Quotes About Disability

People wonder if there is a relationship between my lack of sight and the way I sing. But there's no connection.

Being Stephen's carer was such a struggle, and it's a lonely job looking after a disabled person. Thinking back, I honestly wonder how I got through it.

The situation in disability sport is growing, and girls like Ellie Cole are doing wonders.

It was ability that mattered, not disability, which is a word I'm not crazy about using.

When you hear the word 'disabled,' people immediately think about people who can't walk or talk or do everything that people take for granted. Now, I take nothing for granted. But I find the real disability is people who can't find joy in life and are bitter.

For me, disability is a way of getting some extremity, some kind of very difficult situation, that throws an interesting light on people.

A majority of my blind students at the International Institute for Social Entrepreneurs in Trivandrum, India, a branch of Braille Without Borders, came from the developing world: Madagascar, Colombia, Tibet, Liberia, Ghana, Kenya, Nepal and India.

An iron lung looks like an enormous metal coffin or a 19th-century rocket ship: only its occupant's head is left outside, a tight seal around the neck.

After American titan and presidential father Joseph P. Kennedy suffered a stroke that impacted one side of his body, guests pretended not to notice the impact. Jackie Kennedy, however, held the impacted hand and kissed the affected side of his face, facing his disability and giving him the courage to do so.

Loving him with the love of God Affirming him daily, believing in who he will become Understanding his limitations and learning to be patient with his disability Never passing on guilt to him for being limited Changing his heart gradually through training in character and inner strength Holding expectations loosely and leaving him in the hands of God

The blind have no notion of time. The things of time are hidden from them too.

The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman.

Jenna can't hear us; she's blind...You know what I mean

Jenna can't hear us, she's blind

accept what you've already learned: that your disability will come and go and you'll never control it completely. Educate yourself about it, become an expert manager, and use treatment whenever you think it's necessary and without regard to your yearnings to be normal. Fight the shame that comes with being ill by sharing as much with others as you think is appropriate according to your own standards of privacy, not the culture's stigma.

I just barely got through school. The problem was a learning disability, at a time when there was no where to get help.

I hated school . . . . One of the reasons was a learning disability, dyslexia, which no one understood at the time. I still can't spell . . .

The use of psychoactive drugs - including both antidepressants and antipsychotics - has exploded...[yet] 'the tally of those who are disabled...increased nearly two and a half times.

I am so deaf I am debarred from hearing all the time articulation and have to depend on the judgment of others.

My ability is greater than my disability.

Since Roe v. Wade, abortion on demand has become engrained in American society. Not only have we killed at least fifty five million Americans in the womb, and emerging from the womb (not including under-reported abortion estimates), we also now kill over 90% of all Down Syndrome babies, solely because of their disability.

That the principle which regulates the existing social relations between the two sexes—the legal subordination of one sex to the other—is wrong in itself, and now one of the chief hindrances to human improvement; and that it ought to be replaced by a principle of perfect equality, admitting no power or privilege on the one side, nor disability on the other.

Can you stand on your legs?" Sydelle Pulaski asked. "Can you walk at all?" People never asked Chris those questions; they whispered them to his parents behind his back. "N-n-no. Why?" "What better disguise for a thief or a murderer than a wheelchair, the perfect alibi." Chris enjoyed being taken for the criminal type. Now they really were friends.

The extraordinary and unique quality of the disabled body, I argue, can be seen not only as resisting identification but also, and conversely, as providing a symbolic and actual basis on which to structure a system of identification that seeks to fix individual bodily identity.