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How to pry the tourists out of their automobiles, out of their back-breaking upholstered mechanized wheelchairs and onto their feet, onto the strange warmth and solidity of Mother Earth again? This is the problem which the Park Service should confront directly, not evasively, and which it cannot resolve by simply submitting and conforming to the automobile habit. ~ Edward Abbey
Wheelchairs quotes by Edward Abbey
My father and mother are both very smart people and I always felt I was a little short of the mark. So I would compensate with a character like Logan Cale. He's wearing glasses, he's in a wheelchair, he's a computer genius. He's very far away from who I am, but I really wanted to play roles where I'd be taken seriously. ~ Michael Weatherly
Wheelchairs quotes by Michael Weatherly
Retire? I can't spell the word. I'd play in a wheelchair. ~ Keith Richards
Wheelchairs quotes by Keith Richards
Large metal objects moving at high speeds have such an impact on me that I just get paralyzed. Honk if you're horny, and find men in wheelchairs sexy. ~ Jarod Kintz
Wheelchairs quotes by Jarod Kintz
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
Wheelchairs quotes by Sarah Brady
Sometimes I wonder if I'm as famous for my wheelchair and disabilities as I am for my discoveries. ~ Stephen Hawking
Wheelchairs quotes by Stephen Hawking
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
Wheelchairs quotes by Drew Brees
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
Wheelchairs quotes by Stephen Hawking
People with autism don't need wheelchairs, artifical legs, or a guide dog. Their prosthesis is people,' says Ruth Christ Sullivan, Ph.D., a founder of the Autism Society of America (ASA), and I could agree with her more. Having good direct support staff in your loved one's life is what makes the difference between a good life and a dismal one. ~ Chantal Sicile-Kira
Wheelchairs quotes by Chantal Sicile-Kira
I can't bear the thought of my mother having to push me around in a wheelchair. I'd rather die quickly. ~ Felix Baumgartner
Wheelchairs quotes by Felix Baumgartner
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
Wheelchairs quotes by Stella Young
Another thing about Oscar is that he wasn't afraid of anyone. And he always made up his own mind, no matter what other people said. They're two of the best things I remember about him now.
He wasn't just my friend. He was kind of magic. I can't really explain it better than that. He was honest and he was decent and he was always cheerful. And evem though his brother Stevie had to use a wheelchair, it wasn't a problem the way people usually think it is, because Oscar always made sure that every door was opened and every stairway had a ramp, and every train station had the right access so he could get it. He used to say that if the world was designed properly, the whole population would be flying around the place in wheelchairs. And when he said that, Stevie used to laugh. ~ Sarah Moore Fitzgerald
Wheelchairs quotes by Sarah Moore Fitzgerald
What happened, man? Gerry and Ginsberg are cold, and dead, in the ground. Kesey's stoned, and out of town. We've come to the end of the brotherhood song. The children brandish knives upon each other's throats, and their loaded 45's sit snug in lunch boxes nestled safely between Oreo cookies and a ham sandwich. Where are you now, oh ancient hipsters? Raggedy Beats beat down and broken wheel raggedy wheelchairs down ghostly geriatric wards. Where are you now, oh day-glow dreamers? Have you gotten off the bus and into your Mercedes? Did you get that second mortgage, and bear your fattened little babies? Where is that girl with flowers in her hair? Where is the man with revolution in his veins? We ask ourselves "where did we go wrong?" But there is no we. There is you, and then there is I. You do what you need to survive, And I do what I must to stay alive. We stand here Bleeding, slicing each other's wrists With the icy ridges of hardened jagged hearts, Cassandra's ~ Bearl Brooks
Wheelchairs quotes by Bearl Brooks
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
Wheelchairs quotes by Edward Abbey
I can see myself as a very old man in a terrific wheelchair. Only, I won't be photographing the tree outside my window, the way Steichen did. I'll be photographing other old people. ~ Richard Avedon
Wheelchairs quotes by Richard Avedon
I feel bad for people in wheelchairs and people who have to use crutches. ~ RJ Mitte
Wheelchairs quotes by RJ Mitte
Being vulgar to be funny is a crutch, and I prefer wheelchairs. ~ Jarod Kintz
Wheelchairs quotes by Jarod Kintz
My next climb is going to be a tourist troll in a wheelchair. ~ Allen Steck
Wheelchairs quotes by Allen Steck
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
Wheelchairs quotes by Francine Pascal
Robots are emotionless, so they don't get upset if their buddy is killed, they don't commit crimes of rage and revenge. But ... they see an 80-year-old grandmother in a wheelchair the same way they see a T80 tank; they're both just a series of zeros and ones. ~ P. W. Singer
Wheelchairs quotes by P. W. Singer
They sat in a row on the couches and in wheelchairs listening to the radio, their faded eyes fixed on the fish or on nothing or something they saw a long time ago.
