Top 383 Disabled Quotes & Sayings - Page 3
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Last updated on December 4, 2024.
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.
A bird with a broken wing was beating the air above, reeling, fluttering, circling disabled, down, down to the water
I'm very fond of this phrase: 'Collage is not a refuge for the compositionally disabled.' If you put together the pieces in a really powerful way, I think you'll let a thousand discrepancies bloom.
There was nobody I could follow and look up to so I decided to be that person, to be the leader. If we were in the media more, it would make disabled people's lives much easier.
For those looking at me, meeting me for the first time, it is the body they see. I am labelled as disabled.
I would love to see disabled people be able to access circuits and access the industry.
It's so much easier to go to the Sony movie complex when you're disabled. You take a great elevator. You get your own little private viewing area. I love it.
I introduced the FREED Vets Act to make student debt forgiveness for disabled veterans automatic, both now and in the future, regardless of who is in the White House.
There have been so many examples of highly qualified judges of enormous integrity who lost their positions because they were in fact disabled from speaking out to defend a controversial opinion.
The attempt to isolate economics from other disciplines-notably politics, history, philosophy, finance, constitutional theory and sociology-has fatally disabled its power to explain what is happening in the world.
Payments to the disabled are getting slashed and people like me are getting a tax cut. Who could possibly think that is a good thing?
The Welfare State, which begun in Imperial Germany for the truly indigent and disabled, has now become "everybody's entitlement" and an increasing burden on those who produce.
I have always had a very smooth driving style. But when I started competing as a disabled driver, I had to take that even more to the extreme.
As usual, the people who are poorest - the blacks, Hispanics and disabled people - are going to suffer more than anyone else under the [Barack] Obama administration.
Soccer is an endless source of material. I mean, take my Paralympic teammates. It's a mix of 12 goofy, disabled guys and when we come together, we just laugh at each other.
For me, and for many other people with disabilities, our status as disabled people is one of which we are fiercely proud.
Our disabled veterans earned their benefits by serving our great nation, and we must protect them and their families, especially during financial hardship.
We need to band together in solidarity. There's so many portions of our community that are under-represented. You rarely see disabled actors on movie posters or black men or Latino guys.
It became very obvious to me that in the United States of America, a fluffy ethnic disabled chick was never going to get a job unless she did stand-up.
When vets come home from war they are going through a tremendous change in identity. Then the VA, and others, encourage them to view themselves as disabled.
The young, the old, women, the disabled, the sick and the wounded are entitled to protection under international law. Too often, the ICRC's calls for those laws to be respected are ignored.
When Medicare was created for senior citizens and America s disabled in 1965, about half of a seniors health care spending was on doctors and the other half on hospitals.
My plan B, if acting doesn't work out, is to work with disabled children.
Being disabled should not mean being disqualified from having access to every aspect of life.
It is empirically indecent to make fun of the disabled... That's just indecent.
I have veterans in my family. But I didn't know anything about DAV, Disabled American Veterans.
One of the things that frequently gets lost in descriptions of depression is that the depressed person often knows that it is a ludicrous condition to feel so disabled by the ordinary business of quotidian life.
I want the image of disabled people like myself to change into a picture of strength. Fashion needs to redefine its idea of beauty and have more of an open mind.
The Oxys filled holes in me I hadn't realized were empty. It was, at least for those first few months, a wonderful way to be disabled. I felt blessed.
As a carer for my disabled son, I understand just how hard caring is, at the best of times. I know how important it is for families to get the support they need.
Building up a weakness just makes you less disabled. Building a strength can take you to the top of the world.
I don't like people doing jokes about disabled people for no good reason, but I can still understand why they do them.
There was a huge, tremendous amount of disabled veterans and the Veteran's Administration just wasn't geared up for it. I know for a fact that it's getting better and better.
I'm definitely interested in taking on roles where I don't look like myself. But I'm not saying I'm going to go out of my way to play a disabled person in order to win an Oscar.
I've still never had a dream that I'm disabled. Never.
I think we ought to provide much more dignity and respect to individuals who need some care and assistance, whether they are chronically ill or disabled or seniors, it's the right thing for this country to do.
My dad was a plumber, and my mom was on and off again, either a stay-at-home mom or working with the disabled as a visiting-nurse assistant.
The reason I'm disabled is because I have wounds and injuries that I got while on active duty ... from parachute jumping to combat to gunshot wounds, all that stuff.
Bald isn't like being ethnic or disabled. Everyone can and will make jokes about it and expect you to laugh good-naturedly, which you will.
My dad is a minister, and my mum is a worker with the less fortunate and the disabled. They're Nigerian natives. Their first language is Yoruba, and their second language is English.
You don't have to be disabled to be different, because everybody's different.
We are told that Christ was killed for us, that His death has washed out our sins, and that by dying He disabled death itself. That is the formula. That is Christianity. That is what has to be believed.
A society can be judged by how it deals with its most vulnerable, the aged, the infirm, the disabled, and the unborn. I believe it with all my heart. And I couldn't be more proud to be standing with a pro-life candidate in Donald Trump.
I am not alone in that I've had times of unemployment - unemployment is huge amongst disabled people.
We all feel disabled in some way. We all feel imperfect. It's hard to be looked at for various reasons.
Pamela Anderson has more prosthetic in her body than I do. Nobody calls her disabled.
I've been involved with disability activities for over 40 years. I have done programs with several disabled children and involving them makes the performance genuinely heartwarming.
If we want technology to serve society rather than enslave it, we have to build systems accessible to all people - be they male or female, young, old, disabled, computer wizards or technophobes.
For me, I never ever felt the ownership or any identity with any community of disabilities. I didn't grow up being told that I was a disabled child.
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.
I'm officially disabled, but I'm truly enabled because of my lack of limbs. My unique challenges have opened up unique opportunities to reach so many in need.
We think we know what it's all about; we think that disability is a really simple thing, and we don't expect to see disabled people in our daily lives.
I would love to switch on my TV and see a disabled person talking about something they are genuinely interested in or acting out a part that doesn't just focus on their impairment.
My legs haven't disabled me. If anything, they've enabled me.
It's factual to say I am a bilateral-below-the-knee amputee. I think it's subjective opinion as to whether or not I am disabled because of that. That's just me.
Anything you rely on can become a crutch. And disabled or not, when you rely on something, that is what will cripple you.
If you don't like something, change it. My parents expected me to stay in my office job as an administrator at the Co-op because I'm disabled, but I said no and changed my whole life.
If you're disabled or different from what general society deems normal, it's fine. There will always be people who won't accept you, but there are others you can find who will. You're never alone.
I'd be the only disabled kid in the neighborhood playing football, and we're playing full contact, and I'd always manage to get open.
It's easy to think, 'Oh I could be able-bodied,' but throughout my life I always thought, 'Yeah but I could also be even more disabled.'