Disability Quotes - Page 10

• There are those who suffer and grow strong; there are those who suffer and grow weak. This mystery of pain is still for me the saddest of earth's disabilities.

  Silas Weir Mitchell

  Strong, Pain, Suffering

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• All abilities are paid for with disabilities. perfect health may entail the heavy toll of bovine stupidity. insight into one area involves blind spots in another.

  William S. Burroughs

  Honesty, Pain, Voice

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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

  Bruce Jenner

  School, Helping, Problem

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• My disability is that I cannot use my legs. My handicap is your negative perception of that disability, and thus of me.

  Rick Hansen

  Perception, Negative, Use

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• En el Congreso, mientras que el presupuesto de defensa propuesto por la Cámara de Representantes contempla aumentos significativos, también recorta 11.000 millones de dólares del gasto en veteranos, incluida la asistencia sanitaria y la paga por discapacidad. Que quede claro: no podemos equiparar el gasto en veteranos con el gasto en defensa.

  Jennifer Granholm

  Corte, Casa, Pagar

  "Honrar el sacrificio apoyando a los veteranos" por Jennifer M. Granholm, www.huffingtonpost.com. 26 de mayo de 2012.

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• There is a plan and a purpose, a value to every life, no matter what its location, age, gender or disability.

  Sharron Angle

  Age, Purpose, Matter

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• A good government is one with a duty to help everyone, to maximise his or her potential: Indigenous people, people with disabilities, and our forgotten families.We will not leave anyone behind.

  Warren Mundine

  Government, People, Helping

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• I guess through my learning disability, through dyslexia, I've always been a visual learner - I take in everything through my eyes.

  Scoot McNairy

  Eye, Dyslexia, Visuals

  Entrevista con Emma Brown, www.interviewmagazine.com. 1 de agosto de 2014.

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• [Nunca podremos superar la necesidad de tener a la vista lo peor y lo mejor de nuestra suerte. Lo peor es hundirse bajo la prueba o volverse insensible a causa de ella. Lo mejor es ser tan sabio como sea posible bajo una gran discapacidad, y tan feliz como sea posible bajo una gran privación.

  Harriet Martineau

  Wise, Views, Trials

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• I am on the International Board of Best Buddies, and I am also working with Special Olympics, and with The Arc to help people with disabilities become more independent and more included in their communities.

  Lauren Potter

  Independientes, Personas, Comunidad

  "On World Down Syndrome Day, Speaking Out on How Bullying Hurts and Kills Dreams" by Lauren Potter, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 21, 2012.

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• Whether you're gay or straight, with a physical disability, your skin's a different color, it's absurd in this age to not be aware and be concerned of the inequity in rights.

  Carson Kressley

  Gay, Rights, Color

  "Biografía / Citas personales". www.imdb.com.

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• There are things that I really find important, and that we need to remind ourselves of. When you think about disability, do you really think about it? Someone who's a full-time trainer or a boxer, someone who's got a major disability, but who doesn't let that get in his way, that's a really good message for someone who is able-bodied. It can make them think, 'Wow, I suppose I could be doing better for myself.'

  Idris Elba

  Thinking, Important

  Fuente: www.gq-magazine.co.uk

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• You go, well you can't joke about race. Well if you're from a different race and that's your experience of the world and you want to talk about that, then fine. Or you can't talk about disability, but disabled comics can talk about that.

  Jimmy Carr

  Raza, Diferente, Mundo

  "Jimmy Carr defended offensive routines days before Down's Syndrome joke". www.mirror.co.uk. November 25, 2011.

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• I'm definitely more understanding of people who have disabilities and who are suffering.

  Kevin Sorbo

  People, Understanding, Suffering

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I was recently appointed by President Obama to the President's Committee for People with Intellectual Disabilities. I am so excited that the President trusts me to advise him on things that are important to people with disabilities!

  Lauren Potter

  People, Intellectual, Important

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• I've had tons of bullies who would call me retarded, even on my Facebook page. It's sad and it really hurts. I want to tell people not to use the word. Don't say your friend's retarded when they do something foolish. If you have a disability, keep working hard. Whatever it takes, do it, and don't be mean to people.

  Lauren Potter

  Hurt, Mean, People

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• I still find it strange, I suppose, when I say to someone, 'Can you just pass me my leg?' But I don't ever think about my disability.

  Oscar Pistorius

  Thinking, Legs, Strange

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• Quería escribir un libro que imaginara adónde podrían llevarnos los avances en el estudio de la genética. Holman fue el primer personaje que se me ocurrió: Me imaginé al vástago deforme de unos padres hermosos y ricos. Luego me di cuenta de que se parecía mucho a Toulouse-Lautrec. Lo desarrollé, hice de Holman un alcohólico que vive entre prostitutas, un artista torturado por su discapacidad.

  Jonathan Trigell

  Hermoso, Libro, Escritura

  Fuente: www.3ammagazine.com

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• There is something extraordinary about people who have a disability to reach (into themselves) on a daily level that becomes supernatural.

  Kristoffer Polaha

  People, Levels, Extraordinary

  Fuente: www.beliefnet.com

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• 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.

  Simi Linton

  War, Hitchhiking, Demonstration

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• Labor should not be about creating monuments on hills or statues in parks. Labors monuments and statues are when a young person can find a job, when a person with disability can get access to the ordinary life that others take for granted.

  Bill Shorten

  Jobs, Creating, Ordinary

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• I'm dyslexic. If you can reconcile yourself to not being able to burn through books, which you shouldn't any way, you can slow the whole process down. Then, because of my disability, there is more for me in imaginative literature than there is for other people.

  Richard Ford

  Book, People, Literature

  "Richard Ford: Ganador del Pulitzer, lector empedernido". Entrevista con Amy Sutherland, www.bostonglobe.com. 15 de septiembre de 2012.

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• 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'?

  Aimee Mullins

  Thinking, Body, Enhancement

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• People presume my disability has to do with being an amputee, but that's not the case; our insecurities are our disabilities, and I struggle with those as does everyone.

  Aimee Mullins

  Struggle, People, Insecurity

  "The Inspirational Aimee Mullins". Interview with Jeff Rivera, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 5, 2011.

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• No hay pruebas, que yo conozca, que apunten a una relación entre las vacunas y la discapacidad del desarrollo.

  Jill Stein

  Vaccines, Developmental Disabilities, Links

  "Fuera de mensaje" con Glenn Thrush, www.politico.com. 19 de septiembre de 2016.

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