Wheelchairs – Quotes

If we see someone

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

There\\’s still so much

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

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

Visiting someone in a

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 … Read more

Walking the streets of

Walking the streets of Tokyo with Hawking in his wheelchair … I felt as if I were taking a walk through Galilee with Jesus Christ [as] crowds of Japanese silently streamed after us, stretching out their hands to touch Hawking’s wheelchair. … The crowds had streamed after Einstein [on Einstein’s visit to Japan in 1922] … Read more

The only thing we

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

I can\’t bear the

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

We all understand what

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

Money cannot buy health,

Money cannot buy health, but I’d settle for a diamond-studded wheelchair. Dorothy Parker

I want to be

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 … Read more