Adoptive Parenting, Child Parenting - 12 Favorite Adoption Quotes

03/06/07

12 Favorite Adoption Quotes

Posted by : Theresa in Adoptive Parenting Blog at 05:16 pm , 383 words, 537 views
Categories: Enjoying Children

For fun, I thought I’d share my top 12 favorite quotes on adoption. Some are not specifically about adoption, but certainly can be thought of in that context. I’ll start with my most favorite:

By choice, we have become a family, first in our hearts, and finally in breath and being.
Great expectations are good; great experiences are better.
Richard Fischer
Adoptive parent

Do you want to do something beautiful for God? There is a person who needs you. This is your chance.
Mother Teresa

He who can reach a child's heart can reach the worlds heart.
Rudyard Kipling

To give them what I never had heals me. Some days I look at them and almost start to cry. I think, How can I love them more than I did the day before? But it keeps growing.
Rosie O’Donnell

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I'm only one. But still, I am one.
I cannot do everything, but still, I can do something.
And because I cannot do everything,
I will not refuse to do the something that I can do.
-- Edward Everett Hale

Life is not measured by the number of breaths you take,
but by the moments that take your breath away.
--- Unknown

It has been said that adoption is more like a marriage than a birth: two (or more) individuals, each with their own unique mix of needs, patterns, and genetic history, coming together with love, hope, and commitment for a joint future. You become a family not because you share the same genes, but because you share love for each other.
Joan McNamara
Adoptive parent