25 Beloved Adoption Quotes

We loved you before we even knew you, even when there was just a hope for you, we loved you.

Superman was adopted.

Parenthood requires love, not DNA.

If you think my hands are full, you should see my heart.

All that we love deeply becomes a part of us.

-Hellen Keller

If you have the heart for adoption, don't let fear stand in the way.

-Doug Chapman

A birth mother always puts the needs of her child above the wants of her heart.

Adoption is another word for love.

Adoption: if a baby is not a blessing for you right now, let them be a blessing to someone else.

Somehow destiny comes into play. These children end up with you and you end up with them. It's something quite magical.

-Nicole Kidman

He is mine in a way that he will never be hers, yet he is hers in a way that he will never be mine, and so together, we are motherhood.

-Desha Wood

Biology is the least of what makes someone a mother.

-Oprah Winfrey

You have never really lived until you have done something for someone who can never repay you.

Adoption is not the call to have the perfect rosy family. It is the call to give love, mercy, and patience.

Not flesh of my flesh, nor bone of my bone, but still miraculously my own.

The family is God's greatest masterpiece.

We look at adoption as a very sacred exchange. It was not done lightly on either side. I would dedicate my life to this child.

-Jamie Lee Curtis

God knit you together in your mother's womb, then he wove you into our hearts.

Born not from our flesh, but born into our hearts. You were longed for, wanted, and loved from the start.

There are times when the adoption process is exhausting and painful and makes you want to scream. But, I am told, so does childbirth.

-Scott Simon

I was chosen, I was wanted, I was cherished, I grew in their hearts, I was the missing piece, I was loved, I was adopted.