Famous Quotes & Sayings

A child that is free for adoption or may become free for adoption would likely be placed in our home before it would be placed in a home that was not adoption motivated. This prevents the child from being moved from place to place unnecessarily. If a child in our home does become adoptable, we would have the first opportunity at adoption.

Martin Jacques

After the Meiji restoration in 1868, Japan adopted an expansionist and colonial attitude towards its neighbours. It sought to identify itself with the West and looked down upon the Asian continent as backward and inferior. For most of the next 70 years, Japan was at war, mainly with its neighbours.

Anytime we have seen people try to accelerated adoption by lowering price, they have gotten their heads cut off.

Paul Burke

Indians look at adoption differently. Once you're adopted you have all kinds of relatives. They look at family as a whole.

Joseph Rotblat

Indeed, the very first resolution of the General Assembly of the United Nations - adopted unanimously - called for the elimination of nuclear weapons.

Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau

In music, you have to speak about a form-form, of adopted formal elements that are applied in order to express certain specific things. Because painting with music, that's something completely different.

Susan Brooks

In most states, the courts have not looked beyond the biological connections, marriage or adoption in determining the definition of a parent.

In Liberia, it is part of the culture to adopt each other. The idea of outside adoption was foreign to him.

Steve Johnson

In legislation that became effective in 2005, Congress adopted a uniform definition for most people. It won't change what they can take, but it'll make it easier for them to understand.

Dean Cain

I mean there's no particular role I'm going after. If there was something I had in mind, I would start to adopt that look.

I met a lady there from Buffalo, Mo., and I shared about the mission trip we took to the Ukraine last year and how I had saw a little girl there who I wished I could take home with me, ... That's when she told me she knew a lady who worked for an adoption agency and how they bring these Russian kids over to stay with host families for a couple of weeks.

I hope they adopt the advisory maps as recommended. I think it's the right thing to do to protect the city.

Mahmoud Abbas

I hope that they will change their position in future. I try night and day to convince them to adopt my policies, which are moderate. If they do not, they will end up totally isolated, and thus incapable of accomplishing their mission.

Infrastructure is clearly a critical process for adopting hydrogen fuels. There's certainly going to be places where hydrogen won't be existing for a long time, but the petroleum infrastructure is just about everywhere now.

Ohio's constitution gives charter cities the right to adopt rules and regulations for governing themselves that supersedes state law under some circumstances.

Larry Sabato

It's very likely that Virginia will eventually adopt the two-term governorship. But it won't be in the next few years, as far as I can tell.

It's very good news. A lot of larger institutions have already adopted this approach. At least for today, this is the best thing we can offer our patients.

Michael Medved

It's time to acknowledge that the TV ratings adopted more than eight years ago have proved to be a shabby, irrelevant, hopelessly confusing failure.

I want to say a big 'thank you' to the city of St. Cloud for adopting us. Any help is appreciated, and we are very, very grateful,

Tamara Tunie

I wanted to make a home that was similar to the kind of home that my mother made. To be able to create something like that in my adopted city, New York City, one of the toughest cities on the planet, is really special.

O. J. Simpson

I want to adopt, and I plan to adopt before I have my own kids.

Lindsey Graham

I want this committee to understand that if we go down this road of putting people's hearts in play, and the only way you can have a good heart is adopt my values system, we're doing a great disservice to the judiciary,

It took us nine months to get her. We knew someone who adopted and they suggested we adopt. She's been nothing but a blessing.

It will be interesting to see if Seoul's urban vocabulary of numerous, ever-present interactive screens will translate to other cities such as Beijing, London, and New York. It will also be intriguing to see if smaller cities and towns adopt aspects of Seoul's screen culture throughout Asia, Europe, and North America.

The voters have expressed their desire for change and much-needed accountability by passing the strong mayor initiative, ... The voters' mandate cannot be carried out in an atmosphere where high-ranking officials are more concerned with defending their past mistakes than in adopting needed reforms.

Pete Domenici

They want us to adopt this while we're here fighting over a Clinton budget that increases spending beyond anything that President George W. Bush would recommend,

They were the kind of family that ended up adopting every kid they took in. We are really devastated that this happened.

There's such a quantity of dogs out there. But people there aren't interested in adopting a dog off the street. They're trying to rebuild their lives.

David Anthony

There's a danger inherent in adopting rules that sound good but have no statistical basis or significance.

Patrick Fitzgerald

There's no allegation in the indictment in Chicago that anyone adopted children. The indictment doesn't speak to that, and I'll just look to my left to make sure of that. There's no such allegation about someone being adopted.

Is Microsoft invited to the ODF alliance? Absolutely. The door is open. Ultimately, I think they will adopt ODF.

Stephen Hadley

What this means is that India, which has had a good record in safeguarding technology, but has largely stood out from outside the global nonproliferation arrangements, is moving inside those arrangements. It is adopting practices and procedures, export controls and other safeguards that are much more in line with the international community's efforts to police proliferation and avoid proliferation.

We were only authorized to adopt two children by the government. But the three of them were sisters. We didn't want to break them up and people didn't usually want to adopt three children at once. So we went down there crossing our fingers and hoping they would allow us to bring them all back.