Top 1200 Physically Disabled Quotes & Sayings - Page 12

I believe we can keep the promise of our founders, the idea that if you're willing to work hard, it doesn't matter who you are or where you come from or what you look like or who you love. It doesn't matter whether you're black or white or Hispanic or Asian or Native American or young or old or rich or poor, able, disabled, gay or straight, you can make it here in America if you're willing to try.

A lot of people are concerned with staying physically young...I'm more interested in maintaining my curiosity.

I hate going back over what I've written. It makes me feel physically sick.

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.

My arm is strong I'm working hard every day physically to be in shape come training.

For me, to put together my museum and all my remembrances was a big effort mentally, physically and monetarily.

I used to work with mentally disabled people when I was 18 or 19, changing diapers and catheters. I was working, like, 16 hour night shifts, having to distribute meds and go capture people who would break out of the house. Sometimes they'd have seizures, and we'd have to rush them to the hospital. That was an interesting time, very humbling.

Seeing the Mexican fighters, it gave me, physically and mentally, ready for an all our war.

I'm basically the idea person. I'm not physically involved in the production. I don't have the necessary abilities, so I go to the top people.

Ignoring the needs of your body, both physically and mentally, could be very harmful later on.

It boggles my mind that the same people who cry 'foul' about rationing an instant later argue to reduce health care benefits for the needy, to defund crucial programs of care and prevention, and to shift thousands of dollars of annual costs to people - elders, the poor, the disabled - who are least able to bear them.

If you don’t trust, you will die if not physically then emotionally. To do anything in life, you must have faith.

It all started when I got injured early in my second season. This turned out to be as difficult emotionally as physically.

We need to execute people like (John Walker Lindh) in order to physically intimidate liberals.

It's a feeling without a lid, of what you would do, physically, verbally, to protect the one thing that is your greatest love.

Physically and mentally I'm stronger right now because an injury is not playing on my mind all the time.

Writing a book is like running a marathon. You need to be fit to do it, mentally and, as far as possible, physically.

Physically, teachers are often alone in their own classrooms with no other adults for company. Psychologically, they never are.

If I could sing, that would be cool. But I can't. I mean, I physically can, but I'm awful. It's weird to be really bad at singing.

How can a speck of a universe be physically identical to the great expanse we view in the heavens above?

Half of Hollywood has more prosthetic in their body than I do, but we don't think of them as disabled. You amputate part of a nose, that's 'enhancement'. You put a prosthetic in a breast cavity, that's 'augmentation'. But you amputate part of a limb and put a prosthetic there, it's 'disability'?

During lockdown, it's important to keep fit mentally as well as physically. Hence, I have taken to Yoga extensively.

There are endless new variations on how to hurt a woman physically, emotionally, financially, and socially.

F2's much harder physically on the arms and almost on the whole body than F1 is.

I mean, sometimes if you're not always going to win on the scoreboard, you want to make sure that you're there physically.

What you do and learn in life physically changes what your brain looks like—it literally rewires it.

I've thought about adopting, but I'm a bit paranoid that because I'm gay and disabled I'd be put straight off the list. My mother thinks that I would jump the queue because they like minorities adopting. I have great genes, though, and I would like to pass them on.

Destroy yourself physically and morally and insist that all true brothers do likewise as an expression of unity.

Yoga is excellent! It not only keeps me healthy physically but mentally and spiritually also.

No matter where you are or what you're doing, it's always great if you don't have to get up and physically change the song that plays next.

The problem with doing physically ambitious art is that to view it, you still have to be in your physical body.

The key for me will be to play as long as I can and hopefully to be physically like Roger when I'm 36.

For both writer and reader, the novel is a lonely, physically inactive affair. Only the imagination races.

If it wasn't a chaotic scene, if it was an orderly evacuation, we would be able to give you specifics about what our preferences would be, such as evacuating first the disabled, then the elderly and infants. That would of course be our preference. But the reality on the scene does not permit that. We're going to do the best we can with the resources we have.

I feel far more connected to the whole band if I can somehow physically respond... with my body.

Goalkeeping in women's football is catching up slowly. It is continuing to modernise, improving technically and physically.

It boggles my mind that the same people who cry ‘foul’ about rationing an instant later argue to reduce health care benefits for the needy, to defund crucial programs of care and prevention, and to shift thousands of dollars of annual costs to people – elders, the poor, the disabled – who are least able to bear them.

Flexible working is not just for women with children. It is necessary at the other end of the scale. If people can move into part-time work, instead of retirement, then that will be a huge help. If people can fit their work around caring responsibilities for the elderly, the disabled, then again that's very positive.

'Closure' is the word used for a loss that's not acknowledged - and the habit this causes, physically and mentally, for anybody who is participating in that.

I did a show in Germany, and some kid - he was disabled - he was actually in a wheelchair, and he came out to my show, and he couldn't get across to me what he was trying to say, and you could see that he was frustrated because he couldn't fully express himself, and I just felt like, 'Wow, he's just really passionate about me.'

For my whole career, I concentrated on that cycle of games from August to May and being mentally and physically ready.

Death is acceptable only if it represents the physically necessary passage toward a union, the condition of a metamorphosis.

I've given my heart and soul to club and country; there's nothing more I can physically or mentally give. I have no regrets.

If I'd got to the top too early, I would not have been a success. I was physically and mentally ready.

From the vertigo, I found out how far I can push myself physically and also mentally.

I think if the average person that uses AOL can't physically see the changes in the company, we've failed.

It's difficult to learn to play these different disabled characters - Campbell in 'Switched At Birth' was paralysed from the waist down - but it's nice to be able to step into their world and live in these characters' shoes and to be able to play them, because it gives you a different look at life.

There are no fears out there. There is nothing we cannot handle. It is just how we prepare ourselves mentaly and physically.

As far as practice, I get those mental reps. I don't have to physically be out there. It's just a mindset and a mentality.

Massages and swimming are feel-good activities which are both mentally and physically relaxing.

The worst type of employee you can have is one who has mentally quit and is still physically coming to work every day.

I wore myself out physically and mentally over my career, and I couldn't be there for my daughters in ways I should have been.

On the other side of the spectrum, you see someone like Donald Trump, who is using as the basis of his campaign political incorrectness. It's clearly intentional. He'd have to be a complete moron just to coincidentally insult Mexicans, and women, and disabled people, and Muslims. So clearly he's using it as a vote winner. But I think with comedians there's a responsibility.

It still hasn't kicked in yet. I haven't had a second to think about it. And I don't physically have the Grammy! So I can't even look at it!

When I was playing college basketball, I had to work out every day; it benefited me physically.

My father was a rather active guy, and he was often engaged in something if not physically, then mentally.

[If President Bush is right about democracy in Iraq] I may, and I don't know if I can physically do this, implode.

I believe that if you are elderly, physically or mentally handicapped we have an obligation too you, but if you are able-bodied, you should be working.

It's not a normal thing to receive a ransom demand in your inbox. I felt physically sick.

Dancing hurts, like physically is painful, but being the Bachelor is an emotionally - it's a lot of emotional pain.