Crete Quotes

…primogeniture was founded upon the most absurd of all suppositions, the supposition that every successive generation of men have not an equal right to the earth, and to all that it possesses; but that the property of the present generation should be restrained and regulated according to the fancy of those who died perhaps five hundred years ago.

I've always wanted to adopt.

If I have kids, I'll adopt.

No, I'm not adopting any children.

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 do want to have a family at some point. I also want to adopt. I don't feel pressure to have kids because I know that there are so many out there.

If it gets to the point where I actually physically cannot have a child, there's plenty of children in the world that need a stable home and loving parent. I'm so down for adoption.

There are so many kids in this world, and in this country, that need homes. And so we're perfectly content to look into adoption one day, if for some reason we aren't able to have a biological child.

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

I'm not adopting a baby.

If the husband of a woman die, his wife may take her husband's patrimony

All citizens have the right to engage in industrial and commercial occupations. This right is founded on: (1) The right to hold property in houses, including the right to sell them, … (2) The right to make contracts with local authorities to build on urban and rural land, with the right of ownership for 49 years. (3) The right to own houses, factories and workshops, industrial and commercial undertakings, machinery, and means of production, agricultural and industrial property, financial capital. (4) The right to mortgage these properties or to borrow money on land. (5) The right to inventions, trade marks, and author’s royalties. (6) The right of married people and their children to testamentary or legal inheritance, up to 10,000 gold rubles, the right of legal enforcement of contracts.

How could the plebeians be restored to the land without dispossessing those who possessed it, who were themselves part of the people and held estates left to them by their forefathers by a kind of right.

I'll always have this thought of maybe adopting a child for the third one.

I don't want to have another baby, but my little sister is adopted, and I was hoping that one day I could do that...There are so many possibilities.

I absolutely want to have children, whether I have my own or adopt.

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.

I don't think I'll do foster care or adopt, to be quite honest.

I really want to adopt a child... I want to be called 'Mom.' It really is the most beautiful word in the English language.

You may not know it, but I was adopted as a baby by my wonderful parents, Allan and Margaret Atkins of Cumberland Gap, Tenn.

I've always known I was adopted.

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

I wanted a baby of color, to be honest, because I wasn't attached to the idea that I look like the biological mother. I liked the idea of the adoption being clear; it was and is not something I am interested in hiding.

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

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.