Wheelchair Quotes · Page 3

I thought my sports career was over once I got into a wheelchair. That was the hardest reality I had to face.

— Victoria Arlen

My dad was in a wheelchair and on oxygen for the last few years of his life.

— Steve Earle

I just want to get to the places I can't get in the wheelchair, you know? I want to stand up.

— Jeff Bauman

I'm a full-time wheelchair user. And yet, given the right circumstances, I am able to work.

— Stella Young

Personally, I like a generous side of wheelchair access with my cities.

— Stella Young

People aren't familiar with wheelchair sports. The only film crew in Athens for the Paralympics was the documentary crew.

— Mark Zupan

I don't want to hang around in a wheelchair in a nursing home. I don't. I don't want to be like that.

— Louis Walsh

“I don’t come with the wheelchair. The wheelchair comes with me.”

— Max DePree

If I can be an inspiration for someone, that's fine, but just don't look down on me. Don't say, 'Oh, you're in…

— Mark Zupan

Towards the end of 2003 it was hard to get through training - and the darkest point was when a doctor told…

— Jonah Lomu

I was born with scoliosis. I have a double curvature of the spine, and it's forced me to use a wheelchair because…

— Elizabeth Taylor

There are people I would like to work with. Its a bit harder, because I live out in the sticks anyway, and…

— Robert Wyatt

People used to stare at me when I was growing up because I was in a wheelchair, and I hated it. Now…

— Dylan Alcott

We always joke that our road crew will have to wheelchair us up onstage soon because this is what we do. This…

— Johnny Van Zant

I just wanted to try and overcome my condition, with a lot of people telling me I couldn't do things and the…

— Nicolas Hamilton

“I went to an airport and asked for a wheelchair. There were three of us in wheelchairs and only two porters, so…

— Itzhak Perlman

We're normal people. Don't be scared because we are in a chair. People don't understand that. They think, 'Oh, a wheelchair, something's…

— Mark Zupan

“I'm not moping," I whisper back. "Of course you're not. A girl like you, spending time with a warrior demigod like me.…

— Susan Ee

I quickly learned that asking if an interview space was wheelchair accessible was a bad idea; it gave a potential employer an…

— Stella Young

If you have it, it is for life. It is a disease for which there is no cure. You will go on…

— Monica Dickens

“When I can't ride anymore, I shall keep horses as long as I can hobble around with a bucket and a wheelbarrow.…

— Monica Dickens

I don't want to lose my legs, you know. I don't want to be wheeled around in a wheelchair. I don't want…

— Dan Hill

I want to be like one of those little fainting goats that get scared and then just fall over. I want to…

— Dolly Parton

When I hated myself, I went to a tennis tournament. I was no good but I played. And when I got there,…

— Dylan Alcott

“I started out on a treadmill—and I just did my first marathon. And all while sitting in a wheelchair.
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— Jarod Kintz

My dad gave me my first bike at 16. I soon fell off and was in a wheelchair for weeks. I haven't…

— Hugh Laurie

I typically start out almost every speech I give making some kind of joke about me being in a wheelchair.

— Greg Abbott

Does anyone know if Lamborghini makes wheelchair vehicles? If not, I want to change that.

— Steve Gleason

I'd rather be in this wheelchair knowing God than on my feet without him.

— Joni Eareckson Tada

I can't bear the thought of my mother having to push me around in a wheelchair. I'd rather die quickly.

— Felix Baumgartner

I'm praying for a miracle because I really don't want knee replacements and I don't want to be in a wheelchair.

— Colin Jackson

Money cannot buy health, but I'd settle for a diamond-studded wheelchair.

— Dorothy Parker

“Last night as I was driving home, I ran over a guy in a wheelchair. But it’s OK—he was already paralyzed.”

— Jarod Kintz

As a wheelchair user and a frequent traveller, of course I have my own collection of horror stories.

— Tanni Grey-Thompson

I questioned whether anyone would love me because I'm in a wheelchair.

— Dylan Alcott

This machine, the wheelchair, I can go all over the place, but you need a place without stairs to get in.

— Itzhak Perlman

“I got stood up. I wasn’t mad, because at the time I was in a wheelchair.”

— Jarod Kintz

“Pity? [If] you don't want to be pitied because you're a cripple in a wheelchair, stay in your house!”

— Jerry Lewis

“He lifted himself from a wheelchair to lift the nation from its knees.”

— Jean Edward Smith

The universe is an example of love. Like a tree. Like the ocean. Like my body. Like my wheelchair. I see the…

— Ram Dass