELSE ↗

— Sondra A. Torres

#autobiography #family #fetal-alcohol-syndrome #inspirational #family

The beggarly question of parentage--what is it, after all? What does it matter, when you come to think of it, whether a child is yours by blood or not? All the little ones of our time are collectively the children of us adults of the time, and entitled to our general care. That excessive regard of parents for their own children, and their dislike of other people's, is, like class-feeling, patriotism, save-your-own-soul-ism, and other virtues, a mean exclusiveness at bottom. ↗

— Thomas Hardy

#parental-love #love

Race, blood, lineage, and nationality don't matter; they're just the way that small minds keep score. All that matters about blood is that it's warm and that it beats through a loving heart. ↗

— Scott Simon

#love