Disability Quotes - Page 4

When I do public speaking, I ask the audience, "Who has a family member, a neighbor, a friend with some form of disability?" Every single hand goes up. We're all connected.

There seems to be so much shame wrapped up in speech disabilities. It seems very sad and complicated all at the same time.

Nancy Reagan, when presented with kids with really painful disabilities and deformities, she was completely undaunted.

Nobody loved her and she wouldn’t have liked it if they had, she considered love a serious disability.

Senator [Sam] Brownback talked about those with disabilities that are destroyed in the womb because of a genetic test that is sometimes wrong. I would put forward that we all have disabilities.

His progress through life was hampered by his tremendous sense of his own ignorance, a disability which affects all too few.

I was hitchhiking to Washington to an anti-war demonstration in 1971, and I was in an accident, and that's how I became disabled; that's how I came into disability, in a sense.

I guess through my learning disability, through dyslexia, I've always been a visual learner - I take in everything through my eyes.

That's software in the States that I helped to develop. It enables people with disabilities to improvise.

Barring extreme physical and mental disabilities, each and every one of us is where we are today -- be it poor or wealthy, happy or sad, on the streets or in a condo, in a Mercedes or a rusted-out Pinto -- because of the choices we have made during our lives. It's the choices we have made that put us where we are, not the choices others have made for us.

Mercy laughed. “You have to excuse them—boys suffer from an incurable disability.” “What?” “Testosterone.

Someone who has a disability is not necessarily in distress. You may be embarrassing and inconveniencing someone by butting in and making assumptions.

There is something extraordinary about people who have a disability to reach (into themselves) on a daily level that becomes supernatural.

We all have abilities. I don't want to be recognized for my disability; I want to be recognized for my ability.

Being unconscious is the ultimate disability.

Many people with physical disabilities have romantic lives and good marriages to partners who see past their disabilities and recognize all of the things they can do.

The Magistrate suffered from the disability of a free-thinking turn of mind and from a life that was barren and dreary to match.

Life is not as easy as it could be for a person with a disability.

There are people with physical disabilities that prevent them from having any hope - in some cases any actual hope and in other cases any practical hope - of marriage. The circumstance of being currently unable to marry, while tragic, is not unique.

Strokes are preventable and treatable. Prompt treatment of patients experiencing stroke saves lives and reduces disability.

I just remember when my first child was born I called the personnel office and I asked them about their leave policies. And they said, "Leave policies? Women just leave and they don't come back." And I said, "But I want to come back." They said, "We have no leave policy." And then they said, "Why don't you apply for disability?" Well, having a child is not a disability.

Having a disability changes your whole life, not just your attitude.

When I entered federal parliament at the end of 2007, I was appointed parliamentary secretary for disabilities.

I dont believe in disabilities, I believe in ability.

I like people who lead unusual lives, and very often a person with a disability fits into that category.