Family Building Quotes

I'm satisfied with making true choices and finding the woman I love, Angie, and building a family that I love so much.

The '90s were a time of building for me. Building a life that was sober, drained of harmful, wasteful excess and manufacturing in its place a family of my own.

Despite the reams of paperwork, obstacles worthy of a horse show, and a wait that can rival an elephant's gestation, adoption feels no different on the inside.

Becoming a mother is the best thing that has ever happened to me, I am happy to once again be a part of National Adoption Day. We were matched with our daughter through the U.S. foster care system, and my goal is to share information about the more than 120,000 foster care children in this country who are waiting for a family.

I would rather do surrogacy before adopting. If I can't do it, I'd rather find someone who would do it for me.

I most definitely want kids, but I'll probably adopt kids.

It's not like I want to hop on a bandwagon, because I said it 15 years ago - bringing a child into your life who is not genetically yours is one of the most beautiful things you can do. But I'm also interested in having my own baby, too.

If you can't get pregnant for whatever reason, it's great to know that there are options available for people that want to have a family.

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

That is very important to me, to make fertility mainstream so everyone understands it. If you want to have your miracle child, there are options: adoption, surrogacy, fertility procedures. It is also sadly very expensive, and not all insurance companies cover it.

It took quite a bit of work and time and mistakes to begin to feel - to understand the strength that comes along with building a home life.That was very mysterious to me. I was very skeptical of it for a long time, and didn't understand it fully until Patti [ Scialfa] and I got together.

Falling in love is really relatively easy compared to staying in love and building a family that lasts.

I've always wanted, notionally, to be a mother. And I was certain I would be, because everyone I know, gay or straight, married or single, rich or not so much, who truly wants to have a child figures out a way, some way, to have one - whether through adoption, fostering, surrogacy, fertility, accident, or persistence.

To me, marriage is really important and what we build families on. That's why gay marriage is really important.

Marriage is a career which brings about more benefits than many others.

Adoption was such a positive alternative to abortion, a way to save one life and brighten two more: those of the adoptive parents.

It's heartbreaking to think that the joy of building a family is being dimmed by the economic squeeze young people are feeling.

I would love to get married, have a baby and adopt one.

We are really looking at all of our options. I mean, listen, whether it's IVF or whatever it is, we want to have a baby and we will have a baby.

There's no one right way to parent, and there's no magic combination of genders that produces the most well-adjusted child. We all do the best we can at loving our kids and building our families.

My husband and I vowed that after we married and settled down, we would become foster parents - a vow we kept and one that has enriched our lives greatly.

Why get married? For human beings, marriage is such an unnatural state. If you want monogamy, it has been said, you should marry a swan.

I can't wait to have kids. I want so many. I want to adopt and have my own.

We're actually building onto the house to make it bigger because we want to start a family.

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