Top 100 Quotes About Special Needs
#1. 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
#2. 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
#3. people with autism must survive in an outside world where "special needs" is playground slang for "retarded,
Naoki Higashida
#4. Special-needs rescues and older rescues have always had a close place in my heart, because those are the ones that tend to get looked over. That is why I love how North Shore Animal League America has their shelter set up.
Beth Ostrosky Stern
#5. 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
#7. 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
#8. 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
#9. Working with special needs children is hard.
Laura Linney
#10. Sometimes even the greatest joys bring challenge, and children with special needs inspire a very, very special love.
Sarah Palin
#11. I was born in Corpus Christi, Texas, the youngest of four girls, including my oldest sister, Lisa, who has special needs. My mom was a special education teacher, and my dad worked on the Army base. We weren't wealthy, but we were determined to succeed.
Eva Longoria
#12. Children with special needs inspire a special love.
Sarah Palin
#13. 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
#14. As a mom, you worry about protecting your kid. But there are extra added layers of fears when you're talking about a kid with autism or who has some special needs issue.
Holly Robinson Peete
#15. Chapter 11 is an expensive process that does not accommodate the special needs of farmers.
Tim Holden
#16. 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
#17. To the families of special needs children all across this country I have a message for you: for years you have sought to make America a more welcoming place for your sons and daughters, and I pledge to you that if we're elected, you will have a friend, an advocate, in The White House.
Sarah Palin
#18. I found real fulfillment through my children and through adopting special needs kids.
Mia Farrow
#19. I left school with basically nothing, I was a special needs kid. I did feel as though my school had let me down.
Jamie Oliver
#20. As I grew up, I became aware that there are people with special needs out there, and I have a real connection with them.
Elena Delle Donne
#21. It's expensive to raise a child with special needs, which people don't even think about. Emotionally it can be a struggle, but financially it's really rough.
Elena Delle Donne
#22. If every child matters, every child has the right to a good start in life. If every child matters, every child has the right to be included. And that is so important for children with special needs.
Cherie Blair
#23. Men have special needs too: for example, a man generally needs a higher daily intake of calories than a woman. But this has never been though of as a sign of men's inferiority to women; if anything, it is a sign of strength and an entitlement to extra food.
Jonathan Wolff
#24. Like all good citizens, the elderly and people with disabilities want to eradicate waste and fraud from government, but helping people with special needs meet their basic needs doesn't fit this description.
Joni Eareckson Tada
#25. I will say, in open adoption, all these choices you make about race, about the amount of mental illness you can deal with, about special needs and physical maladies, you have to lay all this out there before you know anybody's story.
Jennifer Gilmore
#26. Low-income people, racial or ethnic minorities, pregnant women, seniors, people with special needs, people in rural areas - they all have a much harder time accessing a dentist than other groups of Americans.
Bernie Sanders
#27. A diagnosis . . . should not be used to close doors, but rather to open them wider, by making modifications in programs to accommodate special needs, by adding to the understanding that teachers, social workers, lawyers and judges have for affected individuals.
Bonnie Buxton
#28. Prayer is, for me, like that - a state of being together with God. It's not usually triggered by liturgy or special needs. It's more like what the Bible instructs us to do: Pray without ceasing.
Bob Buford
#29. 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
#30. (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
#31. A lot of children don't find forever homes because they're on that special-needs list, even if it's because of something as simple as her mother smoked cigarettes for a month, not knowing she was pregnant.
Katherine Heigl
#32. You don't need to be special to be awesome. You just need to do the work.
Jason Ellis
#33. If this prinicpal thinks blogging isn't educational, he needs his head examined: he should be seeking out every student blogger in the school and giving them special time to blog more - and giving them extra credit besides.
Cory Doctorow
#34. I drank, sucking the blood out of the holes, experiencing for the first time since infancy the special pleasure of sucking nourishment, the body focused with the mind upon one vital source.
Anne Rice
#35. I don't think anyone listening to my music needs any special knowledge. They don't need to have a background in contemporary music. They don't need to go to new-music concerts all the time in order to be able to understand it.
Missy Mazzoli
#36. Stay on your game and keep going for your dreams. The world needs that special gift that only you have.
Marie Forleo
#37. If something doesn't work exactly right, or maybe needs some special treatment, you don't just throw it away. Everything can't be fully operational all the time. Sometimes, we need to have the patience to give something the little nudge it needs.
Sarah Dessen
#38. He shouldn't be alone at a time like this. This is a special time for me to be around as much as I can. He needs his family and his friends and his fans.
Joseph Jackson
#39. Now that she's the carrier of life, she is closer to death, and needs special security.
