Foster Parenting Quotes & Sayings

Perhaps, after all, the greatest psychologist is not the metaphysician but the novelist. — Walter Besant

The most identifying trait of humanity is our abilty to be inhumane to one another. — Dean Koontz

Thus bound together, they sheltered the child from the cold, dark night, enveloping him in warmth. — Seth Adam Smith

Love and respect are the most important aspects of parenting, and of all relationships. — Jodie Foster

I think I become close to the people that I work with. — Jessica Lucas

'Breaking Bad' - I've heard that question phrased in many directions, and it always means the same thing. It's when someone can't ... when a decent person can't take it any more. They just kind of turn and go in the opposite direction. — RJ Mitte

You are mine for a moment, but you are His, forever His. — Matt Hammitt

She brought a chair into the room and placed it alongside the top of his bed. Then she held his hand as he drifted off to sleep. It was so small in her own hand, and it felt warm and dry. She pressed his hand gently, and his fingers returned the pressure, but only just, as he was almost asleep by then. She remembered, but not very well, what it was to fall asleep holding the hand of another; how precious such an experience, how fortunate those to whom it was vouchsafed by the gods of Friendship, or of Love. She thought she had forgotten that, but now she remembered. — Alexander McCall Smith

It would require more hands to manage a stock of sheep, gather them from the hills, force them into houses and folds, and drive them to markets, than the profits of the whole stock were capable of maintaining. — James Hogg

For any budding cricketers listening, do you have any superstitious routines before an innings, like putting one pad on first and then the other one? — Tony Lewis

Years later,
I still wanted to give up
friends, love, starry skies,
for a house where no one
was home, no one coming back,
and all I could drink — Raymond Carver

Nothing need be said; nothing could be said. — Virginia Woolf

good guide to developing this art is Parenting With Love and Logic, by Foster Cline and Jim Fay. — Trish Maskew

Russia became a juicy chunk of the Third World, with immense reserves of cheap labor, a vast treasure of natural resources, and industrial assets to be sold off at giveaway prices. — Michael Parenti

Life is a symphony composed by God, played by us with preludes, themes, movements, passages ... and wrong notes, so many wrong notes. Heaven is where we get to hear the music played perfectly for the first time. — Tiffany Reisz

I've always been stubborn. — Liam McIntyre

I think a valid approach to being a musician is to take all of the experience of your life and filter it through your personality and send it back out there, and that's what art is. — David Sanborn

That so many thousands of children around the world are available for adoption is a sign of our impoverished humanity. That so many persons around the world open their hearts and homes each year to embrace a few of these children is a lasting testimony to humanity's enduring nobility. — Deborah A. Beasley

What would it be like to feel so attached, so intrinsically bonded, so protective of one's own best connection with time and the ages, of generations past and future, of another human life, of their time? — J.R. Tompkins

I'm showing the boss what I can do. I was bought as a striker and I always believe I am a striker. — Theo Walcott

There was the matter of the withered-looking and bradyauxetic arms, which just as in a hair-raising case of Volkmann's contracture 115 curled out in front of his thorax in magiscule S's and were usable for rudimentary knifeless eating and slapping at doorknobs until they sort of turned just enough and doors could be kicked open and — David Foster Wallace

You have a lot of time on these tours. As Alice Cooper said, you can either drink all day or golf. — Justin Timberlake

The key to activating maturation is to take care of the attachment needs of the child. To foster independance we must first invite dependance; to promote individuation we must provide a sense of belonging and unity; to help the child separate we must assume the responsibility for keeping the child close. We help a child let go by providing more contact and connection than he himself is seeking. When he asks for a hug, we give him a warmer one than he is giving us. We liberate children not by making them work for our love but by letting them rest in it. We help a child face the separation involved in going to sleep or going to school by satisfying his need for closeness. — Gordon Neufeld