Top 24 Quotes About Foster Youth
#1. The Heart Gallery premise is very simple. It is a special traveling exhibit of photographs featuring Los Angeles foster youth, designed to highlight the need to find loving adoptive families for waiting children.
Angela Featherstone
#2. We needed to take a discrete population to give people the confidence that if we can end veterans' homelessness , we can attack chronic homelessness, families and other populations like foster youth, who each have distinct needs.
John Carlos Frey
#3. My husband and I have been involved with foster youth since our early 20s. Right out of college and not yet married, we spent weekends mentoring a family of young girls.
Vanessa Diffenbaugh
#4. The problem is foster youth don't really have this network that other kids have.
Vanessa Diffenbaugh
#5. At Camellia Network, we believe if we can create a way of identifying every young person aging out of foster care, defining what they need, and giving a community of supporters a simple and clear way to fulfill those needs, we can produce radically improved outcomes for youth.
Vanessa Diffenbaugh
#7. You don't pick black actors or black directors because they are black. You pick them because they are good. If you lend somebody 50 million dollars you want you're money back. You don't care if they are oppressed. You just want you're money back.
Denzel Washington
#8. Other people can't make you feel stupid. Only you can.
Julie Buxbaum
#9. I founded Camellia Network with my dear friend Isis Dallis Keigwin. The mission of our organization is to create a national network that connects every youth aging out of foster care to the critical resources, opportunities, and support they need to thrive in adulthood.
Vanessa Diffenbaugh
#10. When success and incompetence meet, disaster is not far away.
Robert Kiyosaki
#11. Freedom and liberty, the essays we wrote on them, papers for our tutors, for grades, but did we know the value of those words which we bandied about, of how precious they are, as precious as the air we breathe, the water we drink.
Benazir Bhutto
#13. Lan Mandragoran, you bloody wonderful man! You did it!
-Mat
Robert Jordan
#14. Love is imperfect. You just have to know what level of crazy you're willing to accept from someone you share a bed with.
Cole Jaimes
#15. It was easier to do a friendly thing than it was to stay and be thanked for it.
Louisa May Alcott
#17. We must not allow this generation to produce record numbers for the juvenile justice, runaway and homeless youth, or foster care systems.
Ruben Hinojosa
#18. When I learned to forgive, it was like a million pounds were lifted from me.
Reba McEntire
#19. The world, finally, tries to rob us in lots of ways. I like poems to do a bit of taking back for us.
Terry Blackhawk
#20. Back at home, people would have been weeping and doing a lot of very public group hugs. At Wexford, some people just aggressively pretended nothing was happening.
Maureen Johnson
#21. 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
#22. I can now say without hesitation the Marine Corps was the best foster home I ever had.
Art Buchwald
#23. Then I'd been determined to be the best blind foster the world had ever known, following every rule, obeying every protocol, the very model of royal fae youth. Maybe that way, they would send for me. I could go home.
Seanan McGuire
#24. Each part of a great painting should in itself be a great painting.
Melissa Brown
