Able Bodied Quotes

#1. Officers in command of colored troops are in constant habit of pressing all able-bodied slaves into the military service of the U.S.

Lovell Rousseau

#2. Though it may take much suffering to kill the able-bodied and effective members of society, it does not take much to reduce them to worn, listless, diseased creatures, who thenceforward crawl through life with moody hearts and pain-stricken bodies.

Elizabeth Gaskell

#3. I would have a poet able bodied, fond of talking, a reader of the newspapers, capable of pity and laughter, informed in economics, appreciative of women, involved in personal relationships, actively interested in politics, susceptible to physical impressions.

Louis MacNeice

#4. Patriotism is understood to be that virtue which consists in serving one's country; but in what way is this 'Patria' or country served by slaying its able bodied men in thousands?

Marie Corelli

#5. Maine's welfare program is cannibalizing the rest of state government. To all you able-bodied people out there: Get off the couch and get yourself a job.

Paul LePage

#6. I don't think of myself as being disabled, or able-bodied.

Natalie Du Toit

#7. We have the can-do factor, and us doing what we do I think inspires people to just try that little bit harder, whether they are able-bodied or disabled.

Lee Pearson

#8. The able bodied poor don't want or need charity ... All they need is financial capital.

Muhammad Yunus

#9. From the earliest colonial days [in America], local governments took responsibility for their poor. However, able-bodied men and women generally were not supported by the taxpayers unless they worked.

Thomas G. West

#10. A perfectly routine piece of news: "Last night our planes attacked Dresden. All planes returned safely." The only good German is a dead one: over one hundred thousand evil men, women, and children (the able-bodied were at the fronts) forever purged of their sins against humanity.

Kurt Vonnegut

#11. prepared to make the ultimate wartime sacrifice that most governments demand of their able-bodied citizens, but his was one that regarded his life as of lesser value than the lives of whites making the same sacrifice.

Ralph Ellison

#12. In a home where there is an able-bodied husband, he is expected to be the breadwinner.

Ezra Taft Benson

#13. Dasher was able-bodied; that was part of the problem. His body was able to make hers do crazy things under his scrutiny, touch, scent.

Joy Avery

#14. Down where I grew up, able-bodied people do that which we believe God created them to do. Work is a blessing; it's not a curse.

Steve Southerland

#15. the belief in one God; namaz, or prayers five times a day; giving zakat, or alms; roza, fasting from dawn till sunset during the month of Ramadan; and Haj, the pilgrimage to Mecca, which every able-bodied Muslim should do once in their lifetime.

Malala Yousafzai

#16. I get pretty impatient with people who are able-bodied but are somehow paralyzed for other reasons.

Christopher Reeve

#17. These days the technology can solve our problems and then some. Solutions may not only erase physical or mental deficits but leave patients better off than 'able-bodied' folks. The person who has a disability today may have a superability tomorrow.

Daniel H. Wilson

#18. Reckon I'd be lyin' iffen I didn't own up to feelin' a little sore here an' there," Willie said with a grin. "An' thet's all thet yer gonna git me to confess. Full-grown able-bodied man shouldn't be admittin' to even thet. Folks will be thinkin' thet I never worked a day in my life.

Janette Oke

#19. I don't see myself as disabled. There's nothing I can't do that able-bodied athletes can do.

Oscar Pistorius

#20. The arrogance of the able-bodied is staggering. Yes, maybe we'd like to be able to get places quickly, and carry things in both hands, but only because we have to keep up with the rest of you. We would rather be just like us, and have that be all right.

Barbara Kingsolver

#21. The sentiment of those suggesting the Olympics and Paralympics be combined is no doubt well intentioned. But it also echoes the myth that disabled people want to be other than what we are - that we'd like nothing more than to be 'allowed in' with the able-bodied competitors.

Stella Young

#22. I'm so blessed to have such enlightened parents. It must have been very hard to watch their able-bodied son lock himself up in his old room for most of his 20s.

A. Scott Berg

#23. About 47 percent of able-bodied people in the state of Maine don't work.

Paul LePage

#24. When you are racing in an able-bodied competition, you're all equal and you go out there and try your best, and that's what counts.

Natalie Du Toit

#25. 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.

Joshua Prager

#26. I believe that if you are elderly, physically or mentally handicapped we have an obligation too you, but if you are able-bodied, you should be working.

Alphonso Jackson

#27. Eliminate irrelevant and inaccurate comunications about what it means to be male or female, black or white, young or old, rich or poor, disabled or temporarily able-bodied, or to hold a particular belief system.

Rosalie Maggio

#28. Men and swords. My father said that if you put any able-bodied man, no matter how peaceful, into a room with a sword and a practice dummy and leave him alone, eventually the man would pick up the sword and try to stab the dummy. It is human nature.

Ilona Andrews

#29. We don't want to turn the safety net into a hammock that lulls able-bodied people into complacency and dependence.

Paul Ryan

#30. As we embrace our passions and delve into the mystery of life, we unite with the majestic complexity of nature; and if we follow the signs, this can help us understand who we really are.

Sebastian Pole

#31. It seems that nonsense is the only sensible recourse to remedy the nonsense of society's accepted normalcy

Natasha Tsakos

#32. You should make no effort to try to join society, stay right where you are. Give your name and serial number and wait for society to come to you.

Quentin Crisp

#33. One thing we can be certain: A person that is engaging in violence is hurting deeply, because a healthy and balanced soul is incapable of harming another.

Gary Zukav

#34. Linchpins are the essential building blocks of tomorrow's high-value organizations. They don't bring capital or expensive machinery, nor do they blindly follow instructions and merely contribute labor. Linchpins are indispensable, the driving force of our future.

Seth Godin

#35. They have vilified me, they have crucified me; yes, they have even criticized me.

Richard J. Daley

#36. We must not have any reason to love someone, because where there is reason love dies with the change of that reason.

Debolina

#37. Virtue is imaginative. Evil, repetitive.

Dean Koontz