#disability

Read through the most famous quotes by topic #disability




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 Boyle


#awareness #birth #brain #damaged #disability

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 Ford


#accepting #before #break #cannot #child

Whether you're gay or straight, with a physical disability, your skin's a different color, it's absurd in this age to not be aware and be concerned of the inequity in rights.


Carson Kressley


#age #aware #color #concerned #different

That made love—not grace—the magic ingredient. Then a new thought hit her. Perhaps love was grace. A shiver went up her spine. What did that make anger? The antithesis of grace?


Penelope Marzec


#disability #inspirational #lawyer #police-officer #romance

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


Martina Navratilova


#just #just one #matter #needed #one thing

The worst disability in life is a bad attitude.


SupaNova Slom


#awakening #courage #disability #happyl #inspirational

In America access is always about architecture and never about human beings. Among Israelis and Palestinians, access was rarely about anything but people. While in the U.S. a wheelchair stands out as an explicitly separate experience from the mainstream, in the Israel and Arab worlds it is just another thing that can go wrong in a place where things go wrong all the time.


John Hockenberry


#america #disability #israel #wheelchair #architecture

The world has a fast-growing problematic disability, which forges bonds in families, causes people to communicate in direct and clear ways, cuts down meaningless social interaction, pushes people to the limit with learning about themselves, whilst making them work together to make a better world. It’s called Autism – and I can’t see anything wrong with it, can you? Boy I’m glad I also have this disability!


Patrick Jasper Lee


#communication #disability #social #communication

The Grand Mistake in Education - To think that what's right for you is right for everyone. IT AIN'T. The Fly in this Ointment!http://youtu.be/6HpXUaQGY8I via @youtube


Alan Share


#educational-inequity #teaching #death

I am conscious of a soul-sense that lifts me above the narrow, cramping circumstances of my life. My physical limitations are forgotten- my world lies upward, the length and the breadth and the sweep of the heavens are mine!


Helen Keller


#education #literature #education