City Quote by Robert Redford

My mom was paralyzed from polio at the age of 2, abandoned by her husband, left with a 2-year-old, a 6-year-old and a 10-year-old,…

— Dustin Lance Black

I had a series of childhood illnesses... scarlet fever… pneumonia… Polio. I walked with braces until I was at least nine years old. My…

— Wilma Rudolph

In the United States, I feel like polio doesn't exist, but it very much does. I've been to many countries and saw how lucky…

— Brie Bella

My father died when I was 10; my sister got polio a couple of years later and was paralyzed. So there I was -…

— Helen Gurley Brown

I had a mild case of polio as a child. Not enough to cripple me, but it was polio. I still have an atrophy…

— Cyd Charisse

When I was a teenager, I was in an iron-lung.

— Creed Bratton

I had whooping cough when I was very young, which left me with bronchial problems, and I would always pick up colds. I was…

— Andrew Wyeth

I was always in hospital as a kid: I had a tumour on my knee, lots of broken bones. I loved climbing trees.

— Abbey Lee Kershaw

When I was 11 years old, I got very sick and slipped into a vegetative state for four years and was pretty much written…

— Victoria Arlen

My mother became mentally unwell with schizophrenia when I was in my teens... We couldn't watch television because she thought the people on TV…

— Cornelia Parker

When my dad was badly weakened by the flu and my mom wanted to call an ambulance to take him to the emergency room,…

— Rich Lowry

My mother tried to kill me when I was a baby. She denied it. She said she thought the plastic bag would keep me…

— Bob Monkhouse