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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
My father said you can't make a living in birds, my relatives all went into business: bankers, stockbrokers. However, they eventually lost… — Roger Tory Peterson Copy Share Image
I don't think many people stare at people in wheelchairs because we see it regularly. I suppose if you see more in… — Katie Piper Copy Share Image
There are people I would like to work with. Its a bit harder, because I live out in the sticks anyway, and… — Robert Wyatt Copy Share Image
In Paris they have special wheelchairs that go through every doorway. They don't change the doorways, they change the wheelchairs. To hell… — Itzhak Perlman Copy Share Image
“Some disabled people spend a significant amount of their energy on trying to come across as abled or as not that disabled.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
If we see someone in a wheelchair, we assume they cannot walk. It may be that they can walk three, four, five… — Evelyn Glennie Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“I have a few friends who are confined to wheelchairs for access and mobility. I don't want to always be looking down… — Susan C. Young Copy Share Image
The bride, white of hair, is stooped over her cane Her faltering footsteps need guiding. While down the church aisle, with wan… — Richard Armour Copy Share Image
In 2005, a man diagnosed with multiple myeloma asked me if he would be alive to watch his daughter graduate from high… — Siddhartha Mukherjee Copy Share Image
I've found that it's actually more of a disability to be tall than short. I have no problem fitting into plane toilets… — Warwick Davis Copy Share Image
There are three basic ways [to use a dog to work with autistic children], one is just to be companion person and… — Temple Grandin Copy Share Image
The first poem in The Beauty holds a woman in Portugal in a wheelchair singing, with great power, a fado. I have… — Jane Hirshfield Copy Share Image
In America access is always about architecture and never about human beings. Among Israelis and Palestinians, access was rarely about anything but… — John Hockenberry Copy Share Image
Richard wondered how the marquis managed to make being pushed around in a wheelchair look like a romantic and swashbuckling thing to… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Be gone, sorrow, sickness, wheelchairs, and cancer! Enough of you, screams of fear and nights of horror! Death, you die! Life, you… — Max Lucado Copy Share Image
You probably think Stephen Hawking is in that wheelchair because of a motor neuron disease. But if you got as much barely-legal… — Scott Adams Copy Share Image
People who couldn't walk, they'd come in wheelchairs, and he'd make them walk. It's just the power of God. It wasn't my… — Tory Lanez Copy Share Image
When humans were young, they were pushed around in strollers. When they were old, they were pushed around in wheelchairs. In between,… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
Pain is Pain. Broken is Broken. FEAR is the Biggest Disability of all. And will PARALYZE you More Than Being in a… — Nick Vujicic Copy Share Image
What we're doing is serious. Probably the most brutal sport out there is football and they'll get the occasional broken bone or… — Carey Hart Copy Share Image
The only thing we have to fear is a giant wheelchair-crushing squid. Well... uh... actually, I guess that's the only thing I… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
I was a torch carrier in the 2012 Paralympics and every time I thought 'I can't do this' I would look at… — Katie Piper Copy Share Image
“There is so much pain in the world, and most of these people keep theirs secret, rolling through agonizing lives in invisible… — Andrew Solomon Copy Share Image
I was always kind of finding humor to be an access point to the conversation, to a pain relief, if you will.… — Tom Shadyac Copy Share Image
There's the paradox of making pop music when you're in your 50s. People weren't meant to be doing that originally and yet… — Neil Tennant Copy Share Image
People aren't familiar with wheelchair sports. The only film crew in Athens for the Paralympics was the documentary crew. — Mark Zupan Copy Share Image
Look, calling somebody in a wheelchair handicapable doesn't all of a sudden give them the power to climb stairs or the ability… — Glenn Beck Copy Share Image
I promise to stand by your side forever. And when we grow old and are unable to stand for long, we can… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I can see myself as a very old man in a terrific wheelchair. Only, I won't be photographing the tree outside my… — Richard Avedon Copy Share Image
“Gather the wheelchairs in a circle, and then summon the cripples. Would anybody care for a glass of discrimination?” — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
Every person with a disability has a slightly different kind of disability. Not everybody has the same problems. Usually the wheelchairs are… — Itzhak Perlman Copy Share Image
There was a golden retriever who saved countless lives on September 11 by going back in to find people. His companion was… — Linda Blair Copy Share Image
You can take them in a wheelchair and put them in a pool, so they can move their arms and legs. In… — Jack LaLanne Copy Share Image
The downside of my celebrity is that I cannot go anywhere in the world without being recognized. It is not enough for… — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
“How inappropriate,’ Lila said coldly. ‘Who’d ever dream of showing up at a dance in a wheelchair? What does she think she’s… — Francine Pascal Copy Share Image
There's many an example of disabled people having their wheelchairs lost or broken on plane journeys, but I've never had any problems.… — Liz Carr Copy Share Image
![“There are three basic ways [to use a dog to work with autistic children], one is just to be companion person and I'm thinking now more of autistic kids not somebody in a wheelchair or the dog belongs to a therapist and then it's used as an ice breaker to get the kid talking and get the kid…” quote by Temple Grandin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b0b/temple-grandin-1219_animal_there-are-three-basic-ways-to-use-a-dog_745256.png)
![“There's the paradox of making pop music when you're in your 50s. People weren't meant to be doing that originally and yet they are. Mick Jagger [used to say] we're not going to be doing Satisfaction when I'm in a wheelchair.” quote by Neil Tennant](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b7e/neil-tennant-20000_jagger_there-s-the-paradox-of-making-pop-music_2980348.jpg)
