Best Disability Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings Page 17

“Let me be clear - I want all Louisiana citizens to have choice - including the elderly and persons with disabilities - and their families - who rely on the state for their care.”

Want Persons States Care Choices Clear Citizens Let Me Including Rely Disability Elderly Louisiana

Author:Kathleen Blanco

“You can be sure that I will always consider how changes to Social Security will impact people with disabilities when considering the various proposals offered for reform.”

People Social Security Impact Various Reform Disability Considering Social Security Proposal Reformation People With Disabilities

Author:Steve Israel

“We find that other employees are very enthusiastic about their fellow crew members who have disabilities-or what they previously thought of as disabilities.”

Members Fellows Employee Disability Crew Enthusiastic

Author:Carl Karcher

“People with disabilities have abilities too and that is what this course is all about - making sure those abilities blossom and shine so that all the dreams you have can come true.”

People Dream Courses Ability Shining Disability Dreams Come True Dreams You Have People With Disabilities

Author:Mary McAleese

“We're building on an international network with many others for the passage of the Americans with Disabilities Act. There are so many things we can do to carry forward policies.”

Can Do Policy Building International Disability Passages

Author:Janet Reno

“For example, the first time McDonald's put a deaf person in a commercial they saw a jump in sales. I think that happens with other kinds of disabilities and products and that is something that is being realized more and more.”

Thinking Firsts Kind Persons Happens Saws Example Products First Time Disability Being Real Deaf Mcdonalds

Author:Richard Masur

“You have to give access to people with disabilities but there is no requirement to hire them. What I mean by affirmative obligation is that producers must take the necessary steps to include opportunities for people with disabilities and a vast majority of them do.”

People Giving Mean Opportunity Steps Majority Access Obligation Producers Disability Requirements Affirmative People With Disabilities

Author:Richard Masur

“They told me that the hotels had maybe two rooms set up for people with disabilities, but if they got there too late, and didn't get one of these rooms, they couldn't take a shower. The room wasn't hooked up for them, or maybe the sink was too high.”

People Ifs Two Rooms Late Too Late Hotel Disability Showers Hooked People With Disabilities

Author:Gregory Hines

“With a penetrating vision you can dissipate the obstruction, remove the obstacle, dissolve the wrong condition.”

Vision Conditions Obstacles Remove Disability Obstruction

Book:How to Change Your Life: An Inspirational, Life-Changing Classic from the Ernest Holmes Library

Source: How to Change Your Life: An Inspirational, Life-Changing Classic from the Ernest Holmes Library

“The winner must promote social jusitce, remove corruption and discrmination, and stand against political, cultural and economic plots.”

Political Social Economic Corruption Winner Remove Plot Disability

Author:Ali Khamenei

“Before Huey was 5, I could take him to work with me. Now, though, he has sports and lessons and friends, and it's not fair to remove him from his whole life.”

Whole Sports Lessons Fairs Whole Life Remove Disability Life Lesson Not Fair

Author:Marg Helgenberger

“Because of the need to remove all modernism, we stayed in the middle of nowhere all day long, living out of tents. It was cold. It definitely set the scene.”

Needs Long Middle Cold Scene Remove Disability Modernism Tents Middle Of Nowhere

Author:Skeet Ulrich

“A great deal of pressure was then built up to remove me from the club and my resignation was, finally, a forced one.”

Deals Built Pressure Clubs Remove Disability Resignation

Author:David R. Brower

“It was Jacques Chirac and Schroeder both, who pushed us into a conflict to remove Milosevic.”

Conflict Remove Disability

Author:Curt Weldon

“One always overcompensates for disabilities. I'm thinking of having my entire body surgically removed.”

Thinking Body Inspiration Disability

Author:Douglas Adams

“I'm just a man on a mission, to prove my disability hasn't won”

Men Prove Missions Disability Cerebral People With Disabilities Reaching Beyond

Author:Robert M. Hensel

“In wheelchair sports, people thought athletes with disabilities were courageous and inspirational. They never give them credit for simply being competitive.”

People Giving Success Sports Competition Athlete Credit Courageous Disability Wheelchairs

Author:Jean Driscoll

“The night before my amputation, my former basketball coach brought me a magazine with an article on an amputee who ran in the New York Marathon. It was then I decided to meet this new challenge head on and not only overcome my disability, but conquer it in such a way that I could never look back and say it disabled me.”

