Wheelchair Quotes · Page 2

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

— Greg Abbott

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

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

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

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

— Felix Baumgartner

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

— Stella Young

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

— Stella Young

When I see someone in a wheelchair, even I do a double-take. And as someone who has a prosthetic leg, when I…

— Alex Brooker

I never sat on a wheelchair during my recovery, never wanted to sit at all. Its also a bit psychological. I thought…

— Arunima Sinha

Being confined to a wheelchair doesn't bother me as my mind is free to roam the universe, but it felt wonderful to…

— Stephen Hawking

It's really bad sometimes to be crippled in a wheelchair, and it reminds you that you can't fight back when someone's trying…

— Fredrick Brennan

Who says men don't cry? I used to sob like a baby as I was forced to move around in a wheelchair…

— S. Sreesanth

I've never been tall. So it's not like I was six-foot, got paralyzed, and now I'm in a wheelchair. It doesn't really…

— Verne Troyer

If we see someone in a wheelchair, we assume they cannot walk. It may be that they can walk three, four, five…

— Evelyn Glennie

“The thought of being able to [move my arms] made me want to give up my legs [instead] since I was accustomed…

— Sarah Todd Hammer

Sometimes I think I don't want to grow old as an actress and deal with the fact that I'm getting less jobs…

— Kerry Condon

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

— Dolly Parton

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

— Stella Young

“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

“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

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

— Monica Dickens

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

— Jeff Bauman

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

— Steve Earle

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

— Victoria Arlen

Disability is as visual as race. If a wheelchair user can't play Beyonce, then Beyonce can't play a wheelchair user.

— Maysoon Zayid

I was too big to even contemplate exercise. I had to use a walking stick and a wheelchair to get around.

— Adnan Sami

“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

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

— Max DePree

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

A tragic car accident put me in a wheelchair and dashed my hopes and dreams for the future.

— Madison Cawthorn

Playing tennis and wheelchair basketball has opened a lot of doors for me.

— Dylan Alcott

Mexican word of the day Wheelchair : Me and Juan only have one taco, but is okay, Wheelchair.

— Anonymous

For me, the wheelchair symbolizes disability in a way a cane does not.

— Annette Funicello

I don't want my husband to push me around in a wheelchair. I don't want someone to lead me around because I'm…

— Della Reese

I wouldn't care if he lost both his legs and was in a wheelchair. But it he's having a hard time...Then I…

— Na Hae Ryeong

“The only way I’ll ride a horse is if that horse is in a wheelchair, being pushed by a 99-year-old paraplegic.”

— Jarod Kintz