Quotes About Wheelchairs

#1. 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

#2. Why is it that fancy hotels always locate the rooms that are supposed to be accessible to folks in wheelchairs and walkers at the end of the hall as far from the elevators as possible? And why is it those rooms are always the ones with the worst views?

Jayne Ann Krentz

#3. Fraudulent and improper payments have long bedeviled Medicare, a $466 billion program. In particular, payments for durable medical equipment, like power wheelchairs and diabetic test kits, are ripe for fraud.

Charles Duhigg

#4. The TV shouted an old black-and-white film he didn't recognize, wheelchairs facing it like church pews.

Sere Prince Halverson

#5. They walked, some of them for miles, from rural villages deep in the bush. They came in wheelbarrows, in wheelchairs. They came with babies on their back. They came the night before, some of them sleeping on the hard ground outside the polling booths so they could vote when morning came. The

Helene Cooper

#6. Little old ladies
speed away in their wheelchairs,
frightened meals on wheels.

Ryan Mecum

#7. I have a condition called Osteogenesis Imperfecta (OI), which has affected my growth and bone strength. In short, people with the kind of OI I have generally experience hundreds of fractures in their lifetime and use wheelchairs for mobility.

Stella Young

#8. Being vulgar to be funny is a crutch, and I prefer wheelchairs.

Jarod Kintz

#9. In Paris they have special wheelchairs that go through every doorway. They don't change the doorways, they change the wheelchairs. To hell with the people! If someone weighs a couple more pounds, that's it!

Itzhak Perlman

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

Mark Ruffalo

#11. There is so much pain in the world, and most of these people keep theirs secret, rolling through agonizing lives in invisible wheelchairs, dressed in invisible bodycasts.

Andrew Solomon

#12. It's just been so heartwarming to see my clothes on people in wheelchairs and people needing physical support.

Betsey Johnson

#13. When humans were young, they were pushed around in strollers. When they were old, they were pushed around in wheelchairs. In between, they were just pushed around.

Tom Robbins

#14. We should do another 10 Bad Boys movies. I could come in in one of those electric wheelchairs, like Peter Sellers in Dr Strangelove, just shouting away.

Joe Pantoliano

#15. We want to galvanize people's imaginations. With enough political will and investment, we could make wheelchairs obsolete.

Miguel Nicolelis

#16. Old ladies in wheelchairs with blankets over their legs, I don't think so ... retired mermaids.

Milton Jones

#17. Not everything in old age is grim. I haven't walked through an airport for years, and wheelchairs are the way to travel.

Donald Hall

#18. Just because we are in wheelchairs doesn't mean we can't play a fast-paced, full-contact sport.

Mark Zupan

#19. 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

#20. LOU SANDERS WAS on his way to joining the infantilized and catatonic denizens belted into the wheelchairs of a North Andover nursing home

Atul Gawande

#21. I don't think I have a demographic. I was at Comic-Con in San Diego recently, and I was doing a signing, and my line was all military guys, young girls, housewives and guys in wheelchairs. There was just everybody all over the place.

Pamela Adlon

#22. 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

#23. I learned that people in wheelchairs are allowed to have marathons ... which, to me, seems like cheating, but what are you gonna say?

Sarah Silverman

#24. My father said you can't make a living in birds, my relatives all went into business: bankers, stockbrokers. However, they eventually lost it all and died in wheelchairs. Sometimes you have to be a little aberrant.

Roger Tory Peterson

#25. I can tell you the day The Beach Boys will no longer exist - never. We'll be on stage in wheelchairs.

Dennis Wilson

#26. Yes sir, yes madam, I entreat you, get out of those motorized wheelchairs, get off your foam rubber backsides, stand up straight like men! like women! like human beings! and walk-walk-WALK upon our sweet and blessed land!

Edward Abbey

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

RJ Mitte

#28. Sometimes the monotony of bingo and sing alongs, ancient dusty people parked in the hallway in wheelchairs makes me long for death, particularly when
remember that I'm one of the ancient dusty people, filed away like some worthless chotski.

Sara Gruen

#29. I know easyJet is not luxury, but we certainly don't charge for wheelchairs or take away essentials. You have to make the passengers reasonably comfy for the sake of health.

Stelios Haji-Ioannou

#30. There are televisions and radios and the sounds of life, but too there is the sound of death, crying and oxygen tanks, and the squeaky wheels on wheelchairs. Like life and death are in a very close proximity to one another.

Jon Chopan

#31. Being confined to a wheelchair doesn't bother me as my mind is free to roam the universe, but it felt wonderful to be weightless.

Stephen Hawking

#32. If I had to last 20 years, I would probably be batting in a wheelchair.

Ricky Ponting

#33. How inappropriate,' Lila said coldly. 'Who'd ever dream of showing up at a dance in a wheelchair? What does she think she's going to do all night?

Francine Pascal

#34. Retire? I can't spell the word. I'd play in a wheelchair.

Keith Richards

#35. This machine, the wheelchair, I can go all over the place, but you need a place without stairs to get in.

Itzhak Perlman

#36. I'd rather be in this wheelchair knowing God than on my feet without him.

Joni Eareckson Tada

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

Mark Noble

#38. Just because I am wheelchair-bound doesn't mean I don't get around.

Maya Angelou

#39. 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