Scott Simon Quotes

It wasn't easy to adopt an American child. Actually it's quite simple, but finding out how to do it was the hard part.

I remember my mum explaining to me what adoption meant when I was still at primary school. 'Son,' she said to me, 'you didn't grow under my heart, you grew in it'.

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.

Would-be adoptive parents have to struggle for years through a bureaucratic obstacle course at an average cost of $30,000.

For my 11th birthday, I asked to be adopted.

When I ride the subway back and forth, sometimes I look at the other passengers and wonder if any of them are children who have been adopted or parents who have adopted.

I'm not adopting a baby.

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

Adoption was a bumpy ride - very bumpy. But, God, was it worth the fight.

I was adopted when I was a baby. My mother carried me for nine months and she held me for one hour, and didn't see me again.

Adoption is the highest privilege the gospel offers.

I think adoption is a blessing all around when it's done right.

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

I've always known I was adopted.

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.

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

I always knew I would adopt. Always.

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

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.

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.

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

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

I've always been maternal and Russia was a country where it's possible to adopt infants - my English social worker told me not even to waste my time trying here.

When I was 6, I learned where I came from, which was one step removed from the usual circumstances. I was adopted.