Wheelchairs Quotes

• The only thing we have to fear is a giant wheelchair-crushing squid. Well... uh... actually, I guess that's the only thing I have to fear.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Crush, Squids, Giants

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• The only disability in life is a bad attitude.

  Scott Hamilton

  Inspirational, Positive, Motivational Sports

  Scott Hamilton (2009). “The Great Eight: How to Be Happy (even when you have every reason to be miserable)”, p.93, Thomas Nelson Inc

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

  Hugh Laurie

  Dad, Firsts, Week

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• If I had to last 20 years, I would probably be batting in a wheelchair.

  Ricky Ponting

  Years, Lasts, Ifs

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• I feel bad for people in wheelchairs and people who have to use crutches.

  RJ Mitte

  People, Use, Crutches

  "Q&A – RJ Mitte (Walter Jr.)". AMCtv.com Interview, www.amc.com.

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• You probably think Stephen Hawking is in that wheelchair because of a motor neuron disease. But if you got as much barely-legal student poontang as The Hawkster, you'd be in a wheelchair too.

  Scott Adams

  Sex, Thinking, Neurons

  Scott Adams (2007). “Stick to Drawing Comics, Monkey Brain!: Cartoonist Explains Cloning, Blouse Monsters, Voting Machines, Romance, Monkey G ods, How to Avoid Being Mistaken for a Rodent, and More”, p.364, Penguin

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• Pity? You don't want to be pitied because you're a cripple in a wheelchair? Stay in your house!

  Jerry Lewis

  House, Want, Pity

  "CBS Sunday Morning", May 20, 2001.

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

  Annette Funicello

  Doe, Way, Disability

  Annette Funicello, Norman Vincent Peale, Christopher Reeve, Michael J. (CON) Fox (2008). “Stories to Comfort the Soul”, GuidepostsBooks

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• In Paris they have special wheelchairs that go through every doorway. They don't change the doorways, they change the wheelchairs. To hell with the people! If someone weighs a couple more pounds, that's it!

  Itzhak Perlman

  Couple, Paris, People

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

  Joni Eareckson Tada

  Feet, Knowing, Knowing God

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• The people who criticise you will not be the ones taking care of your legs when you are in your wheelchair. People who never drove a car in these conditions, they just don't know.

  Alain Prost

  People, Car, Legs

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• I can tell you the day The Beach Boys will no longer exist - never. We'll be on stage in wheelchairs.

  Dennis Wilson

  Beach, Boys, Stage

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• Old ladies in wheelchairs with blankets over their legs, I don't think so...retired mermaids.

  Milton Jones

  Funny, Humor, Thinking

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• Should you happen to notice that another person is extremely tall or overweight, eats too much or declines convivial drinks, has red hair or goes about in a wheelchair, ought to get married or ought not to be pregnant -- see if you can refrain from bringing these astonishing observations to that person's attention.

  Judith Martin

  Hair, Attention, Red

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

  Steve Gleason

  Want, Doe, Lamborghini

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• By the way, there is nothing cute about a pink wheelchair. Pink doesn't change a thing.

  Sharon M. Draper

  Cute, Way

  Sharon M. Draper (2012). “Out of My Mind”, p.3, Simon and Schuster

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

  Felix Baumgartner

  Mother, Bears, Dies

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• When we cut off access to certain parts of our cities to people on bikes or in wheelchairs, we're not only doing economic damage, we're also doing culture damage. New York is the culture capital of the world because people are running into each other on the street all the time. They are forced to engage in creativity and problem-solving.

  Ben Sollee

  Running, New York, Creativity

  "Ben Sollee Interview | Activism by cello? On a bike?". Interview with Amanda Taylor, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• Just because I am wheelchair-bound doesn't mean I don't get around.

  Maya Angelou

  Mean, Bounds

  "Obama: Maya Angelou's words 'carried a little black girl to the White House'" by Lauren Gambino, www.theguardian.com. June 7, 2014.

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• Just imagine yourself in a wheelchair. Go through the building. If there's a place you can't go in, it's not accessible.

  Itzhak Perlman

  Imagine, Building, Ifs

  Source: abilitymagazine.com

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• Pain is Pain. Broken is Broken. FEAR is the Biggest Disability of all. And will PARALYZE you More Than Being in a Wheelchair.

  Nick Vujicic

  Pain, Broken, Disability

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

  Stephen Hawking

  Mind, Wonderful, Bother

  "Q & A: Stephen Hawking and daughter Lucy". Today Interview, www.today.com. November 2, 2007.

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• If we see someone in a wheelchair, we assume they cannot walk. It may be that they can walk three, four, five steps. That, to them, means they can walk.

  Evelyn Glennie

  Motivation, Inspiration, Mean

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

  Itzhak Perlman

  Needs, Machines, Stairs

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• A man is at the bar, drunk. I pick him up off the floor, and offer to take him home. On the way to my car, he falls down three times. When I get to his house, I help him out of the car, and on the way to the front door, he falls down four more times. I ring the bell and say, Here's your husband! The man's wife says, Where's his wheelchair?

  Henny Youngman

  Husband, Fall, Home

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