Francis would always remember the shuffle of feet on linoleum in the hot and buzzing day, and the smell of stewed tomatoes and cabbage from the kitchen, the smell of old people like meat wrappers dried in the sun, and always the radio. ~ Thomas Harris
Wheelchairs quotes by Thomas Harris
The TV shouted an old black-and-white film he didn't recognize, wheelchairs facing it like church pews. ~ Sere Prince Halverson
Wheelchairs quotes by Sere Prince Halverson
She visited a nursing home nearby. 'It was actually one of the nicer ones,' she said. 'It was clean.' But it was a nursing home. 'You had the people in their wheelchairs all slumped over and lined up in the corridors. It was horrible.' It was the sort of place, she said, that her father feared more than anything. 'He did not want his life reduced to a bed, a dresser, a tiny TV, and half of a room with the curtain between him and someone else.'
But, she said, as she walked out of the place she thought, 'This is what I have to do.' Awful as it seemed, it was where she had to put him.
Why, I asked? ~ Atul Gawande
Wheelchairs quotes by Atul Gawande
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
Wheelchairs quotes by Stelios Haji-Ioannou
I am a person suffering from chronic fatigue syndrome and I am appalled that it has been given such a trivial name.

Here is a disease that totally disables most of its victims; a disease that causes balance disorders, resulting in some of us requiring wheelchairs, cognitive disorders that leave us unable to perform formerly simple mental tasks, and immune disorders that lay us open to multiple infections and to autoimmune problems.

And all the medical profession can come up with to define this syndrome to the general population is "fatigue! ~ Jane Cuozzo
Wheelchairs quotes by Jane Cuozzo
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
Wheelchairs quotes by Roger Tory Peterson
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
Wheelchairs quotes by Atul Gawande
I'd rather be in this wheelchair knowing God than on my feet without him. ~ Joni Eareckson Tada
Wheelchairs quotes by Joni Eareckson Tada
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
Wheelchairs quotes by Helene Cooper
When we cut off access to certain parts of our cities to people on bikes or in wheelchairs, we're not only doing economic damage, we're also doing culture damage. New York is the culture capital of the world because people are running into each other on the street all the time. They are forced to engage in creativity and problem-solving. ~ Ben Sollee
Wheelchairs quotes by Ben Sollee
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
Wheelchairs quotes by Linda Blair
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
Wheelchairs quotes by Hugh Laurie
Should you happen to notice that another person is extremely tall or overweight, eats too much or declines convivial drinks, has red hair or goes about in a wheelchair, ought to get married or ought not to be pregnant
see if you can refrain from bringing these astonishing observations to that person's attention. ~ Judith Martin
Wheelchairs quotes by Judith Martin
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
Wheelchairs quotes by Sara Gruen
The only thing we have to fear is a giant wheelchair-crushing squid. Well ... uh ... actually, I guess that's the only thing I have to fear. ~ Franklin D. Roosevelt
Wheelchairs quotes by Franklin D. Roosevelt
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
Wheelchairs quotes by Joe Pantoliano
I left him in his wheelchair, staring sadly into the fireplace. I wondered how many times he'd sat here, waiting for heroes that never came back. ~ Rick Riordan
Wheelchairs quotes by Rick Riordan
Go to any airport in this country and you'll see how well our government is dealing with the terrible danger you're in. TSA staffers are wanding 90-year-old ladies in wheelchairs, and burrowing through their suitcases. Toddlers are on the no-fly list. Lipsticks are confiscated. And it's all done with the highest seriousness. It's a show of protection and it stirs the fear pot, giving us over and over an image of being in grave personal peril, needing Big Brother to make sure we're safe. ~ Ann Medlock
Wheelchairs quotes by Ann Medlock
I went to an airport and asked for a wheelchair. There were three of us in wheelchairs and only two porters, so the guy took two of us at the same time. I cannot tell you how humiliating that is. ~ Itzhak Perlman
Wheelchairs quotes by Itzhak Perlman
