Rodney Atkins Quotes

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

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.

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

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

I'm told I was born in Canada, but I was adopted, and I grew up in Maine and Massachusetts.

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

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 was raised in Brooklyn and in Baltimore. My father was a bookkeeper. When I was 36 years old, my mother told me I was adopted.

I've always known I was adopted.

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.

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

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.

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.

I'm not adopting a baby.

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.

I remember my mum explaining to me what adoption meant when I was still at primary school. 'Son,' she said to me, 'you didn't grow under my heart, you grew in it'.

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.

So my father grew up in an orphanage in Boston. He was then adopted by an elderly childless couple from Maine, who gave him the name of Mitchell. He moved to Maine, and there he met my mother and was married.

I always knew I would adopt. Always.

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.

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

I'm always interested to meet my friends' parents, or who they were raised by. Where they grew up, I always find very interesting.

I want adopted people to know they were chosen.