Nadina

Adoptee Quotes

Adoption is giving life, after life is given.

Family is those who share life with you.

Identity is your character when alive and your legacy when you pass.

I am adopted.... or so they tell me. But my real identity is being a daughter, a sister, a wife, a mother and an American just like you. 

I wish people knew you don’t have to have answers about your past to build your future.

My advice is if you have adopted children and natural-born children, speak no different, show no difference, treat no different, love no different.

I want to tell you I am my mother and father’s daughter forever and my biological parents’ memory.

I’m proud to be adopted because it gives me a story but doesn’t define my story.

I was abandoned, left under a tree, and found at “about” a week old in India. I don’t know the story, I don’t have any biological family. I don’t know if they left me out of love or hate. I don’t know my birthday if I have siblings, or 44 years later if my biological family is alive or dead. What I do know is I am an American through and through. I was raised a Smith, experienced life to the fullest, and wouldn’t change a minute. The first year of my life, up until I was adopted, is a story that could be told by someone out there. It’s a story I will probably never hear, but it is proof that family is not genes or blood. It is truly who holds you near to your heart. -Nadina