Sandy Duncan Quotes

When I was little, I got into a little accident, and it gave me congenital glaucoma in both of my eyes.

I'm blind in my left eye. Contrary to what people say, it is not a glass eye, so I have to protect my eyes at all cost.

I'm blind without my glasses.

My years with failing vision have prompted me to learn about the nature of the eye and the incredible gift of sight, which I had always taken for granted until it began to slip away.

I loved playing football. In this particular match the ball happened to hit my right eye, the only one which I could see light and colour with.

My left eye went when I was young. I was working the speed bag, and some steel went in the eye and scratched it to pieces. I was kinda blind in that eye.

When I lost the sight of my eye and faced the prospect of going blind, my sight was saved by the NHS.

Whatever my trouble had been at first, it developed into separation of the retina in both eyes. From the day on which I first consulted the oculist up to the present time, about twenty-four years, I have only been three times in 'The World' building. Most people think I'm dead or living in Europe in complete retirement.

My eyesight had always been good but at school I went swimming one day and the chlorine affected me badly. I was almost blinded for two weeks and from there things deteriorated. Then at the World Championship in 2007 I realised I couldn't see the back of the pocket. It was one big blur. My first two seasons as a pro it was dreadful.

I'm nearly blind. I can hardly see. But I'm taking some herbs. Something quacky.

Everything is just very, very blurry. I've never had proper vision.

A simple, well-proven surgery can restore sight to millions, and something even simpler, a pair of glasses, can make millions more see.

Bright light is injurious to those who see nothing.

We always think, 'Well, for a person who's blind, it must be an amazing, joyful miracle if by some chance their sight is restored to them.' Now, this may be true for blind people who lost their vision at a later age. It's rarely true for people who were born blind or who go blind at a very young age.

I played football for Leeds United under-18s, but at 17 my eyes started to go and I had to wear glasses. The football had to go - there were no contact lenses in 1957.

My eyes don't work, at least not fully, because they are blocked by disease. The scene around me appears through a kind of curtain, a haze.

Sight is something you take for granted until you think you might lose it.

The accident did not change my life, change the way I think, the way I work. For sure, it gave me even more experience. The biggest problem was my sight, I couldn't see with my left eye.

I've been very open about this cornea disease that I have.

I'm legally blind in one eye, and one eye is a totally different size than the other, and I have, like, a weird crossed-eye thing.

My daughter had cancer in both eyes - and we could save just one.

Blind yourself, for I am blind.

I wish I could see outta two eyes.

POZZO: I am blind. (Silence.) ESTRAGON: Perhaps he can see into the future.

If you were alone and suddenly became blind, and even so you keep walking forward.