Sara Ramirez Quotes

I'd adopt an older child, not a baby.

I will say, in open adoption, all these choices you make about race, about the amount of mental illness you can deal with, about special needs and physical maladies, you have to lay all this out there before you know anybody's story.

If I have kids, I'll adopt.

I always knew I would adopt. Always.

I always thought I would adopt. Even when I was young, I used to look up how to adopt.

I've been involved in the offering-up-adoption-as-another-choice business for a long time.

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

There's a lot of people in my family who've adopted children.

The last thing that should come between two willing parties, one that wants to adopt and one that wants to find a home, is economics.

I'd like to adopt an older child, maybe 5 years old.

I want to say that, in general, when it works, open adoption is great.

I want to have and adopt. I always have; ever since I was 18, I wanted a baby, and I wanted to have and adopt because there are a lot of kids. I want to adopt an American baby though, you know what I mean, no offense. Just because there are so many kids here that need our help.

I've wanted to adopt since I was eight, nine years old. I really do think I will.

We feel that there are so many kids who need adopting. We thought we'd do it after having a couple of our own, but we just changed our mind.

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

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.

We have looked into the general problems with adoption in the United States, and we discovered - on the basis of the reports written by American NGOs - we discovered that not only Russians but kids from other countries and the American-born kids have been subject to very unfortunate behavior on the part of their adopted parents.

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

I was adopted. I was born in Edinburgh, and adopted when I was about two weeks old. And it's a good thing, I think, really, that back then, in '75 when I was born, you were really given a lot more information than you're given now when you're adopted. And you know, you can access that information when you're older.

I think adoption becomes complicated whenever the biological parents are alive.

It's relatively easy to adopt kids if you're not trying to get kids that look exactly like you.

I think it is very unfortunate that there is a ban on adoptions in Russia.

Adoption was such a positive alternative to abortion, a way to save one life and brighten two more: those of the adoptive parents.

I can see myself adopting. I'm not in a rush to do it. I'm 39, I know, but I do love kids, and I'm very good - I've got a lot of really good moves.

I think I always knew that I wanted to adopt. It never meant that I didn't want to have my own children - I always felt that if I were in the right circumstances then I would totally have my own children.