#wheelchair

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

Pity? You don't want to be pitied because you're a cripple in a wheelchair? Stay in your house! ↗

— Jerry Lewis

#cripple #house #pitied #pity #stay

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

— Betsey Johnson

#clothes #heartwarming #just #needing #people

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

#sweet-valley #wheelchairs #dreams

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

— Felix Baumgartner

#bear #die #having #i #me

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

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

There was a golden retriever who saved countless lives on September 11 by going back in to find people. His companion was in a wheelchair. He got him out and kept going back in to save others. ↗

— Linda Blair

#companion #countless #find #going #golden

He smiled all the way to physics class. He almost laughed out loud when he passed through the door and saw her shadowy, hunched-over form casting around for a seat in the back. She was in his class; this was excellent. Maybe she’d call him a name if he struck up another conversation. Even curse him out. That might fun. God, he’d probably earn himself a restraining order if he tried to sit next to her. He was so tired of saccharine smiles and cloying tones of voice. People always plastered their eyes to his face for fear of looking anywhere else. He was fed up with everybody being so goddamned nice. That’s why he’d already fallen in love with this weird, maladjusted, beautiful girl who carried a chip the size of Ohio on her shoulder. Because nobody was ever mean to the guy in the wheelchair. ↗

— Francine Pascal

#cloying #hunched #maladjusted-people #saccharine #school