Disability Quotes

So, for example, if a child is labeled as having a learning disability, it has very concrete consequences for the kinds of services and potentially accommodations that child will get. (Robert Sternberg)
It is a waste of time to be angry about my disability. One has to get on with life and I haven't done badly. People won't have time for you if you are always angry or complaining. View quote
Stephen Hawking
I have terrible handwriting. I now say it's a learning disability... but a nun who was a very troubled woman hit me over the fingers with a ruler because my writing was so bad. View quote
Andrew Greeley
Often as a child you see someone with a learning disability or Down's Syndrome and my mum and dad were always very quick to explain exactly what was going on and to be in their own way inclusive and welcoming. View quote
Christopher Eccleston
People didn't always see a person with a disability who had to use a ramp or elevator as people who have been given unnecessary privileges. But I run into that often now. People are saying, 'Why do we have to go to great expense for these people?' View quote
Major Owens
The only disability in life is a bad attitude. View quote
Scott Hamilton
Pregnancy is of course confined to women, but it is in other ways significantly different from the typical covered disease or disability. View quote
William Rehnquist
Disability is a matter of perception. If you can do just one thing well, you're needed by someone. View quote
Martina Navratilova
The power of the Web is in its universality. Access by everyone regardless of disability is an essential aspect. View quote
Tim Berners-Lee
For me, disability is a way of getting some extremity, some kind of very difficult situation, that throws an interesting light on people. View quote
Mark Haddon
It was ability that mattered, not disability, which is a word I'm not crazy about using. (Marlee Matlin)
For me, the wheelchair symbolizes disability in a way a cane does not. View quote
Annette Funicello
These days the technology can solve our problems and then some. Solutions may not only erase physical or mental deficits but leave patients better off than 'able-bodied' folks. The person who has a disability today may have a superability tomorrow. View quote
Daniel H. Wilson
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. View quote
Michael Greger
The world worries about disability more than disabled people do. View quote
Warwick Davis
I've found that it's actually more of a disability to be tall than short. I have no problem fitting into plane toilets etc, and the adaptations made for wheelchair users - such as the lowering of bank machines - work for me as well. View quote
Warwick Davis
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. View quote
Aimee Mullins
Labor should not be about creating monuments on hills or statues in parks. Labor's 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. View quote
Bill Shorten
Women would be disproportionately affected by the privatization of social security. It is one of the most important safety nets for American women in old age, or in times of disability, to insure financial income for their families. View quote
Barbara Mikulski
I have suffered from bullying in many ways, from bullying in school due to my disability in reading, to digital abuse that I deal with on a daily basis. I'd like to tell the kids that are being bullied that no one should have to deal with the abuse, ever! View quote
Bella Thorne
The Southbank Centre Unlimited Festival was a distinct moment in time, an amazing counterpoint to the London 2012 Paralympics. There is no question that a major shift in perspective is taking place, that the world is waking up and greeting - as if for the first time - the extraordinary community of people with disability. (Charles Hazlewood)
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
Childhood vaccines are one of the great triumphs of modern medicine. Indeed, parents whose children are vaccinated no longer have to worry about their child's death or disability from whooping cough, polio, diphtheria, hepatitis, or a host of other infections. View quote
Ezekiel Emanuel
The goal of NIH research is to acquire new knowledge to help prevent, detect, diagnose, and treat disease and disability, from the rarest genetic disorder to the common cold. View quote
Ike Skelton
Around 20 million premature and low-birth weight babies are born every year and are at high risk of death or disability because of hypothermia. View quote
Jane Chen