Quotes About Having A Child With Down Syndrome

#1. It is easy to see what many people, women especially, admire about Sarah Palin. Here is a mother of five who can see the bright side of having a child with Down syndrome and still find the time and energy to govern the state of Alaska.

Sam Harris

#2. I have two children. I have a Down syndrome child whom I love very much, and my wife that I love.

Sebastiao Salgado

#3. When describing children with Down's Syndrome, he called a child 'heart spontaneous'.

Andrew Solomon

#4. I've come to believe one of the reasons God designed marriage was to help us grow in holiness and character. We get to practice on a daily basis being humble, kind, sacrificial, self-controlled, and so much more.

Jody Hedlund

#5. What having a Down's syndrome child isn't - and I feel very strongly about this - is a tragedy. All those pregnancy books you read when you are expecting refer to Down's syndrome as if it were the worst possible outcome, and it's not.

Sally Phillips

#6. Fear is stronger than love

Tupac Shakur

#7. Since when do the media care about the disabled? I don't remember a lot of gnashing of teeth when Fox's Family Guy made fun of Sarah Palin's Down syndrome child, Trig. They

Ann Coulter

#8. one that looked like a cross between a child with Down syndrome and a goat.

Hunter Shea

#9. And I realize that I can never stay in these hollowed-out places in the earth for long before I have to come up for air.

Ally Condie

#10. Brenda, do you know God loves you? He really does. To Him, you're perfect, absolutely perfect. You always have been.

Nikki Rosen

#11. There is a god
dying in America
already created
in the imagination of men
made palpable
for adoration:
there is an inner
anterior image
of divinity
beckoning me out
to pilgrimage

Allen Ginsberg

#12. Lots of people with little kids or babies with Down syndrome tell me they aren't afraid of the future for their child because of what I am doing to help people understand it better.

Lauren Potter

#13. What do girls want? That's easy to answer. They want the same as men. They just want it more often.

Chloe Thurlow

#14. Once you have a Down's syndrome child, you can't conform. In a way, you're free.

Sally Phillips

#15. A garden, you know, is a very usual refuge of a disappointed politician. Accordingly, I have purchased a few acres about nine miles from town, have built a house, and am cultivating a garden.

Alexander Hamilton

#16. Oh, my goodness, when you're a mother and you just give birth to a child with spina bifida and - or Down's Syndrome or cerebral palsy, there's a bit of a shock you're going to have to go through, a bit of an adjustment curve.

Joni Eareckson Tada

#17. Often as a child you see someone with a learning disability or Down's Syndrome and my mum and dad were always very quick to explain exactly what was going on and to be in their own way inclusive and welcoming.

Christopher Eccleston

#18. There will always been the prurient rubbernecking aspect to disasters: people who just can't get enough gore.

Peter Landesman