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While we certainly have more work to do in the area of foster care and adoption, we already see a si...
GARY KLEEBLATT We might be able to retain an attorney because we could lose a lot of foster care providers who simp...
GARY LANE There are some in foster care and some in quarantine. The court said they would be released to us.
ANNIE STETLER More broadly, we are going to have to examine the safety net programs to make sure they are poised t...
RICHARD NEAL![]()
Everyone picked on me in school because I was in foster care.
DAVE PELZER![]()
So, tomorrow, I'm leaving. And I'm not going to let that happen again with anyone else. I'm going to...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY This isn't about saving money, this is about saving lives. Just focusing on foster care is too late....
MARIANNE UDOW Kids are expensive to raise, and certainly this adoption subsidy is helpful. But anyone who has had ...
KAREN STOCK He testified he didn't want them because they were girls. It is my understanding the girls are in fo...
KAREN SPRINGER Often, the Rainbow Room will allow a child to remain in their own home. If the offending parent leav...
MARLEIGH MEISNER![]()
To me it's a failure every time we keep a child in foster care for that child's entire life. You kno...
HILLARY CLINTON They basically just got rid of the flat definition which said a foster child is any child you care f...
CINDY HOCKENBERRY![]()
I see all kinds of people work hard all over the world, and some of them are barely making it. I don...
STEWART BUTTERFIELD The most important element of the foster care system is getting kids out of foster care and into a p...
RHEA PERLMAN![]()
Too many children in foster care are falling through cracks. . . . Be a hero -- take the time learn ...
BRUCE WILLIS![]()
Too many children in foster care are falling through cracks. Be a hero, take the time learn about ad...
BRUCE WILLIS We've seen tremendous growth in the parents. Only one mother's child was placed in foster care and n...
BARBARA POWELL![]()
We all make mistakes, and we all need second chances. For youth in foster care, these mistakes are o...
VANESSA DIFFENBAUGH Transitioning out of foster care is a hugely emotionally and psychologically overwhelming thing. ......
CYNTHIA WHITE Right now, she's struggling with the trauma of having the child torn loose from her arms and possibl...
DANIEL SAMMONS Many foster children have had difficulty making the transition to independent living. Several are ho...
CHARLES BASS These children are foster-care children. It's not a juvenile detention center.
PAUL TESI![]()
We fall back into the past, we jump ahead into the future, and in this we lose our entire lives.
THICH NHAT HANH![]()
I've worked with homeless kids, kids in foster care, and I've never met a kid who couldn'...
VANESSA DIFFENBAUGH One must simply take the days of their lives as they happen. If you spend time worrying over what is...
R.J. GONZALES![]()
Just because you believe something was true in the past does not mean it will be true in the future.
JEFFREY FRY Medicine is becoming a business, and if people choose medicine as a way to make money, they should g...
TILDA SHALOF![]()
I have always wished the present to resemble memory: because the present can be flat at times, and b...
LYDIA MILLET Now is everything
Now is the essence
Now is the focus
Focus on the now
For that ...
KAREN HACKEL All of us were farmed out to relatives or foster homes. We've had an interesting life individually. ...
CHRISTINE SANOK They are here in our city, they are visitors, they are welcome. We want to help them in any way we c...
BETH WOOD She was intimidating and all I could do was sit back on the couch as she paced back and forth, slowl...
IN THE MAKING![]()
I founded Camellia Network with my dear friend Isis Dallis Keigwin. The mission of our organization ...
VANESSA DIFFENBAUGH A person who lives truly in present time is dependent on oneself only not on sycophants’ people.
ANUJ SOMANY![]()
The Buddha told him, "When we sit, we know we are sitting. When we walk, we know we are walking. Whe...
THICH NHAT HANH She plucked the blossoms from the bag and arranged them, one by one, in the water glass on her dress...
SARAH JIO![]()
Tomorrow is tomorrow.
Future cares have future cures,
And we must mind today.
