Gabrielle Giffords Quotes

I can remember the frustration of not being able to talk. I knew what I wanted to say, but I could not get the words out, so I would just scream.

Close to birth... I lost, like, 80 percent of my hearing, and I had difficulty speaking.

And then, when I started to school, I found out I couldn't talk.

You can hear me starting to stutter and slur my words.

[Mouse is] with us. The dog is a handicap-assist animal." The kid lifted his eyebrows. "My mouth is partially paralyzed," I said. "It makes it hard for me to rea. He's here to help me with the big words. Tell me if I'm supposed to push or pull on doors, that kind of thing.

The hardest thing for me is walking. Can you imagine you've got a metal pole and if you put pressure on it like a strong walk, you can walk.

Silences have a climax, when you have got to speak.

I have a speech impediment because I slur a lot, and they even make fun of me on 'Cougar Town' because there's certain word combinations that I just can't say.

I had a stroke in December of '99, and it affected my left side - my fingering side.

I'm a little slow, so forgive me if I'm inarticulate.

Speech happens to not be his language.

The pressure isn't on my brain, but on my mouth. I realized Sam Malone said very little, he spoke in little sentences. Which is much more comfortable for me for some reason.

I have struggled all my life with my stuttering. Not to mention all my other speech impediments. I think I have every language disorder known to speech pathologists.

Speech and having a stammer is obviously a big part of my life.

Sometimes, when I'm trying to get my thoughts out, and I'm thinking too fast, I stutter.

There were periods during my childhood when I stammered so badly I couldn't talk at all.

People only stutter at the beginning of the word. They're not afraid when they get to the end of the word. There's just regret.

I just have this fear that I'll get on stage and there'll be that brief moment of adrenalin and I'll forget my line.

I'm part of a speech therapy course called the Maguire Programme. It isn't a cure; it's something you need to maintain and work on. I get days where I find things more difficult than others.

I'm a horrible public speaker.

I have times when I'm off-balance. I have times when I slur my words. I have times when I walk into walls. I have times when I can't remember somebody's name.

I did have a speech impediment.

When my lips are dry, I can't smile, I can't talk - it's debilitating!

It was only in South Africa that I got over this shyness, though I never completely overcame it. It was impossible for me to speak impromptu. I hesitated whenever I had to face strange audiences and avoided making a speech whenever I could. Even today I do not think I could or would even be inclined to keep a meeting of friends engaged in idle talk.

I was born with a crippled leg. I wore a corrective shoes since I was three years old and I still wear them.