Definition of Foster

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Foster

To feed; to nourish; to support; to bring up.

To cherish; to promote the growth of; to encourage; to sustain and promote; as, to foster genius.

To be nourished or trained up together.

Relating to nourishment; affording, receiving, or sharing nourishment or nurture; -- applied to father, mother, child, brother, etc., to indicate that the person so called stands in the relation of parent, child, brother, etc., as regards sustenance and nurture, but not by tie of blood.

A forester.

One who, or that which, fosters.

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Foster Quotations

Not that I regret saying what I believed to be the truth, but I regret anything that I might have written or spoken that could have been used in a way to help to foster that atmosphere out of which came the loss of life of Brother Malcolm.
Louis Farrakhan

We are willing to spend the least amount of money to keep a kid at home, more to put him in a foster home and the most to institutionalize him.
Marian Wright Edelman

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

I saw Al Foster with Miles Davis the other week. It was beautiful. But, the whole thing was, Al Foster played as well as everybody else, but all of them were quite brilliant under Miles Davis' direction.
Charlie Watts

To cherish what remains of the Earth and to foster its renewal is our only legitimate hope of survival.
Wendell Berry

The care of the Earth is our most ancient and most worthy, and after all our most pleasing responsibility. To cherish what remains of it and to foster its renewal is our only hope.
Wendell Berry

The studios don't seem to foster good writing. They're not so interested in that, but they're more interested in what worked most recently. They're definitely very serious about making money, and that's not a wrong thing, but you don't have to make money the same way all the time.
Bill Murray

Mindful meditation has been discovered to foster the ability to inhibit those very quick emotional impulses.
Daniel Goleman

I'll probably pursue doing more movies, but not horror or movies with killers in them. I'll try to stick to happy movies. I want to act and direct like Jodie Foster. I admire her because she went to college and she's still doing the same thing.
Lindsay Lohan

I foster a sorrowful conception of affection. Make no sacrifices.
Franz Liszt

Foster Translations

foster in German is aufziehen, pflegen
foster in Italian is orchestrare
foster in Norwegian is oppmuntre, fostre, ha i pleie
foster in Spanish is alzar
foster in Swedish is fostra

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