Quotes About Foster

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

I have spent a lot of time with foster children over the years - kids for whom I have not necessarily acted as a foster parent.

Children are my pet cause. I have a foster child in El Salvador, and whenever I'm home, I work for the Adam Walsh Foundation, which finds missing children. I also do some hospital visits and other things for the Make-a-Wish Foundation.

When we foster an economy without hope, we guarantee that a segment of our population will be destined to know homelessness on a permanent basis, and not for the one night I voluntarily spent at a shelter.

All anti-abortion protesters should be presented, on the spot, with an application to sign up as foster parents. They should also be given the names of children in their area in need of adoptive parents. And if they won't sign or volunteer, they should shut up.

We can be the people who either crush or cultivate our children's sense of awe as they enter a world that doesn't necessarily foster it. When we choose to experience wonder, we help our children retain the tools to keep doing so as they get older.

Physically robust infrastructure is not enough if it fails to foster a healthy community; ultimately, all infrastructure is social.

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

It needs to be understood that global warming countermeasures could transform the economy and foster growth, not hinder it.

The writer Richard Manning has argued that 'the most destructive force in the American West is its commanding views, because they foster the illusion that we command.

Though politics is by nature divisive, surely we all can agree that foster children need stability, safety, education, opportunity - and love.

Government can and must provide opportunity, not smother it; foster productivity; not stifle it.

It is the theory of all modern civilized governments that they protect and foster the liberty of the citizen; it is the practice of all of them to limit its exercise, and sometimes very narrowly.

There is always need for good foster parents, people who have room in their homes, the openhearted people.

We are willing to spend the least amount of money to keep a kid at home, more to put him in a foster home and the most to institutionalize him.

I can now say without hesitation the Marine Corps was the best foster home I ever had.

The primary purpose of adoption is to provide a home for a child, not a child for a home.

Learn to foster an ardent imagination; so shall you descry beauty which others passed unheeded.

That is the crux of modern conservatism - government taking strong measures to foster the attitudes and aptitudes necessary for increased individual independence.

Some of my foster families used to send me to the movies to get me out of the house and there I'd sit all day and way into the night. Up in front, there with the screen so big, a little kid all alone, and I loved it. I loved anything that moved up there and I didn't miss anything that happened and there was no popcorn either.

In 'Last to Die,' three children living in different cities are the only survivors when their families are slaughtered. Two years later, their foster families are murdered, and these three orphans are once again the only survivors.

As life speeds up & the political becomes ever more personal democracy continues to foster change as fast as the movement of tectonic plates

We do not kill the drama, we do not really limit its appeal by failing to encourage the best in it; but we do thereby foster the weakest and poorest elements.

One of the big concerns is the increasing disrespect for the scientific method and for policies that aren't based on facts and evidence.