Disability Quotes

You're not allowed to have legs and not use them.Dance.

What's it like here?There's a biscuit factory next door. We get the broken ones.

I could feel the bite of the autumn air, warning us all of the harsh winter that was on its way.

You didn't play baseball that well with two hands. How do you think you're going to make it with one? "If you're just going to tell me what I can't do, you can leave.

Today, with tears in my eyes, I telephoned the mother of one of our children (aged thirteen) who had spoken for the first time since the age of three...

There's nothing more debilitating about a disability than the way people treat you over it.

Infectious diseases have become less prominent as causes of death and disability in regions of improved sanitation and adequate supplies of antibiotics.

The typical Western diet is the number-one cause of premature death and the number-one cause of disability. In other words, a long and healthy life is largely a matter of choice.

I worry that when educational counselors and teachers call in families with concerns about a child having a learning disability, we aren't always looking at the complete picture.

I can get motivated seeing a kid at my son's school overcome a learning disability.

The eligibility for food stamps has widened and widened welfare has been widened - unemployment insurance and disability insurance. These are all incentives not to work.

In the real world, 90% of the money spent on medical research is focused on conditions that are responsible for just 10% of the deaths and disability caused by diseases globally.

Disability is often framed, in medical terms, as the ultimate disaster and certainly as a deficit.