Wheelchairs Quotes - Page 4

• 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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• 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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• When I read the script [of Glee], the whole premise was that all the high school kids were being cruel to this kid in the wheelchair, and then the quarterback comes along and has a heart of gold and takes him out of a Porta Potty. That's too often what I see in media, that the characters with disabilities are there to make other people seem like heroes for treating the character with a disability with respect. Those are the kinds of roles that are out there.

  Zach Anner

  Hero, Heart, School

  Source: abilitymagazine.com

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• Technically I can get out of my wheelchair and crawl around and do things, but when I've traveled and they've lost my wheelchair in transit, I feel like I need to be bound to it. My functionality and autonomy are often bound to this.

  Zach Anner

  Needs, Lost, Autonomy

  Source: abilitymagazine.com

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• People don't turn away from an attorney sitting in a wheelchair. If the guy has got the reputation for being the best attorney around, that's who you go with. But in show business, for some reason they're still reluctant to say an attorney or a physician or an interior decorator can be in a chair, or on crutches, or blind or any of the other things.

  Gerald McRaney

  People, Guy, Physicians

  Source: www.abilitymagazine.com

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• In "Virginia Woolf" I had a thing which the grips called the paraplegic which was a wheelchair thing that I had made up years before where I could stand on this bicycle-like device and be pushed down the hall, and then step off it with a handheld camera.

  Haskell Wexler

  Virginia, Years, Cameras

  "Remembering Oscar-Winning Cinematographer Haskell Wexler". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. December 29, 2015.

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• I don't want my husband to push me around in a wheelchair. I don't want someone to lead me around because I'm blind.

  Della Reese

  Husband, Want, Blind

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• The bride, white of hair, is stooped over her cane Her faltering footsteps need guiding. While down the church aisle, with wan toothless smile, The groom in a wheelchair comes riding. And who is this elderly couple you ask? You'll find, when you've closely explored it, That here is that rare, most conservative pair, Who waited 'til they could afford it.

  Richard Armour

  Couple, Hair, Elderly

  Richard Willard Armour, “Too Have And Too Old”

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• 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 interacting.

  Temple Grandin

  Dog, Kids, Thinking

  "Interview with Dr. Temple Grandin" by Jenny Dean, www.floppycats.com. May 23, 2012.

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

  Mark Zupan

  Sports, People, Athens

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• The first poem in The Beauty holds a woman in Portugal in a wheelchair singing, with great power, a fado. I have never seen this or heard of it, the image simply arrived. But surely such a thing has happened. And it matters to me that it has, or could.

  Jane Hirshfield

  Singing, Matter, Firsts

  "Of Amplitude There Is No Scraping Bottom: An Interview with Jane Hirshfield". Interview with Rebecca Olson, tinhouse.com. March 16, 2015.

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

  Stella Young

  Use, Disability, Environment

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• I was always kind of finding humor to be an access point to the conversation, to a pain relief, if you will. My mother was in a wheelchair since I was very young, so she was in pain and we used humor.

  Tom Shadyac

  Mother, Pain, Relief

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• There's still so much more to do. I can't sit back and be complacent, and none of us should be. I get around now in a wheelchair, but I get around.

  Elizabeth Taylor

  Should, Complacent, Stills

  "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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• People need to remember that to balance the federal budget off the backs of the poorest people in the country is simply unacceptable. You don't pull feeding tubes from people. You don't pull the wheelchair out from under the child with muscular dystrophy.

  Mike Huckabee

  Country, Children, People

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• As for my destination, I don’t think I ever knew one. I walk, I run in the direction of my dreams. Things change along the way, people change, I change, the world changes, even my dreams change. I don’t have a place to arrive, I just keep doing what I know how to do, the best that I can do it. I’ll probably end up a deluded geriatric in a wheelchair wearing a cape and tights, imagining my own flight out of this world, but of course with a young girl in my arms.

  Shahrukh Khan

  Girl, Running, Dream

  "SHAHRUKH KHAN's speech at Yale: I can’t fix my age – am I 45 or 15?". www.bollywoodlife.com. April 16, 2012.

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• My dad was in a wheelchair and on oxygen for the last few years of his life.

  Steve Earle

  Dad, Oxygen, Years

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• You can take them in a wheelchair and put them in a pool, so they can move their arms and legs. In a pool disabled people can do things that they can't normally do otherwise.

  Jack LaLanne

  Moving, People, Legs

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• Towards the end of 2003 it was hard to get through training - and the darkest point was when a doctor told me there was a possibility I could end up in a wheelchair.

  Jonah Lomu

  Doctors, Training, Possibility

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

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• In America access is always about architecture and never about human beings. Among Israelis and Palestinians, access was rarely about anything but people. While in the U.S. a wheelchair stands out as an explicitly separate experience from the mainstream, in the Israel and Arab worlds it is just another thing that can go wrong in a place where things go wrong all the time.

  John Hockenberry

  Israel, America, People

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• It was physically difficult, adjusting to wheelchair
  life, but I remember a great relief and happiness that I was finally
  getting somewhere, finding musicians to work with that were sympathetic.

  Robert Wyatt

  Happiness, Musician, Relief

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• Once, hurrying through a busy airport to get to my gate on time for a connecting flight, I came upon a lady in a wheelchair. Amidst the chaos of the hundreds of people rushing around us, my eyes met hers. The sweetest smile appeared on her face. I smiled back, but I knew she would never fully realize how that small gesture had filled my soul. I believe that God is in our everyday. Many moments occur in our lives which reveal his face, his touch, his voice. Look for him today. He will be found.

  Kathy Troccoli

  God, Believe, Eye

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• In wheelchair sports, people thought athletes with disabilities were courageous and inspirational. They never give them credit for simply being competitive.

  Jean Driscoll

  Success, Sports, Athlete

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• Sometimes I wonder if I'm as famous for my wheelchair and disabilities as I am for my discoveries.

  Stephen Hawking

  Discovery, Disability, Sometimes

  "Hawking: Is He All He's Cracked Up To Be?" by Michael D. Lemonick, time.com. February 3, 2014.

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