Way Looks Night Challenges New York Basketball Decided Overcoming Coaches Magazines Former Conquer Ran Disability Articles Marathon Disabled Basketball Coach New Challenges Amputation Amputees

Author:Terry Fox

“The only disability in life is having a bad attitude”

Life Is Attitude Disability Bad Attitude

Author:Oscar Pistorius

“A young pregnant wife has been hospitalized for a simple attack of appendicitis. The doctors had to apply ice to her stomach and when the treatments ended the doctors suggested that she abort the child, they told her it was the 'best solution' because the baby would be born with some disability but the young brave wife decided not to abort, and the child was born. That woman was my Mother and I was the child.”

Children Has Beens Would Be Young Mother Born Simple Wife Baby Solutions Decided Doctors Brave Ice Treatment Stomach Disability Pregnant Pregnant Wife

Author:Andrea Bocelli

“The ADA was a landmark civil rights legislation. It was a bill of rights for persons with disabilities, a formal acknowledgement that Americans with disabilities are Americans first and that they're entitled to the same rights and freedoms as everybody else.”

Firsts Persons Rights Bills Civil Rights Disability Entitled Formal Legislation Bill Of Rights Acknowledgement Landmarks Rights And Freedoms Ada

Author:Valerie Jarrett

“Often as a child you see someone with a learning disability or Down's Syndrome and my mum and dad were always very quick to explain exactly what was going on and to be in their own way inclusive and welcoming.”

Way Children Dad Welcome Disability Mum Syndromes Mum And Dad Learning Disability

Author:Christopher Eccleston

“The only true disability is a crushed spirit”

Spirit Disability Crushed

Author:Aimee Mullins

“If you keep harping on a disability, then you'll start believing there is one. So I don't.”

Ifs Believe Perspective Disability

Author:Jim Abbott

“Only 50 years ago persons with intellectual disabilities were scorned, isolated and neglected. Today, they are able to attend school, become employed and assimilate into their local community.”

Years Persons Today Able School Community Intellectual Years Ago Locals Disability Isolated Employed Neglected Scorned Local Community Intellectual Disability

Author:Nelson Mandela

“Spirituality is not a disability - it is a phenomenal empowerment of life.”

Love Life Spirituality Meditation Empowerment Love Life Disability Phenomenal

Author:Jaggi Vasudev

“Fear is a bigger disability than having no arms and no legs.”

Arms Bigger Legs Disability

Author:Nick Vujicic

“Your disability is your opportunity.”

Opportunity Disability

Author:Kurt Hahn

“Disability need not be an obstacle to success.”

Needs Obstacles Disability

Author:Stephen Hawking

“Sometimes I wonder if I'm as famous for my wheelchair and disabilities as I am for my discoveries.”

Ifs Sometimes Wonder Discovery Disability Wheelchairs Sometimes I Wonder

Author:Stephen Hawking

“This is an exciting opportunity to positively impact the lives of Canadian children with a disability by providing a more direct route to help them reach their full potential.”

Children Helping Opportunity Direct Exciting Impact Disability Providing Routes Positively Full Potential

Author:Milos Raonic

“Being unconscious is the ultimate disability.”

Ultimate Unconscious Disability

Author:Jessa Gamble

“The time for boring ethical discussions around disability is over. It's only through feelings of admiration, aspiration, curiosity and envy that we can move forward.”

Feelings Moving Curiosity Boring Envy Moving Forward Discussion Aspiration Over It Admiration Ethical Disability

Author:Viktoria Modesta

“Forget what you know about disability.”

Knows Forget Disability

Author:Viktoria Modesta

“Fetishes are literally viewed as fake forms of attraction. The fetish concept is used to delegitimatize attraction to any and all bodies that are not considered normative. This is why people are accused to have transgender fetishes and fat fetishes and disability fetishes, but never cisgender fetishes, thin fetishes or able-bodied fetishes. Even in cases in which the person in question exclusively partners with these latter groups.”

People Persons Body Able Form Used Cases Groups Concepts Attraction Partners Fats Fake Latter Disability Accused Transgender Fetish

Author:Julia Serano

“I grew up not really thinking I had a disability. I grew up thinking I had different shoes.”

