100 Heartfelt Adoption Quotes and Sayings: Celebrating Love and Family

Adoption is life-changing for both children and new parents, and throughout the process of adoption, there can be infinite emotions. While both the child and new parents are leaping into the unknown, the journey definitely will prove to be rewarding.

If you have been considering adopting a child or are currently going through the process of adoption, here are some inspirational adoption quotes to keep you inspired and going during your journey.

Motivational Quotes About Adoption and Birth Parents

If you are looking for some motivational quotes about adoption, we have compiled some of the best quotes for you!

• If you have the heart for adoption, don’t let fear stand in the way. — Doug Chapman
• Adopted. Big deal; so was Superman. — Chris Crutcher
• It’s important to realize that we adopt not because we are rescuers. No. We adopt because we are rescued. — David Platt
• God knew that it doesn’t matter how your children get to your family. It just matters that they get there. — Kira Mortenson
• 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
• Adoption is when a child grew in its mommy’s heart instead of her tummy.  — Unknown
• Somehow, destiny comes into play. These children end up with you, and you end up with them. It’s something quite magical. — Nicole Kidman
• Adoption is not the call to have the perfect rosy family. It is the call to give love, mercy, and patience. — Unknown
• If the standard route for creating a family had worked for me, I wouldn’t have met this child. I needed to know her. I needed to be her mother. She is, in every way, my daughter. — Nia Vardalos
• Parenthood requires love, not DNA. — Anonymous
• Adoption is a journey of faith, from beginning to end. — Johnny Carr
• Family is not defined by our genes, it is built and maintained through love. — Amalia G
• Biology is the least of what makes someone a mother. — Oprah Winfrey
• I learned that you need to be born into a family to be loved by one. — Lisa Wingate
• 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 Woodhall
• Every good and perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of the heavenly lights, who does not change like shifting shadows. — James 1:17
• Adoption carries the added dimension of connection not only to your own tribe but beyond, widening the scope of what constitutes love, ties, and family. It is the larger embrace. — Isabella Rossellini
• To adopt a child is a great work of love. When it is done, much is given, but much is also received. It is a true exchange of gifts. — Pope John Paul II
• There are no unwanted children, just unfound families. — Anonymous
• Adoption is the most intentional process on Earth. — Jody Cantrell Dyer
• We do not need to know the beginning of a child’s story to change the ending. — Fi Newood
• Being a parent wasn’t just about bearing a child. It was about bearing witness to its life. — Jodi Picoult
• Be PROUD that you’re adopted! Every kid is different. — Unknown
• The circumstances surrounding your birth are not as important as the opportunity to live. — Lailah Gifty Akita
• When people tell me how lucky my children are, I offer a reply that upholds the girls’ dignity while acknowledging the complicated truth. ‘No,’ I say, ‘we are all blessed to have found each other. — Julie Higgenbotham
• If there’s a cause worth fighting for, it’s this: children belong in families. — Nicole Skellenger
• Belonging to a family is a natural and vital component of life, and every child deserves to be a member of a loving and nurturing family. — Ronald Reagan
• Being a mother has enriched my life in so many ways, it’s opened my world, in a way. — Michelle Pfeiffer
• Your greatest contribution to the kingdom of God may not be something you do but someone you raise. — Andy Stanley
• Family is not an important thing, it’s everything.” — Michael J. Fox
• Never let the odds keep you from doing what you know in your heart you were meant to do. — H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
• While adoption does not undo the past, adopting a child, and more specifically an older child, gives an adoptive family the privilege of writing the parts of the child’s story that have not yet been written.— Caitlin Snyder
• Time and experience have taught me a priceless lesson: Any child you take for your own becomes your own if you give of yourself to that child. I have born two children and had seven others by adoption, and they are all my children, equally beloved and precious. — Dale Evans
• Adoption is the visible gospel. — John Piper
• People ask me, ‘What about gay adoptions? Interracial? Single Parent?’ I say, ‘Hey, fine, as long as it works for the child and the family is responsible.’ My big stand is this: Every child deserves a home and love. Period. — Dave Thomas
• When children become actively involved in showing compassion to others, they learn about this value in a very deep and meaningful way. — Signe Wilson
• My birth mother brought me into this world, but it was my adoptive parents who gave me life. — Christina Romo
• Being a mother is an attitude, not a biological relation. — Robert A. Heinlein
• Perhaps there is no greater miracle than finding a loving home for a child who needs one. — Bill Clinton

• However, motherhood comes to you, it’s a miracle. — Valerie Harper
• The bond that links your true family is not one of blood, but of respect and joy in each other’s life. —Richard Bach
• Little souls find their way to you, whether they’re from your womb or someone else’s. — Sheryl Crow
• We should not be asking who this child belongs to, but who belongs to this child. — James L. Gritter
• They may not have my eyes, they may not have my smile, but they have all my heart. — Anonymous
• Being a mother is not about what you gave up to have a child, but what you’ve gained from having one.” — Unknown
• Families don’t have to match. You don’t have to look like someone else to love them. — Leigh Anne Tuohy
• You don’t choose your family. They are God’s gift to you, as you are to them.  — Desmond Tutu
• 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. — Tim Tebow
• Children and mothers never truly part, bound together by the beating of one another’s heart. — Charlotte Gray
• Anyone who doesn’t have experience with adoption wonders, ‘Does love for a child come through DNA?’ I knew it didn’t. — Katherine Heigl
• If a mother and father can love more than one child, then certainly a child can love more than one mother or father. — Unknown
• I’m drawn to kids that are already born. I think some people are meant to do certain things, and I believe I’m meant to find my children in the world somewhere and not necessarily have them genetically.  — Angelina Jolie
• When I was growing up, I wanted to adopt because I was aware there were kids that didn’t have parents. It’s not a humanitarian thing, because I don’t see it as a sacrifice. It’s a gift. We’re all lucky to have each other. — Angelina Jolie
• Through adoption, Americans can forever change not only a child’s life but also their own. — George W. Bush
• Not flesh of my flesh, nor bone of my bone, But still miraculously my own. Never forget for a single minute, you didn’t grow under my heart but in it. — Fleur Conkling Heyliger
• I always wondered if I was ready to adopt – then I realized: no child was ready to be an orphan. — Unknown
• I am convinced, completely convinced, that there was nothing random about [the adoption], she is the daughter I should have. — Meg Ryan
• What makes you a man is not the ability to make a child, it’s the courage to raise one. — Barack Obama
• Whether your children are yours through biology or adoption, they are yours through love. — Sadia Rebecca Rodriguez

