Foster Kid Quotes

#1. I took in a foster kid that I wanted to adopt in the state where I live, and I pay taxes, said to me, based on not your morality, not on how good you are as a mother, not on how much you've given to foster kids in Florida, based on the facts that you're in love with a woman, you can't keep her.

Rosie O'Donnell

#2. (I)t was by Cicero's attainments that that he'd gained special witness to the liberals' adjustment to a brush with actual equality.

Jonathan Lethem

#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. I was one of those avid moviegoers as a kid, and we didn't have video, so we went to see everything five times. I went to see every foreign film playing in my town. As times went on, I watched a lot less films. I have a different film school now. My film school now is my life experience.

Jodie Foster

#5. Or maybe, just maybe, a small voice whispered in my head, it's not a joke, silly. Maybe he's really that worried about you. This wouldn't be the first time he's gone a little overboard trying to protect you. I sighed.

Stephenie Meyer

#6. This was why mothers were so obsessively, consumingly, drivenly, and yet somehow narcissistically loving of you, their kid: the mothers are trying frantically to make amends for a murder neither of you quite remember.

David Foster Wallace

#7. I was a little, tiny kid in the '80s, but I do remember seeing the styles of clothes, and I remember the cars from that era.

Scott Michael Foster

#8. 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.

Stacey Wallace Benefiel

#9. All you hear Catholics turning out these days are pop versions of the old Protestant anthems.

Richard Morris

#10. Kid, sobriety's like a hard-on; the minute you get it, you want to fuck with it.

David Foster Wallace

#11. Kafka's evocations are, rather, unconscious and almost sub-archetypal, the little-kid stuff from which myths derive; this is why we tend to call even his weirdest stories nightmarish rather than surreal.

David Foster Wallace

#12. Simplicity is always a virtue. One kid on a riverbank working out a Stephen Foster tune on his new harmonica heard from the correct esthetic distance projects more magic and power than the entire Vienna Philharmonic and Chorus laboring (once again) through the Mozart Requiem or Bach's B Minor Mass.

Edward Abbey

#13. I grew up sort of a geeky, tall kid, and I think I was always the one trying to make my friends laugh.

Sutton Foster

#14. When the cinematograph first made its appearance, we were told that the days of the ordinary theatre were numbered.

Ivor Novello

#15. I've worked with homeless kids, kids in foster care, and I've never met a kid who couldn't be reached.

Vanessa Diffenbaugh

#16. How would it change the manner in which we live if we viewed ourselves as stewards of God's gifts, rather than owners of the people and things in our lives?

Anonymous

#17. The kid has no idea he even knows something's wrong

David Foster Wallace

#18. I was a very outgoing, gregarious, full-of-energy kid.

Sutton Foster

#19. The price for Jarrod's freedom is to be my imprisonment.

Marianne Curley

#20. 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

#21. Well, daddy?" she said over the trippy techno music. "Want to make my dream come true?" He

J.R. Ward

#22. Be open, and God starts pouring into you like wine from every nook and corner of existence. Then wherever you look, you find God. Then whatsoever you touch, you find God. Then whatsoever you drink and eat, you find God. And when God pours from everywhere, then life is a celebration.

Rajneesh

#23. Don't waste yer' breath kid. Explainin' anything to that one? It's like tryin' ta' slap the dumb off a retard ... -George Foster

Shawn Durnin

#24. The older I get, the younger I feel. Growing up, I was always the kid, but I spoke like an adult and was in adult roles. I didn't feel like a kid. The older I get, I actually feel younger! Which is good. I always thought when you get older, you'll want to slow down, but I want to do even more.

Brooke Shields

#25. Just know that the achievement of anything grand takes consistent effort year after year. Motivation can uphold you intermittently, but it has too few calories to sustain a life.

Chris Matakas

#26. Well, I certainly was exposed to and learned to appreciate the work of great directors early on. As a kid, my mother used to take me to see really interesting arty films in Los Angeles.

Jodie Foster

#27. I thought all pubescent humans dreamed of becoming heroes with songs sung about them.

K.M. Shea

#28. 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.

Marian Wright Edelman

#29. But sometimes i think like a child."
"you are who you are."
"if I am who I am, why is it not possible for me to work at a place where I can be who I am ?

Francisco X Stork

#30. Entrepreneurs' willingness to innovate or just to invest - and thus create new jobs - is driven by their 'animal spirits,' as they decide whether to leap into the void.

Edmund Phelps