Quotes About Amputees

#1. The next morning, the earth was strewn with debris from the windstorm the night before. An audience of trees looked down on severed limbs cast about the ground, their hunched and beaten postures reminding me of a congregation of amputees gathered in the wake of a war.

John Burley

#2. I'm not going to be one of those amputees who dances and everyone finds inspiring. I'm not inspiring. I'm just me.

Katherine Locke

#3. 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 memories were aching.

Rick Riordan

#4. The other night I was playing twister with some amputees.

Demetri Martin

#5. 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. As this new generation sees it, our tools are evolving faster than the human body, so why obey the limits of mere nature?

Daniel H. Wilson

#6. 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 using the exact same prosthetic legs I have, running the exact same times I have - and that's not the case.

Oscar Pistorius

#7. 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 no longer was.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

#8. They were like amputees, only it was not a limb they were missing, but their very souls.

Diane Setterfield

#9. I have a wonderful assistant. I tell her I need four amputees and a midget, and she finds them.

Nikki Sixx

#10. Amputees suffer itches, cramps and even severe pains in a leg that is no longer there. It can be the same with love ...

Jose N. Harris

#11. The world stretches before me, the vast world of the big, the little, and the medium.

Octavio Paz

#12. Every choice one makes either expands or contracts the area in which he can make and implement future decisions. When one makes a choice, he irrevocably binds himself to the consequences of that choice.

Marion G. Romney

#13. It's so hot, Mister Dunn's rooster walks in my door and squats his red self right in front of my kitchen fan. I come in to find him looking at me like 'I ain't moving nowhere, lady

Kathryn Stockett

#14. You are the leader here. Obviiusly your skills are far superior to mine. I don't think I could fit into your life. I'm a loner, not the first lady.

Christine Feehan

#15. I am not systematic at all when it comes to religion. I just love life. And I'm not judgmental. And I'm a vegetarian.

Erykah Badu

#16. Any person without invincible prejudice who had the same experience would come to the same broad conclusion, viz., that things hitherto held impossible do actually occur.

Oliver Joseph Lodge

#17. It's an objective fact that I am a double amputee, but it's very subjective opinion as to whether that makes me disabled.

Aimee Mullins

#18. Anyone so lacking in empathy that he could systematically torment and physically degrade another should not be suffered to live.

Patrick Rothfuss

#19. Perhaps these leaders understood that the person sitting at the apex of the intelligence hierarchy is the genius maker, not the genius.

Liz Wiseman

#20. I can't write on the road. I have to be home. I have to be around all those rusted tractors and dilapidated fences and things like that, because it just grounds me in a way that I can't find in a hotel room.

John Fullbright

#21. Don't just sit there and worry. Be proactive. Do something - anything - about what's worrying you so you can gain information, focus and control over the situation. I've suffered a great many catastrophes in my life. Most of them never happened.

Mark Twain

#22. Play not the Peacock, looking everywhere about you, to see if you be well deck't.

George Washington