Top 581 Foster Quotes & Sayings - Page 3
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Last updated on April 20, 2025.
I've worked with homeless kids, kids in foster care, and I've never met a kid who couldn't be reached.
My husband and I vowed that after we married and settled down, we would become foster parents - a vow we kept and one that has enriched our lives greatly.
We have to change economic policy: create confidence, foster investment, cut the public deficit, restructure taxation, and reform the labor laws.
Back in Australia, I did foster care for sick cats for years, and I was always most successful with the animals when I was given two - a brother and sister.
There is an appalling amount of mechanical work in the artist's life ... Talent is mysterious, but the qualities that guard, foster, and direct it are not unlike those of a good quartermaster.
Cultivating innovative thinking starts at the top. Leaders can foster a culture of innovation by encouraging creativity and experimenting with new ideas.
Cultivated people foster what is good in others,
not what is bad.
Petty people do the opposite.
Yet we have learned from the Scottish independence vote and with Brexit what referendums do to our politics. They foster bitter divisions in ways that parliamentary elections tend not to do.
Money can extinguish intrinsic motivation, diminish performance, crush creativity, encourage unethical behavior, foster short-term thinking, and become addictive.
[That form of] eloquence, the foster-child of licence, which fools call liberty.
[Lat., Eloquentia, alumna licentiae, quam stulti libertatem vocabant.]
There is always need for good foster parents, people who have room in their homes, the openhearted people.
I believe that Attorney Fortuno has some styles that it seems to me are going to foster dialogue and good communication, and I hope I am not mistaken.
Hearing Radney Foster was big for me, like hearing Al Green or R.E.M. for the first time.
I think that is a great, great thing, to create your own identity and foster a true family spirit.
My occupation has been a great deal with David Foster Wallace, and he didn't manage it, and he was very much looking for something that isn't totally selfish, and finding meaning. It's a struggle.
If there is one thing that the women and men of the late 20th century who have an awareness and enjoyment of history can be sure of, it is that Islam was not sent from Heaven to foster egotism and mediocrity.
I'd like to follow in the footsteps along like Jodie Foster and Natalie Portman, who got their education.
I had a rough upbringing. Group homes. Foster homes.
When I was growing up, my parents took in foster children. From a young age, I learned that there are a lot of children in need.
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.
Education ought to foster the wish for truth, not the conviction that some particular creed is the truth.
Never was there a dogma more calculated to foster indolence, and to blunt the keen edge of curiosity, than the assumption of the discordance between the former and the existing causes of change.
We have to change economic policy: create confidence, foster investment, cut the public deficit, restructure taxation and reform the labor laws.
It is the theory of all modern civilized governments that they protect and foster the liberty of the citizen; it is the practice of all of them to limit its exercise, and sometimes very narrowly.
I felt that America's duty was not to try to do everything itself, but to foster a sense of commitment that would bring out the best in every country.
Hundreds of thousands of kids now have a chance to be adopted because I worked to change our adoption and foster care system.
I like Jodie Foster and then Meryl Streep. They're just, like, the greatest ever.
I asked [Donald Trump] if he had any advice for Charles Foster Kane and he said, "Yeah, get yourself a different woman."
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.
Volunteer activities can foster enormous leadership skills. The nonprofit professional volunteer world is a laboratory for self - realization.
I've toured the world with David Foster and all kinds of different people. It's been a great ride, and I don't think it's about to stop any time soon.
I'm influenced by Jennifer Egan, Dave Eggers, David Foster Wallace: writers who are often not content to just stack paragraphs and have to break out of that.
It's a misconception that love can only foster between two people of opposite sex. Love is a bond.
Spiritualism is but a baby now, an unwelcome stranger, whom public opinion, like an unnatural foster mother, tries to crush out of existence.
Although I did admire David Foster Wallace's final unfinished novel about boredom, I'm no DFW, and I want my books to be exciting, not boring.
Nurturing an inclusive culture begins in the family. Home is the first place to foster openness and a culture of inclusion.
Foster a curiosity for the uncommon, regardless of how unpopular it is. The uncommon is where opportunity likes to hide.
It's time to stop pretending I'm ok with things I'm not ok with like all insects and Foster the People.
Sometimes what we deem a failure at the time it happens actually serves to foster a change within us that creates an even greater success down the road.
My husband and I had five biological children but we also have been raising 23 foster children.
The land and agricultural industry is the backbone of Australia, and we need to foster the industry that provides our country with so much.
When I get older, I want to be a Kristin Chenoweth and Sutton Foster - you know how they do all of it? I just want to do anything that has to do with performing.
You must be kind to others. You must foster a caretaker personality of gentleness and perseverance, even in the midst of adversity.
When I got emancipated from the foster care program and I became homeless, it was a struggle. I was working at an airline, and then I stopped to pursue comedy 110%.
Too many children in foster care are falling through cracks. Be a hero, take the time learn about adoption today.
I didn't get into acting to have a moment, I got into it because of people who've inspired me, like Judi Dench, Holly Hunter, and Jodie Foster.
Bookishness, highest literacy, every technique of cultural propaganda and training not only can accompany bestiality and oppression and despotism but at certain points foster it.
A good story needs equally good talent to foster it.
It's true of so many fiction writers that I much prefer the essayistic work they did, whether it's David Foster Wallace's, or John Cheever's, or Nathaniel Hawthorne's.
The way to virtually eliminate genocide and mass murder appears to be through restricting and checking power. This means to foster democratic freedom.
You don't have to write like David Foster Wallace or James Baldwin or Maggie Nelson - indeed, you shouldn't. Those writers are doing it better than you ever could.
Physically robust infrastructure is not enough if it fails to foster a healthy community; ultimately, all infrastructure is social.
Wisdom flashes like lightening amidst the clouds of the inner sky; one has to foster the flash, and preserve the light. That is the true sign of the 'educated' person.
I'm a compassionate person, so if a product is 15 percent more than what I typically pay, and I see the purpose, I'll foster that kind of sustainability for the farmers/fishers.
One thing that all of my children, biological and foster children, have taught me is the unbelievable diversity of talent and giftedness that all people have.
Growing up, my family was like an unofficial foster home. My dad was a judge and my mom was a director of a women and children's charity.
I am in that everything [ David Foster Wallace] writes is pretty much the best stuff I've read, so that makes me a fan I guess.
Most actors that I work with are wonderful. Jodie Foster or Tom Hanks will make anything work.
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.
It can literally change someone's life; it's very positive for young teenagers to get into cosplay if they do it with their friends or with supervision from their parents - it can really foster their social skills.
