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.

- Michael Franti

The problem is foster youth don't really have this network that other kids have.

- Vanessa Diffenbaugh

The most violent and troubling stories become part of our national consciousness about foster care.

- Vanessa Diffenbaugh

I have spent a lot of time with foster children over the years - kids for whom I have not necessarily acted as a foster parent.

- Vanessa Diffenbaugh

If I did have the impulse to be a parent, I would adopt - or foster.

- Rupert Everett

It takes a lot to become a foster parent.

- Rosie O'Donnell

I like writers who seem to write because they have to. You get the feeling of this burning desire to tell a story. I find it in Peter Carey, Nicola Barker, Ali Smith and David Foster Wallace.

- Patrick Ness

Indeed, we must foster cost-saving competition. And that means joining the marketplace of other industrialized countries - not just for the manufacturers who sell drugs, but for consumers as well.

- Olympia Snowe

Child actors going on to become adult actors never really works, apart from a few. Jodie Foster was the exception.

- Mark Lester

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

- Michele Bachmann

Natalie Portman is one of my favorites, and Jodie Foster. Those two are amazing actresses.

- Alexa Vega

I don't think I'll do foster care or adopt, to be quite honest.

- Mary J. Blige

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.

- Lilla Crawford

I want to be like Sutton Foster, Kristin Chenoweth or Anne Hathaway and do everything that has to do with performing.

- Lilla Crawford

I'm going to try and model myself after Kurt Russell and Jodie Foster.

- Haley Joel Osment

I like Jodie Foster and then Meryl Streep. They're just, like, the greatest ever.

- Elle Fanning

Hence we did not foster competition in our school, on the contrary.

- Dora Russell

Everyone picked on me in school because I was in foster care.

- Dave Pelzer

It's a mistake to try to use play to deliberately foster developmental progress.

- Brian Sutton-Smith