Adoptive Parent Quotes & Sayings

You start to do shows and people come up to me and say, "I wish more people were here, how come more people aren't here?" and that just starts to get a little. — Nina Nastasia

I can see how a relationship with a writer would be an easy thing. — Jeff Bridges

Adopting means opening your home, and heart, to a life you've never known. But there is nothing as richly rewarding as being an adoptive parent. — Michael Gove

I'm not even sure if empathy is an act, it could be a disposition. — Michael Helm

Cindy and I are adoptive parents. We know what a treasure and joy it is to have an adopted child in our lives. — John McCain

If you must use your hands, use them with all the strength you possess ... If you choose to strike, by all means strike hard. — Jeff Cooper

As an adoptive parent myself of foster children, I have seen firsthand the glaring problems of the system currently facing this Nation. — Dennis Cardoza

The ancients were subtle, mysterious, profound, responsive. The depth of their knowledge is unfathomable. Because it is unfathomable, — Lao-Tzu

Adoption is a wonderful way of becoming a family. If being a biological parent is any better or more rewarding than being an adoptive parent, I really don't think I could stand it! — Kathleen Silber

There's a very natural tendency (that we've certainly experienced) for adoptive parents to want to become the sole identified parent for their child right away, to the point where you want your child only to acknowledge you and your family as their own and not their birth family. Especially if the adoption process has been a difficult or contentious one, it may be that you as the adoptive parent feel a bit threatened by the continued presence of the birth parent in your child's life, even if it's as infrequent as a once-yearly visit. But as I'm sure you'll read the current thinking is very focused on the overall benefits to the child of having this process no longer cloaked in the shadows, but out in the open. — William Gregory