Famous Quotes & Sayings

Kirk Cameron

Some of our kids are adopted and some kids are natural-born - I forget which ones are which. Family's just amazing. We think that of everything that we could do in the world... if you don't take care of your family and raise your kids, you lose.

Kate O'Mara

I've been vegetarian for virtually all of my adult life, and I do adopt a very strict health regime.

Jane Green

I adore children, but I was never that interested in new born babies. It's a terrible thing to have to admit, and you're not supposed to think that way as a woman, but everyone promises it's different when you have your own. It wasn't for me, though.

We are concerned that much of the emphasis in this legislation focuses on horses already out of the barn, ... We believe that legislation will be most useful when, along with an appropriately designed notification standard, it also creates incentives for business to adopt practices that protect data and obviate the need for notification.

Lauren Velez

I don't have children, but I have 17 nieces and nephews, and they more than make up for anything that I can do. I have a stepdaughter, and I adore her to pieces, and I think about adoption. There are so many kids at different ages and stages that need families.

Yves Behar

My mantra is: 'Good design accelerates the adoption of new ideas.'

Plato

The man who makes everything that leads to happiness depends upon himself, and not upon other men, has adopted the very best plan for living happily. This is the man of moderation, the man of manly character and of wisdom.

Binyavanga Wainaina

We are a mixed up people. We have mixed up ways of naming, too... When my father's brothers and sisters first went to colonial schools, they had to produce a surname. They also had to show they were good Christians by adopting a western name. They adopted my grandfather's name as surname. Wainaina.

will.i.am

I was born and raised in East Los Angeles by a single mom who had three biological kids and adopted four more. I never met my dad.

Angela Featherstone

When I was in the group homes, I saw some of the kids being moved into foster homes with the potential for adoption. I remember well asking a social worker if I could find a home, too. I was told I was 'too old' and 'no one wants to adopt a 16-year-old.' I felt hopeless and alone.

Many Americans have a romanticized view of trains, rooted in a bygone era of elaborately adorned rail cars lit by flickering gas lamps and pulled by smoke-belching steam locomotives.

Agnes Smedley

Germany is in terrible condition this year. This is particularly true of the working masses, who are so undernourished that tuberculosis is having a rich harvest, particularly of adolescent children.

Agnes Obel

What I discovered in Berlin was this immense freedom because it felt like you could start any kind of project and nobody would care... and that's what I sort of adopted to my own.

Lawrence Lessig

We adopt this strategy now because there's an urgency to this debate. Over time, the space of free expression has shrunk.

We adopted the WADA code two years ago at our last congress including the two years' ban,

Paul Goodwin

We adopted a different shape when we went down to 10 men and I felt we played some good football in the circumstances.

Ryan Holmes

No surprise that, as companies have adopted social media en masse, demand for software and applications to manage and monitor social use has exploded.

Octavia Spencer

I'm a woman who eventually will get married and have kids - adopted at this point - but I see myself with a family and less time to commit to wanting to be a lead character.

We will adopt a very strict approval system for land use to eliminate the unauthorized expropriation of land.

We know that you're adopting a baby girl from India.

We believe the final decision was pretty clear. At a time when the state is developing community-based treatment and support programs for children ... a large adolescent psychiatric hospital doesn't represent the best way to meet the individual needs of adolescents in our region.

We can't afford to be complacent. If the industry doesn't embrace new technology, then we will be replaced. But, SCC is a technology that we are adopting enthusiastically.

Richard Avedon

What ends up in your scrapbook? The pictures where you look like a good guy and a good family man, and the children look adorable - and they're screaming the next minute. I've never seen a family album of screaming people.

Sendhil Mullainathan

If women's choices - such as taking time off to rear children - make them less productive in the economy, does adolescent boys' behavior in school make them even less so, because they are missing the educational potential of their formative years?

Peter Singer

Many European countries, as well as Australia, Canada, Israel, and New Zealand, have adopted legislation that creates a 'public lending right', where the government recognises that enabling hundreds of people to read a single copy of a book provides a public good, but that doing so is likely to reduce sales of the book.

Paul Bloom

Enjoying fiction requires a shift in selfhood. You give up your own identity and try on the identities of other people, adopting their perspectives so as to share their experiences. This allows us to enjoy fictional events that would shock and sadden us in real life.

Patricia McBride

My daughter arrived when I was five months pregnant with my son. We adopted Melanie from Korea; she was 2 years old, almost 3. I always wanted to have a family. I had a good example because Melissa Hayden was a ballerina in our company, and she had two children and danced afterward, and Allegra Kent also did.

Phil Anselmo

Tastes are varied, man, so much in this music world. Look, I adore the bands that I adore. On the flipside, as much as you love a 100 different genres of bands, there are another 100 I can easily say I dislike, too.

Travelers are on (the) leading edge of technology adoption. They adopt trends before the mainstream, are better educated and have more disposable income. They are picky people. Having control over making travel arrangements is very important, and the web plays well into that.

Jesse Ventura

when I said 'much ado about nothing,' I was putting myself in the place of these particular individuals who defy death and who are asked to go out in some instances and kill people.

Marcus Samuelsson

When I ride the subway back and forth, sometimes I look at the other passengers and wonder if any of them are children who have been adopted or parents who have adopted.

We need industry to be vocal about where we are missing the ball. There's ample opportunity to grow business with the government in helping it adopt best practices.

Peter Jensen

We know there's better recognition of ADHD, and we also know that when children are treated nowadays, they're more likely to be treated over a longer period of time, ... If you go back five, seven, eight years ago, it was very rare that an adolescent with ADHD was treated. And usually it'd just be a child in elementary school was treated, but nowadays prescriptions have probably risen because adolescents are getting treated, there's better recognition for girls and they tend to be treated more throughout the school year.