A Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with A. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Adopted. Big Deal; so was Superman”
Source: Whale Talk
“Adoptee rights are everyone's rights, and they deserve to be protected.”
“Adoptees deserve open records because deception and partial truths do not set us free.”
“Adopting a central organizing principle means embarking on an all-out effort to use every policy and program, every law and institution, to halt the destruction of the environment.”
“Adopting a mindset, regardless of circumstances, is the determining factor between lightning up or dimming your vision in life. - Rational Akrofi Akuffo”
Source: Soul Works - The Minds Journal Collection
“Adopting a new healthier lifestyle can involve changing diet to include more fresh fruit and vegetables as well as increasing levels of exercise.”
“Adopting an attitude of agile optimism—expecting to receive unexpected insights before we see the outcomes—is how we build the neural pathways that create the spring-fever effect.”
Source: Your Year of Wonders: Embrace Change. Grow Faster. Win Bigger.
“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.”
“Adopting the behaviors and habits of surrendered people helps us improve our relationships, feel love and gratitude, get healthier, give up destructive people and behavior patterns, and become more successful and influential in our lives and careers. And that's just the tip of the iceberg as far as benefits go.”
“Adopting the language of a pretense only serves to ease participation in it.”
“Adopting the right attitude can convert a negative stress into a positive one.”
Source: Blogging-O-Pedia: A Quick Guide to start your successful career in Blogging
“Adopting this strengths-based view doesn't mean pretending challenges don't exist. It means reframing them. Instead of asking 'What's wrong with me?' you get to ask 'What are my unique strengths? What do I need to thrive? What kind of support would actually help?”
Source: The Therapist's Handbook for Neurodivergent People: A NeuroFlex ACT Guide for Living Fully with ADHD, Autism, OCD, and a Neurodivergent Life
“Adoption gives us the privilege of sons, regeneration the nature of sons.”
Source: The Doctrine of Regeneration: Selected from the Writings of Stephen Charnock
“Adoption has been a part of my life and a part of my family, so it was how I wanted to start. It felt natural and right to me.”
“Adoption has been both a challenging and rewarding experience for our family. By embracing open adoption, we have been able to honor and celebrate the birth families of our children while also providing a loving home for them.”
Source: Opening Up: Exploring Faith in the Everyday Messiness of Life
“Adoption has the dimension of connection - not only to your own tribe, but beyond, widening the scope of what constitutes love, ties and family. It is a larger embrace. By adopting, we stretch past our immediate circles and, by reaching out, find an unexpected sense of belonging with others.”
“Adoption is a beautiful, burdensome blessing.”
Source: The Eye of Adoption: The True Story of My Turbulent Wait for a Baby
“Adoption is a beautiful picture of redemption. It is the Gospel in my living room.”
Source: Kisses from Katie: A Story of Relentless Love and Redemption
“Adoption is a lifelong journey. It means different things to me at different times. Sometimes it is just a part of who I am. Other times it is something I am actively going through.”
Source: Adoption Is a Lifelong Journey
“Adoption is a redemptive response to tragedy that happens in this broken world.”
Source: Kisses from Katie: A Story of Relentless Love and Redemption
“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!”
“Adoption is an answer to a tragedy that has already happened, but may it never be the impetus for one that hasn’t.”
“Adoption is grief in reverse.”
Source: The Eye of Adoption: The True Story of My Turbulent Wait for a Baby
“Adoption is rewarding. But the process, as we have already detailed in some particulars, can be expensive, exhausting, and hard to sustain on a dream, much less a whim.”
Source: Baby, We Were Meant for Each Other: In Praise of Adoption
“Adoption is the highest privilege that the gospel offers: higher even that justification ... To be right with God the Judge is a great thing, but to be loved and cared for by God the Father is greater.”
Source: Knowing God
“Adoption is the highest privilege that the gospel offers: higher even than justification.. . To be right with God the Judge is a great thing, but to be loved and cared for by God the Father is greater.”
Source: Knowing God Devotional Journal: A One-Year Guide
“Adoption is the highest privilege the gospel offers.”
