Children are my pet cause. I have a foster child in El Salvador, and whenever I'm home, I work for the Adam Walsh Foundation, which finds missing children. I also do some hospital visits and other things for the Make-a-Wish Foundation.
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Related We went to church every Sunday. I do think it's my duty to give back. That's why I'm inv... JESSE MCCARTNEY I'm particularly proud of my work with the Starkey Hearing Foundation for whom I raised a millio... MARLEE MATLIN I'm an ambassador for the Make-A-Wish Foundation, and one of the children, his wish was to go to... CHRISTINA HENDRICKS I thought that I was the Warrior and Cersei was the Maid, but all the time she was the Stranger, ... GEORGE R.R. MARTIN My foundation is based on helping children, and I hand-pick projects that are close to my heart and ... CHARLENE, PRINCESS OF MONACO I think I'm a good father. As a parent, you have the responsibility to create a foundation for y... BILLY DEE WILLIAMS Take me to the height where success would seek my help to succeed! I ARE My husband and I had five biological children but we also have been raising 23 foster children. MICHELE BACHMANN I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ... KELLY JONES I've always been a big supporter of the Surfrider Foundation. I started my own foundation, Rob M... ROB MACHADO Being part of a fraternity has given me the foundation for everything I do in my career from the loy... TERRENCE J My work is the only ground I've ever had to stand on. To put it bluntly, I seem to have a whole ... MARILYN MONROE I want to create a foundation, like a maison, in my home in the Marais. I am going to leave everythi... AZZEDINE ALAIA I'm missing work. We didn't have enough money for preschool. I had a panic attack. I couldn&... VANESSA DIFFENBAUGH Children are not casual guests in our home. They have been loaned to us temporarily for the purpose ... DR. JAMES DOBSON Children are not casual guests in our home. They have been loaned to us temporarily for the purpose ... JAMES DOBSON Children are not casual guests in our home. They have been loaned to us temporarily for the purpose ... DR. JAMES C. DOBSON I'm not only a lawyer, I have a post doctorate degree in federal tax law from William and Mary. ... MICHELE BACHMANN The answer to the question ‘How many children do you have?’ and the one to the question ‘How m... MOKOKOMA MOKHONOANA Pregnancy is barbaric. … The husband's guilty waning of sexual desire, the woman's tears in fr... THE CHILDREN I beheld the trappings of upper-middle-class comfort. The big-screen TV and VCR. The crush of name-b... THE CHILDREN I'm a wealth creator. I'm not interested in saving in the least. While I do spend a lot, I d... JOHN CAUDWELL I try to make myself do things for other people when I'm feeling down. Like, you can call your l... ABIGAIL BRESLIN I'm attached to my children with whatever flaws they have, and if some glorious angel broke thro... ANDREW SOLOMON To put it bluntly, I seem to have a whole superstructure with no foundation. But I'm working on ... MARILYN MONROE We're laying the foundation of peace for our children and grandchildren, LAURA BUSH My foundation now has some 120 football pitches laid out for children, a lot of them immigrants. We ... JOHAN CRUYFF I've been exploring different options for when I'm done skiing. I have the Turtle Ridge Foun... BODE MILLER I have spent a lot of time with foster children over the years - kids for whom I have not necessaril... VANESSA DIFFENBAUGH I had to make a choice at one point in my life, of missing films or missing my children. It was a ve... AUDREY HEPBURN I have a reputation for being cold and aloof, but I'm so not that woman. I'm passionate. I l... ANNIE LENNOX I have kept a diary, WITHNAIL AND I Children can no longer be home-schooled like the Jackson children were. And in assessing the suitabi... ED ROGAN I know some children's writers write for specific children, or for the children they once were, ... QUENTIN BLAKE For a writer, children make life needlessly hard. I've muddled through a lot of things, but I ha... RICHARD FORD When I was seven months pregnant with my son, my mother and I took a trip to El Salvador, where she&... CHRISTY TURLINGTON I have a very deep care for Latin America, and, of course, for what was going on in El Salvador. RAUL JULIA defending the religious freedom of Christians. THE FOUNDATION Gloria. THE FOUNDATION I have my three brothers, and then I have my adopted sister from El Salvador, who is actually the ol... CARRIE COON When I was growing up, my parents took in foster children. From a young age, I learned that there ar... MICHELLE MONAGHAN I want to walk into a room, be it a hospital for the dying or a hospital for the sick children, and ... PRINCESS DIANA I want to walk into a room, be it a hospital for the dying or a hospital for the sick children, and ... PRINCESS OF WALES DIANA I'm the type of person who doesn't hope, dream or wish for things. I work and work and work. LILLY SINGH I try not to wear foundation unless I have a giant pimple, which sometimes I do. For the red carpet,... ZOE KRAVITZ Oprah is signed on to help, and a lot of celebrity friends have agreed to help me raise money for Ma... CRISS ANGEL My niece was born with cystic fibrosis 15 years ago, and she's incredibly healthy and an incredi... J. R. BOURNE I am not only the person who wrote and sold a novel while raising a houseful of biological and foste... VANESSA DIFFENBAUGH I founded 'Point Hope' so that I could accomplish some things I wanted to do for children wh... DELILAH I'm a big believer in to-do lists. I think of five things in the shower. I