Emily Procter Quotes

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

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 am adopted, and I am so grateful for my story, and that's what makes me who I am.

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.

I speak about family and adoption because it 100% changed my life and who I am. It definitely played a very large role into just learning how to be grateful for what you have and being fulfilled in a way that a lot of adopted kids don't feel.

I want adopted people to know they were chosen.

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.

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

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'm not adopting a baby.

My adoption journey fully fuels my inspiration, my drive, what my vision of success is.

I was never obsessed with being adopted. I was simply curious about my biological parents.

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

If I have kids, I'll adopt.

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 always knew I would adopt. Always.

My sister is Korean and my parents adopted her about three years before I was born and that is how I grew up.

When I'm ready, I plan to adopt. I still believe in family.

My father was adopted. He grew up in the Italian household.

What I'm finding is there's an awful lot about adoption and relinquishment and the complicated nature of family that we, as human beings, haven't been able to have a real discussion about yet without a lot of censorship.

I've always wanted to adopt.

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

Adoption is the highest privilege the gospel offers.

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.

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.