It will kill four times as many Americans as AIDS will over the next decade. I feel that what ever kind of disability God has given me, as an entertainer and as a public figure, it is so I can be a representative for others. – Naomi Judd
For me, Paralympic sport isn’t about being the best human being. It’s about being the best human being with that particular level of disability. – Lee Pearson
For me, disability is a way of getting some extremity, some kind of very difficult situation, that throws an interesting light on people. – Mark Haddon
The eligibility for food stamps has widened and widened; welfare has been widened – unemployment insurance and disability insurance. These are all incentives not to work. – Lawrence Kudlow
I hear daily from Hoosier veterans who are forced to wait months on end for their disability claims to be processed. Unfortunately, this is typical. – Jackie Walorski
I feel lucky that I found my talent, not unlucky that I was born with a disability. When I’m on a horse, I’m more worried about what the riding hat is doing to my hair than what my bent legs and arms are doing. What riding has given me is respect. – Lee Pearson
It was ability that mattered, not disability, which is a word I’m not crazy about using. – Marlee Matlin
Many people with dyslexia truly suffer, and their lives are worse off for having had that disability. – Malcolm Gladwell
The Paralympic Games actually turned my whole mentality around about disability. When you’re in the Paralympic athletes’ village and there are 4,000 disabled people, you stop seeing disability. Totally. – Lee Pearson
Paralympics has always had to push the media into it being about sport and not focusing on the disability. – Lee Pearson
I wanted to create characters who could do fantastic things but who weren’t exactly superheros – characters who exist on sort of a spectrum from super-ability to disability. – Ransom Riggs
Infectious diseases have become less prominent as causes of death and disability in regions of improved sanitation and adequate supplies of antibiotics. – Rosalyn Sussman Yalow
Surgeons always underestimate the pain and disability involved in what they do to people. – Robert Winston
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 Sternberg
‘CSI’s been a great blessing for me. It’s been a platform that’s allowed me to go around the country and the world, really, and speak on issues of disability, but I’ve never – I’m a professional actor, so I studied for years; I do theater. I never want to disrespect what got me here. – Robert David Hall
If you can slow the biological process of aging, even a minor slowdown in the rate at which we age yields improvements in virtually every condition of frailty and disability and mortality that we see at later ages. – S. Jay Olshansky
If we do everything right, the best we can do is live out our potential with as little age-related disease and disability as possible. – S. Jay Olshansky
I still find it strange, I suppose, when I say to someone, ‘Can you just pass me my leg?’ But I don’t ever think about my disability. – Oscar Pistorius
Most disability charity hinges on that notion – that you need to send your money in quick before all these poor, pitiful people die. Peddling pity brings in the bucks, yo. – Stella Young
Yooralla, like most disability service organisations, is full of good people who are passionate about the rights of people with disabilities. – Stella Young
In my own home, where I’ve been able to create an environment that works for me, I’m hardly disabled at all. I still have an impairment, and there are obviously some very restrictive things about that, but the impact of disability is less. – Stella Young
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, Jr.
My advice to other disabled people would be, concentrate on things your disability doesn’t prevent you doing well, and don’t regret the things it interferes with. Don’t be disabled in spirit as well as physically. – Stephen Hawking
Issues to do with disability, mental health and not being neurotypical often affect many genuine teenagers but are rarely reflected in the fiction they read. – Tansy Rayner Roberts
It is a lonely existence to be a child with a disability which no-one can see or understand, you exasperate your teachers, you disappoint your parents, and worst of all you know that you are not just stupid. – Susan Hampshire
I do not identify as a person with a disability. I’m a disabled person. And I’ll be a monkey’s disabled uncle if I’m going to apologise for that. – Stella Young
Disability doesn’t make you exceptional, but questioning what you think you know about it does. – Stella Young
