Disability quotes

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◆ The only disability in life is a bad attitude.

- Scott Hamilton100

◆ Each handicap is like a hurdle in a steeplechase, and when you ride up to it, if you throw your heart over, the horse will go along, too.

- Lawrence Bixby99

◆ 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 Sternberg99

◆ 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.

- Ike Skelton99

◆ 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?'

- Major Owens99

◆ Disability is a matter of perception. If you can do just one thing well, you're needed by someone.

- Martina Navratilova99

◆ 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.

- Dick Durbin99

◆ It's hard enough to work and raise a family when your kids are all healthy and relatively normal, but when you add on some kind of disability or disease, it can just be such a burden.

- Patricia Heaton99

◆ For me, disability is a way of getting some extremity, some kind of very difficult situation, that throws an interesting light on people.

- Mark Haddon99

◆ Americans believe that people should work hard and get ahead on their own, but when disaster strikes and they need help with retirement or disability, Americans as a whole should come to their aid.

- Jacob Hacker99

◆ For me, the wheelchair symbolizes disability in a way a cane does not.

- Annette Funicello99

◆ Congress acknowledged that society's accumulated myths and fears about disability and disease are as handicapping as are the physical limitations that flow from actual impairment.

- William J Brennan Jr99

◆ I was slightly brain damaged at birth, and I want people like me to see that they shouldn't let a disability get in the way. I want to raise awareness - I want to turn my disability into ability.

- Susan Boyle99

◆ I put up a huge wall of denial. It was years before I was able to break through it... accepting that your child has a disability, especially one like LD that cannot be seen or easily diagnosed, is one of the hardest things to come to terms with.

- Anne Ford99

◆ 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.

- Christopher Eccleston99