#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

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

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

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

#away #bad #come #could #dr

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

#america #disability #israel #wheelchair #architecture