Foster Quotes

Despite the best of efforts, many foster children are neither reunited with their families, nor adopted. (Charles Bass)
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. View quote
Charles Bass
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. View quote
Charles Bass
In the 21st century when few of us stay in the same job all our lives, I would like to think there was flexibility so teachers could become social workers, or foster carers become teachers. View quote
Estelle Morris, Baroness Morris of Yardley
More broadly, we are going to have to examine the safety net programs to make sure they are poised to catch the families before they fall even more, especially in the areas of unemployment benefits, child care assistance, and foster care. View quote
Richard Neal
Though man's feeling for the other-worldly often has recourse to solitude, solitude does not foster its development; rather, it is nourished by communion, to which the church is more propitious than the cemetery. View quote
André Malraux
Foster peace in your own life and then apply the Art to all that you encounter. View quote
Morihei Ueshiba
As we begin to plan for a new human society, we need to foster common values about clean air, water, and other elements of self-sustenance. These, along with a complete inventory of Earth's resources, will form the basis for a holistic approach to cybernated decision-making. View quote
Jacque Fresco
Too many children in foster care are falling through cracks. Be a hero, take the time learn about adoption today. View quote
Bruce Willis
To foster the people's willing spirit is often as important as to possess the more concrete forms of power. View quote
B. H. Liddell Hart
All the inducements of early society tend to foster immediate action; all its penalties fall on the man who pauses; the traditional wisdom of those times was never weary of inculcating that "delays are dangerous," and that the sluggish man - the man "who roasteth not that which he took in hunting" - will not prosper on the earth, and indeed will very soon perish out of it. And in consequence an inability to stay quiet, an irritable desire to act directly, is one of the most conspicuous failings of mankind. (Walter Bagehot)
Difficulty, my brethren, is the nurse of greatness - a harsh nurse, who roughly rocks her foster - children into strength and athletic proportion. View quote
William Cullen Bryant
I want to thank some very special people without whom I would not be here today. George Bush, Sarah Palin and the Pope. When I came to Hollywood in 1983, I had one dream- to sleep with Jodie Foster. That didn't work out, but this is nice, too. View quote
Bill Maher
I intend to discuss some perplexing issues which are raised once we embrace the hypothesis that society can be deschooled; to search for criteria which may help us distinguish institutions which merit development because they support learning in a deschooled milieu; and to clarify those personal goals which would foster the advent of an Age of Leisure (schole) as opposed to an economy dominated by service industries. View quote
Ivan Illich
Dictatorships foster oppression, dictatorships foster servitude, dictatorships foster cruelty; more abominable is the fact that they foster idiocy. View quote
Jorge Luis Borges
Liesel observed the strangeness of her foster father's eyes. They were made of kindness, and silver. View quote
Markus Zusak
The care of the Earth is our most ancient and most worthy, and after all our most pleasing responsibility. To cherish what remains of it and to foster its renewal is our only hope. View quote
Wendell Berry
We have to change economic policy: create confidence, foster investment, cut the public deficit, restructure taxation and reform the labor laws. View quote
Mariano Rajoy
As we talk about the need to foster academic achievement, we must recognize and reward those who strive academically, just as we honor athletic champions. Meeting the President of the United States is just the honor we should bestow on our academic champions. View quote
Brad Sherman
We moved leisurely towards Mount Foster, on the 22nd, and arrived opposite to it a little before sunset. View quote
Charles Sturt
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. (Christopher Darden)
As an adoptive parent myself of foster children, I have seen firsthand the glaring problems of the system currently facing this Nation. View quote
Dennis Cardoza
The only point of government is to safeguard and foster life. View quote
George Wald
Many traditional religions foster attitudes that ought to have disappeared as biological understanding accumulated over the last century. View quote
George C. Williams
I remember watching Jodie Foster in Contact, and that kind of opened my eyes. View quote
Joel Gretsch