Foster Quotes

Foster Quote of the day

Too many children in foster care are falling through cracks. Be a hero, take the time learn about adoption today.

I am a struggling writer. A middle-aged man with two little kids and I'm just trying to earn a living. So buy this book - or my kids will have to go to foster care.

Sometimes, the hardest foster children to take are teenage boys, which I was one, and I was never adopted or anything, and so I think if people up more for teenage boys, that might be beneficial.

Everyone picked on me in school because I was in foster care.

Despite the best of efforts, many foster children are neither reunited with their families, nor adopted.

I don't think I'll do foster care or adopt, to be quite honest.

Difficulty, my brethren, is the nurse of greatness - a harsh nurse, who roughly rocks her foster children into strength and athletic proportion.

My husband and I had five biological children but we also have been raising 23 foster children.

My riches are my family and my foster children. I try to store any material wealth in my hand, not my heart, so that I always feel free to give it away when the opportunity arises.

We must not allow this generation to produce record numbers for the juvenile justice, runaway and homeless youth, or foster care systems.

My husband is not running for the presidency, neither are my children, neither is our business, neither are our foster children.

Thou foster-child of Silence and slow Time.

As an adoptive parent myself of foster children, I have seen firsthand the glaring problems of the system currently facing this Nation.

There are many children who need help, and anyone who wants to reach out and adopt a child from foster care or from a Russian orphanage should reach out and do it.

Hundreds of thousands of kids now have a chance to be adopted because I worked to change our adoption and foster care system.

If every Christian family brought in a child who needed a family we would put the foster care system out of business.

Many children in the foster care system are often in the midst of a family challenge.

One thing that all of my children, biological and foster children, have taught me is the unbelievable diversity of talent and giftedness that all people have.

When I was growing up, my parents took in foster children. From a young age, I learned that there are a lot of children in need.

Back in Australia, I did foster care for sick cats for years, and I was always most successful with the animals when I was given two - a brother and sister.

Foster children are disproportionately victims of identity theft.

It takes a lot to become a foster parent.

There's nothing more important in this world than caring for a child.

Thus bound together, they sheltered the child from the cold, dark night, enveloping him in warmth.

I've always looked at America like a foster mother doing it only for the check. At any minute, I just knew she'd be ready to give up on me.

This is for the kids who know that the worst kind of fear isn't the thing that makes you scream, but the one that steals your voice and keeps you silent.

Adoption is a lifelong journey. It means different things to me at different times. Sometimes it is just a part of who I am. Other times it is something I am actively going through.

Not a few millions of parents strongly hope that their own children will step in by instantly becoming their own parents’ foster parents, if and when the parents reach their second childhood.

I saw the bruises, the burns, the cuts— I knew which ones had been done to you by someone you thought you could trust. Someone you thought loved you. I knew which ones you gave yourself.

The pain will always be in you — but you will not always be in pain.

It illuminated a vision Dante could not have imagined in his wildest nightmares, nor Poe in the grasp of an uncontrollable delirium.

Be like the sun who fell in love with the moon and shared all his light.

Actions speak louder than words, in fact. When we don't take action, we foster the mistaken reality of our old identity.

Never go on a date unarmed.” Words of wisdom from my father. Well, my foster father. I was an orphan, of course. The best kings always are.

Don't wait for writers to be dead to be read

What makes a family is neither the absence of tragedy nor the ability to hide from misfortune, but the courage to overcome it and, from that broken past, write a new beginning.

You are mine for a moment, but you are His, forever His.

In foster care it’s easier to measure what you’ve lost over what you have gained, because it there aren’t many gains in that life and you are a prisoner to someone else’s plans for your life.

Yes, my sister is weird and says crap like en route. I smirk - it's a common facial tic of mine - and turn to her.

And as she held me, I suddenly realized that my lifelong search for love and acceptance had finally ended in the arms of a foster parent.

David Foster Wallace: Because I'd like to be the sort of person who can enjoy things at the time instead of having to go back in my head and enjoy them then.

I came to this house for safety. They came because the foster care system ran out of homes. We stayed because we were stray pieces of other puzzles, tired of never fitting.

What the hell is that?" he asked."Magic mushrooms.""I've always wanted to try those, " he exclaimed. "They sound so cute.

I think it's easy to stop smoking

It's just much easier with dogs. You don't get laid

I consider my time too valuable to be spent in cultivating acquaintance with a person from whom neither pleasure nor improvement are to be expected.