Charlie Haden Quotes

When I was about 9, I had polio, and people were very frightened for their children, so you tended to be isolated. I was paralyzed for a while, so I watched television.

Then I got a bad back injury, and they thought I wasn't going to have any feeling in my legs.

I actually wanted to play the violin before I had polio, and then afterwards, there was no reason not to.

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

Because my father was an army officer, I was told to enter the military school during the war. Luckily or unluckily, one month before the entrance examination, I got polio, which made my right arm numb. It's still numb.

I was actually in an iron lung for about a year, and then I was paralysed from the neck down for another year after that. So I spent a lotta time just lying down as a kid. And some of my earliest memories from then are of listening to the radio.

I had a serious childhood illness - sort of like spinal meningitis - that led to a three-month hospitalization. Afterward, I couldn't be insured because of a pre-existing condition.

I would not want to live with a tube in my neck and not be able to move a finger. I wouldn't - that to me is not life.

My father contracted polio on a troop train in Korea.

Sadly, I am not able to take part in the fieldwork myself so much anymore, as both of my legs were amputated following an airplane crash twelve years ago.

I had polio when I was 13. I started feeling stiff, my joints ached, and over a two-week period I lost my coordination and 20 pounds.

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

I am not the paraplegic seated permanently in his chair or the able-bodied person on her feet. Identity for a hemiplegic is a shifty thing.

I am more connected to the world of the imagination, but you don't have to have polio to do that.

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

I have a condition that is included among the 200 or so classified as Dwarfism.

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

If I couldn't move, I don't know what I would do. That would be terrifying for me; I don't know how I'd cope with that.

I was told as a teenager that I would never walk again.

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

I was born with lots of deformities.

I'm not a drunk anymore, but since they cut out my tongue, I sound drunk.

It finally became clear to me that they had no hopes of my ever walking again.

You never think about your own mortality. At least not until your back gives way when you're 40.

One of the things polio does is it takes away your energy. They don't know very much about it. They should be a lot more aware of what polio is.