Foster Children Quotes

• My husband and I had five biological children but we also have been raising 23 foster children.

  Michele Bachmann

  Children, Husband, Five

  "'Hannity' Primary Part 2: Michele Bachmann". "Hannity" with Sean Hannity, www.foxnews.com. July 01, 2011.

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• I thought if anyone need a leg up, it was our foster children. So, I started getting involved in education reform, and that was back in 1998. And as a result of all the reform work that I had done, people urged me to run for the Minnesota state Senate. I did, I was there for six years.

  Michele Bachmann

  Running, Children, Years

  "'Hannity' Primary Part 2: Michele Bachmann". www.foxnews.com. July 01, 2011.

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• State and local government, with financial support from the federal government, should offer a program to educate and train foster children for employment and provide them with financial assistance, as needed, until they reach age 21.

  Charles Bass

  Children, Government, Support

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• Despite the best of efforts, many foster children are neither reunited with their families, nor adopted.

  Charles Bass

  Children, Effort, Reuniting

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• Difficulty, my brethren, is the nurse of greatness - a harsh nurse, who roughly rocks her foster children into strength and athletic proportion.

  William C. Bryant

  Strength, Children, Adversity

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• We routinely leave our small children in day care among strangers. At the same time, in our guilt we evince paranoia about strangers and foster fear in children.

  Thomas Harris

  Children, Day Care, Guilt

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• Too many children in foster care are falling through cracks. Be a hero, take the time learn about adoption today.

  Bruce Willis

  Children, Fall, Hero

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• You get to decide what to worship.

  David Foster

  Worship

  "Some of the best commencement speeches ever". www.theglobeandmail.com. June 16, 2014.

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• I’m not only a lawyer, I have a post-doctorate degree in federal tax law from William and Mary. I’ve worked in serious scholarship ... my husband and I have raised five kids, we’ve raised 23 foster children. We’ve applied ourselves to education reform. We started a charter school for at-risk kids.

  Michele Bachmann

  Children, Husband, Kids

  "Chris Wallace Asks Michele Bachmann: ‘Are You A Flake?’" by Sam Stein, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 26, 2011.

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• Many foster children have had difficulty making the transition to independent living. Several are homeless, become single parents, commit crimes, or live in poverty. They are also frequent targets of crime.

  Charles Bass

  Children, Independent, Parent

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

  Dennis Cardoza

  Children, Parent, Problem

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• Thou foster-child of Silence and slow Time.

  John Keats

  Children, Silence

  'Ode on a Grecian Urn' (1820) st. 1

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• My riches are my family and my foster children. I try to store any material wealth in my hand, not my heart, so that I always feel free to give it away when the opportunity arises.

  S. Truett Cathy

  Children, Heart, Opportunity

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• We already had an adopted daughter, 10-year-old Courtney, from my previous marriage. To me, there is no difference between 'natural' and 'adopted.' My own childhood showed me that when it comes to loving your kids, concepts like that don't apply. I was the oldest of six, and three of my siblings were adopted. Mom and Dad even took in foster children. 'There are no limits to how much you can love,' Dad always said.

  Al Roker

  Mom, Daughter, Children

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• 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.

  Michele Bachmann

  Children, People, Diversity

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• I hadn't thought about the fact that I was a foster child but, did notice that (in films) I'm often without a mother or father or both.

  Sophie Nelisse

  Mother, Children, Father

  Source: www.kidzworld.com

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• Having taken on the care of foster children, a mother forced her own daughter to beat them. According to her later account: Mom puts the fly swatter in my hand and shows me how to do it: grab their wrists, and whack the plastic handle over their pink baby palms. She stands in the doorway of their room until I can crack hard enough to make them scream.

  Julie Gregory

  Mom, Daughter, Mother

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• Sometimes, the hardest foster children to take are teenage boys, which I was one, and I was never adopted or anything, and so I think if people up more for teenage boys, that might be beneficial.

  Antwone Fisher

  Children, Teenage, Boys

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• 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.

  Michelle Monaghan

  Children, Growing Up, Parent

  "How Michelle Monaghan Stays Grounded and Gorgeous". Interview with Laurie Sandell, www.health.com. October 28, 2011.

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• Earth fills her lap with pleasures of her own;
  Yearnings she hath in her own natural kind,
  And, even with something of a mother's mind,
  And no unworthy aim,
  The homely nurse doth all she can
  To make her foster child, her inmate man,
  Forget the glories he hath known
  And that imperial palace whence he came.

  William Wordsworth

  Mother, Children, Men

  William Wordsworth (1837). “The Complete Poetical Works of William Wordsworth: Together with a Description of the Country of the Lakes in the North of England, Now First Published with His Works ...”, p.388

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• [That form of] eloquence, the foster-child of licence, which fools call liberty.
  [Lat., Eloquentia, alumna licentiae, quam stulti libertatem vocabant.]

  Tacitus

  Children, Liberty, Fool

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• Difficulty is a nurse of greatness-a harsh nurse, who rocks her foster children roughly, but rocks them in strength and athletic proportion. The mind, grappling with great aims and wrestling with mighty impediments, grows by a certain necessity to the stature of greatness.

  Kobe Bryant

  Children, Wrestling, Greatness

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• My husband is not running for the presidency, neither are my children, neither is our business, neither are our foster children.

  Michele Bachmann

  Running, Children, Husband

  "Michele Bachmann and the Politics of Stonewalling" by Tim Murphy, www.motherjones.com. August 8, 2011.

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• Foster children are disproportionately victims of identity theft.

  James Langevin

  Children, Identity, Victim

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• 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?

  Jeanne Woodford

  Children, Men, What If

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