Wheelchair Quotes · Page 3

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

— Jarod Kintz

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

— Itzhak Perlman

My disability exists not because I use a wheelchair, but because the broader environment isn't accessible.

— Stella Young

“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

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

— Dylan Alcott

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

— Max DePree

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

You can really do amazing things in a wheelchair. It's very dangerous if you don't know what you're doing, but you can…

— William Forsythe

No one wants to live in a wheelchair unable to talk, only winking once for yes and twice for no. It's perfectly…

— Tony Judt

Technically I can get out of my wheelchair and crawl around and do things, but when I've traveled and they've lost my…

— Zach Anner

Commuting in a wheelchair is not easy. I live in a very old part of Rome. These cobbles everywhere... terrible! In London,…

— Bernardo Bertolucci

The wheelchair and the prosthesis give me a soapbox to stand on. If it helps me get my message across, I'm glad;…

— Tammy Duckworth

If we do the work that we can do in this country, the work that we will do when John Kerry is…

— John Edwards

As a kid with disability, if you told me anybody in a wheelchair, let alone myself, would be Australian of the Year…

— Dylan Alcott

I'm like a cartoon! I'll look this way when I'm eighty. I can see it now, people will be rolling me around…

— Dolly Parton

When I was a child, doctors sent my grandmother home in a wheelchair to die. Diagnosed with end-stage heart disease, she already…

— Michael Greger

The doctors misdiagnosed me at first - they told me I had a pinched nerve. But my situation was getting worse. The…

— Daniel Jacobs

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

I was on the wheelchair for six months and lost all hope of returning to the field. I thought my career was…

— Sandeep Singh

At 70, my late father, Peter, underwent a foot amputation after surgical complications. There were suggestions that at his age being in…

— Tanni Grey-Thompson

I've seen my mom confined to a wheelchair in the last three years of her life. Both her knees had given way,…

— Akkineni Nagarjuna

“He sees me staring and raises his hands in the air like what the shit, dude? “I will use a wheelchair if…

— C.M. Stunich

“The gawking is something that shouldn’t still irk me after this long in a wheelchair, but it does. It’s also what keeps…

— Xavier Neal

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

— Mark Zupan

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

— Adnan Sami

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'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

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 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

“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

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

— Dorothy Parker

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

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