set goals and get my ... HEIDI KLUM The relationship between the San Francisco Giants and the Greater Bay Area Make-A-Wish Foundation da... STACI SLAUGHTER At the end of the day, I got to live my life for my family, for my children, and I'm going to do... T.I. The shame and the downfall of a modern materialistic society is her inability to treasure, care for,... C. JOYBELL C. Adults sometimes think children don't think. That's what propels them to order children arou... T'KEYAH CRYSTAL KEYMAH I wanted my children to understand that not all children get everything they ask for or want. That n... DENISE SMITH I think the difference between El Salvador and Nicaragua is that in Nicaragua you had a popular insu... BIANCA JAGGER I have a lot of energy. I knew the odds were against us but I knew I had to do something else becaus... ANNMARIE MORSE It'll seem convenient 'cause I am ambassador for the charity, but Look Good Feel Better laun... ZOE FOSTER BLAKE I'm not one of these Disney haters. I'm really appreciative of the foundation it laid for me... NICK JONAS Picking my topics is sort of a process of elimination for me. Most things don't work for me. I l... MARY ROACH After the war, when my husband came home, we had two more children, and domesticity for a while prev... BARBARA W. TUCHMAN One of the things I've learnt is not to depend on there being a woman in your life to make it wo... SALMAN RUSHDIE I have my own foundation, Nyle DiMarco Foundation, and it focuses on bettering deaf youths' live... NYLE DIMARCO I remember thinking quite logically that I didn't want to spoil my children with wealth and so t... BILL GATES I'm very involved in FIU. I'm class of '96 and my wife is class of '97. I'm a me... DANNY PINO I didn't have time for my children much. I wasn't a very good parent; I had a pretty unhappy... CARROLL SHELBY I believe the things that happened to me as a child scarred me terribly, and I wish somebody would h... SCOTT THOMPSON For myself, I warmly thank the Nobel Foundation and the Committee for Chemistry for this mark of the... ROBERT ROBINSON I like to do everything myself - I'm very hands-on with my housekeeping, my children, travelling... PAMELA ANDERSON I did a cover for 'Rolling Stone' the other day and it was a kind of crazy lack of outfit. I... ROSE MCGOWAN I wish to thank my parents for making it all possible... and I wish to thank my children for making ... VICTOR BORGE I wish to thank my parents for making it all possible...and I wish to thank my children for making i... VICTOR BORGE I'm honored to have been chosen as a fellow of the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation... LIN-MANUEL MIRANDA Whether it's making a film or raising my children, personally I'm striving to do the right t... TOM CRUISE Will there ever be an encyclopedia? Possibly. I would say two things about the encyclopedia: firstly... J.K. ROWLING As we enter into our third year supporting the Make-A-Wish Foundation, I am confident the kindness a... GARY GRAVES If there is technological advance without social advance, there is, almost automatically, an increas... , THE OTHER AMERICA, 1962 When I was a child and teenager I read whenever I had the opportunity, but since then I've found... LOUISE BROWN The ALAS Foundation was born as a consequence and a continuation of what we are doing with Pies Desc... SHAKIRA When you have kids, for me, it really changed me. I was always empathetic to other children, but now... SAM TRAMMELL I'm a sinner as much as anyone else. I pray every day for the safety of my family and children, for ... JOHN BRAHAM We take the concept of corporate responsibility seriously and think it deserves more than lip servic... ADAM SCHLESINGER Scottish Rite Hospital for Children took me in. I wore a brace for seven years. LACY HARBER I don't have children. I don't know how I would feel if my child brought home a different ra... TRACEE ELLIS ROSS I was told by my mom when I was very young not to drink and to make good decisions so for those who ... ANDRE WILLIAMS There's no reason I should sit around and wait for something like this to happen to my children, ...... AMBER DEAHN I'm a married man and I've got two children, and you have to do sacrifices. GLENN TIPTON It's all to do with the training: you can do a lot if you're properly trained. QUEEN ELIZABETH II Like all best families, we have our share of eccentricities, of impetuous and wayward youngsters and... QUEEN ELIZABETH II My husband has quite simply been my strength and stay all these years, and I owe him a debt greater ... QUEEN ELIZABETH II It is easy enough to define what the Commonwealth is not. Indeed this is quite a popular pastime. QUEEN ELIZABETH II I have to be seen to be believed. QUEEN ELIZABETH II I have in sincerity pledged myself to your service, as so many of you are pledged to mine. Throughou... QUEEN ELIZABETH II I hope that tomorrow we can all, wherever we are, join in expressing our grief at Diana's loss, ... QUEEN ELIZABETH II I myself prefer my New Zealand eggs for breakfast. QUEEN ELIZABETH II The British constitution has always been puzzling and always will be. QUEEN ELIZABETH II I have behind me not only the splendid traditions and the annals of more than a thousand years but t... QUEEN ELIZABETH II To what greater inspiration and counsel can we turn than to the imperishable truth to be found in th... QUEEN ELIZABETH II What were once only hopes for the future have now come to pass; it is almost exactly 13 years since ... QUEEN ELIZABETH II First, I want to pay tribute to Diana myself. She was an exceptional and gifted human being. In good... QUEEN ELIZABETH II
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