Top 581 Foster Quotes & Sayings

I foster a sorrowful conception of affection. Make no sacrifices.

Foster the People wouldn't exist without Mophonics.

I was worried if you adopted a foster child, someone from the birth family could still come and take her back. I was afraid that any child in foster care might have suffered such trauma or neglect that she would be impossible to reach. I'm not proud of these fears. But I understand now when others ask me the same questions.

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

I foster a lot. Not humans, animals.

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.

The only point of government is to safeguard and foster life.

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.

Government can and must provide opportunity, not smother it; foster productivity; not stifle it.

University should foster imagination and creativity, enriching society in the process.

Foster children are disproportionately victims of identity theft.

I saw Al Foster with Miles Davis the other week. It was beautiful. But, the whole thing was, Al Foster played as well as everybody else, but all of them were quite brilliant under Miles Davis' direction.

Shouldn't a great museum foster serious seeing before all else?

Foster peace in your own life and then apply the Art to all that you encounter.

A feeling of self worth is the best accomplishment we can foster in our prisons.

I get 'young Jodie Foster.'

I mainly try to foster long-term collaborative relationships.

I'm a real fan of that Foster the People song 'Pumped Up Kicks.'

I want to foster a positive relationship between police officers and the communities they protect.

From my foster parents, the Deans, I received the love that was ultimately to strengthen me, even when I had forgotten its source. It was my foster mother, a half-Indian, half-German woman, who taught me to read, though she herself was barely literate. I remember her reading to me every day from 'True Romance' magazine.

Thou foster-child of Silence and slow Time.

When I put Foster The People together, I just wanted to play music with friends.

There cannot be forgotten the great possibilities of mass media in promoting dialogue, becoming vehicles for reciprocal knowledge, of solidarity and of peace. They become a powerful resource for good if used to foster understanding between peoples, a destructive 'weapon' if used to foster injustice and conflicts.

I'm not proud of this, but I had a lot of misconceptions about American foster care. To me, foster care meant that a child would be placed with you, then taken away. I didn't want to go through all of that.

Our house was a place where you were welcome to make an idiot out of yourself. Silliness was valued. My dad worked with foster kids in the foster care system, and I think silliness was a way for him to leaven things up.

A great foster parent can end the cycle of abuse and neglect, and impact not just the foster child's life, but also that child's future children's lives, the lives of people who would otherwise be victims of a lost foster child's crimes, and help end human trafficking and homelessness.

[Jodie Foster] is one of my favorite actors and people in the business.

My wife and I are foster parents.

As I presided over Massie's execution, I thought about the abuse and neglect he endured as a child in the foster care system. We failed to keep him safe, and our failure contributed to who he was as an adult. Instead of spending hundreds of millions of dollars to kill him, what if we spent that money on other foster children so that we stop producing men like Massie in the first place?

In a rock garden we foster a little patch of the wilderness that stands to us for freedom.

I was in foster care for a bit when I was younger.

Foster care was a big part of my life.

It's true that Miitomo, at its core, aims to foster social engagement. That's what it's all about.

The principal task of friendship is to foster one`s friends` illusions.

It takes a lot to become a foster parent.

I admire Jodie Foster. Her head is screwed on really well. It's not loose at all.

I don't think I'll do foster care or adopt, to be quite honest.

Hence we did not foster competition in our school, on the contrary.

Great companies foster a productive tension between continuity and change.

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

I'm going to try and model myself after Kurt Russell and Jodie Foster.

Foster the beautiful, and every hour thou tallest new flowers to birth.

I hope to have a career like Jodie Foster, going from child to adult actress.

I am extremely active in the foster care crisis in this country. Everything that I do is pretty much with the end goal of trying to make a difference in the lives of the children in foster care.

You can use meditation, and prayer, and ritual to foster compassion, love, and inclusiveness, or you can use them to foster hatred, and exclusiveness, and anger. And it's really just a matter of what concepts, ideas you decide to focus on.

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.

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

I remember watching Jodie Foster in Contact, and that kind of opened my eyes.

It is important to foster individuality, for only the individual can produce the new ideas.

I am not only the person who wrote and sold a novel while raising a houseful of biological and foster children; I am also the person who wrote a horrific young adult novel that never sold and gave up on a foster child I couldn't handle - an experience that still haunts me.

The uses of government should be to foster, protect and promote the possession of equality.

Everyone picked on me in school because I was in foster care.

No one has ever made me as starstruck as Sutton Foster.

A warrior's mission is to foster the success of others.

When we represent all cultures with sensitivity and truth, we foster a society that supports all people.

Dictatorships foster oppression, dictatorships foster servitude, dictatorships foster cruelty; more abominable is the fact that they foster idiocy.

Becoming a mother is the best thing that has ever happened to me, I am happy to once again be a part of National Adoption Day. We were matched with our daughter through the U.S. foster care system, and my goal is to share information about the more than 120,000 foster care children in this country who are waiting for a family.

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

We're not the corporation of Foster the People. We're a band.

It's a mistake to try to use play to deliberately foster developmental progress.