Adoption Quotations

I think Angelina Jolie has done amazing, amazing things, and the international adoption rate just since her has skyrocketed. It's unbelievable.

A full accounting of adoption as an option would not underestimate its emotional challenges - the grief and loss for birth mothers, the uncertainties for adoptive parents operating under a patchwork of state laws.

Catalyzed by the Recovery Act, adoption of electronic health records is increasing dramatically.

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

The planet's hope and salvation lies in the adoption of revolutionary new knowledge being revealed at the frontiers of science.

The future battle on the ground will be preceded by battle in the air. This will determine which of the contestants has to suffer operational and tactical disadvantages and be forced throughout the battle into adoption compromise solutions.

We believe widespread adoption of home solar will significantly improve life in cities by phasing out polluting coal plants, eliminating miles of ugly new transmission lines, and ensuring cleaner, healthier lives.

You well know, sir, that when the Constitution was submitted to the People of the respective States for their adoption or rejection, it awakened the warmest debates of the several State conventions.

Adoption is a global issue these days - it's certainly current - and it's encouraging for a lot of couples whether they're straight or gay.

On gay adoption I have changed my mind.

I think the adoption rate with respect to social media and how companies leverage that varies by the company. Cisco is probably a leader in the space. A lot of times, we actually use virtual ways to communicate our brand and do some of our advertising, first on the social space, then we do on physical advertising.

I was sure we would never see the adoption of the Euro. Countries giving up their currencies for a common tender was, it seemed to me, completely out of tune with currency being a carrier of people's cultural identity, celebrating national heroes and events, as it had been for hundreds of years.

I have a secret sibling that I never knew existed and who was given up for adoption at birth by my parents, and she was born without legs.

As comfortable as I was with my adoption, the nature-versus-nurture question has been a big one for me. I adore my parents, but I always wondered if I would feel a different kind of love-not more or less, just different-for someone who was biologically related.

It takes a huge amount of effort to move from a successful high-tech prototype to broader adoption of an imaging technology.

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.

The spirit of logical analysis should in practice blend with the practical pressure for the adoption of some form of international language, but it should not allow itself to be stampeded by it.

I had this sister that was born who was given up for adoption, and I never knew it.

Any new technology tends to go through a 25-year adoption cycle

The way I heard about The American Giving Awards was from the people that I work with. My publicist and I had a conversation a while back about wanting to really get involved more and more. We've been working with the National Council for Adoption with the children's home that I was adopted from called Holston Home.

I ended up in Broadmeadows orphanage - I don't know how that happened - whether she gave me up for adoption or the church was responsible. Whatever happened, she was a single mum.

Foursquare's adoption of a game dynamic when it launched is a particularly clever implementation of a social hook.

The adoption by Jefferson and the Republicans of the political structure of their opponents is of an importance hardly inferior to that of the adoption of the Constitution by the states.

I think my mom threatened to put me up for adoption a few times.

I say to everybody, 'Adoption is not for the faint of heart.'

It bothers me that I won't live to see the end of the century, because, when I was young, in St. Louis, I remember saying to Marilyn, my sister by adoption, that that was how long I wanted to live: seventy years.

Healthcare has been the last major industry that hasn't been touched by technology in terms of productivity and consumer adoption in the way so many other industries have.

I've started the adoption process... I really want to be a mommy.

In the 2015 time frame, you'll probably see more mainstream adoption of set-top box technology using UltraHD. We'll start shipping it in 2014, but the volume will take off in probably 2015.

Open adoption, when it works, is fabulous. But when it goes wrong, it's so traumatizing for everybody.

In an open adoption agreement, you agree to a minimum number of visits - a floor, not a ceiling. It's enforceable.

Adoption should be an empowering option for young women in crisis, knowing that the people around them - family, friends, church - will respect their choice.

We know that Google Earth and Google Maps have had a tremendous impact on Google traffic, users, brand, adoption, and advertisers. We also know Google News, for example, which we don't monetize, has had a tremendous impact on searches and on query quality. We know those people search more. Because we've measured it.

Birth mothers choose life, and a family, for their child. But this choice is rarely celebrated. Women routinely face family, friends and even health-care providers who think that adoption equals abandonment, according to researchers and conversations with birth mothers.

I started using Twitter about year after its very early adoption and ended up investing in it around that same time. I'm involved with the Tech scene and companies ranging from Facebook, Stumbleupon and Twitter.

We've heard some theories, but there is a lot of mystery surrounding my adoption.

When I have a family someday, I'll probably adopt. Adoption has always been something close to my heart. There are so many kids out there who really need a family.

For decades, I have supported adoption, and have helped tens of thousands of children worldwide.

The number who actually consented to the Constitution of the United States, at the first, was very small. Considered as the act of the whole people, the adoption of the Constitution was the merest farce and imposture, binding upon nobody.

My biological mother later found out that my mother had never graduated from college and that my father had never graduated from high school. She refused to sign the final adoption papers. She only relented a few months later when my parents promised that I would someday go to college.

The journey into adoption started for my parents, as it does with so many families: my mother and father desperately wanted to have kids, but they couldn't.

