Emily Procter Quotes

Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own.

I certainly don't think it's inevitable that we don't love children who don't carry our own DNA. If that were true we wouldn't have millions of successful adoptions to consider. I do think that it's harder to love a child when you come into that child's life after the unrequited passion of infancy and early childhood has passed.

As an adopted person, once you find out about that 'other' side of yourself, it's almost like you find out who you really are.

My stepfather and my mother, I love them to death.

All I wanted to do was please my adopted family.

I mean you got to thank your parents for giving you the right genes.

I have one brother, John, an airline pilot, who is seven years younger. He's adopted, though we're still blood related - he's my cousin. My parents couldn't have any more children after me, so when Dad's brother died, they adopted John, then just a baby.

My adoptive mother always wanted to meet my biological mother.

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

I'm really close to my parents.

When you meet kin, there is an energy and sparkle between your bodies. It must be chemical somehow - DNA and genes.

We all grow up with inherited genes and inherited sensibilities, and they run very, very deep.

My parents told me from the time I can remember that, 'Yeah, you're adopted. But this is your family.' I can remember my mom, she tells me this story: when I was little, I was looking at her, and I was like, 'Why isn't my skin the same color as yours?' She was like, 'Oh, you're adopted, but I wish I had pretty brown skin like you.'

I told my daughter, 'Your mom will forever be one of my best friends simply because she made you.'

In the very traits of his temperament, which have a considerable effect on his life of soul, a person bears within him qualities and impulses that have an obvious connection with those of his physical ancestors.

I see myself as having three families: my birth family, the family that raised me, and my Cree family, who I was reunited with in my late teens, so I consider myself to be lucky.

I think like my dad, but I have a huge kinship with my mom.

Even if I have a home in Paris and sometimes in New York, whenever I was saying I have to go home, it was going to my mother.

I should thank my parents for my beauty. It's in my genes.

I never perceived being adopted as the glass being half-empty.

My kids don't call me 'Mom' because I don't want them to. They're Michael's children. It's not that they are not my children, but I had them because I wanted him to be a father.

Just because you've been divorced doesn't mean you're not still a family.

I've had two great loves: my mother and my daughter.

I know I will never be able to replace my parents, but over the years I have realized that you aren't able to choose your own family.

She's very loving. That's my family. That's Michelle Lambert. She is my mom.