Older people Quote by Edward Burke

“My classmates surround me as I sit in this folding chair. They laugh and hug one another and talk about how much they will…

— Amanda Grace

“It was examinations (in school) that drove my wits away, as all emergencies do. Being expected to measure up was paralysing. It was never…

— Eudora Welty

“The life has ups and downs. You had just to learn to fall with class”

— Ariadna Athanasopulos

“In fact, sometimes I was sure that the reason people stared at you with your crutches and wheelchair had nothing to do with your…

— Jodi Picoult

“I began to understand how quickly I moved into fixing, helping and saving; often to soothe my own discomfort with someone else's pain...People are…

— N.L. Cosby

“I’ve learned that every human being, with or without disabilities, needs to strive to do their best,”

— Naoki Higashida

“It wasn't like I was expecting Senior year to be some amazing experience. If anything, I was prepared for it to be pretty much…

— Jenny O'Connell

“Class is mostly a way to find something in myself I didn't know was there. Learning doesn't fill me up so much as opens…

— Charlie Quimby

“Disabled people needed an inordinate amount of time to accomplish the same daily living tasks as able-bodied people-it was one of the things that…

— Kathryn Shay

“When I came back from France they all wanted me to go to college. I couldn't. After what I'd been through I felt I…

— William Somerset Maugham

“I told the students that they were at the age when they might begin to choose places that would sustain them the rest of…

— Rebecca Solnit

“We all have disabilities. What’s yours?”

— Atheneum Books for Young Readers