Physically Disabled Quotes:

If one is physically disabled, one cannot afford to be psychologically disabled as well.

- Stephen Hawking

source: "Handicapped People and Science" by Stephen Hawking, September, 1984.

topic: Wells, Physically Disabled, Disabled

My advice to other disabled people would be, concentrate on things your disability doesn't prevent you doing well, and don't regret the things it interferes with. Don't be disabled in spirit, as well as physically.

- Stephen Hawking

topic: Regret, People, Advice, Physically Disabled

If you're an underdog, mentally disabled, physically disabled, if you don't fit in, if you're not as pretty as the others, you can still be a hero.

- Steve Guttenberg

source: "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Hero, Autism, Underdog, Mentally Disabled, Physically Disabled

People who boast about their I.Q. are losers.

- Stephen Hawking

topic: Education, Science, People, Physically Disabled

Don't be disabled in spirit as well as physically.

- Stephen Hawking

topic: Regret, Als, Spirit, Disabled, Physically Disabled

I’m the archetype of a disabled genius, or should I say a physically challenged genius, to be politically correct. At least I’m obviously physically challenged. Whether I’m a genius is more open to doubt.

- Stephen Hawking

topic: Doubt, Genius, Should, Disabled, Physically Disabled

I would rather be physically disabled obviously than mentally. I would rather be paraplegic than nuts. And it is a terrifying prospect and actually the longer we live the more likely it is that that's how we will go and that's a very painful thing to contemplate.

- Ian Mcewan

source: Source: www.telegraph.co.uk

topic: Nuts, Painful, Paraplegics, Painful Things, Physically Disabled

Lestat and Louie feel sorry for vampires that sparkle in the sun. They would never hurt immortals who choose to spend eternity going to high school over and over again in a small town ---- anymore than they would hurt the physically disabled or the mentally challenged. My vampires possess gravitas. They can afford to be merciful.

- Anne Rice

topic: Hurt, Sorry, School, Lestat, Gravitas

It is in the comprehension of the physically disabled, or disordered ... that we are behind our age.... sympathy as a fine art is backward in the growth of progress.

- Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward

topic: Sympathy, Art, Growth, Physically Disabled