76 quotes about wheelchair follow in order of popularity. Be sure to bookmark and share your favorites!

Dr. Tan sent me an e-mail about two months ago and I told him no. We don't have a wheelchair division because of the difficulty of the course. We have three miles of gravel and rock and I didn't think it could be done.

Joe Duncan

I did not want to meet my queen in a wheelchair. I was on two canes, and I managed to follow the protocol, two steps back, curtsy, two steps forward, curtsy again. The queen pinned the medal on and was concerned about how I was recovering. It was a wonderful honor I will never forget.

Anna Lee

He is in a wheelchair because some of the nerves in the brain have been damaged. He has had learned to talk, hold his head up and everything again.

Sherry Scarberry

Brad Baker, the lead singer for King Snyder, has cerebral palsy and is wheelchair bound. He's worked for years with a group that was affiliated with the HCA.

Todd Russell

The best way to know how to handle situations with somebody in a wheelchair is to ask somebody in a wheelchair.

Daniel Sutherland

One of the things that is real neat to see is the start of the wheelchair race. That is really inspirational to see those guys out there.

Connie Feist

The truth was the old bleachers were really not a very good situation for someone in a wheelchair. When you build something in the 1930s, it wasn't built to accommodate wheelchairs.

Mark Mcguire

I met a man across the street, he's in a wheelchair and he patrols the neighborhood, yeah, and I met another lady across the alley and yeah, I want to meet them all.

Loretta Dahl

Until a couple of years ago, if you were in a wheelchair, you weren't expected to work.

Robert Stephens

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

Dick Clark

That really brought it home for us. As emotional as it was for people in the stands to see Tara in that wheelchair, when you start to think of what could have happened ... it makes you appreciate the fact she is still with us.

Melanie Davis

Edna has to be lifted out of bed and into her wheelchair and back. I can't do that.

Betty Ellis

They said they would buy her house, then build her a brand-new bigger house with a wheelchair ramp and pay for her health care for the rest of her life. It just blew me away.

Charles Peck

As the service moved forward toward its powerful climax, the miracles would begin. Kathryn would suddenly announce that a person in one of the balconies had been healed of an ailment, and someone in the wheelchair section was healed of cancer. On and on the announcements continued as the ushers moved up and down the aisles locating those who claimed to be healed in one of the ways described.

Margo Mong

In the time of FDR, he felt it would not have been politically expedient for him to be seen often in his wheelchair. He thought people would take that as a sign of weakness.

Alan Reich

When people see a wheelchair victim, people seem to think you've lost your brain. I need people to see that I hurt my neck, but I didn't hurt my brain.

David Winstead

I learned to find the bright side, ... I knew I was in a wheelchair, but I was happy I was there. I had two legs, and they were going to get better.

Angela Moore

They don't bark and they don't bite, and they're just the right height for someone in a wheelchair to pet.

Phil Demeulenaere

Every morning began with Roz getting her mother up, dressed and in a wheelchair, then going off to teach classes, grade papers and write for the newspaper.

W. Hull

John is not really handicapped. Yes, he's in a wheelchair, but he isn't handicapped. What he has done is an incredible achievement. John is the engine ? he's the guy who makes it all work. His energy is infectious. We're proud to include him as part of the Ducks' family.

Frank Boulton

She has the strength of a trooper. She has never complained once. She has never cried about being in a wheelchair, not once, not once.

Tonya David

She went wheelchair skiing in Tahoe. She's very into wheelchair athletics. She went to some out-of-state tournaments in Florida ... and her foster mom said she's going to start taking tennis lessons.

Steve Hiltz

It teaches them that it takes a lot of skill to play wheelchair basketball and it gives them a new respect for (what it means)to get in a chair.

Arthur Parsons

They see me wheeling around in a beautiful gown, and they realize you can look elegant, and you can lead a happy life in a wheelchair. I know I've helped handicapped people, because I've received many comments.

Anna Lee

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

I'm not used to being physical in a wheelchair, so I have to get used to that. But other than that, I like it.

James Brady

Edwin was a tough, tough old guy. He played as recently as November in Baton Rouge, even though he was playing in a wheelchair and it was difficult for him to go.

Ben Sandmel

If I find, like, a wheelchair at a garage sale. All I had was my grandpa's wheelchair to work off of and he wouldn't let me do anything to it.

Stefanie Newhouse

If a dog is less than 20 pounds, it can't pull a wheelchair. It can't guide an adult.

Dawn Capp

This new initiative at the U.S. Open reinforces our outgoing commitment to recognize the talents of those competing in wheelchair tennis at the highest levels.

Franklin Johnson

I had tremendous family support, and I had the drive to say, 'I don't want to be strapped in a wheelchair all my life.' I lost my legs in February and played my first nine holes of golf that June.

Bob Wilson

He was very emotional when he first saw Blake in the hospital. But now he helps out with his brother's exercising and pushes his wheelchair, too.

Sherry Scarberry

I actually worked him out. We joked about it. Coach [Mike] Tice called it the 'wheelchair workout' because here I was going out to Cal Berkeley to work out a kid with a broken ankle.

Dean Dalton

I remember Mark Aguirre getting out of a wheelchair to score 40 in Maine. He wasn't afraid to go anywhere to play. The older guys were like that. They would go anywhere to play because it was good for the game.

George Blaney

People shouldn't be afraid to talk to her. She loves talking to people. Just because someone is in a wheelchair, blind or whatever doesn't mean they aren't like me and you.

Tammy Barden

The SoloRider has the potential to assist many of the approximately 54 million disabled Americans. Off-course uses have included hunting, fishing and accessing hiking trails and beaches for people who would otherwise be limited to a wheelchair, which cannot traverse rough ground.

