Mentally Retarded Child Quotes

#1. When a mentally retarded child is born, the religious question we often ask is, "Why does God let this happen?" The better question to pose is to ask, "What kind of community should we be so that mental retardation isn't a barrier to the enjoyment of one's full humanity?"

Harold S. Kushner

#2. She was too busy wishing
on shooting stars
to see the dreams
come true around her.

Atticus Poetry

#3. Love is the bright foreigner, the foreign self.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#4. When we do in Grenada what the Soviet Union did in Czechoslovakia and Afghanistan, we lose moral authority and credibility.

Jesse Jackson

#5. An intelligent person may be wrong sometimes, but a fool is never wrong. The medical profession is never wrong.

Herbert M. Shelton

#6. There's an assumption in many of these cultures that these children are mentally retarded, when in fact they're not at all. I saw how the operation affects the child, as well as the child's family and often the village.

Roma Downey

#7. These critics with the illusions they've created about artists - it's like idol worship. They only like people when they're on their way up ... I cannot be on the way up again.

John Lennon

#8. There is nothing worse than war in the summetime.

Kate DiCamillo

#9. One of the best aids to freedom is asking God for a lot of help-and asking often.

Joyce Meyer