Wheelchairs Quotes - Page 3

• 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 won't see him.

  Na Hae Ryeong

  Drama, Hard Times, Legs

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• I left him in his wheelchair, staring sadly into the fireplace. I wondered how many times he’d sat here, waiting for heroes that never came back.

  Rick Riordan

  Hero, Waiting, Fireplaces

  Rick Riordan (2009). “Percy Jackson and the Battle of the Labyrinth”, p.168, Penguin UK

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• Wheelchairs can have a huge impact on keeping people safe, because many who use them cannot move independently. They have mobility restrictions and they're on the floor relying on someone to pick them up. So, when they're in their wheelchairs, they feel a lot safer and more independant.

  Mohammed Saeed Harib

  Moving, Impact, People

  Source: abilitymagazine.com

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• When guys come over to date my daughter, I'm going to tell them, 'I want you to go out and have a very good time with my daughter. I want you to enjoy yourself and have her home on time. If you abuse her in any way, I'm going to kill your mother and father, cut your back open, pull out your spine, and leave you in a wheelchair so you can think about what you did for the rest of your life. Now, go out and have a good time!'

  Conrad Dobler

  Daughter, Mother, Father

  "Conrad Dobler: What I've Learned" by Cal Fussman, www.esquire.com. January 29, 2007.

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• Ecstatic over the total annihilation of the Earth, Dr. Strangelove "resurrects" himself, miraculously regaining his ability to walk. His mechanical, robot-like body rises out of his wheelchair, crying exultantly: "Sir! I have a plan. Heh." (He realizes he is standing up.) "Mein Fuehrer, I can walk!"

  Peter Sellers

  Robots, Drs, Body

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• I was born with scoliosis. I have a double curvature of the spine, and it's forced me to use a wheelchair because the disease has really taken hold. It really saddens me that I can't ride.

  Elizabeth Taylor

  Taken, Disease, Use

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Most great parts for guys in wheelchairs tend to go to actors who walk.

  Mark Ruffalo

  Guy, Actors, Walks

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I've found that it's actually more of a disability to be tall than short. I have no problem fitting into plane toilets etc, and the adaptations made for wheelchair users - such as the lowering of bank machines - work for me as well.

  Warwick Davis

  Toilets, Etc, Machines

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• Commuting in a wheelchair is not easy. I live in a very old part of Rome. These cobbles everywhere... terrible! In London, it is the same. Every pavement is uneven.

  Bernardo Bertolucci

  Rome, London, Pavement

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• I never thought I was finished when people said I was finished, or any of that stuff. I always had this undying belief that even if I was in a wheelchair and I could only move my finger, somehow I would become the guy who does the amazing thing with his finger.

  Jim Carrey

  Moving, People, Guy

  "Yes Man - Jim Carrey interview". Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• I thought being in the wheelchair might be kind of limiting for me as an actor. It turned out cool in a lot of ways. Of course, at the end of the day, I can get up out of the chair and go home, but I'm very acutely aware that most people can't, so I try to give the situation that depth.

  Jim Beaver

  Home, People, Giving

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• I don't care if what we do makes a profit; I care whether we get somebody out of a wheelchair.

  Mark Noble

  Care, Profit, Ifs

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• Confiscation in any form is an unhealthy solution for a real disease. It amounts to telling men that because they are economically crippled, they must abandon all efforts to get well and allow the state to provide them with free wheelchairs.

  Fulton J. Sheen

  Real, Get Well, Men

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• My bike is my gym, my wheelchair and my church all in one. I'd like to ride my bike all day long but I've got this thing called a job that keeps getting in the way.

  Bill Walton

  Jobs, Long, Church

  "Bill Walton Is Talkin' With TJ". Interview with Tom James, www.nba.com.

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• I didn't have a girlfriend until I was 29, and I thought it was because I'm in a wheelchair. And I realized that it's not that, it's because I listened to what the dismissive part of society was telling me and accepted it as truth. There was nothing that was keeping me from dating or falling in love other than the fact that I was scared of being rejected. And everybody has that fear. That's a universal thing.

  Zach Anner

  Falling In Love, Girlfriend, Dating

  Source: abilitymagazine.com

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• I give away wheelchairs to people who need them because they're expensive and not everybody can afford one. So I figured why not raise funds to buy the chairs and improve people's ability to get around.

  Mohammed Saeed Harib

  People, Giving, Needs

  Source: abilitymagazine.com

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

  Greg Abbott

  Giving, Speech, Kind

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• 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.

  Neil Tennant

  People, Satisfaction, Paradox

  "Pet Shop Boys: cab drivers ask us if we've retired". Interview with Dorian Lynskey, www.theguardian.com. September 13, 2012.

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• Poets are regarded as handicapped writers whose work must be treated with a tender condescension, such as one accords the athletic achievements of basketball players confined to wheelchairs.

  Thomas M. Disch

  Basketball, Player, Achievement

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• I want to be like one of those little fainting goats that get scared and then just fall over. I want to go and go and then drop dead in the middle of something I'm loving to do. And if that doesn't happen, if I wind up sitting in a wheelchair, at least I'll have my high heels on.

  Dolly Parton

  Fall, High Heels, Wind

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• It's like people you see sometimes, and you can't imagine what it would be like to be that person, whether it's somebody in a wheelchair or somebody who can't talk. Only, I know that I'm that person to other people, maybe to every single person in that whole auditorium.
  To me, though, I'm just me. An ordinary kid.

  R. J. Palacio

  Kids, People, Ordinary

  "Wonder". Book by R. J. Palacio, 2012.

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• What sense would it make to classify a man as handicapped because he is in a wheelchair today, if he is expected to be walking again in a month, and competing in track meets before the year is out? Yet Americans are generally given 'class' labels on the basis of their transient location in the income stream. If most Americans do not stay in the same broad income bracket for even a decade, their repeatedly changing 'class' makes class itself a nebulous concept. Yet the intelligentsia are habituated, if not addicted, to seeing the world in class terms.

  Thomas Sowell

  Men, Years, Class

  Thomas Sowell (1995). “The Vision of the Anointed: Self-congratulation as a Basis for Social Policy”, Basic Books

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• Visiting someone in a hospital recently, I watched an elderly couple. The man was in a wheelchair, the wife sitting next to him in the visitors' room. For the half-hour that I watched they never exchanged a word, just held hands and looked at each other, and once or twice the man patted his wife's face. The feeling of love was so thick in that room that I felt I was sharing in their communion and was shaken all day by their pain, their love, something sad and also joyful: the fullness of a human relationship.

  Eda LeShan

  Love, Couple, Pain

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• We all understand what we signed up for, but then again, you don't want this to be a game that puts people in wheelchairs at age 40.

  Drew Brees

  Football, Inspiration, Games

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• Is it not possible to look beyond the canes, the wheelchairs, the braces, and the crutches into the hearts of the people who have need of these aids? They are human beings and want only to be treated as ordinary people. They may appear different, move awkwardly, and speak haltingly, but they have the same feelings. ... They want to be loved for what they are inside, without any prejudice for their impairment. Can there not be more tolerance for differences-differences in capacity, differences in body and in mind?

  James E. Faust

  Moving, Inspiration, Heart

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