Margaret Atwood
#40. I know of other mothers who have children with disabilities,and right away they loved them and decided to fight for them.
That isn't my story.
Gillian Marchenko
#41. Death used to announce itself in the thick of life but now people drag on so long it sometimes seems that we are reaching the stage when we may have to announce ourselves to death. It is as though one needs a special strength to die, and not a final weakness.
Ronald Blythe
#42. If you have a Disability, don't let people
Dis your Ability.
Jeff
#43. Those of us in positions of responsibility, we'll need to be less concerned with the judgment of special interests and well-connected donors, and more concerned with the judgment of posterity.
Barack Obama
#44. Every band needs it's own special chemistry. And Bez was a very good chemist.
Tony Wilson
#45. Every technology really needs to be shipped with a special manual - not how to use it but why, when and for what.
Alan Kay
#46. The best way to begin genuine bipartisanship to make America stronger is to work together on the real crises facing our country, not to manufacture an artificial crisis to serve a special interest agenda out of touch with the needs of Americans.
John F. Kerry
#47. One of the reasons why it needs no special education to be a Christian is that Christianity is an education itself.
C.S. Lewis
#48. Too often in Washington special interests urge us to fight one another just because we belong to different parties. It is time for this to stop and for Washington to focus on what needs to be done.
Ken Salazar
#49. The world needs you. It needs that special thing you've been dreaming about since you were little.
Marie Forleo
#50. It was all about release, about letting go of the unknowns.
I was having a disabled child and that was that. There were no hidden truths to discover. I would not know anything about her birth, her survivability odds, all her ailments, until her life actually unfolded.
Ariana Carruth
#51. Parents of medically fragile children find themselves becoming experts in lots of different areas, including laws and regulations, research and treatments, and the various specialists that support the health of their children.
Charisse Montgomery
#52. I'm in the camp that needs to discover and take risks, sometimes it's with the promise of something special and new, sometimes it's to stay awake, either way it's much more stressful with all the uncertainty but worth the pain in the end.
Karen O
#53. I'm not one of those actors who needs the media spotlight all the time to feel gratified. I'm happy to do one project a year and take the rest of the year off as long as that project is special.
Macaulay Culkin
#54. Our spirit is back, but we haven't reinstitutional ized it. We've got to do a better job of getting across that America is freedom
freedom of speech, freedom of religion, freedom of enterprise. And freedom is special and rare. It's fragile; it needs protection.
Ronald Reagan
#55. I begin to rant. I'm special, I have needs, I have a job to do - once I get my act together. I'm going to be important.
Greg Bear
#56. There is no need to fear the strong. All one needs is to know the method of overcoming them. There is a special jujitsu for every strong man.
Yevgeny Yevtushenko
#57. To help someone, or make them feel special; all it needs is to offer the tools which are thrust, and guidance, and show that you believe in the persons potential. The product is musical notes floating everywhere.
Katia M. S.
Katia M. S.
#58. You can't be sad when Daisy is around, she won't let you.
Maryam Faresh
#59. You need an audience to help you figure out what's working and what's worth putting on your album or your special - or even just what's worth touring with.
Demetri Martin
#60. The objects in our system are instead a help to the child himself, he chooses what he wants for his own use, and works with it according to his own needs, tendencies and special interests. In this way, the objects become a means of growth.
Maria Montessori
#61. Why do we embroider everything we say
with special emphasis
when all we really need to do
is simply say what
needs to he said?
Of course
the fact is
that there is very little that needs
to be said.
Charles Bukowski
#62. If you want me to rule out ever being Manchester United manager, I can't. Special clubs need special managers, so in theory it could work.
Jose Mourinho
#63. I don't want their help," he explodes. "I don't want to be someone who needs their help. I want to be just like everyone else, you know, not a special case.
Jodi Picoult
#64. My faith has strengthen. God has shown me through my son with Down syndrome to not take anything for granted. I'm more grateful.
Yvonne Pierre
#65. Even though our journey as parents of a medically fragile child began with emotional turmoil, it has since become a purposeful odyssey that brings meaning and depth to our lives. This is the road we were born to travel.
Charisse Montgomery
#66. Managing in-home nursing is not always easy. It can be terribly frustrating sometimes, and it can take a while to feel like everything is under control, but success is possible.
Charisse Montgomery
#67. Grayson noticed me next to the lockers. He pointed at me then held his arms out magnanimously. "You're welcome, new girl," he said. "I just saved you from having to find a nice way to say no to the leg dragger.
Laura Anderson Kurk
#68. When it is managed effectively, in-home nursing can become a support for caregivers and families stressed with the care of a medically fragile child.