• Adoptive parents become the biological parents through connection. — Dr. Karyn Purvis
• Adoptive Mom? I am Mom. I need no other label or prefix. — Joanne Greco
• Every single minute matters, every single child matters, every single childhood matters. — Kailash Satyathi
• We always wanted to adopt, and when the opportunity opened up, we did it to help change a child’s life. — Willie Robertson
• All that we love deeply becomes a part of us. — Helen Keller
• Religion that God our Father accepts as pure and faultless is this: to look after orphans and widows in their distress and to keep oneself from being polluted by the world. — James 1:27
• Adoption was a bumpy ride, very bumpy. But, God, was it worth the fight. — Mariska Hargitay
• Motherhood is about celebrating the child you have, not the child you thought you’d have. — Joan Ryan
• In other words, it is not the children by physical descent who are God’s children, but it is the children of the promise who are regarded as Abraham’s offspring. — Romans 9:8
• I think adoption is a blessing all around when it is done right. — Hugh Jackman
• There are young people having babies every day that cannot possibly take care of them, and, as people who believe that every life is beautiful, we need to make them aware of another choice to give that beautiful life up for adoption. — John Schneider
• Adoption isn’t a birthmother’s rejection but an unconditional love that inspires her to put herself last and do all she can for her baby. — Mary Hines
• Do you want to do something beautiful for God? There is a person who needs you. This is your chance. — Mother Teresa
• I have four children. Two are adopted. I forget which two. — Bob Constantine
• I have a lot of respect for my birth mother…I know she must have had a lot of love for me to want to give what she felt was a better chance. — Faith Hill
• Adoption is a commitment that enter into blindly, but it is no different than adding a child by birth. It is essential that adopting parents are committed to parenting this child for the rest of their lives, and committed to parenting through the tough stuff. — Brooke Randolph
• If you think our hands are full, you should see our hearts! — Unknown
• Adoption is complicated, but it is also rich with narratives of strength. — Jillian Lauren
• Adoption – because family isn’t made from blood, it’s made from love. — Unknown
• “…for me, having been adopted was normal. Knowing I was adopted was as natural as having a belly button. It was just always there.” — Madeleine Melcher
• We must let go of the life we planned, so as to accept the one that is waiting for us. — Joseph Campbell
• The world may not change if you adopt a child, but for that child their world will change. — Unknown
• I am a living testament you can be adopted and successful. — Daunte Culpepper
• 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. — Unknown
• Adopting an older child is a journey, a developing relationship, and a wonder to behold! — Karlene Edgemon
• “There is no friendship, and no love, like that of the parent for the child. — Henry Ward Beecher
• My adoption was treated as a celebration. — Michael Reagan
• Through us, the power of each child’s story has the opportunity to change our world. — Nicole Skellenger
• One of the greatest titles in the world is parent, and one of the biggest blessings in the world is to be one. — Jim Demint
• Adoption is less about getting a child for your family and more about giving your family for a child. — Unknown
• I prayed for this child, and the Lord has granted me what I asked of him. — 1 Samuel 1:27
• Courage is not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it.” — Nelson Mandela
• Adoption is a redemptive response to tragedy that happens in the broken world. — Katie J. Davis
• We didn’t give you the gift of life. Life gave us the gift of you. — Unknown
• I believe one of the most sacrificial acts of love adoptive parents can do is to give up their preconceptions and agendas about what their child’s views “should” be and be open to hear the conflicting emotions and thoughts their child often experiences. — Sherrie Eldridge
• Love runs stronger than blood. Deeper than any name you could give me. — Andrew Peterson
• A child born to another woman calls me mommy. The magnitude of that tragedy and the depth of that privilege are not lost on me. — Jody Landers
• I say to everybody, ‘Adoption is not for the faint of heart. — Mariska Hargitay
• so that you may become blameless and pure, ‘children of God without fault in a warped and crooked generation.’ Then you will shine among them like stars in the sky. — Philippians 2:15
• Too many children in foster care are falling through the cracks. Be a hero, take the time to learn about adoption today. — Bruce Willis
• Anyone who ever wondered how much they could love a child who did not spring from their own loins, know this: it is the same. The feeling of love is so profound, it’s incredible and surprising. — Nia Vardalos

Adopting a child comes with many responsibilities, but a child also brings immense joy and happiness to your world. If you’re in the process of adoption, it might take some time and test your determination, but don’t let it get the better of you or demotivate you. You will have your little one you’ve always waited for very soon! We hope these adoption sayings made your day and motivated you further for adoption process.

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