Children In Foster Care Quotes

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

Bruce Willis

#2. Although Hollywood commonly portrays children in foster care as toddlers clutching teddy bears, nearly one-half are eleven or older. And about one-fifth - 103,500 - are sixteen or older.

Martha Shirk

#3. 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.

Steve Pemberton

#4. 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.

Thomas Harris

#5. I feel like I'm finally whole. I'm five thousand years old," he rasped. "But the day you found me in the woods, that's when my life started.

Larissa Ione

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

Seth Adam Smith

#7. That is the beauty of reading a meaningful quote. Just as it is with the spirit of our hearts, sometimes we must feed the doves in order to hear them sing.

Jason Versey

#8. That so many thousands of children around the world are available for adoption is a sign of our impoverished humanity. That so many persons around the world open their hearts and homes each year to embrace a few of these children is a lasting testimony to humanity's enduring nobility.

Deborah A. Beasley

#9. 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.

Melissa Fay Greene

#10. Of all people only those are at leisure who make time for philosophy, only those are really alive. For they not only keep a good watch over their own lifetimes, but they annex every age to theirs.

Seneca.

#11. Well, he used to say that only a lie that wasn't ashamed of itself could possibly succeed. He also said that nothing had to be true, but everything had to sound true

Isaac Asimov

#12. I journeyed alone for almost ten years before I found home. Adoptions are like very delicate gardening with transplants and grafts. Mine took hold, rooted, and bloomed, even though there were inevitable adjustments to the new soil and climate. Yet I have not forgotten where my roots started.

Ashley Rhodes-Courter

#13. In a given year, 640,000 children, most of them poor, will spend at least some time in foster care.

J.D. Vance

#14. What if our foster care systems, in every one of our communities, knew that the churches are the first place willing to help families and children in crisis?

Russell D. Moore

#15. The love of a foster mother for her charge appears absolutely irrational.

Winston S. Churchill

#16. Put one foot in front of the other and never look back unless your spouse is calling you.

Sam Black

#17. Frigga was the queen of the gods, and she helped her husband, Odin, govern the world. It was her part to look after the children, and help the mothers take care of their families.

Mary H. Foster

#18. 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.

Abby Norman

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

Shane Claiborne

#20. Children born to teens have less supportive and stimulating environments, poorer health, lower cognitive development, and worse educational outcomes. Children of teen mothers are at increased risk of being in foster care and becoming teen parents themselves, thereby repeating the cycle.

Jane Fonda

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

Seth Adam Smith

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

Michele Bachmann