R E Mullins Quotes

It's not the job of government to help the poor. The church is the mechanism that God put on earth to help the poor.

The only man I envy is the man who has not yet been to Africa- for he has so much to look forward to.

The power of the human will to compete and the drive to excel beyond the body's normal capabilities is most beautifully demonstrated in the arena of sport.

With L'Oreal, I get to be Aimee Mullins, model. No qualifier. And that means everything to me.

A study of the panics of 1873, 1893, and 1907 indicates that these panics were the result of the international bankers' operations in London.

Lift up your eyes, discouraged one. When you feel like giving up, when they say it can't be done, it's up to you to show them why they're wrong.

I think, you know, the thing everybody really wants to know anyway is not what the theory of relativity is, but I think what we all really want to know anyways, is whether we're loved or not.

The biggest problem with life is that it's just daily.

You are not alone in the world. You are part of an ensemble.

Life is about making your own happiness - and living by your own rules.

A lot of my life is about will - having the will to prove what my body can do.

I'm not running around as a continual ray of sunshine. It's just I don't believe in wasting time feeling sorry for myself. Get over it.

If you live real good, I can guarantee you are gonna get beat up real bad!

So hold me Jesus, 'cause I'm shaking like a leaf. You have been King of my glory won't You be my Prince of Peace.

We just can't love without God. God wants for us want we want for ourselves. These basic things are not that hard to grasp. We just have to have faith, and faith is a gift. We just need to accept it.

When I watch Mad Men and I see the patronising attitudes to women that are so shocking for all of us to watch now, I feel that I've lived and see the same evolution in this regard around disability.

Yes, it’s embarrassing to be born again, but imagine how embarrassing it must have been to be born the first time. At least this time you get to wear clothes!

You will never understand what you're doin'. But God does.

God loves us completely. And He knew us at our worst before He ever began to love us at all.

There's a difference, you know, between faith and playing make-believe. One will make you grow. The other one will make you sleep.

Forged in the fires of human passion, choking on the fumes of human rage, with these out hells and our heavens, so few inches apart, we must be awfully small, and not as strong as we think we are.

True beauty is when someone radiates that they like themselves.

A lot of people are sitting around waiting for God to tell them what to do. I think God is saying 'Do what you want!' If he wants me to express His love, I need to find a way to do it.

Beauty is not skin-deep; it can be a means of self-affirmation, a true indicator of personality and confidence.

If left to their own devices a child will achieve.

Pamela Anderson has more prosthetic in her body than I do. Nobody calls her disabled.

We are not as strong as we think we are

Joshua made the sun stand still in the sky, but I can't keep these thoughts of You from passing by.

For me, I never ever felt the ownership or any identity with any community of disabilities. I didn't grow up being told that I was a disabled child.

When I was growing up and wanted to be a musician, the fantasy that I had of what the music industry was is so wrong.

I am tired again tonight - a good kind of tired. Some aches are well earned. I wish I could see the sky tonight

And step by step You'll lead me / And I will follow You all of my days.

There is the music that we make, and the music that makes us.

And I believe what I believe / Is what makes me what I am / I did not make it, no it is making me / It is the very truth of God and not / The invention of any man.

There's people been friendly But they'd never be your friends Sometimes this has bent me to the ground

The Civil War ravaged the Southern states, while leaving the North untouched.

I think I would envy me too, if I didn't know me better.

I think I would like to be a monk. I really considered Catholicism a few years ago, but there were some things that I just couldnt reconcile.

But I am a dreamer So you sent me away. Sometimes we dreamers Just get in the way.

The legs that I have made are far more perfect than the ones nature would have given me - my mother's side of the family have awful legs.

I think, writing-wise, I am probably more of a quilter than a weaver because I just get a little scrap here and a little scrap there and sew them together.

I hate the words 'handicapped' and 'disabled'. They imply that you are less than whole. I don't see myself that way at all.

It's hard enough for women to walk on high heels. And I'm on stilts!

We all bullet point our triumphs, but I am who I am because of everything you don't see on my CV. The stuff that doesn't work out teaches you how to trust your instincts and adapt.

In sports, I refused to do any interviews that were just going to become human-interest stories. Don't turn me into a tragic heroine.

I had a paper round and every night I would put the dinner on before Mum came home from work. I was capable because I had to be.

I've said this before, but I believe more than ever that confidence is sexier than any body part.

An athlete experiences the emotions of pain and elation through triumph and defeat, through teamwork and individuality, as nothing more than a human being...that is the true glory of sport.

The Pentagon isn't a place that champions individuality and innovation.

When I'm curious about something, I do it full on and take it as far as I go, but when I feel like I've really explored it, I'm OK with putting it aside and going on to something else.