Thinking Different Grew Grew Up Shoes Disability Olympic Games London Olympics

Author:Oscar Pistorius

“Freedom of religion means the right of the individual to choose and to adhere to whichever religious beliefs he may prefer, to join with others in religious associations to express these beliefs, and to incur no civil disabilities because of his choice.”

May Mean Choices Individual Belief Religious Atheism Equality Positive Atheism Disability Association Religious Belief Freedom Of Religion

Author:Joseph Leon Blau

“Disability is a characteristic like hair color; it's not a defining principle.”

Sports Leadership Principles Color Hair Characteristics Disability Defining

Author:Jean Driscoll

“The foundation of a strong economy and job creation begins with providing every child in America with the best possible education, including students with disabilities.”

Children Jobs America Strong Economy Creation Students Foundation Including Disability Providing Job Creation Strong Economy

Author:Jared Polis

“Today, however, anti-vaccine activists go out of their way to claim that they are not anti-vaccine; they’re pro-vaccine. They just want vaccines to be safer. This is a much softer, less radical, more tolerable message, allowing them greater access to the media. However, because anti-vaccine activists today define safe as free from side effects such as autism, learning disabilities, attention deficit disorder, multiple sclerosis, diabetes, strokes, heart attacks, and blood clots—conditions that aren’t caused by vaccines—safer vaccines, using their definition, can never be made.”

“We’ve been sold this lie that disability makes you exceptional and it honestly doesn’t. … I want to live in a world where we don’t have such low expectations of disabled people that we are congratulated for getting out of bed and remembering our own names in the morning.”

People World Want Remember Lying Names Morning Bed Lows Expectations Honestly Disability Exceptional Disabled Low Expectations

Author:Stella Young

“Disability doesn't make you exceptional, but questioning what you think you know about it does.”

Thinking Knows Doe Knowing Disability Questioning Exceptional Handicaps You Think You Know

Author:Stella Young

“I spent a lot of time in the school psychologist's office. I didn't apply myself. My mother thought I had learning disabilities.”

School Mother Office Disability Psychologist Learning Disability

Author:Roger Goodell

“In the 50 years I've spent helping people to overcome illness, disability and disease, it has become crystal clear that poor bowel management lies at the root of most peoples' health problems.”

People Years Helping Problem Lying Poor Clear Disease Roots Overcoming Management Illness Disability Helping People Crystals Health Problems

Author:Bernard Jensen

“Your greatest asset is your paycheck. Disability insurance protects you and your family if you are unable to work by providing income which will help pay your bills and take care of your family. It's just as important as life insurance.”

Ifs Important Helping Care Pay Protect Bills Take Care Income Our Family Assets Disability Providing Paychecks Protect You

Author:Dave Ramsey

“Humans are not disabled. A person can never be broken. Our built environment, our technologies, are broken and disabled. We the people need not accept our limitations, but can transcend disability through technological innovation.”

People Inspirational Needs Humans Persons Accepting Technology Environment Acceptance Broken Limits Built Innovation Limitation Disability Technological Disabled Built Environment

Author:Hugh Herr

“I was not good in school. I could never read very fast or very well. I got tested for learning disabilities, for dyslexia. Then I got put on Ritalin and Dexedrine. I took those starting in the eighth grade. As soon as they pumped that drug into me, it would focus me right in.”

Wells School Focus Drug Starting Grades Disability Tested Dyslexia Eighth Grade Learning Disability Ritalin

Author:Channing Tatum

“One didn't really believe till one saw it demonstrated that giving oneself up completely to art, to emotion, to enjoyment, without planning for the future or counting the cost, produced dreadful disabilities and bankruptcies later.”

Giving Believe Art Emotion Saws Cost Oneself Planning Enjoyment Disability Counting Indulgence Bankruptcy Future Plans Counting The Cost

Book:The Edmund Wilson Reader

Source: The Edmund Wilson Reader

“A child is not a salmon mousse. A child is a temporarily disabled and stunted version of a larger person, whom you will someday know. Your job is to help them overcome the disabilities associated with their size and inexperience so that they get on with being that larger person.”

Knows Children Persons Helping Jobs Overcoming Size Versions Someday Disability Disabled Salmon Inexperience

Book:WORST YEARS OF OUR LIVES

Source: WORST YEARS OF OUR LIVES

“Some days you see lots of people on crutches.”

People Disability Crutches

Author:Peter Kay

Disability Quotes

Related topics

Disability Quotes