Adult Adoptees Quotes

DNA testing poses questions that people in the adoptee community have thought about far longer than such testing has been around. Will my birth mother/father/half-sister be happy to know me? And more broadly, what is that person to me? What do we mean when we speak of 'family'? How much does genetics get to tell us about who we are? ~ Libby Copeland

Have you thought of doing it? Being a cattle farmer? If that's what it's called? I think we should do that, but replace cattle with bunnies and then we don't milk or eat the bunnies. We just let them multiply. Then we'll take over the world. Me the queen. You the king. Our bunnies the army nobody can defeat. ~ Katie McGarry

The Lord of Rags and Tatters. ~ Megan Whalen Turner

According to the surgeon general, obesity today is officially an epidemic; it is arguably the most pressing public health problem we face, costing the health care system an estimated $90 billion a year. Three of every five Americans are overweight; one of every five is obese. The disease formerly known as adult-onset diabetes has had to be renamed Type II diabetes since it now occurs so frequently in children. A recent study in the Journal of the American Medical Association predicts that a child born in 2000 has a one-in-three chance of developing diabetes. (An African American child's chances are two in five.) Because of diabetes and all the other health problems that accompany obesity, today's children may turn out to be the first generation of Americans whose life expectancy will actually be shorter than that of their parents. The problem is not limited to America: The United Nations reported that in 2000 the number of people suffering from overnutrition--a billion--had officially surpassed the number suffering from malnutrition--800 million. ~ Michael Pollan

Hell had frozen over and I was lost in its endless labyrinth. ~ Cameo Renae

But the gates of my happy childhood had clanged shut behind me; I had become adult enough to recognize the need to conceal unbearable emotions for the sake of others. ~ Eva Figes

He was trying to tell me something."
Derek snorted. "Aren't they all? Must be a rule in the ghost handbook - if in danger of evaporating, make sure you're in the middle of a dire pronouncement. ~ Kelley Armstrong

Cleveland is the place I grew up and lived much of my adult life, so it will always be a part of my soul. ~ Mark Edwards

Chemistry is not destiny, certainly. But these scientists have demonstrated that the most reliable way to produce an adult who is brave and curious and kind and prudent is to ensure that when he is an infant, his hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis functions well. And how do you do that? It is not magic. First, as much as possible, you protect him from serious trauma and chronic stress; then, even more important, you provide him with a secure, nurturing relationship with at least one parent and ideally two. That's not the whole secret of success, but it is a big, big part of it. ~ Paul Tough

I'm having the same problems today that I had when I first started, saying that outrageous adult animation works. ~ Ralph Bakshi

He owes me nothing, yet gives me everything in return. - SHEA ~ Michelle Warren

Dirt Deeds Done Dirt Cheap ~ Sherrilyn Kenyon

I've been asked this question so many times, do you feel you need to write a book for adults? No, I don't need to write a book for adults. ~ J.K. Rowling

Not all of us are the chosen ones… But you are. ~ Charlena E. Jackson

No one would believe me but at times I would choose wartime in Saigon over peacetime in Alabama.-Inside Out and Back Again ~ Thanhha Lai

Ashlinn was lovely to look upon, someone who could easily snub half of the highest-paid stars in Hollywood and break the hearts of the rest. ~ Calista Lynne

It's embarrassing to be involved in the same business as the mainstream comic thing. It's still very embarrassing to tell other adults that I draw comic books - their instant, preconceived notions of what that means. ~ Daniel Clowes

Having to act like an adult because I was directing a big movie but also feeling like a child because we had reindeer and big cameras and they had fake snow. I just wanted to go play in the snow. ~ Todd Strauss-Schulson

Adult stem cells have shown great potential and have effectively helped patients. Another alternative is cord-blood stem cells. These are a neglected resource that could be used to treat a diverse body of people. ~ Jim Ryun

Maybe that's why I'd been chosen to become the first female Reaper in history. I think the boys had been losing too many souls. ~ Tish Thawer

Perhaps I lost sight of my dreams when I became an adult and resigned myself to acting the way adults were supposed to act. ~ Robin S. Sharma

He whispered for her ears only as he listed off the facts: "Military are allowed a larger portion. Being second in command restricts me from no room and giving orders is what I've been hired to do. As far as ignoring you, that is not the case. I've checked up on you, and you are doing well. My intentions have never been to harm you or insult you. You actually are quite breathtaking in that dress and that is the problem, you need not draw attention to yourself. You are my responsibility and the answer to 'why' will always be because I have to. ~ Jettie Necole

All those calm, adult discussions. When all she really wanted to do was scream for her momma, her sweet momma, the one person in the world who loved her better than anyone ever would or ever could. ~ Fannie Flagg

I don't think you really know for sure what you'll do until it comes down to the moment when you have to make that decision for real. ~ J.W. Lynne

As child, when the elders spoke their wise words, it only echoes in my ears. As adult, I have crystal clear insight to the wise aphorisms by the elderly. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

The adult works to improve his environment while the child works to improve himself. ~ Maria Montessori

Oh my!! How you've grown. Soon you'll be catching the Lord's balls. ~ Marjane Satrapi

How does a human girl become something divine and feared by the gods that gave her the power she wields? ~ Emily A. Duncan

It is an odd fact of evolution that we are the only species on Earth capable of creating science and philosophy. There easily could have been another species with some scientific talent, say that of the average human ten-year-old, but not as much as adult humans have; or one that is better than us at physics but worse at biology; or one that is better than us at everything. If there were such creatures all around us, I think we would be more willing to concede that human scientific intelligence might be limited in certain respects. ~ Colin McGinn

This was a different kind of a kiss, not one that leads to something, but a hard, painful one.
It was a goodbye kiss. ~ Penelope Ward

I was not a lovable child, and I'd grown into a deeply unlovable adult. Draw a picture of my soul, and it'd be a scribble with fangs. ~ Gillian Flynn

Julie Williams was determined to break my defense. ~ Tabitha G. Kelly