Birtenshaw Hall School - A day and residential, non-maintained special school in Bolton, for students with physical disabilities and associated learning difficulties. Information and contact details.
The Treloar Trust - Provides education, therapy, care and independence training for young people with physical disabilities and those with both physical and learning difficulties. Includes details of day education and therapy for 5-7 year olds, residential provision for 7-16 year olds, and their further education courses.
"Children spell love...T-I-M-E." (Dr. Anthony P. Witham) "Nobody minds having what is too good for them." (Jane Austen) Problems worthy of attack prove their worth by fighting back.
- Paul Erdos "The only thing we have to fear is fear itself." (Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1882 - 1945, 32nd U.S. President) I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.
- Thomas Watson, Chairman of IBM, 1943 Physical Disability "I was lousy in school. Real screwed-up. A moron. I was antisocial and didn't bother with the other kids. A really bad student. I didn't have any brains. I didn't know what I was doing there. That's w Fanaticism consists of redoubling your efforts when you have forgotten your aim.
-- George Santayana "I have learned that to be with those I like is enough." (Walt Whitman) Physical Disability
The most savage controversies are about those matters as to which there is no good evidence
either way.
-- Bertrand Russell Soul meets soul on lovers lips.
-- Percy Bysshe Shelley Sleep is an excellent way of listening to an opera.
- James Stephens The mathematician lives long and lives young; the wings of his soul do not early drop off, nor do
its pores become clogged with the earthy particles blown from the dusty highways of vulgar life.
-- A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
-- Robert Frost Physical Disability The world has suffered more from the ravages of ill-advised marriages than from virginity.
-- Ambrose Bierce It is a known fact that men are practical, hardheaded realists, in contrast to women, who are
romantic dreamers and actually believe that estrogenic skin cream must do something or they
couldn't cha "There is no quality in this world that is not what it is merely by contrast. Nothing exists in itself." (Herman Melville) Physical Disability
It's important to be open-minded, but not SO open-minded that your brains fall out.
-- Rick Radebaugh "To live is to dream and to die is to awaken." (Anonymous) Be like a postage stamp. Stick to one thing until you get there.
-- Josh Billings Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do.
-- Dr. Benjamin Spock, American pediatrician, address to new parents For a male and female to live continuously together is...biologically speaking, an extremely
unnatural condition.
-- Robert Briffault Physical Disability Grow old with me! The best is yet to be!
-- Robert Browning There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.
-- George Santayana Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.
-- George Washington Physical Disability
Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana.
-- Groucho Marx Dishonor will not trouble me, once I am dead.
-- Euripides I loathe people who keep dogs. They are cowards who haven't got the guts to bite people
themselves.
-- August Strindberg Art and science have their meeting point in method.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton An understanding heart is everything is a teacher, and cannot be esteemed highly enough. One
looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our
human Physical Disability "O' What may man within him hide, though angel on the outward side!" (William Shakespeare) Happiness, it is said, is seldom found by those who seek it, and never by those who seek it for
themselves.
-- F. Emerson Andrews That is the best -- to laugh with someone because you think the same things are funny.
-- Gloria Vanderbilt Physical Disability
Property may be destroyed and money may lose its purchasing power; but, character, health,
knowledge and good judgement will always be in demand under all conditions.
-- Roger Babson He who laughs last thinks slowest.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker I'm proud to be paying taxes in the United States. The only thing is - I could be just as proud for
half the money.
-- Arthur Godfrey "Common sense and education are highly compatible; in fact, neither is worth much without the other." (Donald G. Smith) Guys are lucky because they get to grow mustaches. I wish I could. It's like having a little pet for
your face.
-- Anita Wise Physical Disability The IRS spends God knows how much of your tax money on these toll-free information hot lines
staffed by IRS employees, whose idea of a dynamite tax tip is that you should print neatly. If you
ask th Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for him. -- Rich Little Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has not heart; and any man who is over 30, and is
not a conservative, has no brains.
