Foster Care in Popular Culture
Fictional characters who have been in foster care have been represented in a variety of mass entertainment media throughout the years including the following television shows:
- Bones.
- Secret Life of the American Teenager'
- Leverage'.
- The Great Gilly Hopkins
- Money Train
- Hustle (TV series)
- Life Unexpected
- Roswell (TV series)
- The Story of Tracy Beaker
- The Lying Game
- Coronation Street
- Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends
Famous former foster children:
- Allison Anders
- Alonzo Mourning
- Babe Ruth
- Eddie Murphy
- Eriq La Salle
- Esai Morales
- Marilyn Monroe
- Victoria Rowell
- Wayne Dyer
- Leland Chapman
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Famous quotes containing the words popular culture, foster, care, popular and/or culture:
“The lowest form of popular culture—lack of information, misinformation, disinformation, and a contempt for the truth or the reality of most people’s lives—has overrun real journalism. Today, ordinary Americans are being stuffed with garbage.”
—Carl Bernstein (b. 1944)
“Beautiful dreamer, wake unto me,
Starlight and dewdrops are waiting for thee;
Sounds of the rude world heard in the day,
Lull’d by the moonlight have all pass’d away.”
—Stephen Collins Foster (1826–1864)
“Law is nothing other than a certain ordinance of reason for the common good, promulgated by the person who has the care of the community.”
—Thomas Aquinas (c. 1225–1274)
“Fifty million Frenchmen can’t be wrong.”
—Anonymous. Popular saying.
Dating from World War I—when it was used by U.S. soldiers—or before, the saying was associated with nightclub hostess Texas Quinan in the 1920s. It was the title of a song recorded by Sophie Tucker in 1927, and of a Cole Porter musical in 1929.
“If you’re anxious for to shine in the high esthetic line as a man
of culture rare,
You must get up all the germs of the transcendental terms, and plant
them everywhere.
You must lie upon the daisies and discourse in novel phrases of your
complicated state of mind,
The meaning doesn’t matter if it’s only idle chatter of a
transcendental kind.”
—Sir William Schwenck Gilbert (1836–1911)