Bob Ney Quotes

A blind bloke walks into a shop with a guide dog. He picks the Dog up and starts swinging it around his head. Alarmed, a shop assistant calls out: 'Can I help, sir?' 'No thanks,' says the blind bloke. 'Just looking.'

I became involved in a residential school for the blind in Raleigh - the Governor Morehead School for the Blind in Raleigh.

Effective use of Braille is as important to the blind as independent mobility, knowledge in the use of adaptive technology, and the core belief that equality, opportunity and security are truly possible for all people who are blind.

Of course I read Braille, yes.

I've had a guide dog since 1969. Not the same one, of course: I've had five.

To be blind is not miserable; not to be able to bear blindness, that is miserable.

What a blind person needs is not a teacher but another self.

We have developed overlays for the keys of the cash registers with the help of the Braille Institute, so that blind crew members can take orders and help our guests.

No matter how poor my eyes are I can still talk.

I took my sight and mobility for granted.

The blind must not only be fed and housed and cared for; they must learn to make thir lives useful to the community.

It's not really a curse or anything that you're blind; it's really a blessing.

Thank God I have the seeing eye, that is to say, as I lie in bed I can walk step by step on the fells and rough land seeing every stone and flower and patch of bog and cotton pass where my old legs will never take me again.

One of the many misconceptions about the blind is that they have greater hearing, sense of smell and sense of touch than sighted people. This is not strictly true. Their blindness simply forces them to recognize gifts they always had but had heretofore largely ignored.

Last night I dreamed of a small consolation enjoyed only by the blind: Nobody knows the trouble I've not seen!

When my father realized he was going blind, he took up golf.

Among the blind, the one-eyed man is king.

I'm comfortable not using my vision.

I was born blind in Sapangbato in Angeles City.

It was already hard enough growing up in the Philippines but imagine being blind, that's 10 times harder.

I have understood by observing blind people that they are very confident. They don't see themselves as suffering from a disability.

I am blind -- but I am able to read thanks to a wonderful new system known as 'broil' . . . I'm sorry, I'll just feel that again.

Blind people do not need a name, I am my voice, nothing else matters.

Blind eyes cannot read.

Why do they put Braille on the drive-through bank machines?