Foster Kids Quotes

#1. My father worked for IBM. My mother raised us kids. There were six of us, and a couple of extra foster kids at any given time.

Steve Coogan

#2. 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

#3. As a child psychiatrist, I knew too much about the statistics of foster care - less than one percent graduate college with a bachelor's degree, more than fifty percent of foster kids end up homeless after reaching eighteen, and most are dead by twenty-six.

Penny Reid

#4. 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

#5. 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

#6. 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

#7. When I was in the group homes, I saw some of the kids being moved into foster homes with the potential for adoption. I remember well asking a social worker if I could find a home, too. I was told I was 'too old' and 'no one wants to adopt a 16-year-old.' I felt hopeless and alone.

Angela Featherstone

#8. I'm missing work. We didn't have enough money for preschool. I had a panic attack. I couldn't do it. I became one of those horrible foster parents who give the kids back.

Vanessa Diffenbaugh

#9. There's absolutely no sort of acknowledgment or reward for this - except for the intangible of my kids growing up to be wonderful people.

Jodie Foster

#10. Having kids is the deal-breaker on shyness! Once you have a baby, you learn to speak up loud and clear to protect them, defend them, and encourage them. I have three sons, so I've experienced that in triplicate.

Lori Foster

#11. 'Hannity' had a a guy on that said, 'I fathered 20 kids by 14 mothers.' That is s cultural issue which has demeaned our society and has caused our society dearly in terms of imprisonment. Who's going to be the fathers to those children? Who's going to pay child support?

Foster Friess

#12. I don't know why people think child actresses in particular are screwed up. I see kids everywhere who are totally bored. I've never been bored a day in my life.

Jodie Foster

#13. Negotiating techniques do not work all that well with kids, because in the middle of a negotiation, they will say something completely unrelated such as, 'You know what? I have a belly button!' and completely throw you off guard.

Robert Foster Bennett

#14. I saw the bruises, the burns, the cuts - I knew which ones had been done to you by someone you thought you could trust. Someone you thought loved you. I knew which ones you gave yourself.

Abby Norman

#15. My kids are young and my life with them is really stimulating and really full and significant.

Jodie Foster

#16. What would it be like to feel so attached, so intrinsically bonded, so protective of one's own best connection with time and the ages, of generations past and future, of another human life, of their time?

J.R. Tompkins

#17. The most important element of the foster care system is getting kids out of foster care and into a permanent placement so they don't have to spend their entire childhoods in courtrooms, wondering if they will ever have a place to call home.

Rhea Perlman

#18. The windowpane was freezing, but I was pressing myself against it anyway, like one of those dazzled little kids at the aquarium, the ones that look like they want to melt through the glass, like they're about to swoon from an overdose of beauty.

Alyson Foster

#19. We came here because no place would take us after our momma died. They all said go away, come back when you're older, when you know better, when you've learned. Only no one wants to teach how to be older or to know better - not even Devin. They just teach us how to be broken.

Seanan McGuire

#20. I like cartoons. I like 'Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends.' It's funny! It has things that kids wouldn't get. It's like, if you're mature, you get it. I like that and 'The Fairly OddParents.'

David Archuleta

#21. I absolutely love religions and the rituals. Even though I don't believe in God, we celebrate pretty much every religion in our family with the kids.

Jodie Foster

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

Vanessa Diffenbaugh

#23. I want to be inspiring to myself, to my kids, my family, and my friends.

Jodie Foster

#24. I spent a lot of time not in school, so I didn't have deep relationships with kids my own age.

Jodie Foster

#25. It can be tough to find areas where Left and Right can agree. Consider the well-being of children: Americans often disagree about how to raise kids, how to educate them, even what to feed them.

Foster Friess

#26. Ya' know, these days kids seem to be getting younger and younger.

David Foster

#27. 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

#28. 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

#29. 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.

Vanessa Diffenbaugh

#30. ... Being the worst confirmation of the worst kind of generation gap stereotype and parental disgust for their decadent, wastoid kids

David Foster Wallace

#31. The problem is foster youth don't really have this network that other kids have.

Vanessa Diffenbaugh

#32. Although kids are born with great courage to take control of their own lives and make decisions, they have little experience on which to base their decisions, so they often make poor choices. But they can learn from those mistakes, provided parents don't get too involved.

Foster W. Cline

#33. We were pressured to accept kids we were not qualified to handle. And we do that to people all the time, which is why we don't have enough foster parents.

Vanessa Diffenbaugh

#34. I have four kids. They are two years apart, and contraception has been very, very good to me.

Foster Friess

#35. Many kids in foster homes have a lot of emotions that are hard to get out. It's important to let them know they can make a difference in the community.

Michael Franti