Roger Pretekin

The scenario is they are paralyzed from their waist down plus one half of their upper body. They have to navigate the apartment in a wheelchair, make a sandwich, make the bed.

Carla Granstrom

I don't want my husband to push me around in a wheelchair. I don't want someone to lead me around because I'm blind.

Della Reese

Will I spend my life in a wheelchair? Tottering around my lounge, instead of running up mountain passes or navigating glaciers?

Ranulph Fiennes

I went MS, this can't possibly be happening and it was very scary I had visions of me in a wheelchair in five years and I had no idea what would happen to me.

Cindy Miller

They have no wheelchair for him, he can barely walk, he has a cast on his left leg and he's in severe pain.

Howard Morgan

When John Kerry is president, people like Christopher Reeve are going to walk. Get up out of that wheelchair and walk again.

John Edwards

It's not really a wheelchair, gran. It's more like . . . a chair with wheels.

Gordon Mackenzie

[ X-Men producer Lauren Shuler Donner] showed me the first comic book and there was this bald guy in a wheelchair. I could see why she might have been interested in me.

Patrick Stewart

This is the only lighthouse we've ever read about or heard about that has tide pools designed for the handicapped, where you can actually take a wheelchair, go down ramps and go into the Pacific Ocean and touch the urchins and the starfish. That really impressed us.

Merv Adams

When I first came here, the wheelchair racing program was really in its fledgling stages, but by the time I left, we were a strong team with athletes from around the country and had begun to receive more support from the university. I continue to hear of both the success and struggles of the team and it makes me miss having such a strong community of athletes with disabilities all in one place.

Cheri Blauwet

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

Jerry Lewis

Some of the inner walls will be removed and an area of the building will be made available and will be rented with shelving, shopping trolleys and wide isle suitable for wheelchair ready to go.

Peter Boylan

If you break your leg, we'll push you in a wheelchair.

Sharon Henderson

I know one lady who was a marathon runner and she's in her 50s and she's confined to a wheelchair and the excitement she gets out of e-mailing me and talking. I'll be thinking about her a lot.

Shonda Schilling

He nudged an Air Force rescue worker out of the way so his camera crew could tape him as he helped lift an older woman in a wheelchair to safety.

Geraldo Rivera

A person who is enjoying life, working, going about their business and then all of a sudden they have to figure out how to live the rest of their life in a wheelchair.

Bill Adair

I know that it had to be a crack (cocaine) user, because who else would mess with an electric wheelchair?

Gary Besong

Down the road, you are going to see a lot more wheelchair athletes come out. Maybe they felt uncomfortable before, but now that it's being exposed we may see more of them.

Chuck Fales

She will definitely need to be in a wheelchair.

Dr. Roger Hudgins

We have a wheelchair war going on.

Karen Kelly

He looks very weak. He looks like he's really struggling, and the most noticeable thing is that he's in a wheelchair.

Vince Morris

I am making everything wheelchair accessible, ... I have a shower that you can roll a wheelchair into.

Angela Moore

It was horrible. Trying to beat down the panic was the worst of it. I'm sitting there in my wheelchair and suddenly water starts coming through the doors, through the windows. Clinging to the side of my roof and a tree -- I would not wish that on my worst enemy.

William Morgan

It's an incredible day for wheelchair curling in Canada. Our team played hard throughout the whole game. Now we can set our sights on repeating in our home country in 2010.

Chris Daw

My grandma usually has to help my grandpa. So, when my grandma has to go to work, he has trouble getting out of his wheelchair.

Stefanie Newhouse

Every builder should spend 24 hours in a wheelchair in their own home. They would think differently about building homes that would be more friendly to people with disabilities.

Melvin Fowler

You're supposed to get out of a wheelchair. They want you to get up and get around.

Richard Barrett

He was very much an asshole before he was in the wheelchair.

Mark Zupan

Depression set in and I would break down and realize that I'm in a wheelchair, and I can't be doing the things I used to do.

Craig Cook

Most patients gained an attitude change and were able to increase their physical activity. For someone in a wheelchair with Parkinson's, adding to their activity level is a major accomplishment.

Shirley Pogue

New York had the nicest people, but the worst wheelchair access.

Rick Lovitz

Mike's been in a wheelchair for 30 years, and had seizures for 35.

Bob Enos

Jerry touched many lives, whether he was bringing in supplies for activities or telling us about other clients who were either sad or having a bad day. I think this place did give him a chance to be independent. Even though he had limited mobility, he still could move his hand to control his electric wheelchair and had a free run of the place.

Jim Maurer

We respectfully disagree with the court's decision. We do not feel we ever intentionally discriminated against this individual. Wheelchair lifts -- even the kinds on low-floor buses -- they are mechanical devices, and they do sometimes fail.

Bob Grove

You could get a wheelchair over (the bump) too. Nobody wants a tripping hazard, but you don't have to chop down a tree to fix it.

Vincent Cotrone

Money cannot buy health, but I'd settle for a diamond-studded wheelchair.

Dorothy Parker

We once had a woman in a wheelchair, who needed assistance in the bathroom from her husband. That really touched me. We had some space set aside for telephones and we turned it into a bathroom just for the handicapped.

Randy Beaulaurier

If you get stopped by a bus, that's 10 minutes right there. Add in a wheelchair and that's another five minutes.

Carol Murray

I watched the last Olympics from a wheelchair. There was no question I would come back.

Emily Cook

Most of them cost less than $500. Someone who's in a wheelchair might need their desk elevated to fit the wheelchair. You could get creative and use cinder blocks if you want to.

Ted Morgan