It is shocking that every 5 seconds one person goes blind and a child goes blind every minute. World Sight Day is supported by organisations around the world who are all working in partnership to eliminate avoidable blindness by the year 2020. Action for Blind People recognises the importance in supporting this special day. (Quote by - Joanna Hall)

Being deaf and partially blind means I don't really watch TV. I wouldn't know what to do with a remote control. (Quote by - Eric Sykes)

I had plenty of pimples as a kid. One day I fell asleep in the library. When I woke up, a blind man was reading my face. (Quote by - Rodney Dangerfield)

Love may be blind but not the lovers,for i didnt know that i would be so beautiful in his eyes..... (Quote by - prabha)

Every blind squirrel finds a nut once in a while. It just so happens that two hit me on the head tonight. (Quote by - Davis Drewiske)

An eye for an eye only leads to more blindness. (Quote by - Margaret Atwood)

If you are the master be sometimes blind, if you are the servant be sometimes deaf. (Quote by - R Buckminster Fuller)

Will power is to the mind like a strong blind man who carries on his shoulders a lame man who can see. (Quote by - Arthur Schopenhauer)

Woe unto you, ye blind guides, which say, Whosoever shall swear by the temple, it is nothing; but whosoever shall swear by the gold of the temple, he is a debtor! / Ye fools and blind: for whether is greater, the gold, or the temple that sanctifieth the gold? / And, Whosoever shall swear by the altar, it is nothing; but whosoever sweareth by the gift that is upon it, he is guilty. (Quote by - Bible)

We have reduced thermostats and instructed the teachers to close the blinds at the end of the day in order to preserve as much heat as possible. We also have worked to reduce heat loss by working with Bill McMinn [manager of facilities] to install weather stripping around the doors and the buildings. (Quote by - Becky Coffey)

You're not supposed to be so blind with patriotism that you can't face reality. Wrong is wrong, no matter who says it. (Quote by - Malcolm X)

The young leading the young, is like the blind leading the blind; "they will both fall into the ditch. (Quote by - Lord Chesterfield)

If you are deaf, you need captions for spoken elements. If you are blind, you need voiced descriptions of Web contents and spoken renderings of e-mail. The range of physical disabilities is very large, and we need many different tools to overcome the consequential barriers to Internet use. Let us commit ourselves to truly assuring that the Internet really is for everyone. (Quote by - Vint Cerf)

It was obvious. You'd have to be blind not to recognize it. I certainly didn't write scientific papers in high school. (Quote by - Robert McCord)

If my actions are blind to me when others react that reaction I take as blasphemy unjustly given and a mystery. (Quote by - Lonnie D. Hicks)

I feel like a wet seed wild in the hot blind earth. (Quote by - William Faulkner)

War is blind and peace unspoken. Love is blind and a kiss unspoken. Bless the blind, and Love the broken. (Quote by - Leif Ericsson Leo Veness)

And some of the Pharisees which were with him heard these words, and said unto him, Are we blind also? / Jesus said unto them, If ye were blind, ye should have no sin: but now ye say, We see; therefore your sin remaineth. (Quote by - Bible)

He had to go through a very dark winter being blind, and go through that as a 12 year old. But he's had a great spring, a great summer and now in the fall, he's going to have a lot of fun. (Quote by - Chris Lucas)

The book which the reader now holds in his hands, from one end to the other, as a whole and in its details, whatever gaps, exceptions, or weaknesses it may contain, treats of the advance from evil to good, from injustice to justice, from falsity to truth, from darkness to daylight, from blind appetite to conscience, from decay to life, from bestiality to duty, from Hell to Heaven, from limbo to God. Matter itself is the starting-point, and the point of arrival is the soul. Hydra at the beginning, an angel at the end. (Quote by - Victor Hugo)

A man who leaves home to mend himself and others is a philosopher; but he who goes from country to country, guided by the blind impulse of curiosity, is a vagabond. (Quote by - Oliver Goldsmith)

Among the blind the one-eyed blinkard reigns. (Quote by - Andrew Marvell)

Trust is an absurd phenomenon, logically absurd. That's why logic always says love is blind, although love has its own eyes, far more deep-going..still, to logic it is blind. (Quote by - Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh)

The death penalty is always wrong, but tying a blind 76-year-old man to a chair and injecting him with poison is grotesque. (Quote by - Terry Davis)

We at MTG see this as an opportunity to increase awareness of the capabilities of the blind and visually impaired and to reward financially the good works of the Wisconsin Council of the Blind. (Quote by - John Peterson)