SOPHOCLES![]()
To him, even the momentary was momentous.
G.K. CHESTERTON You can clutch the past so tightly to your chest that it leaves your arms too full to embrace the...
JAN GLIDEWELL But then Macon smiled at me. "Just be yourself, Foster. That's the best thing in the world.
JOAN BAUER Smiling at death seems like a pretty bold act. And so I smile like a damned fool.
EMM COLE![]()
If you want to conquer the anxiety of life, live in the moment, live in the breath.
AMIT RAY We want to foster these inmates' growth as people.
KYES STEVENS We don't care if they are trying to go undefeated. That is what the Colts want to focus on. We're go...
MARCUS STROUD![]()
Kid's books should be just as good as any other books. No. They should be held to a *higher* standar...
PATRICK ROTHFUSS![]()
The most violent and troubling stories become part of our national consciousness about foster care.
VANESSA DIFFENBAUGH![]()
You're full of contradictions, Ms. Wallace."
I looked up at him and arched a brow. "I'm a girl...
TAMMARA WEBBER Creativity is not just thinking outside the box but living outside it.
VICTOR SHAMAS We want parents to be more aware of the child care they select.
ALMA GARCIA Some workers believe that if they tell the truth [about a child], the foster parent isn't going to s...
JEAN FIORITO I had a best friend once 20 years down the line a friendship that you just do not get now, i regarde...
GARY F EVANS...![]()
I still had this idea that there was a whole world of marvelous golden people somewhere, as far ahea...
RICHARD YATES Write to Say something,
Say to Make something,
Make to Be something.
SHASHIDHAR SA![]()
Our daughter was not damaged or hurt in any way. She was simply relinquished to foster care by two p...
NIA VARDALOS We are here to foster stronger alliances. We are not in the parish to replace anyone.
LAVONYA MALVEAUX![]()
Be lost. Give up. Give In. in the end It would be better to surrender before you begin. be lost. Be ...
VICTORIA SCHWAB It is important to keep a child in a familiar setting when they are removed from their home. If we c...
BARBARA ZIMMERMAN Pursuit of contentment is not the pursuit of an elusive tomorrow; it is the celebration of today. In...
MAJID KAZMI This partnership reflects a shared philosophy in caring for people, whether they are athletes or, in...
BRIAN PERKINS![]()
Everyone says Toyota is the best company in the world, but the customer doesn't care about the w...
AKIO TOYODA We wanted the project to target, above all, people living and working in Russia, and to foster deman...
ALEXANDER SHUMSKY Some people frown on the fact that George and I, at our ages, made the decision to adopt. If I were ...
BRENDA BALL They will try to solicit foster parents. There's a shortage of foster parents in Arizona. Children g...
ARMANDO VARGAS We've got kids who have problems in school, kids who've been abused, some kids that this is their la...
ANN THOMPSON We want them to learn to take care of themselves and know there are other people out there they need...
DENELL STOSIO The child needs to be prepared because, psychologically, he has bonded with the family. To him, thos...
GLORIA HOCHMAN Things were a little untidy, but what did that matter? It was possible to become the slave of things...
ELIZABETH VON ARNIM To live in the present, you need to act or accept but never stay stuck.
JOHN KUYPERS![]()
Beautify your breath – beautify your life.
AMIT RAY You may not find it normal, but as long as we're all born human we should be entitled to the same ri...
MARCUS GONZALES I am a struggling writer. A middle-aged man with two little kids and I'm just trying to earn a l...
CHRISTOPHER DARDEN “In order to effectively make a difference in today's health care we must change attitudes and pra...
SANDRA LOURIDO It's not important to just walk into a house and just say hi to a foster child.
LINDA SPEARS Quiero que [mi hijo] conozca el secreto de la felicidad, algo tan sencillo que da la impresión de q...
JAMES RHODES I grew up in a family with three brothers and sisters who joined my family through the foster care p...
