Amputees Quotes
18 quotes by 15 authors
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There’s an important difference and distinction between the objective medical fact of my being an amputee and the subjective societal opinion of whether or not…
— Aimee Mullins
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The nurse is temporarily the consciousness of the unconscious, the love of life for the suicidal, the leg of the amputee, the eyes of the…
— Virginia Henderson
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If the legs did provide such an advantage that some of the people are claiming they did, then there would be a lot more amputees…
— Oscar Pistorius
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I felt more alone that week than any. Sometimes I'd feel a body lying next to me like an amputee feels a phantom limb. All…
— Harvey Pekar
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The night before my amputation, my former basketball coach brought me a magazine with an article on an amputee who ran in the New York…
— Terry Fox
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With this blistering salvo of poetic gutshots Lawson has proven himself Bizarro’s true bard, its mad laureate. Switching from dark whimsy to retina-blast shock to…
— Jeremy Robert Johnson
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If I ever saw an amputee getting hanged, I'd probably just start calling out letters.
— Demetri Martin
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I'm not an advocate for disability issues. Human issues are what interest me. You can't possibly speak for a diverse group of people. I don't…
— Aimee Mullins
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People presume my disability has to do with being an amputee, but that's not the case; our insecurities are our disabilities, and I struggle with…
— Aimee Mullins
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I've had journalists asking me, 'What do we call you - is it handicapped, are you disabled, physically challenged?' I said, 'Well hopefully you could…
— Aimee Mullins
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The goal for many amputees is no longer to reach a 'natural' level of ability but to exceed it, using whatever cutting-edge technology is available.…
— Daniel H. Wilson
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His contagious conviction that our love was unique and desperate infected me with an anxious sickness; soon we would learn to treat one another with…
— Angela Carter
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Amputees suffer pains, cramps, itches in the leg that is no longer there. That is how she felt without him, feeling his presence where he…
— Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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Percy’d heard stories about amputees who had phantom pains where their missing legs and arms used to be. That’s how his mind felt—like his missing…
— Rick Riordan
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He flipped himself onto his side and kissed me. "You're so hot," I said, my hand still on his leg. "I'm starting to think you…
— John Green
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I have a wonderful assistant. I tell her I need four amputees and a midget, and she finds them.
— Nikki Sixx
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Why Won't God Heal Amputees? http://whywontgodhealamputees.com
— Whywontgodhealamputeescom
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Y'all niggas ain't clean as my team is meanest. Hitting amputees in the knees, Jesus.
— Earl Sweatshirt
Who Wrote These Amputees Quotes
15 authors contributed a total of 18 Amputees Quotes as follows: