Every November on National Adoption Day, courts set aside time to finalize adoptions from foster care that might otherwise be delayed for months, and communities celebrate adoption with retreats, proclamations, and other events. National Adoption Day was started in 2000 and has grown each year. In 2004, courts and community organizations finalized the adoptions of more than 3,400 children from foster care as part of 200 National Adoption Day events in 37 states.

It's impossible to move, to live, to operate at any level without leaving traces, bits, seemingly meaningless fragments of personal information.

William Gibson

We cannot both preach and administer financial matters.

Saint Stephen

Children with Hyacinth's temperament don't know better as they grow older; they merely know more.

Hector Hugh Munro

a man thinks he amounts to a great deal but to a flea or a mosquito a human being is merely something good to eat

Don Marquis

Kindness in your dealings with yourself and others will work wonders in your life. Much more so than rightness in your thinking.

Kim R. Shaffer

To translate, one must have a style of his own, for otherwise the translation will have no rhythm or nuance, which come from the process of artistically thinking through and molding the sentences; they cannot be reconstituted by piecemeal imitation. The problem of translation is to retreat to a simpler tenor of one's own style and creatively adjust this to one's author.

Paul Goodman

A broken heart bleeds tears.

Steve Maraboli

God gave me my money. I believe the power to make money is a gift from God . to be developed and used to the best of our ability for the good of mankind. Having been endowed with the gift I possess, I believe it is my duty to make money and still more money and to use the money I make for the good of my fellow man according to the dictates of my conscience.

John D. Rockefeller

When faith is lost, when honor dies, the man is dead.

John Greenleaf Whittier

Nothing but blackness aboveAnd nothing that moves but the cars...God, if you wish for our love,Fling us a handful of stars!

Louis Untermeyer, Caliban in the

In thus pointing out certain respects in which philosophy resembles literature more than science, I do not mean, of course, to imply that it would be well for philosophy if it ceased to aim at scientific rigor.

Morris Raphael Cohen

Experience is not what happens to a man; it is what a man does with what happens to him.

Aldous Huxley