CARY KENNEDY Regular donors are the safest donors and we need to foster this awareness in the community.
IANTHE EXALL![]()
I think that the hardest thing about working with young people in foster care who've been throug...
VANESSA DIFFENBAUGH I’d wish it were easier to not allow other people’s pasts to create my own present.
JONATHAN HARNISCH Use your heart. Understand. Learn to see things
in the now, not as they were or will be, or as ...
E.J. PATTEN![]()
I think the new generations in America, the America's youth, no longer care about Vietnam. They ...
ALEXANDER HAIG You rich people are all the same. You couldn't care less about the other half of the world. They can...
SALLY WENTWORTH We were able to get them into foster homes within several hours.
CHELSEA SHERIDAN For me, marriage should be about partnership. How can you love someone you have to take care of like...
LYNSAY SANDS We want to ask people how services can more effectively promote good health, as well as treat diseas...
PATRICIA HEWITT These kids in foster care deserve someone who can give them all of their attention, and with our gra...
BRENDA WEBB In the interests of the independent media the United States has pledged to foster in Iraq, it is imp...
DAVID SCHLESINGER In late October of 1962, it was our turn to go. Miss Hanrahan appeared in her state Ford Rambler, wh...
JOHN WILLIAM TUOHY![]()
At Camellia Network, we believe if we can create a way of identifying every young person aging out o...
VANESSA DIFFENBAUGH Seize the day, then let it go.
MARTY RUBIN![]()
The unhappiest people in this world, are those who care the most about what other people think.
C. JOYBELL C. In the beginning, there was nothing and from nothing came our species then behold the dawn of music....
GARY F EVANS...![]()
Give that child to me. I want it. I will care for it. I am willing to accept any child who would be ...
MOTHER TERESA Children can no longer be home-schooled like the Jackson children were. And in assessing the suitabi...
ED ROGAN Time that is spent dwelling on the past will surely continue in your present moment - and the future...
MICHELLE CRUZ-ROSADO I look for a lot of pressure because they are extremely quick. They take pretty good care of the bal...
ERIC RINARD![]()
Show no fear to your enemies. Only contempt. Never let anyone look down on you. You're just as good ...
SHERRILYN KENYON The 2 million people who work in the NHS and social care are also themselves patients and users. I k...
PATRICIA HEWITT That's my duty as a foster parent. And I can tell you, we won't foster again.
ELIZABETH FEIN![]()
Idleness is a form of passivity in an active universe.
MICHAEL BASSEY JOHNSON The universe is a gathering of nows that I spread before my feet like a landscape.
JANET TURPIN MYERS
GARY KLEEBLATT We might be able to retain an attorney because we could lose a lot of foster care providers who simp...
GARY LANE There are some in foster care and some in quarantine. The court said they would be released to us.
ANNIE STETLER More broadly, we are going to have to examine the safety net programs to make sure they are poised t...
RICHARD NEAL
Everyone picked on me in school because I was in foster care. DAVE PELZER
So, tomorrow, I'm leaving. And I'm not going to let that happen again with anyone else. I'm going to... STEPHEN CHBOSKY This isn't about saving money, this is about saving lives. Just focusing on foster care is too late....
MARIANNE UDOW Kids are expensive to raise, and certainly this adoption subsidy is helpful. But anyone who has had ...
KAREN STOCK He testified he didn't want them because they were girls. It is my understanding the girls are in fo...
KAREN SPRINGER Often, the Rainbow Room will allow a child to remain in their own home. If the offending parent leav...
MARLEIGH MEISNER
To me it's a failure every time we keep a child in foster care for that child's entire life. You kno... HILLARY CLINTON They basically just got rid of the flat definition which said a foster child is any child you care f...
CINDY HOCKENBERRY
I see all kinds of people work hard all over the world, and some of them are barely making it. I don... STEWART BUTTERFIELD The most important element of the foster care system is getting kids out of foster care and into a p...
