Foster Parent Sayings

#1. The Gita is not an aphoristic work, it is a great religious poem.

Mahatma Gandhi

#2. If I did have the impulse to be a parent, I would adopt - or foster.

Rupert Everett

#3. We all make mistakes, and we all need second chances. For youth in foster care, these mistakes are often purposeful - if not consciously so; a way to test the strength of a bond and establish trust in a new parent.

Vanessa Diffenbaugh

#4. I was adopted legally around age three, but it's not like this thing I think about when I wake up every day. I was adopted by my foster parents, so I was comfortable with them. I wasn't in this alien place.

Angel Olsen

#5. I've always very earnestly tried to do my best, so I just have to trust that and forgive myself for being fallible.

Claire Danes

#6. 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

#7. Passionate jealousy is not a good foster-parent for prudence.

Elinor Glyn

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

Dennis Cardoza

#9. (I)f you try to treat the medical problem you *think* you see without fully exploring the differential diagnosis -- call(ed) "speculation on a foundation of assumption" -- you can kill your patient.

Judy Melinek

#10. We know that the two most important things in a child's education are a good teacher and an involved parent. You don't foster those things with a bloated federal bureaucracy - you encourage them when you support choice and accountability.

Carly Fiorina

#11. I don't get it when girls say 'I'm fine' but don't mean it.

Conor Maynard

#12. As a college student, I worked as a mentor, and that got me involved in working with young people long before I became a foster parent.

Vanessa Diffenbaugh

#13. And as she held me, I suddenly realized that my lifelong search for love and acceptance had finally ended in the arms of a foster parent.

Dave Pelzer

#14. Who are you, Master?' he asked.
'Eh, what?' said Tom sitting up, and his eyes glinting in the gloom. 'Don't you know my name yet? That's the only answer. Tell me, who are you, alone, yourself and nameless?

J.R.R. Tolkien

#15. Revolution devours its own parents as well as its own children.

Helen Foster Snow

#16. It takes a lot to become a foster parent.

Rosie O'Donnell

#17. Wh-what rational woman would ever want a husband who looks like you?

Lisa Kleypas

#18. You develop a third eye where you kind of know where they are in a room at all times but no matter how vigilant you are as a parent, at some point, you'll look around a room and can't find them and there's a searing pain that goes through your body.

Jodie Foster

#19. The so-called mother of the child isn't the child's begetter, but only a sort of nursing soil for the new-sown seed. The man, the one on top, is the true parent, while she, a stranger, foster's a stranger's sprout.

Aeschylus

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

Antwone Fisher