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
Related My husband and I vowed that after we married and settled down, we would become foster parents - a vo... VANESSA DIFFENBAUGH I spent my teens and early 20s shopping almost exclusively at thrift stores. ZOE LISTER-JONES My husband and I had five biological children but we also have been raising 23 foster children. MICHELE BACHMANN All of a sudden, I was a young kid in my early 20s, and I had a couple of Broadway shows to my credi... JON TENNEY Since 2005, I have not spent much time with my family. In fact I have spent more time at the Taj Lan... MAHENDRA SINGH DHONI [In my youth], I played a little soccer but I think because of my height and my friends I got involv... FABRICIO OBERTO I have spent a lot of time with foster children over the years - kids for whom I have not necessaril... VANESSA DIFFENBAUGH Since the earliest days of our youth, we have been conditioned to accept that the direction of the h... SUZY KASSEM I had a mystical experience when I was in my late teens, early 20s, and I spent years trying to reca... JOHN LURIE Being a father of three young girls, I read the Austin article and instantly thought of what I could... CHAD TAYLOR I always tell young girls, surround yourself with goodness. I learned early on how to get the haters... MICHELLE OBAMA I've been able to help my family financially since making my first hit record. I bought my paren... BONNIE TYLER I spent a special part of my life (in Macon), ... It was my early 20s. It was the '70s. We'd signed ... JACK HALL Big River. Trent Anthony invited me to Young Life in my eighth-grade year, and I have been involved ... ALEX DAVIS He testified he didn't want them because they were girls. It is my understanding the girls are in fo... KAREN SPRINGER We both came from small, close families and we each have one brother. We married after our freshman ... DAVID BROWN And I'm at college right now, so it gives me a chance to go home and spent more time with my sister ... ROBERT WHITNEY My sister lives with my family because she has separated from her husband and my older brother had d... MAHEN SHARMA I married my first boyfriend. We just married too young. No children. So that broke up. There were a... LIANE MORIARTY We have spent the past 24 hours in almost constant contact with the families of our guests involved ... DAN HANRAHAN I love working out but I really have more enjoyment cheating on my husband with other married men. AMY FESSLER In my late 20s, my mother went to a flea market and bought three small birds, and I have been hooked... BLAINE BUSH Dancing is kind of my thing. I go out with my friends as often as I can on the weekends, and I'm... DAVID GALLAGHER My 20s were spent in a room, alone, mixing paints and figuring it all out. CAIO FONSECA So young, and yet I have had all of life.Why, men have lived to see a hundred years,Who have not kno... ELLA WHEELER WILCOX We've been back since July, but I spent some time with the family in the south of France over th... LAURA INNES I come from a very illustrious line of divorces. We love to get divorced in my family. My mother and... JOSHUA FERRIS I became a general contractor in my early 20s. I have been in the business for over 35 years. GARY MILLER I go out with my friends as often as I can on the weekends, and I'm always drawn to girls with r... DAVID GALLAGHER I have been involved in music since 1972 when I started managing two artists from The Jimi Hendrix B... EARL MONROE This has been the most intense game I've played in since the Tuxedo game when I was a freshman and V... LYNSEY TIMBROUCK We don't have girls development programs so we don't have youth coming in. We find girls in speed sk... EKATERINA PASHKEVICH As a young girl, I plowed the fields of our family farm. I worked construction with my dad. To save ... JONI ERNST My family were very poor. I am one of nine siblings: two girls and seven boys. Only my brother and I... YAYA TOURE I've been dating younger men since my 20s, When I was 29, I dated someone 21... younger men are ... DANA DELANY For my children, they spent 15 to 20 years of their life in baseball. And Ruth and I spent so many y... NOLAN RYAN I find Australia compelling and vexatious at the best of times; I've never been able to get it o... HOWARD JACOBSON I grew up in a family with three brothers and sisters who joined my family through the foster care p... CARY KENNEDY I am really pleased to have sorted everything out. I have spent the vast majority of my career at Le... ANDY GOODE Computer games tend to be boys' games, warlike games with more violence. We have not spent enoug... FREEMAN A. HRABOWSKI III You're still lovely," Mor said a bit gently. Elain offered a half smile. "I suppose that war m... SARAH J. MAAS I'm proud of my girls. We have a lot of young players, but they played their hearts out. BARRY GILDEA People who are right out of high school, in their early 20s it amazes me what they eat. JOSH TAYLOR I've lived the American dream. I