Why was the amendment, expressly declaring the right of the people to exclude slavery, voted down? Plainly enough now, the adoption of it would have spoiled the niche for the Dred Scott decision.

My take is the Mozilla Foundation took a look at this and its reliance on the community and saw a willingness to create a commercial model, and they saw it as the most sustainable way to move forward. It's a way to kick-start adoption of their technologies.

One of them desperately needed help with an adoption issue.

New charity activities and donations are on the rise these years. Thus animal adoption no longer stands out.

Nobody buys traditional handhelds anymore, ... The entire market underwent a paradigm shift. The mass adoption of cell phones eliminated the need for basic PIM (personal information management) functionality from a Palm Pilot.

Nobody buys traditional handhelds anymore. The entire market underwent a paradigm shift. The mass adoption of cell phones eliminated the need for basic PIM (personal information management) functionality from a Palm Pilot.

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.

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.

Adopted. Big Deal; so was Superman

Last year's Summer of Love' Pet Adoption Program was a remarkable success, with 122 dogs and 154 cats adopted, ... We hope that by extending this program and waiving adoption fees, Hempstead Town will be able to continue helping residents experience the joy of pet ownership and giving these animals good homes with loving owners.

We're continuing to see sustained growth across our U.S. and international markets, deeper penetration into many vertical categories and expanded adoption of our fixed-price trading formats,

Low-end, ultra-low-cost mobile phones are being pushed into emerging markets in large numbers. Meanwhile, at the high-end, wireless communications service providers are continuing to demand lower-cost 3G mobile phones in order to spur greater consumer adoption of 3G services. These two factors are driving down the overall ASP in 2005 and 2006.

Mike Reagan was an adopted child adopted by Jane Wyman and Ronald Reagan. Here, at Centers, we do adoption support. And Mike Reagan aligns well with our mission.

She was receiving adoption subsidies for the children while they were in Africa. She was getting close to $500 for each one of the children.

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

Leadership is not for the faint of heart

Harrods' selection of Sun's Java Integration Suite is a testament to the depth and breadth of its capabilities and its broad adoption in a number of markets, including retail. We look forward to helping Harrods establish a common view of data across the organization to more effectively serve its customer base and reach the next level of integrated multi-channel retail operations.

Four years ago, you weren't seeing a wide adoption of wireless data services. And you weren't seeing a wide consumption of new consumer electronics products.

Business Process Networks take the concept of software-as-a-service to a new level. By focusing on transaction-intensive processes, extending common business processes across multiple companies and leveraging shared connections, we are able to accelerate the adoption cycles and significantly lower operating costs.

Together, the Kurds and Shiites have enough votes in parliament to approve the draft constitution and have it voted on; however, the requirements for adoption of the constitution are such that if Sunni provinces uniformly reject it, it will not go into effect,

We are focused on changing the economics of mobile email adoption with Nokia Business Center. As the leading mobile phone manufacturer in the world, we have the distinct advantage of being able to make a great mobile business device that can be used to make phone calls, do email, or use other applications. Considering 70 percent of people who use popular email devices also carry a mobile phone, the opportunity for us to provide one device and solution that perfectly addresses both the voice and data experiences is tremendous. In the current landscape, many industry players are going after a slice of the potential mobile email market. Nokia is going after the full 650 million corporate email inboxes. We want to knock down the barriers to mobilizing the entire corporate email market.

The pace of technology innovation is accelerating. The investment demonstrates the company's long-term commitments and builds on the foundation we created during the last ten years. Through the Intel Capital India Technology Fund, Intel will help Indian companies drive technology adoption locally and identify new business opportunities globally. We will grow our local operations, boost venture capital investment and work closely with the government, industry and educators to increase the impact of the country's Information and Communication Technology.

We expect to realize cost savings beginning in 2006 from the consolidation of headquarters functions, achieving economies of scale and the adoption of best practices across the combined company. We fully expect this acquisition to be accretive to earnings in fiscal 2006.

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.

Longer term adoption will depend more on business models and content offerings than on the technology or devices. Our research shows that there's strong consumer interest in consuming mobile video. Consumers are just not interested in paying large fees for mediocre content.

Linux provides mobile device manufacturers with a powerful platform and unmatched inter-operability, to deliver new capabilities in advanced handsets. In much the same way that the OSDL Carrier Grade Linux working group helped accelerate Linux adoption in telecommunications network infrastructure, we believe that MLI will create the ideal forum where device manufacturers, network operators and developers can focus specifically on Linux and open source applications, to move mobile handsets to the next level of functionality and profitability.

Stamps.com has taken a very simple need, postage, and leveraged the widespread adoption of the Internet to fulfill that need.

Part of our adoption program is letting the prospective owner come here and spend time with the horse so we can see how he reacts with and treats the animal.

Optical networking is exploding, and the market will experience tremendous growth during the next decade. As we noted with Digital Subscriber Lines, few important technologies experience smooth and steady adoption cycles. Customers cannot accurately calculate the exact rate of adoption, and the inevitable result is inventory imbalances.

Jesus' life as a foot-washing servant would eventually lead to the adoption of humility as a widely admired virtue.

