Disabled Quotes

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. (R. Lee Ermey)
If you're an underdog, mentally disabled, physically disabled, if you don't fit in, if you're not as pretty as the others, you can still be a hero. View quote
Steve Guttenberg
Those who are most sensitive about "politically incorrect" terminology are not the average black ghetto-dweller, Asian immigrant, abused woman or disabled person, but a minority of activists, many of whom do not even belong to any "oppressed" group but come from privileged strata of society. View quote
Theodore Kaczynski
These people also tended to pretend to care deeply about the blind and otherwise disabled. I am sympathetic to the needs of those users, but I can't help but think that those who claimed to speak for the blind were being more than a little disingenuous, just like those Hemp people who present their arguments in terms of their deep and abiding care for the textile industry, when their real motives are ... something else entirely. View quote
Jamie Zawinski
The aim is to postpone frailty, postpone degenerative disease, debilitation and so on and thereby shorten the period at the end of life, which is passed in a decrepit or disabled state, while extending life as a whole. View quote
Aubrey de Grey
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. View quote
Andrew Solomon
My brother, Jason, came into the bar, then, and sauntered over to give me a hug. He knows that women like a man who's good to his family and also kind to the disabled, so hugging me is a double whammy of recommendation. View quote
Charlaine Harris
Prenatal testing is a complicated decision for many women, forcing us to confront concerns about a disabled child and risks of miscarriage. View quote
Emily Oster
I am in the process of starting a nonprofit organization that gives rescued animals a home in a simulated wild environment and, for those who have been tested on, who are disabled, aggressive, etc., their own space to live out their days. View quote
Casey Affleck
I am disabled, so I can't travel, and I have not been to any development meetings, but Gary and the others affiliated with the film keep me updated on everything. View quote
Laura Hillenbrand
The world worries about disability more than disabled people do. (Warwick Davis)
Someone must transform income into the food, shelter, clothing, nurture, discipline, education, minding, nursing, transportation, and emotional support that creates life outside of the office, permits survival of the race, cares for the ill and disabled, and makes life livable when we can no longer care for ourselves. View quote
Anne-Marie Slaughter
The greatest feeling of accomplishment for me is the fact that I was an athlete who was somewhat disabled. View quote
Bill Toomey
How a society treats its disabled is the true measure of a civilization. View quote
Chen Guangcheng
When Medicare was created for senior citizens and America 's disabled in 1965, about half of a senior's health care spending was on doctors and the other half on hospitals. View quote
Dennis Hastert
It is unacceptable that disabled veterans in Illinois rank at the bottom of the list when it comes to disability pay. We owe our disabled veterans more than speeches, parades and monuments. View quote
Dick Durbin
One of the reasons the doctors gave for hospitalizing me against my will was that I was 'gravely disabled.' To support this view, they wrote in my chart that I was unable to do my Yale Law School homework. I wondered what that meant about much of the rest of New Haven. View quote
Elyn Saks
The British people think that if someone is disabled, then they should get all the care and support that we can offer. View quote
George Osborne
Our Hispanic community needs to understand how important the Social Security system is for not only its retired citizens, but also its disabled workers. View quote
Grace Napolitano
We all feel disabled in some way. We all feel imperfect. It's hard to be looked at for various reasons. View quote
Helen Hunt
Disabled veterans are not a bargaining chip. (Jim Bridenstine)
Today, Medicare provides health insurance to about 40 million seniors and disabled individuals each year. The number is only expected to grow as the baby boomers begin retiring. View quote
Jim Bunning
America has also forever lost the service of thousands of good soldiers who are now disabled as a result of battle wounds in Iraq. Many others will need mental and emotional rehabilitation before they can return to normal life. View quote
John Olver
I have a son, Mason, who is disabled - cerebral palsy - and he does not walk independently, sit independently or speak. He uses a talking computer. I started becoming an advocate for him when he was 3 years old. View quote
Laura San Giacomo
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. View quote
Michael Zaslow