Down Syndrome Children Quotes & Sayings

When slavery is established in any part of the world, those who are free are by far the most proud and jealous of their freedom. — Edmund Burke

What would happen, they conjectured, if they simply went on assuming their children would do everything. Perhaps not quickly. Perhaps not by the book. But what if they simply erased those growth and development charts, with their precise, constricting points and curves? What if they kept their expectations but erased the time line? What harm could it do? Why not try? — Kim Edwards

The light would show (if it could harden)
Eternities of kitchen garden — Edith Sitwell

The children I describe here have horizontal conditions that are alien to their parents. They are deaf or dwarfs; they have Down syndrome, autism, schizophrenia, or multiple severe disabilities; they are prodigies; they are people conceived in rape or who commit crimes; they are transgender. The timeworn adage says that the apple doesn't fall far from the tree, meaning that a child resembles his or her parents; these children are apples that have fallen elsewhere - some a couple of orchards away, some on the other side of the world. Yet myriad families learn to tolerate, accept, and finally celebrate children who are not what they originally had in mind. — Andrew Solomon

I take up my own pen again - the pen of all my old unforgettable efforts and sacred struggles. To myself - today - I need say no more. Large and full and high the future still opens. It is now indeed that I may do the work of my life. And I will. — Henry James

Adventure, with all its requisite danger and wildness, is a deeply spiritual longing written into the soul of man. — John Eldredge

My children taught me the true meaning of unconditional love. — Yvonne Pierre

You don't look half as crazy as I thought you'd look ... Olivia said something about a redheaded gargoyle with fangs — Tarryn Fisher

I Have a Dream ... someday my son, Zyon and ALL individuals with disabilities will be seen as HUMAN beings.
I Have a Dream ... someday the human & civil rights of individuals with disabilities are honored and they are treated as equals.
I Have a Dream ... someday ALL parents who have children with disabilities see their child as a blessing and not a burden.
I Have a Dream ... someday there will be more jobs and opportunities for individuals with disabilities.
I Have a Dream ... someday there will be UNITY "within" the disabled community.
I HAVE A DREAM!!! — Yvonne Pierre

I was always interested in working with people with disabilities, and in high school I worked with people who had Down Syndrome. That was for an agency called AHRC, Association for the Help of Retarded Children. Then I went to college, and throughout college I volunteered for AHRC. — Meredith Eaton

Oh, I know it today: nothing in the world is more repugnant to a man than following the path that leads him to himself! Nevertheless, — Hermann Hesse

Sex stops when you pull up your pants,
Love never lets you go. — Kingsley Amis

Lord, Lord, how subject we old men are to this vice of lying! — William Shakespeare

The way to health, harmony, and happiness is primarily mental. — Grenville Kleiser

God is here, right now, at our side. We can see him in this mist, in the ground we're walking on, even in my shoes. His angels keep watch while we sleep and help us in our work. In order to find God, you have only to look around. — Paulo Coelho

I know of other mothers who have children with disabilities,and right away they loved them and decided to fight for them.
That isn't my story. — Gillian Marchenko

Everybody goes up and does something in the private sector that they feel that they can do, and obviously I'm a musician and feel that one of my experiments - because I think there are many that you can do and that you're helped with the ideas of what you could do - yes, would be to see how I would sing in zero gravity. — Sarah Brightman

Ask the young. They know everything. — Joseph Joubert

When describing children with Down's Syndrome, he called a child 'heart spontaneous'. — Andrew Solomon

I believe it is my responsibility to do what I can for children and people with Down syndrome as well as in my native Dominican Republic. — Albert Pujols

I always got the feeling with John Paul that if he could have narrowed down the people he met and blessed those he loved the most, they would not be cardinals, princes, or congressman, but nuns from obscure convents and Down syndrome children, especially the latter. Because they have suffered, and because in some serious and amazing way the love of God seems more immediately available to them. Everyone else gets themselves tied up in ambition and ideas and bustle, all the great distractions, but the modest and unwell are so often unusually open to this message: God loves us, his love is all around us, he made us to love him and be happy — Peggy Noonan

Western philosophers gained access to Asian and African traditions initially by noting similarities and differences. But that, as A.C. Mukerji, of Allahabad, was to note in 1932, is not to do philosophy, but is at best a preparation. — Jay L. Garfield

I have two children. I have a Down syndrome child whom I love very much, and my wife that I love. — Sebastiao Salgado

No position is so false as having understood and still remaining alive. — Emile M. Cioran

As I noted to my colleagues in the Roberts' hearings, in a year between 80 percent to 90 percent of the children in America diagnosed with Down's Syndrome will be killed in the womb simply because they have a positive genetic test which can be wrong, and is often wrong, but they would have a positive genetic test for Down's Syndrome and they will be killed.America is poorer because of such a policy. — Sam Brownback

Benedict, but they say he doesn't set himself up on a pedestal. — Ken Follett