- Sir Winston Churchill Physical Disability
"It ends not with a bang, but a whimper." (Thomas Stearns Eliot, aka T. S. Eliot, The Hollow Man) People only see what they are prepared to see.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Love, I find, is like singing. Everybody can do enough to satisfy themselves, though it may not
impress the neighbors as being very much.
-- Zora Neale Hurston It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is
the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be
cr Opportunity may knock only once, but temptation leans on the doorbell.
-- Anonymous Physical Disability Study men, not historians.
-- Harry Truman Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope.
-- Josh Billings "The act of policing is, in order to punish less often, to punish more severely." (Napoleon Bonaparte) Physical Disability
Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of
opportunity.
-- George Bernard Shaw "We always get bored with those whom we bore." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) "Better to be deprived of food for three days than tea for one." (Chinese Proverb) Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else.
-- George Bernard Shaw Marriage is the only war in which you sleep with the enemy.
-- Anonymous Physical Disability Technology is a way of organizing the universe so that man doesn't have to experience it.
-- Max Frisch I could prove God statistically.
-- George Gallup Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it, misdiagnosing it, and then misapplying the
wrong remedies.
-- Groucho Marx Physical Disability
"As a child, I thought I hated everybody, but when I grew up I realized it was just children I didn't like." (Philip Larkin) Substitute "damn" every time you're inclined to write "very"; your editor will delete it and the
writing will be just as it should be.
-- Mark Twain "One can do without people but one has need of a friend." (Chinese Proverb) I don't think I'll get married again. I'll just find a woman I don't like and give her a house.
-- Lewis Grizzard The difference between pornography and erotica is lighting.
-- Gloria Leonard Physical Disability The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds the most discoveries, is not
"Eureka!", but "That's funny..."
-- Isaac Asimov No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in
love with him first.
-- Cesare Pavese Give her two red roses, each with a note. The first note says "For the woman I love" and the
second, "For my best friend."
-- Anonymous Physical Disability
The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
-- Winston Churchill Character may be manifested in the great moments, but it is made in the small ones.
-- Phillip Brooks I loathe people who keep dogs. They are cowards who haven't got the guts to bite people
themselves.
-- August Strindberg "If I could drop dead right now, I'd be the happiest man alive." (Samuel Goldwyn) A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take her off his hands. -- Guitry Physical Disability "We're an embarrasment to college graduates across America." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) "Bread feeds the body, indeed, but flowers feed also the soul." (The Prophet Mohammad) The nice thing about being a celebrity is that if you bore people they think it's their fault.
- Henry Kissinger Physical Disability
Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous; it is nothing if it is not ridiculous.
-- Thornton Wilder Opportunity may knock only once, but temptation leans on the doorbell.
-- Anonymous Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. "Try not to have a good time ... This is supposed to be educational." (Charles Schultz) "When even one American--who has done nothing wrong--is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth--then all Americans are in peril." (Harry S. Truman) Physical Disability My wife says if I go fishing one more time she's going to leave me. Gosh, I'm going to miss her. MARRIAGE, n. The state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress and two
slaves, making in all, two.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.
-- Mme de Staël Physical Disability
"'Contrariwise,' continued Tweedledee, 'if it was so, it might be, and if it were so, it would be; but as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic!'" (Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking Glass) If it weren't for marriage, men would spend their lives thinking they had no faults at all.
-- Anonymous At every crossroads on the path that leads to the future, tradition has placed 10,000 men to guard
the past.
-- Maurice Maeterlink "The want of logic annoys. Too much logic bores. Life eludes logic, and everything that logic alone constructs remains artificial and forced." (André Gide) "Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect every one who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are ine Physical Disability blah "Some of the worlds greatest feats were accomplished by people not smart enough to know they were impossible. unattributed" (Anonymous) Parents often talk about the younger generations as if they didn't have anything to do with it. If you are all wrapped up in yourself, you are overdressed
-- Kate Halverson Physical Disability
