Top 77 Quotes About Crutches: Famous Quotes & Sayings About Crutches

#1. A half-starved limping government, always moving upon crutches and tottering at every step ...

#2. Jesus H. Mary mother of Christ in crutches, came Daemon's voice.
I'm not sure that's how it goes, I told him.

Jennifer L. Armentrout

#3. One foote is better then two crutches.

George Herbert

#4. Visiting Anderson Silva. He's doing AMAZING! Leg is healing fast and will be walking without crutches in 30 days.

Dana White

#5. For me, a happy ending is not everything works out just right and there is a big bow, it's more coming to a place where a person has a clear vision of his or her own life in a way that enables them to kind of throw down their crutches and walk.

Jill McCorkle

#6. When I was a child I had something called Perthes' Disease which meant I was on crutches, so I was bullied at school and all that sort of stuff.

Antony Beevor

#7. I look at smoking as a crutch, and as an actor I would like strip away as many crutches as possible.

Claire Forlani

#8. The road to Lourdes is littered with crutches, but not one wooden leg.

Emile Zola

#9. I'd been brought up on the Upper East Side in a WASP society, which was death on crutches.

Harry Mathews

#10. If you had weak eyes, they needed exercise to get strong. Glasses were like crutches. They prevented people with feeble eyes from seeing the world on their own.

Jeannette Walls

#11. To reason, to argue. It is to walk with crutches in search of the truth. We come to it with a leap.

Joseph Joubert

#12. Being seduced by a man on crutches was an interesting experience.

Natalie Dormer

#13. Later she would think about how he'd snuck up on her so silently. The man was on crutches - what was he, a ninja or something?

Sarah Mayberry

#14. A blind, anemic, weak-kneed flea on crutches would have a greater chance of defeating a herd of a thousand wild stampeding elephants, than the enemy has of defeating God.

Ray Comfort

#15. Only he who bestirs himself can advance spiritually. The fool who uses extraneous aids for this, in the form of the ready-made opinions of others, only walks his path as if on crutches, while ignoring his own healthy limbs.

ABD- RU-SHIN

#16. Being on one crutch to no crutches is a huge difference.

Lindsey Vonn

#17. When I bite you, it'll be because I want to make your toes curl and your hair stand on end. And you won't need stitches afterward. You'll need crutches.

Jennifer Rardin

#18. Quit trying to talk yourself out of
going," Della said.
"How do you know that's what I'm
doing?"
"Because I can see it on your face. And
because you couldn't walk any slower if
you were a turtle on crutches.

C.C. Hunter

#19. Some days you see lots of people on crutches.

Peter Kay

#20. All my life I had feared imprisonment, the nun's cell, the hospital bed, the places where one faced the self without distraction, without the crutches of other people.

Edna O'Brien

#21. Guns are the crutches of the impotent.

Arthur C. Clarke

#22. Your as slow as a fat kid on crutches

P.C. Cast

#23. I'm not too heavy?" she asked. He had just come off crutches, after all.
Sophie, you're practically a midget," he reminded her.

Sarah Mayberry

#24. To the man on crutches, dressed in camouflage, who stole my wallet ... you can hide but you can't run.

Milton Jones

#25. Ill news are swallow-winged, but what is good walks on crutches.

Philip Massinger

#26. They, the selfish ones, are like spiritual lame people who use other beings as crutches to walk on the path of life. And they are the Blind of Spirit who never find Love, because they do not know how to love and do not let themselves be loved

Ivan Figueroa-Otero

#27. But to talk of the world that is hidden in every woman is a journey of pain, for the words are not in use to tell of it, and to use the words that are is only a hopping on uneven crutches.

Richard Llewellyn

#28. Pray the largest prayers.pray not for crutches but for wings.

Phillips Brooks

#29. Our hours in love have wings; in absence, crutches.

Miguel De Cervantes

#30. Faith: a device of the mind, fed by the soul, that functions like crutches to a man in a wheelchair.

Jarod Kintz

#31. He lights a cigarette off a candle. These death-tubes, these little crutches or fuses: useful for getting through all sorts of things you don't want to get through.

Garth Risk Hallberg

#32. Pride will tell you, you don't need crutches, but humility is more powerful than pride.

Lorilyn Roberts

#33. Let guilty men remember, their black deeds
Do lean on crutches made of slender reeds.

John Webster

#34. I have a one-legged friend and I asked her what they said to John at the gate. She said she reckoned they said, "The lame shall enter first." This may be because the lame will be able to knock everybody else aside with their crutches.

Flannery O'Connor

#35. The censure of frequent and long parentheses has led writers into the preposterous expedient of leaving out the marks by which they are indicated. It is no cure to a lame man to take away his crutches.

Richard Whately

#36. Friendship is so much healthier than other crutches -alcohol or TV or religious fanaticism. One healthy crutch shouldn't be against the rules.

