Top 1200 Foster Parent Quotes & Sayings - Page 15

And I would never set myself out to be the best parent or the greatest man.

For not an orphan in the wide world can be so deserted as the child who is an outcast from a living parent's love.

You would never argue about a straight girl playing a lesbian. Everybody still watched 'The L Word.' I feel like we have such great role models, like Jane Lynch and Jodie Foster and all these people that you don't even think about.

The purpose of The Motherhood Manifesto is mothers really need to be given the ability to parent.

I think it's quite difficult to follow in your parent's footsteps in the same sport.

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.

Patria est communis omnium parens. Our country is the common parent of all.

Children are my pet cause. I have a foster child in El Salvador, and whenever I'm home, I work for the Adam Walsh Foundation, which finds missing children. I also do some hospital visits and other things for the Make-a-Wish Foundation.

Time is the king of all men, he is their parent and their grave, and gives them what he will and not what they crave.

I have a husband who didn't just resign himself to staying home but was happy to be the primary parent.

I only have one child. But I am learning that there is a lot to being a parent that you did not expect.

Coming from where I came from, being a foster youth... like, living in all those different homes... I am glad I had those experiences because now, when I perform, I can come from a place of reality: I know how different people live.

Many television weather-women were one abusive parent away from prostitution.

Frugality may be termed the daughter of Prudence, the sister of Temperance, and the parent of Liberty.

The Parent Trap wouldn't have been as special without the remarkable performances by Hayley Mills.

A perfect parent is a person with excellent child-rearing theories and no actual children.

I always say that a successful parent is one who raises a child so that they can pay for their own psychoanalysis.

Fear is the only true enemy, born of ignorance and the parent of anger and hate.

I simply cannot understand how any parent could kill themselves.

For a startup to overcome obstacles and succeed, it must foster limitless thinking. By hiring students into their first career job, you get to set their framework for how a company functions and instill them with your values for your company's culture.

When you're a parent, you sing better. It becomes a pure pleasure, rather than something I have to do.

As long as anger lives, it continues to be the fruitful parent of many unhappy children.

I have yet to meet members of a leadership team who I thought lacked the intelligence or the domain expertise required to be successful. I've met many, however, who failed to foster organizational health. Their companies were riddled with politics, various forms of dysfunction, and general confusion about their direction and mission.

As we begin to plan for a new human society, we need to foster common values about clean air, water, and other elements of self-sustenance. These, along with a complete inventory of Earth's resources, will form the basis for a holistic approach to cybernated decision-making.

Since, though I do not repent my amorous exploits, I am far from wanting my example to contribute to the corruption of the fair sex, which deserves our homage for so many reasons, I hope that my observations will foster prudence in fathers and mothers and thus at least deserve their esteem.

Not only that, but when I first met Joe, to my intense delight, he showed me that he was a collector. He was collecting some of the early Tarzan pages by Hal Foster, and, later, early Flash Gordons; and I found that we were both absolutely interested in the same type of thing.

The greatest gift a parent can give a child during all the ups and downs of life is love.

Once you have kids, you think like a parent. You get a lot more protective.

It's unacceptable when a parent's hard work isn't enough to pay the bills or go to a doctor.

To breed up the son to common sense is evermore the parent's least expense.

Being a parent, I'm acutely aware of how hard it is to get good childcare.

Life is love, a gift from god and parent, death is gratitude for a new dimension

Here's a shock: An adult who still hangs out in skate parks is a bad parent.

One of the things that I learned at a very young age is the power of a parent's words to their children.

A strong conviction that something must be done is the parent of many bad measures.

I am happiest when I'm sitting on my parent's couch with the fire place on and talking to my family.

In a free country, government is a dull and onerous responsibility. It is a parent-teacher conference.

I always feel it's not a parent's role to either allow or to deny, but merely to guide.

The progressive notion of the state as a loving, caring parent is becoming a bipartisan affair.

I want people to get from 'Pariah' that it's okay to be you and not to check a box as a parent or child.

You can raise a good child in a single-parent family, but it's much more difficult.

Being a teenage mum and a single parent hasn't been easy but I wouldn't change it for the world.

What can be more clear and sound in explanation, than the love of a parent to his child?

Americans want and deserve a broad array of health insurance choices so they can identify those that best fit their own individual or family needs. These choices expand when we allow free enterprise to foster innovation, not smother it with taxes and one-size fits all ideology.

The care of the Earth is our most ancient and most worthy, and after all our most pleasing responsibility. To cherish what remains of it and to foster its renewal is our only hope.

[I]t is impossible for those, who believe in the truth of Christianity, as a divine revelation, to doubt, that it is the especial duty of government to foster, and encourage it among all the citizens and subjects. This is a point wholly distinct from that of the right of private judgment in matters of religion, and of the freedom of public worship according to the dictates of one's conscience.

I'm a believer in the parent first, friend second philosophy, and trying to find that balance.

At the time I became a parent, I was taking on a more active creative role in my industry.

An unlimited amount of ability can develop when parent and child are having fun together.

A parent or a teacher has only his lifetime; a good book can teach forever.

No matter what circumstances, it's hard to be a parent and maintain a sense of self and identity in the world.

When I was born, that was the music my mother was listening to. Michael Jackson is a third parent to me.

As a parent, I know how difficult it can be to encourage your kids to eat well.

We have to have a school board that's actually gonna be able to function and that has true parent representatives on it.

Being a parent, is without any doubt, one of the most difficult things that you can do in life.

When two people - regardless of gender - long to care for each other, to protect each other, to treasure each other, we should do everything we can to foster that.

Politicians know that structural reforms - to increase competition, foster innovation, and drive institutional change - are the way to tackle structural impediments to growth. But they know that while the pain from reform is immediate, gains are typically delayed and their beneficiaries uncertain.

When I did 'Parent Trap,' I was ten. I was thrown off by the whole fame thing.

There's something about being a parent that has, I think, made me a better comedian.

The Parent Trap gave my career another boost, starring in family comedies.