Javier has a proven track record of success, and I am confident that he will be a strong leader for Europe during this critical period. Under his leadership, Latin America has achieved significant growth. As head of the European Customer Group, he was instrumental in driving Europe's adoption of MasterCard's customer-focused strategy, which has set us apart from the competition and provided a platform to demonstrate our ability to deliver truly pan-European, globally competitive payment systems.

Our hope is to form a network that will bring animals to Tucson for adoption or fostering. It is crucial to work with a reputable agency to make sure that animals are really available for adoption,

It is definitely exciting news. I think that this policy will go a long way toward increasing adoption among providers. Providers will begin to realize this is actually a technology they can incorporate into their business practice.

It is just amazing how much she craves human companionship and affection. She has so much love to give when she herself has been given very little ? particularly over the last four months. It is pretty rough to be in the shelter all week and then paraded out for adoption days. She takes chances on humans over and over again, and is grateful for anything she gets in return.

Our study found that the majority of income trusts operate in some of the most capital intensive industries within Canada's economy. There is no evidence to suggest that the adoption of trust structures has had, or for that matter will have, any negative effect on capital investment or Canada's economy.

Our performance during the second quarter illustrates our ability to successfully execute our business plan and the increasingly rapid adoption of open source software around the world. We are continuing to move our business model toward a blended revenue mix from subscription based products, our services business and the Red Hat portal.

I was trying to talk reason, to try and have a two-way conversation. She considered an adoption but then quickly stopped listening.

It is only by maintaining the current law and making it the norm that adoption takes place by married couples and stability for an adopted child can be achieved.

It is a common error to suppose that the Higher Life is a matter of reading, and the adoption of theological or metaphysical hypotheses, and that Spiritual Principles can be apprehended by this method.

I think we will eventually follow in England's footsteps. Donor insemination is moving in the same direction as adoption did years ago. Family secrets are unhealthy, and disclosure is in the best interest of the child. People have the right to know their genetic history.

It certainly has not been adoption at the rate that some companies in the industry, some of the early entrants among the broadband providers, were expecting.

It can be a huge help to parents considering the adoption of an older child, when college is just a few years away, to know that there are post-adoption resources and specific financial assistance opportunities available to them.

I think it's fair to say that, even in the absence of legislation, we've had widespread adoption of privacy practices and policies. The private sector generally has an incentive to do things in a good way.

It certainly marks a major milestone in the adoption curve.

the President and directing the Secretary of State to transmit to the House of Representatives not later than 14 days after the date of the adoption of this resolution all information in the possession of the President and the Secretary of State relating to communication with officials of the United Kingdom between January 1, 2002, and October 16, 2002, relating to the policy of the United States with respect to Iraq.

Though there are more options than ever now to adopt a baby, there's a misconception that there are so many healthy children waiting to be adopted. Our adoption agency has more families waiting to adopt than there are babies to be adopted.

The appetite for 3G services is growing in Australia and globally. It is the future for delivering mobile services and in the next two to three years we will see its rapid adoption - fuelled by exciting multi functional handsets and appealing information, entertainment and communication services. 3 has led the way in making the 3G experience a present day reality for over half a million customers, and we want our 2G customers to be able to upgrade and experience 3G easily.

Wireless, more than any other technology, is driving the adoption of our business notebook line. Staying connected when you're on the road is fundamental to the value proposition of a notebook.

Microsoft is partnering with these NGOs to drive further adoption of technology that can speed information when it is most critical. We at Microsoft believe it is important to help improve humanitarian efforts through financial donations, technical resources and the volunteer efforts of our employees worldwide. This grant is directed at improving collaboration among agencies, which is one of the most vital issues our NGO partners are trying to solve.

We continue to be long-term believers in the productivity enhancing benefits that technology brings to corporations and consumers and we've seen a tremendous adoption of technology over the last few years.

We hope that through the collective decision of our European friends -- with whom we have exchanged views over the past two weeks -- we will witness in Vienna the adoption of a proper decision and a logical and principled approach.

We have received and expect to receive many more indications of interest as a result of our board's recent adoption of a liquidation plan. We intend to achieve the highest value reasonably attainable for our shareholders in an expeditious manner; however, we must caution that until a prospective purchaser has completed their due diligence and a definitive purchase and sale agreement with respect to one or more of the company's properties has been signed, there is no agreement on value.

Before I met my husband, I was just about to look into adoption.

The adoption of agriculture, supposedly our most decisive step toward a better life, was in many ways a catastrophe from which we have never recovered.

We look at adoption as a very sacred exchange. It is not done lightly on either side. I would dedicate my life for this child.

There is no doubt that software as a service has become a driving force within the software industry. Indications are that customer adoption will continue over the next five years and spending will remain on the rise. The software industry must adopt a new frame of reference for value creation. Software as a service delivery is at the forefront of this trend, and adoption will grow as more customers experience software as a service and the offerings mature, becoming more readily accepted and available in the market.

She wasn't tracking down her father to learn more about him. She was tracking him down to learn more about herself.

The purpose of this book is to supply, in the form suitable for laymen, guidance in the adoption and execution of an investment policy.