Adopted Mothers Quotes & Sayings

I can't live except by my own heart. — Leo Tolstoy

I killed the wife when I first tasted sensual joys without love, and then it was that I killed my wife. — Leo Tolstoy

Everything in our lives has the potential to wake us up or put us to sleep. Allowing it to awaken us is up to us. — Pema Chodron

The thing is that I am a member of that sad, ever-dwindling minority ... the child of an unbroken home. I have carried this albatross since the age of eleven, when I started at grammar school. Not a day would pass without somebody I knew turning out to be adopted or illegitimate, or to have mothers who were about to hare off with some bloke, or to have dead fathers and shabby stepfathers. What busy lives they led. How I envied their excuses for introspection, their ear-marked receptacles for every just antagonism and noble loyalty. — Martin Amis

We must know the power of truth and experience the truth about power. — Mike Bickle

You were tossed away like a pair of beautiful, brand new shoes that did not quite fit. — Donna K. Childree

Ambition has its disappointments to sour us, but never the good fortune to satisfy us. — Benjamin Franklin

I think, certainly in the more civilized societies, women's roles are growing in power all of the time. — Sally Quinn

He thought of such places in a way that had no words, only recognizing one when he came to it. He might have called it holy, save that the feel of such a place had nothing to do with church or saint. It was simply a place he belonged to be, and that was sufficient. — Diana Gabaldon

One day you will tell me how to change what I cannot yet describe without my words swelling HUGE, vowels vanishing, tears washing ink away. — Alasdair Gray

Faces don't freeze like that unless pushed to breaking, where death itself becomes the kindness. — Karen Marie Moning

One of my brothers in my adopted family converted to Islam and I love him with all my heart. I have Muslim women who understand my pain and they give me lots of love and support. But what Black Americans never think about is that the African version of Islam is totally different from American Islam. They've never seen mothers doused in gasoline and set on fire for 'religious' reasons. So they don't know what I'm talking about. — Kola Boof

He had just been palatable, like ketchup. Ketchup had its merits. But no one would ever fill a bowl with that stuff. — Bella Forrest