Famous Quotes & Sayings

He was probably a little apprehensive. It took a little time after his adopted mom passed before he tried to find us. And he said it took him two months to make contact after he paid an agency to find us.

John Patrick Shanley

I adopted two children, then I got eye disease and five rounds of surgery. I went blind in one eye, then the other eye, and that went on for three or four years. I got very enamored and involved with the theater and did a lot of plays.

David Brown

I have come to realize that adopted children are loved just as much as a natural child and that makes me glad since I have been adopted into God's family.

I have great concerns about what it will do to our community, as well, ... I know if we adopt (the proposed funding formula) it will impact City Schools in particular. We're a long way from doing that.

If we adopted Valery, she is going to be happy with us because she knows New York, she knows her little friends and she knows who is family.

If the Commission is not satisfied with the Polish authorities' response, it would have the possibility of adopting a formal decision declaring that Poland was in breach of Article 21 of the merger regulations.

He will decide which options he wants to adopt and then send the business plan options back to the consultants for analysis.

He has adopted and maintains a lifestyle that is totally contrary to the will of God as declared in the written word of God,

He had promised a 24-hour electricity facility for markets and even proper drainage but nothing has happened so far. The decisions taken at these visits are adopted only if they are heeded to.

Hu Jintao

Hence, to jointly promote balanced and orderly development of the world economy, all countries, major economies in particular, should not only adopt responsible economic policies to introduce necessary economic restructuring, keep major currencies reasonably stable and prevent trade protectionism, but also intensify dialogues on macro-economic policies and, most importantly, coordination on major issues that bear on the overall development of the world economy and the common interest of all countries,

Sue Simmons

help the club until someone comes along to adopt them. They all deserve a chance.

Clinton Portis

He might think I'm the devil, but Shaun Alexander is a great back. For the longest time, people said he was soft and couldn't do this and couldn't do that. Right now, he's the league MVP. Maybe we need all to adopt that mentality of him staying fresh by running out of bounds and not taking the extra pounding. That got him the league MVP. I'm sure everybody will like to be in his shoes.

We can help parents raise kids by adopting a uniform media rating system and banning marketing of violence to children.

Today it seems obvious to everyone that, of course, you have to be in the digital space or at least have a presence on the Internet. But if you rewind five, six, seven years ago, it wasn't so obvious then. There was a lot of trepidation and concern about how consumers would adopt it, ... John was one of the first to make that bold step forward. He was saying, 'We don't know how it's all going to turn out, but we do know the impact is going to be significant. We need to play today so we can be effective tomorrow.'

We expect to see continued adoption of stream processing within the securities industry as firms move beyond low latency trading and focus on other vital aspects of the business, such as risk management, compliance analysis and liquidity management.

There is a huge installed base of customers (over 400 million) using Windows XP, and Microsoft would gain nothing by causing pain or concern among those customers to somehow manipulate their adoption plans for Windows Vista.

John Howard

There is no change in our policy adopted for the past 30 years.

We're obviously delighted. It's a combination of three years of a lot of hard work and a vindication and endorsement of the policy we adopted that we had to be very much a part of the community plan. We couldn't go ahead in isolation. I think the outcome will be very exciting, not just for us, but for North Liverpool as a whole if the whole plan comes together.

Chris Crutcher

Adopted. Big Deal; so was Superman

Barry Scheck

My fear is that the debate over sequential blind will obscure everything, and you'll have police departments who are reluctant to change at all, or not adopt anything.

One of the areas that's going to slow down the adoption of mobile TV is securing broadcasting rights, but the carriers who can secure broadcast rights have more of an opportunity for uniqueness in their service. If they get rights to something that no one else has and it's a hot area, then that gives them an advantage.

Sebastian Thrun

None of us think about a world where all the cars are automated all the time. It could take society 20 years to adopt the technology.

No one had any doubt they would reach 1 million (downloads). But I think the speed of adoption is ahead of expectations. It's a good sign for Apple, and its strategy.

Only 40 to 50 percent of employers choose to adopt the grace period.

Zhang Yimou

My directing principle is to tone in with Tan Dun's music. I'll adopt a dichotomy to demonstrate his (the emperor's) historic achievements and faults while probing into the loneliness as a king deep in his mind.

Monster findings suggest that workplace relationships are commonplace these days. Some workplaces may discourage relationships, whilst others adopt a more relaxed approach. Whatever code of conduct you choose, the importance of ensuring an office romance doesn't cause conflict or have a negative impact on your career is paramount.

Carine Roitfeld

Monsieur Saint Laurent was pathologically shy, and he made the Saint Laurent woman in his own image. Like her, I am shy. And to protect myself, I adopted something of an androgynous look, just as his women did.

My hopes are that people will take some time out to watch this broadcast and see first hand how great the needs are of our adopted city.

John Deane

No president that I can find in the history of our country has really ever adopted a policy of expanding presidential powers for the sake of expanding presidential powers. And I think that's what we have going on.

Now that you have a new owner and effectively a whole new philosophy behind the team, this could be a way to adopt a new identity.

Aaron Hill

Shame on those breasts of stone that cannot melt in soft adoption of another's sorrow.

When we adopt them out, we will do it with the understanding that if the owner comes forward, they will be returned.

When we adopted this policy, we were trying to solve a problem,