Quotes for All
Childhood vaccines are one of the great triumphs of modern medicine. Indeed, parents whose children are vaccinated no longer have to worry about their child’s death or disability from whooping cough, polio, diphtheria, hepatitis, or a host of other infections. Ezekiel Emanuel
With a penetrating vision you can dissipate the obstruction, remove the obstacle, dissolve the wrong condition. Ernest Holmes
Society imposes low expectations of those who have disabilities” Erik Weihenmayer
I can’t explain the lack of integrity among some of the leaders of our health care facilities. This is something I rarely encountered during 38 years in uniform. And so I will not defend it because it is indefensible. But I can take responsibility for it and I do. Eric Shinseki
Being disabled should not mean being disqualified from having access to every aspect of life. Emma Thompson
We are the trade union for pensioners and children, the trade union for the disabled and the sick… the trade union for the nation as a whole. Edward Heath
Don’t call us people with disabilities… we have DIFFabilities! Edward Barbanell
One didn’t really believe till one saw it demonstrated that giving oneself up completely to art, to emotion, to enjoyment, without planning for the future or counting the cost, produced dreadful disabilities and bankruptcies later. Edmund Wilson
What’s been important in my understanding of myself and others is the fact that each one of us is so much more than any one thing. A sick child is much more than his or her sickness. A person with a disability is much, much more than a handicap. A pediatrician is more than a … Read more
Part of the problem with the word ‘disabilities’ is that it immediately suggests an inability to see or hear or walk or do other things that many of us take for granted. But what of people who can’t feel? Or talk about their feelings? Or manage their feelings in constructive ways? What of people who … Read more