Rocky Wirtz Quotes

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 always knew I would adopt. Always.

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

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

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.

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.

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

I've always known I was adopted.

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

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

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'm not adopting a baby.

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.

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

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.

The process of open adoption is not discussed in the way it should be. Everyone I know who has adopted domestically has at least one tragic story. It was important to me to be able to describe those situations.

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

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.

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

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.