Famous quotes containing the words adopted and/or child:
“I can never suppose this country so far lost to all ideas of self-importance as to be willing to grant America independence; if that could ever be adopted I shall despair of this country being ever preserved from a state of inferiority and consequently falling into a very low class among the European States.”
—George III (1738–1820)
“Under the day’s crust a half-eaten child ...”
—John Ashbery (b. 1927)