“Adoption is the most intentional process on Earth.”
Source: The Eye of Adoption: The True Story of My Turbulent Wait for a Baby
“Adoption is the visible Gospel.”
“Adoption is wonderful and beautiful and the greatest blessing I have ever experienced. Adoption is also difficult and painful. Adoption is a beautiful picture of redemption.”
Source: Kisses from Katie: A Story of Relentless Love and Redemption
“Adoption isn't just a childhood experience, it's a life-long experience.”
“Adoption was a bumpy ride - very bumpy. But, God, was it worth the fight.”
“Adoption was something that was always under my skin, that I knew would be a part of my life, and, when I decided to start filing, it was very clear. It was like I knew that this was exactly what it needed to be. So then you go through the process, and it's tough. It's not the easiest process - and then again, I've never liked things too easy in life. But it emotionally knocks you out.”
“Adoption was such a positive alternative to abortion, a way to save one life and brighten two more: those of the adoptive parents.”
Source: Decision Points
“Adoptive parents are taking on enormous responsibility, both emotionally and financially. Quite frankly, they need as much disclosure as possible about the child's background and health to assure the best fit and be prepared.”
“Adora Belle fought back, and to make sure fought back even before she was attacked.”
Source: Going Postal
“Adora changed her color scheme from peach to yellow. She promised me she'd take me to the fabric store so I can make new coverings to match. This dollhouse is my fancy." She almost made it sound natural, my fancy. The words floated out of her mouth sweet and round like butterscotch, murmured with just a tilt of her head, but the phrase was definitely my mother's. Her little doll, learning to speak just like Adora.
"Looks like you do a very good job with it," I said, and motioned a weak wave good-bye.
"Thank you," she said. Her eyes focused on my room in the dollhouse. A small finger poked the bed. "I hope you enjoy your stay here," she murmured into the room, as if she were addressing a tiny Camille no one could see.”
Source: Sharp Objects
“Adoraba la música, la pintura y todas las materias desprovistas de provecho y beneficio en la sociedad de los hombres.”
Source: The Shadow Of The Wind
“Adorable as she was, Northey was by no means an easy proposition. She was now in love, for the first time (or so she said, but is it not always the first time, and for that matter, the last?) and complained about it with the squeaks and yelps of a thwarted puppy.”
Source: Don't Tell Alfred
“Adorable children are considered to be the general property of the human race. Rude children belong to their mothers.”
Source: Miss Manners' guide to rearing perfect children
“Adorable in her not-very-bright submissiveness, charming in her childlike delight in shiny floors, even forgivable in her spiteful competition for the whitest, brightest wash, Madison Avenue's girl-next door is all the American male could wish for: unless, by some miscarriage, he should fancy human companionship.”
“Adorar (ad oris) significa, literalmente, levar à boca.”
Source: O Pintor Debaixo do Lava-Loiças
“Adoration drives obedience, but throughout history people are prone to forget the faithfulness of God yesterday.”
“Adoration is a powerful intoxicant.”
Source: The Last Queen
“Adoration is caring for God above all else.”
Source: The Ways of the Spirit
“Adoration is made out of a solitary soul occupying two bodies.”
“Adoration is not some fervent spiritual or poetic exercise reserved for a chosen few. I believe the human race will die out and destroy nature if it does not learn again how to adore God, the God in all of us, God shining and living in nature, and learn again how to act from and in that spirit of adoration.”
Source: Dialogues with a Modern Mystic
“Adoration is the spontaneous yearning of the heart to worship, honor, magnify, and bless God. We ask nothing but to cherish him. We seek nothing but his exaltation. We focus on nothing but his goodness.”
“Adoration is what I wanted
But I received love, instead
We clamor for Byron and Keats
yet Austen taught us Knightley and Darcy
Words mean nothing if not followed by
Action
And this is why she gave us Brandon...”
Source: Carve a Place for Me
“Adoration means concentrating on what is essential: ridding ourselves of useless things and addictions that anesthetize the heart and confound the mind.”