Disability Quotes · Page 3

I find personally that when I go to a place where I can't get in, I feel hostility from whatever it is,…

— Itzhak Perlman

People with disabilities are the largest minority in the world, and we are the most underrepresented in entertainment.

— Maysoon Zayid

A good government is one with a duty to help everyone, to maximise his or her potential: Indigenous people, people with disabilities,…

— Warren Mundine

I never respond to Donald Trump's personal insults about me. I could care less what he says about me. I'm going to…

— Hillary Clinton

Pregnancy is of course confined to women, but it is in other ways significantly different from the typical covered disease or disability

— William Rehnquist

Every disability conceals a vocation, if only we can find it, which will 'turn the necessity to glorious gain.

— Anonymous

In less than a century we experienced great movement. The youth movement! The labor movement! The civil rights movement! The peace movement!…

— Holly Near

I was not good in school. I could never read very fast or very well. I got tested for learning disabilities, for…

— Channing Tatum

I still get a lot of letters from kids and parents who face different challenges and disabilities. I share some of the…

— Jim Abbott

“Can you stand on your legs?” Sydelle Pulaski asked. “Can you walk at all?” People never asked Chris those questions; they whispered…

— Ellen Raskin

Did I ever tell my constituents that if they liked their plan they could keep it? I would have if I'd ever…

— Nancy Pelosi

It was ability that mattered, not disability, which is a word I'm not crazy about using.

— Marlee Matlin

Courage, sacrifice, determination, commitment, toughness, heart, talent, guts. That's what little girls are made of; the heck with sugar and spice.

— Bethany Hamilton

Glen had a disability more disfiguring than a burn and more terrifying than cancer. Glen had been born on the day after…

— Augusten Burroughs

One always overcompensates for disabilities. I'm thinking of having my entire body surgically removed.

— Douglas Adams

Through good times and bad, American workers and their families have been able to rely on Social Security to provide guaranteed protection…

— Sander Levin

Throughout history people with disabilities have been institutionalized and segregated, which tends to make you think that it's a group in need…

— Jay Ruderman

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

— Scoot McNairy

Being born with a disability, can sometimes be a struggle, but it is the ability to overcome such a challenge, that makes…

— Robert M. Hensel

“People with disabilities are sometimes very humble and approachable, if you want a seasoned reputation, then behave like one of the handicaps.”

— Michael Bassey Johnson

[On being deaf:] We can never get beyond the necessity of keeping in full view the worst and the best that can…

— Harriet Martineau

I grew up not really thinking I had a disability. I grew up thinking I had different shoes

— Oscar Pistorius

Some people have a negative attitude, and that's their disability.

— Marla Runyan

Labeling a child's mind as diseased-whether with autism, intellectual disabilities, or transgenderism-may reflect the discomfort that mind gives parents more than any…

— Andrew Solomon

I felt permanently exiled from 'normality.' Whether imposed by self or society, this outsider status - and not the disability itself -…

— Nancy Mairs