RHEA PERLMAN
Too many children in foster care are falling through cracks. . . . Be a hero -- take the time learn ... BRUCE WILLIS
Too many children in foster care are falling through cracks. Be a hero, take the time learn about ad... BRUCE WILLIS We've seen tremendous growth in the parents. Only one mother's child was placed in foster care and n...
BARBARA POWELL
We all make mistakes, and we all need second chances. For youth in foster care, these mistakes are o... VANESSA DIFFENBAUGH Transitioning out of foster care is a hugely emotionally and psychologically overwhelming thing. ......
CYNTHIA WHITE Right now, she's struggling with the trauma of having the child torn loose from her arms and possibl...
DANIEL SAMMONS Many foster children have had difficulty making the transition to independent living. Several are ho...
CHARLES BASS These children are foster-care children. It's not a juvenile detention center.
PAUL TESI
We fall back into the past, we jump ahead into the future, and in this we lose our entire lives. THICH NHAT HANH
I've worked with homeless kids, kids in foster care, and I've never met a kid who couldn'... VANESSA DIFFENBAUGH One must simply take the days of their lives as they happen. If you spend time worrying over what is...
R.J. GONZALES
Just because you believe something was true in the past does not mean it will be true in the future. JEFFREY FRY Medicine is becoming a business, and if people choose medicine as a way to make money, they should g...
TILDA SHALOF
I have always wished the present to resemble memory: because the present can be flat at times, and b... LYDIA MILLET Now is everything
Now is the essence
Now is the focus
Focus on the now
For that ...
KAREN HACKEL All of us were farmed out to relatives or foster homes. We've had an interesting life individually. ...
CHRISTINE SANOK They are here in our city, they are visitors, they are welcome. We want to help them in any way we c...
BETH WOOD She was intimidating and all I could do was sit back on the couch as she paced back and forth, slowl...
IN THE MAKING
I founded Camellia Network with my dear friend Isis Dallis Keigwin. The mission of our organization ... VANESSA DIFFENBAUGH A person who lives truly in present time is dependent on oneself only not on sycophants’ people.
ANUJ SOMANY
The Buddha told him, "When we sit, we know we are sitting. When we walk, we know we are walking. Whe... THICH NHAT HANH She plucked the blossoms from the bag and arranged them, one by one, in the water glass on her dress...
SARAH JIO
Tomorrow is tomorrow.Future cares have future cures,
And we must mind today.
SOPHOCLES
To him, even the momentary was momentous. G.K. CHESTERTON You can clutch the past so tightly to your chest that it leaves your arms too full to embrace the...
JAN GLIDEWELL But then Macon smiled at me. "Just be yourself, Foster. That's the best thing in the world.
JOAN BAUER Smiling at death seems like a pretty bold act. And so I smile like a damned fool.
EMM COLE
If you want to conquer the anxiety of life, live in the moment, live in the breath. AMIT RAY We want to foster these inmates' growth as people.
KYES STEVENS We don't care if they are trying to go undefeated. That is what the Colts want to focus on. We're go...
MARCUS STROUD
Kid's books should be just as good as any other books. No. They should be held to a *higher* standar... PATRICK ROTHFUSS
The most violent and troubling stories become part of our national consciousness about foster care. VANESSA DIFFENBAUGH
You're full of contradictions, Ms. Wallace." I looked up at him and arched a brow. "I'm a girl...
TAMMARA WEBBER Creativity is not just thinking outside the box but living outside it.
VICTOR SHAMAS We want parents to be more aware of the child care they select.
ALMA GARCIA Some workers believe that if they tell the truth [about a child], the foster parent isn't going to s...
JEAN FIORITO I had a best friend once 20 years down the line a friendship that you just do not get now, i regarde...
GARY F EVANS...
I still had this idea that there was a whole world of marvelous golden people somewhere, as far ahea... RICHARD YATES Write to Say something,
Say to Make something,
Make to Be something.
