Too many children in foster care are falling through cracks. Be a hero, take the time learn about adoption today.
— Bruce Willis
Unexpected Foster Children quotations
Families don't have to match. You don't have to look like someone else to love them.
O ye children of men! The fundamental purpose animating the Faith of God and His Religion is to safeguard the interests and promote the unity of the human race, and to foster the spirit of love and fellowship amongst men.
Mental illness was a family secret. This patient had four children grow up in foster homes, and they never knew her. It was heart-wrenching for her granddaughter to find this out.
Despite the best of efforts, many foster children are neither reunited with their families, nor adopted.
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.
Difficulty, my brethren, is the nurse of greatness - a harsh nurse, who roughly rocks her foster - children into strength and athletic proportion.
Fostering creativity in children is as important as any other part of the school curriculum because it feeds the soul. A daily dose of creativity helps children imagine a better world and then create it.
Despite the best of efforts, many foster children are neither reunited with their families, nor adopted.
My husband and I had five biological children but we also have been raising 23 foster children.
I thought if anyone need a leg up, it was our foster children.
So, I started getting involved in education reform, and that was back in 1998. And as a result of all the reform work that I had done, people urged me to run for the Minnesota state Senate. I did, I was there for six years.
State and local government, with financial support from the federal government, should offer a program to educate and train foster children for employment and provide them with financial assistance, as needed, until they reach age 21.
State and local government, with financial support from the federal government, should offer a program to educate and train foster children for employment and provide them with financial assistance, as needed, until they reach age 21.
Play, Incorporating Animistic and Magical Thinking Is Important Because It: Fosters the healthy, creative and emotional growth of a child; Forms the best foundation for later intellectual growth. Provides a way in which children get to know the world and creates possibilities for different ways of responding to it. Fosters empathy and wonder.
If you can help a child, you don't have to spend years repairing an adult.
The Imaginative Child will become the imaginative man or woman most apt to create, to invent, and therefore to foster civilization
The ladies usually go for the biggest damn fool they can find;
that is why the human race stands where it does today: we have bred the clever and lasting Casanovas, all hollow inside, like the chocolate Easter bunnies we foster upon our poor children.
Most bullies are the product of a stressful and often abusive home life.
Next time a bully threatens or attacks you, just yell, 'Don't abuse me like your parents abuse you!' Then call children's services and tell them you saw this bully crying in the bathroom and you're worried about him. Bam! He just got moved to a foster home.
You can sit down with your child and prompt him to show you something - perhaps how to play a game [on the computer]. By learning a game, you're getting close to the kid and gaining insight into ways of learning. The kid can see this happening and feels respected, so it fosters the relationship between you and the kid.
Difficulty is a nurse of greatness-a harsh nurse, who rocks her foster children roughly, but rocks them in strength and athletic proportion. The mind, grappling with great aims and wrestling with mighty impediments, grows by a certain necessity to the stature of greatness.
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.
What was most striking about the Obama speech in Berlin was not anything he said so much as the alternative reality it fostered: many American children have never before seen huge crowds turn out abroad to wave American flags instead of burn them.
All nations teach their children to be "patriotic", and abuse the other nations for fostering nationalism.
Large parties given to very young children.
.. foster the passions of vanity and envy, and produce a love of dress and display which is very repulsive in the character of a child.
Many foster children have had difficulty making the transition to independent living. Several are homeless, become single parents, commit crimes, or live in poverty. They are also frequent targets of crime.
Research on child abuse suggests that religious beliefs can foster, encourage, and justify the abuse of children. When contempt for sex underlies teachings, this creates a breeding ground for abuse.
Earth fills her lap with pleasures of her own;
Yearnings she hath in her own natural kind, And, even with something of a mother's mind, And no unworthy aim, The homely nurse doth all she can To make her foster child, her inmate man, Forget the glories he hath known And that imperial palace whence he came.
[That form of] eloquence, the foster-child of licence, which fools call liberty.
[Lat., Eloquentia, alumna licentiae, quam stulti libertatem vocabant.]
Many foster children have had difficulty making the transition to independent living. Several are homeless, become single parents, commit crimes, or live in poverty. They are also frequent targets of crime.
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.
You get to decide what to worship.
As an adoptive parent myself of foster children, I have seen firsthand the glaring problems of the system currently facing this Nation.
We routinely leave our small children in day care among strangers.
At the same time, in our guilt we evince paranoia about strangers and foster fear in children.
I hadn't thought about the fact that I was a foster child but, did notice that (in films) I'm often without a mother or father or both.