Bess Truman Quotes

People ask how I learned to play bass with one hand. Well, with a face like mine, you learn to do a lot of things with one hand.

It's hard to wipe your eyes when you have whirring buzzsaws for hands.

My handicap? Man, I am a one-eyed, black Jew! That's my handicap!

When you lose your hands, you can't play baseball.

The hands are the instruments of man’s intelligence.

The hardest thing for me is walking. Can you imagine you've got a metal pole and if you put pressure on it like a strong walk, you can walk.

There is nothing to be said for being crippled. You don't see the world better or clearer, nor do you develop some special set of skills by way of compensation.

I feel bad for people in wheelchairs and people who have to use crutches.

One of my sisters is physically and mentally handicapped. She took a lot of my parents' attention, so I grew up in my own world, playing in my room for hours and hours.

I can't hold a camera anymore.

I fell and broke my pelvic bone in three places. So, I'm still sort of an invalid now.

My family knew, but most of the sporting world did not realize that my right hand been some 75% paralyzed.

I cannot stand for more than half an hour in one place.

I am doing better now though one of my legs is shorter than the other due to the operations.

If I had nine of my fingers missing I wouldn't type any slower.

Let me make this clear: my impairment is such that without a wheelchair, I can't do very much for myself. I can't get out of bed. I can't get myself to the toilet. I certainly can't get myself to work.

The gun lobby finds waiting periods inconvenient. You have only to ask my husband how inconvenient he finds his wheelchair from tome to time.

When you have an injury, you are hindered a little bit.

I couldn't write because my nervous system was so bad - I couldn't even use a pen.

I've never been tall. So it's not like I was six-foot, got paralyzed, and now I'm in a wheelchair. It doesn't really faze me all that much.

I've had versions of disability my whole life, first with my hearing and then when I couldn't walk for over a year.

I was born with fairly serious scoliosis, and I did not walk at all until I was about two-and-a-half years old.

I use an electric wheelchair because I have no sense of balance, and muscle spasticity has arched my spine like a cat's, while my legs are really just for show.

There are plenty of people who have legs who are way more disabled than me.

It's really tough when you have back injury because you cannot bend; you cannot react at the balls.