#wheelchair

There are people I would like to work with. It's a bit harder, because I live out in the sticks anyway, and plus being in a wheelchair means that I can't really circulate. So I tend to stick to my own thing. ↗

— Robert Wyatt

#because #being #bit #circulate #harder

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

#cannot #five #four #may #means

I've found that it's actually more of a disability to be tall than short. I have no problem fitting into plane toilets etc, and the adaptations made for wheelchair users - such as the lowering of bank machines - work for me as well. ↗

— Warwick Davis

#bank #disability #etc #fitting #found

For me, the wheelchair symbolizes disability in a way a cane does not. ↗

— Annette Funicello

#disability #does #me #symbolizes #way

My dad gave me my first bike at 16. I soon fell off and was in a wheelchair for weeks. I haven't fallen since. ↗

— Hugh Laurie

#dad #fallen #fell #first #gave

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

#darkest #doctor #end #get #hard

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

#couple #doorway #every #go #hell

The people who criticise you will not be the ones taking care of your legs when you are in your wheelchair. People who never drove a car in these conditions, they just don't know. ↗

— Alain Prost

#care #conditions #criticise #drove #just

The gun lobby finds waiting periods inconvenient. You have only to ask my husband how inconvenient he finds his wheelchair from time to time. ↗

— Sarah Brady

#finds #from time to time #gun #his #how

Well, I'm using a cane, so what? So what if they shot me sitting in a wheelchair? That's life! ↗

— Dick Clark

#i #life #me #shot #sitting