Charisse Montgomery
#69. ...But you, Lance, you've always needed someone special. And...I knew it was right when I met Tim. He needs you too, so much."
Lance just looked at her helplessly, unable to say anything.
"Oh, my dear son." She squeezed his hands. "He makes you dance.
Eli Easton
#70. Love every child without condition, listen with an open heart, get to know who they are, what they love, and follow more often than you lead.
Adele Devine
#71. But in a home where grief is fresh and patience has long worn thin, making it through another day is often heroic in itself.
Melanie Bennett
#72. It seems like it has been forever.
But i getbthe feeling that forever hasn't even started yet.
JohnA Passaro
#73. [There is] the need to feel unique, special, important or needed. Everybody has those needs, including the people that say I don't need to be special.
Tony Robbins
#74. The pressure of special interests, the demands of special sections of the state, the needs of friends, all must be subordinated to the good of the people as a whole.
Arthur Capper
#75. A leader knows who is outside of the system and needs special help.
W. Edwards Deming
#76. Not like I need an excuse to enjoy a Moscow mule, but this tray and six-mug set, handmade in Mexico with hammered recycled copper, makes cocktail hour extra special.
Oprah Winfrey
#77. You will seek for God in vain till you understand that God can't be seen as a "thing"; he needs a special way of looking similar to that of little children whose sight is undistorted by prefabricated doctrines and beliefs .
Anthony De Mello
#78. Think of instinct as an unscientific, unquantifiable tool that can be used along with more concrete evaluations to make a well-rounded decision.
Charisse Montgomery
#79. A great mind is just a great mind, and try not to worry too much about what package it's in.
Kristine Barnett
#80. Now more than ever the world needs love, not just a slogan.
John Mellencamp
#81. If your child comes home with a stable staff of nurses that remains stable for years without interruption, you might be a family of unicorns
Charisse Montgomery
#82. Each of us needs to find our own special gift and develop it
Sunday Adelaja
#83. She really needs to believe she's special. I admire that about her. Because you have to believe you're special before you can do anything special
Wendy Wunder
#84. Florida needs a special prison for tourists. Not all tourists - just the ones who trash the place, rob, shoplift, vandalize, drive drunk, assault the cops, puke in the alleys, pee in the medians, and so on.
Carl Hiaasen
#85. To be a soldier one needs that special gene, that extra something, that enables a person to jump into one on one combat, something, after all, that is unimaginable to most of us, as we are simply not brave enough.
Rupert Everett
#86. Platinum for me signifies everlasting love, which needs to be celebrated in the most special way.
Ram Kapoor
#87. With emotions ranging from fear, grief and anger to happiness and relief, the process of bringing home a child who needs in-home care can be complicated
Charisse Montgomery
#88. Women don't want equal treatment, they couldn't handle it if they got it. It's a tough world out there. What a lot of women are actually looking for is special treatment. What women need to realise is that they have to toughen up.
Katie Hopkins
#89. Sometimes your dream is so special that ... you can't kill it. You can't die even if you try. Life will find a way to fulfill it, and a way to keep you alive. Because the Earth needs dreamers to survive.
Haidji
#90. At three years of age, the child has already laid the foundations of the human personality and needs the special help of education in the school. The acquisitions he has made are such that we can say the child who enters school at three is an old man.
Maria Montessori
#91. I learned to cope with my needs for attention by creating my own private personal rituals to make myself feel special.
Merrill Markoe
#92. Often people ask, "How can you say you're blessed to have a son with Down syndrome?" My outlook on life has forever changed. I see my own challenges differently. He's always showing me that life is so much bigger than self.
Yvonne Pierre
#94. This is our special duty, that if anyone specially needs our help, we should give him such help to the utmost of our power.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
#95. We need our veterans to set an example, like being the first ones there. A veteran is entitled to a bigger paycheck, but not a special set of rules.
Jim Leyland
#96. The problem, I decided, is that most human beings between the ages of twelve and fifteen look like their needs are special (retarded).
Diana Joseph
#97. A world filled with temptations needs priests who are totally dedicated to their mission. Accordingly, they are asked in a very special way to open themselves fully to serving others as Christ did by embracing the gift of celibacy.
Pope Benedict XVI
#98. An exhausted parent can't provide the best care, although occasionally, we have all had to do so.
Charisse Montgomery
#99. Daisy didn't just change our lives, she changed our destiny.
Maryam Faresh
#100. Everything is always on the table. I think it's one of the things that's made 'Arrow' special. But we also all collectively feel like 'The Flash' needs to stand on its own two feet, now that it's gotten its launch from 'Arrow.'
Marc Guggenheim
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