Foster Home Quotes

I can now say without hesitation the Marine Corps was the best foster home I ever had.

— Art Buchwald

I was in a foster home and I was only allowed to see my mum via supervised visits.

— Kerry Katona

I had a rough upbringing. Group homes. Foster homes.

— Frank Shamrock

I've grown up putting my suitcase down, making new friends, and then having to pick it up again, like 'Let's move him…

— Goldie

Growing up, my family was like an unofficial foster home. My dad was a judge and my mom was a director of…

— Jen Lilley

When I was young, my brother David and I were farmed off to foster homes, and I spent time in orphanages. My…

— Wayne Dyer

Mental illness was a family secret. This patient had four children grow up in foster homes, and they never knew her. It…

— Sean Moran

“The woman who ran my last foster home didn't think it was safe,so we had to stay inside and watch some Charlie…

— Kiersten White

We are willing to spend the least amount of money to keep a kid at home, more to put him in a…

— Marian Wright Edelman

“A perennial guest star is like being a foster kid who's passed around some really great foster homes. I would love for…

— Fred Stoller

We were so poor that my mother would often leave me in a foster home until she could raise enough money to…

— Carmen Dell'Orefice

I don't know what's wrong with me. When I was a girl they had this aviary in one of my foster homes…

— Susan Strasberg

Most bullies are the product of a stressful and often abusive home life. Next time a bully threatens or attacks you, just…

— Eugene Mirman

When I was in the group homes, I saw some of the kids being moved into foster homes with the potential for…

— Angela Featherstone

I had to call in because I do believe, I know of cases, it is happening that some of these kids that…

— Rush Limbaugh

All my foster homes were very good to me. But it's still not a very nice experience. It's only when you're older,…

— Barry Keoghan

I grew up in an era of pretty severe poverty. My parents weathered the Great Depression, and money was always a very…

— Wayne Dyer

I Miss You Dad. You Meant Everything To Me. And You Just Abandoned Me And Left Me There. I Cry Every Night…

— Morgan

Christina Baker Kline writes exquisitely about two unlikely friends—one, a 91-year-old survivor of the grinding poverty of rural Ireland, immigrant New York…

— Cathy Marie Buchanan

“Enforced maternity brings into the world wretched infants, whom their parents will be unable to support and who will become the victims…

— Simone de Beauvoir

“I hit the streets first. So I knew what we were in for. I’m not a smart guy, but I can read…

— Debra Anastasia

“I used to pray you know, pray to God that He would somehow stop it. All the nights of listening to my…

— Emily Andrews

The giant raised his fist, and a voice cut through the dream. "Leo!" Jason was shaking his shoulder. "Hey, man, why are…

— Rick Riordan

“Leo!” Jason was shaking his shoulder. “Hey, man, why are you hugging Nike?” Leo’s eyes fluttered open. His arms were wrapped around…

— Rick Riordan

“Having been exposed to a variety of religious experiences in the foster homes I lived in, being Protestant, Catholic, Jewish, or anything…

— Wayne W. Dyer

“The foster home they were leaving was no place to be. The mother, Mrs. Boone, slapped Paris around every time her real…

— Nikki Grimes

“The only reason for a child not to be aware of his own vulnerability is that it has become too much to…

— Gabor Maté

“Do you know a Psychopath? You do not know me; but after reading my memoir you will know me a little better…

— Michael A. Hodge

“We got lots of secrets, Will. You Apollo guys can't have all the fun. Our campers have been excavating the tunnel system…

— Rick Riordan

“I would like to turn in my skin and change it for a new epidermis. It feels as if I will never…

— Holly A. Smith

“If you’re asking the schools to be the answer, you’re also asking a lot. If you take a kid from a bad…

— John E. Douglas

“Dr. Gingrich and Mrs. Goodhall had prevailed upon the board of trustees; the board had requested that Larch comply with Dr. Gingrich’s…

— John Irving

Growing up, we didn't have anything. My mum wasn't well, so I was in three care homes then foster homes before me…

— Rebecca Ferguson

Just got back to school from court and it killed me!!! I hate court so much, but today went better then usually,…

— Jon Hawes

Many kids in foster homes have a lot of emotions that are hard to get out. It's important to let them know…

— Michael Franti

I was 16 when I entered the foster system, and know firsthand the statistics for 'aging out.' When I was in the…

— Angela Featherstone