Quotes About Kids With Special Needs

#1. I worked for a while as a teaching assistant while I was struggling. I really enjoyed it, working with kids with special needs, autism. It takes a hell of a lot of concentration, and you've got to focus on the child properly for seven hours a day.

Joseph Mawle

#2. kids with special needs are kids. They may have unusual challenges in their lives, but they have the same needs as other children - to be part of the group, to have friends, to play, to feel successful.

Cynthia M. Stowe

#3. Like so many other kids with special needs, I have been bullied. Kids in elementary school made me eat sand, and those same boys would walk behind me, teasing me. Finally I had enough, and I told them to grow up.

Lauren Potter

#4. Are you insane?" she'd replied.
"Yes." Jeoff didn't even bat an eye as he admitted it.
-Arabella & Jeoff

Eve Langlais

#5. When we advance a little into life, we find that the tongue of man creates nearly all the mischief of the world.

Edwin Paxton Hood

#6. (That saying about how God gives special needs children to special moms is crap. He gives special kids to moms who are already crazy themselves.)

Tami Lynn Tate

#7. I feel at various times in my life that I've been at a point where I had to choose between a death sentence and a life sentence. And I want to live. What do I do to live? What do I do to be vital? And the answer is always creativity. The answer is always art.

Jodie Foster

#8. A great mind is just a great mind, and try not to worry too much about what package it's in.

Kristine Barnett

#9. Do the right thing even if it means dying like a dog when no one's there to see you do it.

James Stockdale

#10. Many first possess wealth, and are then possessed by it.

Ludwig Klages

#11. I found real fulfillment through my children and through adopting special needs kids.

Mia Farrow

#12. The glue of mutual need that bonded us so tightly together for all those years is melting away. Dark patches, not light, show in the spaces between us.

Suzanne Collins

#13. That was the attorney. He said the doctors are very pleased with your father's progress and that his behavior has been exemplary-'
'Well, that's stupid.' My reaction was rude and raw. 'Of course he's been a model prisoner, Mom. There aren't any kids to molest in prison.

Laura Wiess

#14. The end and aim of spying in all its five varieties is knowledge of the enemy; and this knowledge can only be derived, in the first instance, from the converted spy. Hence it is essential that the converted spy be treated with the utmost liberality.

Sun Tzu

#15. It has become quite a common proverb that in wine there is truth (In Vino Veritas).

Pliny The Elder

#16. I don't think most people understand that when I wasn't running for president, I was working. Because I have to earn income. I have three kids in college. And three in school. And I have a little girl that has a lot of special needs. So I've got to work for a living. I was working already.

Rick Santorum

#17. People talked to me in a way I think they would not have talked to somebody who hadn't shared the experience; they gave me their papers, they gave me their diaries. I found people constantly opening up to me. And I think they did because I had shared that experience with them.

Neil Sheehan

#18. I want to fully fund education, No Child Left Behind, special-needs education. And that's how we're going to be more competitive, by making sure our kids are graduating from school and college.

John F. Kerry

#19. I felt all the ways in which this world seemed so, so enormous
the height of the trees, the hush and tick of the forest, the shift of the sunlight and shadows
but also so, so removed.

Emily M. Danforth

#20. My mom had four kids, one with special needs. She had a full-time job, and she still came home and made dinner for us every night, from scratch. It was amazing.

Eva Longoria

#21. When I was small, I didn't even know that I was a kid
with special needs. How did I find out? By other people telling me that I was
different from everyone else, and that this was a problem.

Naoki Higashida

#22. If I can save one person along the way, I'm okay. The trials and tribulations my special needs kids go through daily is far greater than the journey I'm about to go on.

Renee Sloan