SHASHIDHAR SA
Our daughter was not damaged or hurt in any way. She was simply relinquished to foster care by two p... NIA VARDALOS We are here to foster stronger alliances. We are not in the parish to replace anyone.
LAVONYA MALVEAUX
Be lost. Give up. Give In. in the end It would be better to surrender before you begin. be lost. Be ... VICTORIA SCHWAB It is important to keep a child in a familiar setting when they are removed from their home. If we c...
BARBARA ZIMMERMAN Pursuit of contentment is not the pursuit of an elusive tomorrow; it is the celebration of today. In...
MAJID KAZMI This partnership reflects a shared philosophy in caring for people, whether they are athletes or, in...
BRIAN PERKINS
Everyone says Toyota is the best company in the world, but the customer doesn't care about the w... AKIO TOYODA We wanted the project to target, above all, people living and working in Russia, and to foster deman...
ALEXANDER SHUMSKY Some people frown on the fact that George and I, at our ages, made the decision to adopt. If I were ...
BRENDA BALL They will try to solicit foster parents. There's a shortage of foster parents in Arizona. Children g...
ARMANDO VARGAS We've got kids who have problems in school, kids who've been abused, some kids that this is their la...
ANN THOMPSON We want them to learn to take care of themselves and know there are other people out there they need...
DENELL STOSIO The child needs to be prepared because, psychologically, he has bonded with the family. To him, thos...
GLORIA HOCHMAN Things were a little untidy, but what did that matter? It was possible to become the slave of things...
ELIZABETH VON ARNIM To live in the present, you need to act or accept but never stay stuck.
JOHN KUYPERS
Beautify your breath – beautify your life. AMIT RAY You may not find it normal, but as long as we're all born human we should be entitled to the same ri...
MARCUS GONZALES I am a struggling writer. A middle-aged man with two little kids and I'm just trying to earn a l...
CHRISTOPHER DARDEN “In order to effectively make a difference in today's health care we must change attitudes and pra...
SANDRA LOURIDO It's not important to just walk into a house and just say hi to a foster child.
LINDA SPEARS Quiero que [mi hijo] conozca el secreto de la felicidad, algo tan sencillo que da la impresión de q...
JAMES RHODES I grew up in a family with three brothers and sisters who joined my family through the foster care p...
CARY KENNEDY Regular donors are the safest donors and we need to foster this awareness in the community.
IANTHE EXALL
I think that the hardest thing about working with young people in foster care who've been throug... VANESSA DIFFENBAUGH I’d wish it were easier to not allow other people’s pasts to create my own present.
JONATHAN HARNISCH Use your heart. Understand. Learn to see things
in the now, not as they were or will be, or as ...
E.J. PATTEN
I think the new generations in America, the America's youth, no longer care about Vietnam. They ... ALEXANDER HAIG You rich people are all the same. You couldn't care less about the other half of the world. They can...
SALLY WENTWORTH We were able to get them into foster homes within several hours.
CHELSEA SHERIDAN For me, marriage should be about partnership. How can you love someone you have to take care of like...
LYNSAY SANDS We want to ask people how services can more effectively promote good health, as well as treat diseas...
PATRICIA HEWITT These kids in foster care deserve someone who can give them all of their attention, and with our gra...
BRENDA WEBB In the interests of the independent media the United States has pledged to foster in Iraq, it is imp...
DAVID SCHLESINGER In late October of 1962, it was our turn to go. Miss Hanrahan appeared in her state Ford Rambler, wh...
JOHN WILLIAM TUOHY
At Camellia Network, we believe if we can create a way of identifying every young person aging out o... VANESSA DIFFENBAUGH Seize the day, then let it go.
MARTY RUBIN
The unhappiest people in this world, are those who care the most about what other people think. C. JOYBELL C. In the beginning, there was nothing and from nothing came our species then behold the dawn of music....
GARY F EVANS...