was born and raised on the farm, first in my family to graduate... CATHY MCMORRIS RODGERS When I'm not working, my family and I have a house in the San Juan Islands. We've been here ... ELIZABETH PENA We spent our whole youth to obtain wealth and our whole wealth to obtain youth. UNKNOWN There's been about a 50 percent increase (in cases of college meningitis) since the early 1990s. We'... JAMES TURNER In my heart and soul, I am a West Country man, and ideally, my weekends are spent there. BEN ELLIOT Our youth deserve the opportunity to complete their high school and college education, free of early... JANE FONDA I do not have a family, per se. When I was younger, I grew up in foster care with my brother and sis... VICTOR ORTIZ I'm more relaxed since I met Vanessa, I have more distance and therefore I have more perspective, JOHNNY DEPP We got married and then I left with him and had been moving around Nebraska ever since. ARLENE JOHNSON The experience the girls have had playing through all these tournaments through fifth, sixth and sev... DAVE MEADE At Camellia Network, we believe if we can create a way of identifying every young person aging out o... VANESSA DIFFENBAUGH I founded Camellia Network with my dear friend Isis Dallis Keigwin. The mission of our organization ... VANESSA DIFFENBAUGH And unto the married I command, yet not I, but the Lord, Let not the wife depart from her husband: /... BIBLE I need to find the right guy and the right family. The day I find something worth my while, I will g... DIVYANKA TRIPATHI College graduates should not have to live out their 20s in their childhood bedrooms, staring up at f... PAUL RYAN I think I feel my best - I really feel the fountain of youth is inside, not out - when I'm just ... JACLYN SMITH The issue isn't whether he loved you, it's how much. Too much. Love can be poison SARAH J. MAAS I am broken and healing, but every piece of my heart belong to you. SARAH J. MAAS He thinks he'll be remembered as the villain in the story. But I forgot to tell him that the villain... SARAH J. MAAS Night gathers, and now my watch begins. It shall not end until my death. I shall take no wife, hold ... GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Hodor," said Hodor. GEORGE R.R. MARTIN You do what you love, what you need SARAH J. MAAS I turned. Rhysand leaned against the archway into the sitting room, arms crossed, wings nowhere... SARAH J. MAAS I have a very large shoebox overflowing with lyrics I've been writing and collecting since my te... EVAN RACHEL WOOD I have a lot of girlfriends whom I've never been involved with. Those kinds of lines get drawn prett... DAVID SCHWIMMER I love mentoring young filmmakers and girl filmmakers. TAMRA DAVIS I've changed my life in a lot of ways. I'm a mom, a wife, and a Christian. Some of the thing... CHERYL JAMES I'm a married woman. I love my husband; I have a good life. GENNIFER FLOWERS In my mind, we still haven't played our best volleyball yet. Not as far as the girls clicking at the... LORI MERRIMAN Throughout my 20s and early 30s, I had jobs that I loved. I worked in city government. I ran a youth... MICHELLE OBAMA In my teens, I worked as an aide in my community supervising and mentoring youth in various programs... HILDA SOLIS We're just a big media family. My mom is always sending us articles throughout the day. My husba... ALLISON WILLIAMS I know my limitations, and I don't like politics. I was only involved because of my husband. CORAZON AQUINO Family holidays and weekends are really brightly colored memories, full of my mother and father, rat... OLIVIA WILLIAMS I was not addicted to stealing in my youth, nor have ever been; yet such was the confidence of the N... NAT TURNER As I volunteered more and more, I realized that I liked that more. That's where my heart went out. I... GLADYS POZZA I went to church as a kid, but it was as much a social thing as anything going to the youth group wi... BAILEY CHASE My husband and I work to keep our weekends pretty unscheduled, which leaves room for spontaneity. I ... IVANKA TRUMP I've met more than one person in their early 20s who has never heard of Jackie Onassis, though m... LYDIA LEONARD Since this war began our sympathy has gone out to all the suffering people who have been dragged int... EAMON DE VALERA We made them take tough shots. That's been our defensive philosophy since I have been here. We got o... MIKE BROWNING I dated a lot of girls all through high school, and in college I dated a young lady for about eight ... DANNY PINTAURO We come to visit family a couple of times a year. I like the trip. I like spending time with my husb... MANUEL GONZALEZ My nights and weekends are nearly all spent on the troops. KRISTEN HOLLOWAY I was a big fan of black gospel. As a kid, there were black groups I sang with from my teen years to... CORY WELLS I bent my head over a stove in my early 20s and picked it up in my 30s. ALEXANDRA GUARNASCHELLI I came to Christ in my early 20s. KAREN KINGSBURY If you're in your