Christopher Reeve Quotes

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.

By far, the most disabling thing in my life is the physical environment. It dictates what I can and can't do every day.

There are plenty of people who have legs who are way more disabled than me.

You're always going to be struggling if you haven't got a left foot.

I was actually in an iron lung for about a year, and then I was paralysed from the neck down for another year after that. So I spent a lotta time just lying down as a kid. And some of my earliest memories from then are of listening to the radio.

You can really do amazing things in a wheelchair. It's very dangerous if you don't know what you're doing, but you can even go up and down stairs in a wheelchair.

I feel bad for people in wheelchairs and people who have to use crutches.

Let me make this clear: my impairment is such that without a wheelchair, I can't do very much for myself. I can't get out of bed. I can't get myself to the toilet. I certainly can't get myself to work.

I use an electric wheelchair because I have no sense of balance, and muscle spasticity has arched my spine like a cat's, while my legs are really just for show.

I've always found people with physical disabilities interesting to watch: how the dynamics of their body work, what makes them move this way or that.

Touch a man who can't walk up right, and that lame man, he's gonna fly.

When you lose your hands, you can't play baseball.

At least he never walked.

I have only one eye, I have a right to be blind sometimes... I really do not see the signal!

I hate being immobile.

I think it was hard at first for my dad to transition to being immobile.

I've had 36 orthopedic operations, have two fused ankles, my knees, hands and wrists don't work, I now have a fused spine, other than that, everything is great.

It's factual to say I am a bilateral-below-the-knee amputee. I think it's subjective opinion as to whether or not I am disabled because of that. That's just me.

I am not the paraplegic seated permanently in his chair or the able-bodied person on her feet. Identity for a hemiplegic is a shifty thing.

I've had journalists asking me, 'What do we call you - is it handicapped, are you disabled, physically challenged?' I said, 'Well hopefully you could just call me Aimee. But if you have to describe it, I'm a bilateral below-the-knee amputee.'

I can no longer walk in the street. That's over.

I am technically healthy but my body is no more valid than someone's who isn't.

I got really, really sick with a horrible disease called transverse myelitis; I lost my legs. I couldn't play anymore. It was a form of multiple sclerosis, which I wouldn't wish on my worst enemy.

You know, some people think since I can't move I am a vegetable. Wrong. Just picture yourself as you are, just always sitting down and if you need something a hot babe takes care of you. I am exaggerating a little, but this is how I see it.

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