Give that child to me. I want it. I will care for it. I am willing to accept any child who would be ... MOTHER TERESA Children can no longer be home-schooled like the Jackson children were. And in assessing the suitabi...
ED ROGAN Time that is spent dwelling on the past will surely continue in your present moment - and the future...
MICHELLE CRUZ-ROSADO I look for a lot of pressure because they are extremely quick. They take pretty good care of the bal...
ERIC RINARD
Show no fear to your enemies. Only contempt. Never let anyone look down on you. You're just as good ... SHERRILYN KENYON The 2 million people who work in the NHS and social care are also themselves patients and users. I k...
PATRICIA HEWITT That's my duty as a foster parent. And I can tell you, we won't foster again.
ELIZABETH FEIN
Idleness is a form of passivity in an active universe. MICHAEL BASSEY JOHNSON The universe is a gathering of nows that I spread before my feet like a landscape.
JANET TURPIN MYERS
Tradition is but a meteor, which, if it once falls, cannot be rekindled. Memory, once interrupted, i... 
He that never thinks can never be wise. 
Our minds should not be empty because if they are not preoccupied by good, evil will break in upon t... 
I grew up in Birmingham, where they made useful things and made them well. 
In deference to American traditions, my family put our oven to rare use at Thanksgiving during my ch... 
Christmas is more stressful with present buying and making sure everyone gets included, but Thanksgi... 
There's a McDonald's in the Louvre. 
I was always a drama queen. I remember playing in the kitchen, trying to get my mom to think I was d... 
Parents must lead by example. Don't use the cliche; do as I say and not as I do. We are our chil... 
I never know where I am going, though. That is part of what makes it so wonderful. And after all, wh... 
I've been criticised for writing in too complex a manner for younger people. 
At an early school, when I was about 5, they asked what we wanted to be when we grew up. Everyone sa... 
Well, they're Southern people, and if they know you are working at home they think nothing of wa... 
Folks don't like to have somebody around knowing more than they do. 
You've really got to start hitting the books because it's no joke out here. 
I'm going to win so much money this year, my caddie will make the top twenty money winner's ... 
There was something special and unique about the love triangle that existed between Clark Kent, Supe... 
It has been my observation that parents kill more dreams than anybody. 
Immortality is to live your life doing good things, and leaving your mark behind. 
If you are caught on a golf course during a storm and are afraid of lightning, hold up a 1-iron. Not... 
I'm always getting injuries like bruised and bloody knuckles from catching a cymbal or the edge ... 
The thing we call critics are not really reviewers, they are not really critics. They don't have... 
I hire people brighter than me and then I get out of their way. 
There were so many things I couldn't do when my brother-in-law was president. 
The first time I drew a Superman story was 'For Tomorrow' with Brian Azzarello in 2004. It d... 
So much of the world's suffering results from the sinful action or inaction of ourselves and oth... 
No one really buys records anymore. You can look at sales and do that math real quick. Unfortunately... 
The truth is I've been doing Kickstarter before there was Kickstarter; there was no Internet. So... 
What we actually learn, from any given set of circumstances, determines whether we become increasing... 
What we actually learn, from any given set of circumstances, determines whether we become increasing... 
You've really got to start hitting the books because it's no joke out here. 
Be like water making its way through cracks. Do not be assertive, but adjust to the object, and you ... 
I love Marlon Brando. Never seem him bad, just less good. 
I've always loved the mixture of crushing live drums with a programmed groove, that really cool ... 
Apply yourself. Get all the education you can, but then, by God, do something. Don't just stand ther... 
When there is freedom from mechanical conditioning, there is simplicity. The classical man is just a... 
Let the spirit out - Discard all thoughts of reward, all hopes of praise and fears of blame, all awa... 
I was a very lonely child and it's funy but the first word that comes to my head is "starved". I fel... 
My father always used 
You are not flawed, you are as beautiful as you have always been and blessed with evidence of a life... 
It takes more than just a good looking body. You've got to have the heart and soul to go with it. 