early 20s and you're hanging out with a bunch of other people in their ear... AARON LEVIE We are making sure our counselors are connecting with our students about college, ... Sometimes stud... MIKE RUTHERFORD We definitely played hard tonight and came out strong early. We came out and wanted to run them down... CAMEO HICKS We have a young team and some older experience, but we were never satisfied. The younger girls have ... AMY DENSON I take mentoring very seriously and I am on the board of an organization called Girls Write Now, whe... TAYARI JONES For someone to say that marriage is only about procreation is a joke. I didn't marry my husband ... AISHA TYLER No period of my life has been one of such unmixed happiness as the four years which have been spent ... HORATIO ALGER When we foster an economy without hope, we guarantee that a segment of our population will be destin... JACKIE SPEIER There are lots of opportunities out there for women to work in these fields, ... Girls just need sup... SALLY RIDE Worse than not realizing the dreams of your youth would be to have been young and never dreamed at a... JEAN GENET
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VANESSA KERRY It wasn't until two or three years ago that I actually learned that in the end he actually did k... VANESSA KERRY I think my dad is this great, wonderful... man with a lot of integrity, who is fighting for things h... VANESSA KERRY There has to be room for people to make mistakes and lead their own lives. VANESSA KERRY And I think we created something incredible as a Democratic group, as a platform, as an effort to ma... VANESSA KERRY You're blinded by lights and you see all these people who come out, and it's exciting. It... VANESSA KERRY It was definitely a part of our life. I mean, my mom had both her brothers and her fiancee in Vietna... VANESSA KERRY I think there is a generation gap. I personally look forward to, as our generation becomes the leade... VANESSA KERRY But one of the things I learned is that when you fight for something you believe in and you tell the... VANESSA KERRY I was very close to my mother, and her death, which left a gaping hole in my life, has been very dif... VANESSA KERRY The dinner table is a lively debate, and everybody weighs in in a different way. I like that, though... VANESSA KERRY My advice to kids is give it your all! Give it 110 percent and don't give up! VANESSA HUDGENS I like someone who's not afraid to be a kid! VANESSA HUDGENS I had my first real kiss at Magic Mountain on a park bench. Not the most romantic thing ever. VANESSA HUDGENS It's important to have people around who love themselves, are true to themselves, who have their... VANESSA HUDGENS If people don't like me for whatever I do, for being me, then that's too bad. I don't wa... VANESSA HUDGENS I want to try doing sportier things, kite surfing and paddle surfing - I think it would give me that... VANESSA HUDGENS Long-distance relationships are hard no matter what. When you don't have face-to-face time, it... VANESSA HUDGENS I try not to read the blogs or what people say about me. Because that's what brings everybody do... VANESSA HUDGENS You have a choice whether you want to be happy or not. I choose to be happy. VANESSA HUDGENS Confidence is key. Sometimes, you need to look like you're confident even when you're not. VANESSA HUDGENS I don't go long without eating. I never starve myself: I grab a healthy snack. VANESSA HUDGENS I like friends who are honest and loyal. They also shouldn't be afraid to be a kid. I like havin... VANESSA HUDGENS This is going to sound really funny. I have a poster of Zac Efron on my wall! I think every girl has... VANESSA HUDGENS Touring is tough. You're almost in a haze because you don't really know where you are half t... VANESSA HUDGENS I just love expanding my horizons and growing as an artist. The only way you get to do that is by do... VANESSA HUDGENS I love funky styles. Not preppy or rock, just funky! VANESSA HUDGENS I may have had a crush on Zac, but we are like brother and sister, so nothing would ever happen. VANESSA HUDGENS Do not just look at your boyfriend as just a boyfriend. Look at him as a friend, too. VANESSA HUDGENS I'd like to go out with friends, but I train twice a day, then I go to school, and at night I go... VANESSA FERRARI I'd say I'm quite powerful so I'm not afraid of jumps or acrobatic elements. The hardest... VANESSA FERRARI The Ferrari is a beautiful car. It's great. VANESSA FERRARI New York's my home. Born and raised. I'm a New Yorker to the bone. VANESSA FERLITO You have to really love women in order to really just have a respect for women and love them. No man... VANESSA FERLITO Kurt Russell is so dreamy. Plus, he's great to work with, really respectful. VANESSA FERLITO Quentin Tarantino is a genius. I want to do every single film with him. VANESSA FERLITO I do yoga; I'm pretty dedicated. VANESSA FERLITO I have to be honest - I don't love guns. 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