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“Helping a foster child today may save a broken adult tomorrow.”

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“I had developed a very complicated and little-understood disorder called misophonia, which means “hatred of sound.” Certain sounds act as triggers that turn me from a Teddy bear into an agitated grizzly bear. People with misophonia are annoyed, sometimes to the point of rage, by ordinary sounds such as people eating, breathing, sniffing, or coughing, certain consonants, or repetitive sounds. Those triggers, and there are dozens of them, set off anxiety and avoidant behaviors. What is a mild irritation for most people -- the person who keeps sniffling, a buzzing fly in a closed room—those are major irritants to people with misophonia because we have virtually no ability to ignore those sounds, and life can be a near constant bombardment of noises that bother us. I figured out that the best way to cope was to avoid the triggers. So I turned off the television at certain sounds and avoided loud people. All of these things gave me a reputation as a high-strung, moody and difficult child. I knew my overreactions weren’t normal. My playmates knew it”

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Book:No Time to Say Goodbye: A Memoir of a Life in Foster Care

Source: No Time to Say Goodbye: A Memoir of a Life in Foster Care

“Difficulty is a nurse of greatness-a harsh nurse, who rocks her foster children roughly, but rocks them in strength and athletic proportion. The mind, grappling with great aims and wrestling with mighty impediments, grows by a certain necessity to the stature of greatness.”

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Author:Kobe Bryant

“[That form of] eloquence, the foster-child of licence, which fools call liberty. [Lat., Eloquentia, alumna licentiae, quam stulti libertatem vocabant.]”

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Author:Tacitus

“Earth fills her lap with pleasures of her own; Yearnings she hath in her own natural kind, And, even with something of a mother's mind, And no unworthy aim, The homely nurse doth all she can To make her foster child, her inmate man, Forget the glories he hath known And that imperial palace whence he came.”

Source: The Complete Poetical Works of William Wordsworth: Together with a Description of the Country of the Lakes in the North of England, Now First Published with His Works ...

“When I was growing up, my parents took in foster children. From a young age, I learned that there are a lot of children in need.”

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Author:Michelle Monaghan

“Sometimes, the hardest foster children to take are teenage boys, which I was one, and I was never adopted or anything, and so I think if people up more for teenage boys, that might be beneficial.”

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Author:Antwone Fisher

“One thing that all of my children, biological and foster children, have taught me is the unbelievable diversity of talent and giftedness that all people have.”

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Author:Michele Bachmann

“You get to decide what to worship.”

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Author:David Foster

“We already had an adopted daughter, 10-year-old Courtney, from my previous marriage. To me, there is no difference between 'natural' and 'adopted.' My own childhood showed me that when it comes to loving your kids, concepts like that don't apply. I was the oldest of six, and three of my siblings were adopted. Mom and Dad even took in foster children. 'There are no limits to how much you can love,' Dad always said.”

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Author:Al Roker

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

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Author:Michele Bachmann

“I thought if anyone need a leg up, it was our foster children. So, I started getting involved in education reform, and that was back in 1998. And as a result of all the reform work that I had done, people urged me to run for the Minnesota state Senate. I did, I was there for six years.”

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Author:Michele Bachmann

“I’m not only a lawyer, I have a post-doctorate degree in federal tax law from William and Mary. I’ve worked in serious scholarship ... my husband and I have raised five kids, we’ve raised 23 foster children. We’ve applied ourselves to education reform. We started a charter school for at-risk kids.”

“I hadn't thought about the fact that I was a foster child but, did notice that (in films) I'm often without a mother or father or both.”

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Author:Sophie Nelisse

“Too many children in foster care are falling through cracks. Be a hero, take the time learn about adoption today.”

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Author:Bruce Willis

“We routinely leave our small children in day care among strangers. At the same time, in our guilt we evince paranoia about strangers and foster fear in children.”

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Author:Thomas Harris

“Difficulty, my brethren, is the nurse of greatness - a harsh nurse, who roughly rocks her foster children into strength and athletic proportion.”

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Author:William C. Bryant

“Thou foster-child of Silence and slow Time.”

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Author:John Keats

“Having taken on the care of foster children, a mother forced her own daughter to beat them. According to her later account: Mom puts the fly swatter in my hand and shows me how to do it: grab their wrists, and whack the plastic handle over their pink baby palms. She stands in the doorway of their room until I can crack hard enough to make them scream.”

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Author:Julie Gregory

“My husband is not running for the presidency, neither are my children, neither is our business, neither are our foster children.”

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Author:Michele Bachmann

“Foster children are disproportionately victims of identity theft.”

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Author:James Langevin

“As an adoptive parent myself of foster children, I have seen firsthand the glaring problems of the system currently facing this Nation.”

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Author:Dennis Cardoza

“As I presided over Massie's execution, I thought about the abuse and neglect he endured as a child in the foster care system. We failed to keep him safe, and our failure contributed to who he was as an adult. Instead of spending hundreds of millions of dollars to kill him, what if we spent that money on other foster children so that we stop producing men like Massie in the first place?”

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Author:Jeanne Woodford

“My riches are my family and my foster children. I try to store any material wealth in my hand, not my heart, so that I always feel free to give it away when the opportunity arises.”

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Author:S. Truett Cathy

“Despite the best of efforts, many foster children are neither reunited with their families, nor adopted.”

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Author:Charles Bass

“Many foster children have had difficulty making the transition to independent living. Several are homeless, become single parents, commit crimes, or live in poverty. They are also frequent targets of crime.”

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Author:Charles Bass

“State and local government, with financial support from the federal government, should offer a program to educate and train foster children for employment and provide them with financial assistance, as needed, until they reach age 21.”