Surrogate Quotations

Writing 'Hoop Roots' was a substitute or a surrogate activity. I can't play anymore - my body won't cooperate - so in the writing of the book, I was looking to tell a good story about my life and about basketball, but I was also looking to entertain myself the way that I entertain myself when I play.

She offered about three years ago to be a surrogate and we were hoping we wouldn't have to be faced with that and hoping to have a child on our own, and when the doctor said that's our last chance to have a baby no our own -- is to have a surrogate, we called Raquel, and she was so honored that we came back and asked her, she started crying.

People would come around and look in the window and they would watch the birth. It was so sweet. I felt like we were the godparents or surrogate mothers.

His stepdaughter was his surrogate wife. We believe his wife had some bad health. We believe with his knowledge of medicine that he kept her so doped up that she didn't know what was going on.

I suspect that someone removed the labels I affixed to the literature and that he or she or their surrogate plans on filing a complaint. The purpose of this letter is to advise your office that no pieces of literature were distributed without the required disclaimer and that I believe that if a complaint is filed someone is tampering with my literature to make a false complaint. Obviously, affixing labels was not the best short-term solution but the problem was addressed immediately and a long-term solution was achieved.

Really, we've had some focus (on oil) since mid-February, when both markets made a significant low, and both markets had a near retest of those lows on Wednesday. Oil is emerging as the focus for the gold market as a surrogate for general commodity inflation. Without that kind of commodity inflation, then gold becomes a less attractive investment.

We are using our seven gill shark as a surrogate species because they are more common and easier to work with than risking the gray nurse shark.

Israel is the agent and surrogate of the United States and as such is treated entirely differently from every other country in the region. How can anyone expect Iran to accept that it is right for Israel to have nuclear weapons while itself being disallowed?

Probably the most single successful part of the '72 campaign was the surrogate program and something like it needs to be established.

This is an American war against this republic. LURD is a surrogate force.

They've become my surrogate sons. They're real good kids and you hate to see it end like this. But when you dare to dream big, you set yourself up for something like this. They'll rebound from this and you haven't heard the last from them.

This paper is interesting and provocative, and if the value of this technique is validated in other studies, from other centres, this imaging approach may be a valuable surrogate marker of brain function in HIV infection.

For Chavez, Fox is a surrogate of the United States in Latin America. For Fox, coming on against Chavez is low-cost, since he's in his last year (in office), weakened at home ... . Standing firm on anything offers him possible gains.

It's taken on the air of what we've done for our children in the past, and dogs are taking on the role of surrogate children in many instances.

It's important to me only as a surrogate to cash flow and earnings per share.

They'll be placed in an incubator until they get feathers and begin to fly. Then they'll be placed with surrogate parents there who will teach them to hunt with the eventual goal to release the owls back into the wild.

I'm like a surrogate grandmother to him. He's like one of my grandchildren.

By utilizing lesser-valued cows as surrogate mothers, clients can get high-production, better-quality animals quicker.

He's like a surrogate grandfather. He represents a reference you can always go back to.

Her attitude toward (Ngai) was of a very caring and patient surrogate mother dealing with a slightly retarded child.

The fun part of it was because he was across the street, he came over every day, and in essence, we had a surrogate son for a couple of weeks.

The markets have changed their perception about how they view gold. In 'normal' times people see gold as just another currency, a surrogate for the dollar.