Actions Quotes Logo

Disability Quotes

Calamity with us, is made an excuse for doing wrong. With them, it is erected into a reason for thei...

Show More

Part of the problem with the word 'disabilities' is that it immediately suggests an inability to see...

Show More
Picture of Fred Rogers
Fred RogersThe World According to Mister Rogers: Important Things to Remember

Sometimes, it is true, a sense of isolation enfolds me like a cold mist as I sit alone and wait at l...

Show More

When the sun of consciousness first shone upon me, behold a miracle! The stock of my young life whic...

Show More

It has been said that life has treated me harshly; and sometimes I have complained in my heart becau...

Show More

I am conscious of a soul-sense that lifts me above the narrow, cramping circumstances of my life. My...

Show More
Picture of Helen Keller
Helen KellerThe Story of My Life: With Her Letters (1887 1901) and a Supplementary Account of Her Education Including Passages from the Reports and Letters of Her Teacher Anne Mansfield Sullivan by John Albert Macy

I seem to be thinking rationally again in the style that is characteristic of scientists. However, t...

Show More

I seem to be thinking rationally again in the style that is characteristic of scientists. However, t...

Show More

Worry is yet another side effect of dying.

The eligibility for food stamps has widened and widened welfare has been widened - unemployment insu...

Show More

Annie looks dreamy, but she always does because she can’t see farther than three feet away. Elizabet...

Show More

In the real world, 90% of the money spent on medical research is focused on conditions that are resp...

Show More

So to all who are situated as I am, I would say--Grow up as fast as you can.

Picture of Randolph Bourne
Randolph BourneThe Radical Will: Selected Writings 1911-1918

The way my brain processes information is quite odd. I mean, I have Attention Deficit Disorder and a...

Show More

I've been so focused on state government, I haven't really focused much on the war in Iraq.

It was probably no accident that it was the cripple Hephaestus who made ingenious machines; a normal...

Show More
Picture of Saul Bellow
Saul BellowThe Adventures of Augie March

There is a plan and a purpose, a value to every life, no matter what its location, age, gender or di...

Show More

There are two kinds of 'disabled' persons: Those who dwell on what they have lost and those who conc...

Show More
Picture of Thomas Szasz
Thomas SzaszThe Untamed Tongue: A Dissenting Dictionary

In retrospect, it seems obvious that my research about parenting was also a means to subdue my anxie...

Show More

The passion for such children contains no ego motive of anticipated reciprocity; one is choosing aga...

Show More
Picture of Andrew Solomon
Andrew SolomonFar from the Tree: Parents