Crippled Quotes

• Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Book, Literature History, Civilization

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• A religion true to its nature must also be concerned about man's social conditions....A ny religion that professes to be concerned with the souls of men and is not concerned with the slums that damn them, the economic conditions that strangle them, and the social conditions that cripple them is a dry-as-dust religion.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Men, Dust, Soul

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• To make a small town achieve its potential, you need everybody. When a blind person carries a crippled person who can see, both of them get where they're going.

  Unita Blackwell

  Unity, Needs, Towns

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• 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.

  Martin Luther

  Wise, Religious, Humor

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• Crippled and crazy, we hobble toward the finish line, pen in hand.

  Siri Hustvedt

  Crazy, Hands, Lines

  Siri Hustvedt (2008). “The Sorrows of an American: A Novel”, p.45, Macmillan

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• Robespierre, crippled and blind, has yet to be healed to the knowledge that service - his desire - is a deed of savage-speaking gentleness, not soft-spoken savagery.

  Tanith Lee

  Desire, Savages, Deeds

  Tanith Lee (1996). “The Gods are Thirsty”, Overlook Books

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• I didn't want to be the crippled songwriter or the crippled singer. I wanted to be the singer or the songwriter who was crippled. I wanted to be larger than life and a man among men.

  Doc Pomus

  Men, Singers, Larger Than Life

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• I was never crippled until I lost hope.

  Nick Vujicic

  Lost Hope, Lost, Parkinson

  Nick Vujicic (2010). “Life Without Limits: Inspiration for a Ridiculously Good Life”, p.46, WaterBrook

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• I’m moved by everything broken and crippled. Since that’s how we really are.

  Anna Kamienska

  Broken, Moved

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• You can go to church and sing a hymn, Judge me by the colour of my skin, You can live a lie until you die, One thing you can't hide is when you're crippled inside.

  John Lennon

  Lying, Hymns, Judging

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• I have learned that some people who look fine are more crippled than I am, by fears they can’t explain. Other people are held back by shyness, or anger. In making friends, I see the way some people handicap themselves. I believe there are choices each of us make every single day. We can dwell on our limitations or we can push ourselves past them.

  Cammie McGovern

  Believe, Past, People

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• I have Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis. It has crippled my body and speech, but not my mind.

  Jason Becker

  Mind, Body, Speech

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• From whence comes it that a cripple in body does not irritate us, and that a crippled mind enrages us? It is because a cripple sees that we go right, and a distorted mind says that it is we who go astray. But for that we should have more pity and less rage.

  Blaise Pascal

  Should Have, Mind, Doe

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• A church without the broken is a broken church.

  Ed Stetzer

  Religious, Broken Spirit, Church

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• No one can resist the idea of a crippled genius.

  Stephen Hawking

  Ideas, Genius

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• When television families aren't gathered around the kitchen table exchanging wisecracks, they are experiencing brief but moving dilemmas, which are handily solved by the youngest child or by some cute extraterrestrial houseguest. Emerging from Family Ties or My Two Dads, we are forced to acknowledge that our own families are made up of slow-witted, emotionally crippled people who would be lucky to qualify for seats in the studio audience of JEOPARDY!

  Barbara Ehrenreich

  Cute, Children, Dad

  Barbara Ehrenreich (1990). “WORST YEARS OF OUR LIVES”, Pantheon

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• Crippled things are always more beautiful. It's the flaw that brings out beauty.

  Holly Black

  Beautiful, Flaws

  Holly Black (2012). “Tithe”, p.77, Simon and Schuster

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• She was a beautiful woman dragging a crippled foot and I was that foot. I was bricks sewn into the hem of her clothes, I was a steel dress

  Janet Fitch

  Beautiful, Feet, Clothes

  Janet Fitch (2002). “White Oleander”, Large Print Press

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• I was raised by a lady that was crippled all her life but she did everything for me and she raised me. She washed our clothes, cooked our food, she did everything for us. I don't think I ever heard her complain a day in her life. She taught me responsibility towards my brother and sisters and the community.

  Ernest Gaines

  Brother, Responsibility, Thinking

  Live chat, cnn.com. May 13, 1999.

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• ... religion is a crutch, and only the crippled need crutches.

  Madalyn Murray O'Hair

  Needs, Crutches

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• I often wonder what would have happened to me if I hadn't made that decision. I suppose I would have sunk. I suppose I would have found some kind of hole and tried to hide or pass. After all, we make ourselves according to the ideas we have of our possibilities. I would have hidden in my hole and been crippled by my sentimentality, doing what I was doing, and doing it well, but always looking for the wailing wall. And I would never have seen the world as the rich place that it is. You wouldn't have seen me here in Africa, doing what I do.

  V. S. Naipaul

  Wall, Ideas, Decision

  V. S. Naipaul (2012). “A Bend in the River”, p.94, Pan Macmillan

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• You can blame your ugliness for keeping people at bay, when in reality you're crippled by the thought of letting another person close enough to popentially scar you even more deeply. You can tell yourself that it's safer to love someone who will never really love you back, because you can't lose someone you never had.

  Jodi Picoult

  Love You, Reality, People

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• If death were the end, then there is no God, and there are no realised masters - it is all a pack of lies. The great ones wouldn't urge you to became better, for what would be the use if, good or bad, we are all junked at the end of life? What would be the value of the scriptures? There would be no justice whatsoever if this present existence is all there is to each individual life. What of those souls who lived only a few years, or lived in blind or crippled bodies?

  Paramahansa Yogananda

  Death, Lying, Years

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• Your Grace," she said, "I have only one question. Do you wish this man crippled, or dead?

  David Weber

  Men, Grace, Wish

  David Weber (2002). “Flag in Exile”, p.233, Baen Books

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• I keep finding myself stifled by the company of others and then crippled by loneliness when I leave them. I am terrified and I don't even know of what, because I have lost everything already.

  Veronica Roth

  Loneliness, Lost Everything, Tobias

  "Allegiant". Book by Veronica Roth, 2013.

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