Akkineni Nagarjuna

I've seen my mom confined to a wheelchair in the last three years of her life. Both her knees had given way, and there was no way she could undergo surgery at her age. Even though I was concerned for her, I didn't know at that time what she had to go through.

Indian Actor

Tony Judt

No one wants to live in a wheelchair unable to talk, only winking once for yes and twice for no. It's perfectly reasonable that there will come a point where the balance of judgment of life over death swings the other way.

British Historian

Teri Garr

I feel very badly about anybody that's sick and in a wheelchair or not doing well. But you know, you have to go, 'Life is a poker game, and we're going to play our cards somehow.

American Actress

Yayoi Kusama

I have done all the work myself, not assistants. That's why I'm in a wheelchair: I've been doing it physically - it's hard labour - throughout my life.

Japanese Artist

Mary Lou Jepsen

I was going blind, and I was in a wheelchair. I thought I was going to spend the rest of my life living with my parents.

American Businesswoman

Ram Dass

The universe is an example of love. Like a tree. Like the ocean. Like my body. Like my wheelchair. I see the love.

American Psychologist

Betsey Johnson

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

American Designer

Steve Earle

My dad was in a wheelchair and on oxygen for the last few years of his life.

American Musician

Stella Young

Personally, I like a generous side of wheelchair access with my cities.

Australian Comedian

Victoria Arlen

I was told that I would be in a wheelchair for the rest of my life.

American Journalist

Use 'wheelchair' to emphasize the tool aiding mobility, not the person's condition.

Context Usage

Remember 'wheelchair' refers to the aid, not identity; don't use it to label people.

Cultural Sensitivity

'Wheelchair accessible' used to describe places easy to enter or use for wheelchair users.

Accessibility Focus

A 'wheelchair symbol' often represents general accessibility, not only wheelchair use.

Symbol Meaning

Familiarize yourself with different 'wheelchair icons' for understanding public facilities.

Recognize Icons

 and we cannot recover from that until we commit ourselves to a process of truth and reconciliation so I think this matters because we've got to create a new relationship to this history of giving a talk one time in an older man came into the church while I was talking he was in a wheelchair older black man he was sitting in the back and when I

The urgent need for...

 she experienced life-long health complications and endured many hospitalizations. She often contemplated the physical and psychological effects of disability in her work; painting herself in agony, recuperating from operations, or including objects such as her back brace and wheelchair.

Frida Kahlo: The woman...

 when an extended illness changed the way I could access the world when I started using the wheelchair it was a tremendous new freedom I'd seen my life slip away and become restricted it was like having an enormous new toy I could whizz around

Deep sea diving ... in a...

 human beings are need to be treated as a whole that's what's important to me she knew the intimacy's of sectioning a body the way we do she actually rolled her wheelchair into the freezer and looked

How a Woman's Donated...

 others to steer traffic or advance political causes. But there's one whose main purpose is to help people. You may know it as the wheelchair symbol, or a sign for people with disabilities,

What does this symbol...

 Sadly, because of deficiencies in technology, disability is rampant in the world. This gentleman is missing three limbs. As a testimony to current technology, he is out of the wheelchair,

New bionics let us run,...

 And in fact, I am sitting on this stage looking like I do in this wheelchair, and you are probably kind of expecting me to inspire you. Right? Yeah. Well, ladies and gentlemen, I'm afraid

I'm not your inspiration,...

 the wildlife and adventure series produced by bbc studios natural history unit and a full-time wheelchair user i'll be taking on a series of fast turnaround shoots in remote and

Can you make a wildlife...

 of it I love fire life controlling fire always had my whole life it's like I started with fire went to electric vehicles but now I'm into the wheelchair thing all of

Flame-Throwing...

 I started dancing in my wheelchair after my accident there was no one to help me I had to do it all on my own so I wanted it to be an easier way for