Physical Impairment Quotes

So I guess your wooden leg makes you a table.

I can get around pretty easily. People don't expect to see me walking around.

If a man has lost a leg or an eye, he knows he has lost a leg or an eye; but if he has lost a self - himself - he cannot know it, because he is no longer there to know it.

It's factual to say I am a bilateral-below-the-knee amputee. I think it's subjective opinion as to whether or not I am disabled because of that. That's just me.

Many may look at me and see mostly what I have lost. I struggle to speak, my eyesight's not great, my right arm and leg are paralyzed, and I left a job I loved representing southern Arizona in Congress.

I was born with legs, but they were so deformed.

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.

When I was in the army, there were four times that I was wounded. I also got more than 30 wounds on my body, and my injuries were ranked on the second rank of invalids. The first rank is the most severe. So, that means that I had lost more than 60 per cent of working capability.

When I was paralysed by polio at 13, I went into an isolation hospital and couldn't sit up, so I only took liquid food from spouted cups which the masked nurses would bring in and feed to me. I saw my parents only through glass; we couldn't touch.

I was born with a different physical capacity to other people.

This is the great fault of wine; it first trips up the feet: it is a cunning wrestler.

I was so high, I needed a stepladder to scratch my own ass.

I actually have my first iPhone deformity because it sits on my pinky, and now my bone actually dips in where my cellphone sits.

A large number of deaf, crippled and blind people are afflicted solely through the malice of the demon. And one must in no wise doubt that plagues, fevers and every sort of evil come from him.

Me myself I park in handicap, the reason why... ya know my bankroll make me walk with a crazy limp.

You see a guy with one leg, he's got a story. "Land mine '69." You see a guy with one arm, he's got a story, too. "Snow blower, bottle of whiskey." You see a guy with one tooth, what would the story be? "Well, uh, I like a lot of taffy."

Disease makes men more physical, it leaves them nothing but body.

Look! I can't even wear glasses because my ear is missing. I'm hardcore! I'm hardcore!

My generation, people who played with me, they're suffering from football.

I'm just physically stupid.

Injuries are horrible for every player.

Defect in one's limb ruins a man.

I've still never had a dream that I'm disabled. Never.

I've never once heard my mom complain about her stroke.