Is it not possible to look beyond the canes, the wheelchairs, the braces, and the crutches into the hearts of the people who have need of these aids? They are human beings and want only to be treated as ordinary people. They may appear different, move awkwardly, and speak haltingly, but they have the same feelings ... They want to be loved for what they are inside, without any prejudice for their impairment. Can there not be more tolerance for differences-differences in capacity, differences in body and in mind? ~ James E. Faust
Wheelchairs quotes by James E. Faust
Old ladies in wheelchairs with blankets over their legs, I don't think so ... retired mermaids. ~ Milton Jones
Wheelchairs quotes by Milton Jones
In America access is always about architecture and never about human beings. Among Israelis and Palestinians, access was rarely about anything but people. While in the U.S. a wheelchair stands out as an explicitly separate experience from the mainstream, in the Israel and Arab worlds it is just another thing that can go wrong in a place where things go wrong all the time. ~ John Hockenberry
Wheelchairs quotes by John Hockenberry
Ecstatic over the total annihilation of the Earth, Dr. Strangelove "resurrects" himself, miraculously regaining his ability to walk. His mechanical, robot-like body rises out of his wheelchair, crying exultantly: "Sir! I have a plan. Heh." (He realizes he is standing up.) "Mein Fuehrer, I can walk!" ~ Peter Sellers
Wheelchairs quotes by Peter Sellers
This machine, the wheelchair, I can go all over the place, but you need a place without stairs to get in. ~ Itzhak Perlman
Wheelchairs quotes by Itzhak Perlman
I wouldn't care if he lost both his legs and was in a wheelchair. But it he's having a hard time ... Then I won't see him. ~ Na Hae Ryeong
Wheelchairs quotes by Na Hae Ryeong
We settled Mama into the wheelchair and loaded her down with both our pocketbooks and a vase of flowers I had picked to present to our host in hopes of softening the effects of any opinions Mama might vent during the evening. ~ Bailey White
Wheelchairs quotes by Bailey White
My mother was determined that I should be able to walk two miles. If you could walk two miles, she said, you could get to most places you needed to get to. Actually, this is a fallacy. The fact that you can, with great difficulty, and taking an unconscionably time about it, walk two miles, will not get you anywhere you need, or at any rate want, to go. There were times when a wheelchair would have added another dimension to my life, but that was a forbidden subject; and it was not until many, many years later, long after my father and I were alone, that I took the law into my own hands and bought one; and instantly, dazzled with the new freedom that it brought me, swept my father off to his old haunts on an Hellenic cruise. ~ Rosemary Sutcliff
Wheelchairs quotes by Rosemary Sutcliff
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
Wheelchairs quotes by Fulton J. Sheen
I typically start out almost every speech I give making some kind of joke about me being in a wheelchair. ~ Greg Abbott
Wheelchairs quotes by Greg Abbott
It's just been so heartwarming to see my clothes on people in wheelchairs and people needing physical support. ~ Betsey Johnson
Wheelchairs quotes by Betsey Johnson
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
Wheelchairs quotes by Itzhak Perlman
I don't care if what we do makes a profit; I care whether we get somebody out of a wheelchair. ~ Mark Noble
Wheelchairs quotes by Mark Noble
I mean, I understand that because they're disadvantaged that they deserve their own parking spots, but do they have to make them so wide? I never understood how these people were allowed to drive cars but they get these really neat chairs with wheels and they're still not happy, so instead of parking their wheelchairs in the designated spots, they upstage us normal people and get the best parking spots with vehicles that are clearly too sophisticated for them to be handling. Still, you should smile at a cripple, because it's the only bit of happiness they'll ever have. ~ Zach Braff
Wheelchairs quotes by Zach Braff
When asked about her involvements, Joni most often refers to her work at JAF Ministries, including Wheels for the World - a program through which used wheelchairs are collected, refurbished, and hand-delivered, along with Bibles, to needy disabled people in developing nations. Chuck Colson has stated, "My friend Joni Eareckson Tada is one of God's choice servants of today." Philip Yancey has added, "Through her public example, Joni has done more to straighten out warped views of suffering than all the theologians put together. Her life is a triumph of healing - a healing of the spirit, the most difficult kind." You can read more about this remarkable woman in the twentieth-anniversary edition of her autobiography, titled Joni, published by Zondervan. ~ Joni Eareckson Tada
Wheelchairs quotes by Joni Eareckson Tada
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