Tim Sandlin

#37. In chemistry, our theories are crutches; to show that they are valid, they must be used to walk ... A theory established with the help of twenty facts must explain thirty, and lead to the discovery of ten more.

Jean-Baptiste Dumas

#38. My father always said excuses are the crutches for the untalented.

Ken Venturi

#39. Trying to fall out of love is like trying to climb a mountain. Blindfolded, on crutches, naked in a hail storm.

Louise Caiola

#40. For only while telling the truth does the truth lighten us. When we stop, it turns massive. I left some of my bags on that corner of Green Street somewhere below the equator. Now I carry less and try to dance on my crutches. For only while loving do the pains of feeling lighten.

Mark Nepo

#41. Right and proof are two crutches for everything bent and crooked that limps along.

Franz Grillparzer

#42. "Do not lean on your own understanding." That means don't bring in the crutches and lean on them, those crutches that you have designed and made to handle such situations. Stay away from them. Don't lean on them; lean on God.

Charles R. Swindoll

#43. I learned very quickly that when you emigrate, you lose the crutches that have been your support; you must begin from zero, because the past is erased with a single stroke and no one cares where you're from or what you did before.

Isabel Allende

#44. Were it not for the bone in the legge, all the world would turne Carpenters (to make them crutches).

George Herbert

#45. I am careful never to talk about religion. Who am I to kick at people's crutches?

Yann Martel

#46. The simplest consequence of walking on crutches is that you walk slower. Every step must be a necessary one. When you hurry, you get where you're going, but you get there alone. When you go slow, you get where you're going, but you get there with a community you've built along the way.

Bruce Feiler

#47. Thinking of getting into the leg-breaking business, so I can profitably sell crutches later.

Anthony Bourdain

#48. Every breath I take becomes deeper, and I become more confident of myself without my crutches. The lies I've filled my body and soul with aren't needed anymore. They're not welcome. I choose to live, not just exist.

James Hetfield

#49. If everybody walks into the room wearing crutches you don't know who can stand on their own two feet.

Joel Salatin

#50. Silks" ... "China" ... "Men's Suits" ... but what about canes? ... or crutches?
"Oh, certainly ... yes, yes, of course ... third floor ...

Louis-Ferdinand Celine

#51. Would you get your butt in here? Shit, you are slow as a fat kid on crutches, Zoey.

P.C. Cast

#52. The only way God can strengthen his presence in our will is to weaken his presence in our feelings. Otherwise we would become spiritual cripples, unable to walk without emotional crutches. This is why he gives us dryness, sufferings, and failures.

Peter Kreeft

#53. Time goes on crutches till love have all his rites.

William Shakespeare

#54. Government is only a necessary evil, like other go-carts and crutches. Our need of it shows exactly how far we are still children. All governing overmuch kills the self-help and energy of the governed.

Wendell Phillips

#55. I believe in greater self-sufficiency. International sport is tough, no doubt, but there shouldn't be too many crutches. In most cases sports psychologists are crutches, and they tend to soften rather than harden the players.

Glenn Turner

#56. As a rule, people are afraid of truth. Each truth we discover in nature or social life, destroys the crutches on which we need to lean.

Ernst Toller

#57. Don't live your whole life on holy crutches.

Bryant McGill

#58. Have we forgotten that there is a Holy Ghost, that we must insist upon walking on crutches when we might fly?

A.B. Simpson

#59. As a person with cerebral palsy who walks with crutches, people have the assumption that I've had to overcome a lot of obstacles in my life because of it, and to some degree, I have. However, the most difficult obstacle to overcome is other people's perception of who a person with a disability is.

Greg Walloch

#60. Life coaching is about drawing a person's potential out, developing his strengths and letting him see that weaknesses need not remain crutches for the rest of his life.

James Browning

#61. Religion is a crutch, and only the crippled need crutches.

Madalyn Murray O'Hair

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

RJ Mitte

#63. Excuses are the crutches of the uncommitted.

A.R. Bernard

#64. There were many tomorrows to be lived through his children. He could only hope that they would face them more courageously than he had, that his mistakes would serve as warning signs rather than crutches to lean on.

Roy L. Pickering Jr.

#65. My body could stand the crutches but my mind couldn't stand the sideline.

Michael Jordan

#66. Once and for all the idea of glorious victories won by the glorious army must be wiped out. Niether side is glorious. On either side they're just frightened men messing their pants and they all want the same thing - not to lie under theearth, but to walk upon it - without crutches.

Peter Weiss

#67. Pray the largest prayers. You cannot think a prayer so large that God, in answering it, will not wish you had made it larger. Pray not for crutches but for wings.

Phillips Brooks

#68. In fact, sometimes I was sure that the reason people stared at you with your crutches and wheelchair had nothing to do with your disabilities, and everything to do with the fact that you had abilities that they only dreamed of.

Jodi Picoult