Connection to Earth Quotes

"A daughter is a mother’s gender partner, her closest ally in the family confederacy, an extension of her self."

- Victoria Secunda

"My mom is literally a part of me. You can’t say that about many people except relatives, and organ donors."

- Carrie Latet

"I get by with a little help from my friends."

- Ice Cube

"What I really want to say: That what the world really needs is a real feeling of kinship. Everybody: stars, laborers, Negroes, Jews, Arabs. We are all brothers."

- Marilyn Monroe

"The comfort of having a friend may be taken away, but not that of having had one."

- Seneca

"Pain shared, my brother, is pain not doubled, but halved. No man is an island."

- Neil Gaiman

"A great soul serves everyone all the time A great soul never dies. It brings us together again and again."

- Maya Angelou

"Oh no. He’s our son. He was meant to be ours…he was meant to be matched with us. So it’s perfect."

- Connie Chung

"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

"It has been said that adoption is more like a marriage than a birth: two (or more) individuals, each with their own unique mix of needs, patterns and genetic history, coming together with love, hope, commitment for a joint future. You become a family not because you share the same genes, but because you share love for each other."

- Joan McNamara

"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

"Families don’t have to match. You don’t have to look like someone else to love them."

- Leigh Anne Tuohy

"[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

"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

"Adoptive parents become the biological parents through connection."

- Dr. Karyn Purvis

"Adoptees share the unique experience of carrying the rejection of relinquishment while also trying to balance the natural human need to be loved and known for who we are. Very little people and spaces can feel safe for us. I have done an immense amount of healing through the building of relationships with other adoptees who understand this experience innately."

- Laura Summers

"We are greater than, and greater for, the sum of us."

- Madeleine Albright

"Women that believe in each other can survive anything. Women who believe in each other create armies that will win kingdoms and wars."

- Nikita Gill

"many times in my life if I hadn't had my girlfriends. They have literally gotten me up out of bed, taken my clothes off, put me in the shower, dressed me, said, 'Hey, you can do this,' put my high heels on and pushed me out the door!"

- Reese Witherspoon

"One friend with whom you have a lot in common is better than three with whom you struggle to find things to talk about. We never needed best friend gear because I guess with real friends you don't have to make it official. It just is."

- Mindy Kaling

""Real friends are the ones you can count on no matter what. The ones who go into the forest to find you and bring you home. And real friends never have to tell you that they’re your friends.""

- Morgan Matson

""Silence makes the real conversations between friends. Not the saying, but the never needing to say that counts.""

- Margaret Lee Runbeck

""A good friend is a connection to life - a tie to the past, a road to the future, the key to sanity in a totally insane world.""

- Lois Wyse

"Mother and daughter never truly part, maybe in distance but never in heart."

"Mountains, seas, and space cannot divide a mother and her daughter, for they live in each other's hearts."

"The bond created through adoption is stronger than anything created by blood."

- Unknown

"The bond of an adoptive family is created through the heart, not just genetics."

- Unknown

"In adoption, every heartbeat signifies a bond deeper than blood."

- Unknown

""True friends are never apart, maybe in distance but never in heart.""

- Unknown