Marcus Samuelsson Quotes

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.

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've always known I was adopted.

I want adopted people to know they were chosen.

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

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 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.

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.

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

Before I met my husband, I was just about to look into adoption.

I'm not adopting a baby.

There's a lot of people in my family who've adopted children.

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

If I have kids, I'll adopt.

For my 11th birthday, I asked to be adopted.

I do want to have a family at some point. I also want to adopt. I don't feel pressure to have kids because I know that there are so many out there.

There are so many kids in this world, and in this country, that need homes. And so we're perfectly content to look into adoption one day, if for some reason we aren't able to have a biological child.

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

When I have a family someday, I'll probably adopt. Adoption has always been something close to my heart. There are so many kids out there who really need a family.

I've always wanted to adopt.

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

Adoption is rewarding. But the process, as we have already detailed in some particulars, can be expensive, exhausting, and hard to sustain on a dream, much less a whim.

Adoption is the visible Gospel.

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

I was adopted when I was a baby. My mother carried me for nine months and she held me for one hour, and didn't see me again.