George Herbert Quotes

I am doing better now though one of my legs is shorter than the other due to the operations.

Our bones ache only while the flesh is on them.

The hardest thing for me is walking. Can you imagine you've got a metal pole and if you put pressure on it like a strong walk, you can walk.

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.

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.

When I was born, they put casts on my legs 'cause I had some kind of dysplasia or something. My legs were all messed up.

I've never been tall. So it's not like I was six-foot, got paralyzed, and now I'm in a wheelchair. It doesn't really faze me all that much.

If there's one thing I don't have, it's an insular bone.

I was born with fairly serious scoliosis, and I did not walk at all until I was about two-and-a-half years old.

I had a wreck during a race in Michigan, which led to the hyperextension of my left leg and subsequent amputation.

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 was riding pillion on my friend's motorbike, and we met with an accident which badly injured my right leg. I was bedridden for three years and used crutches for one year before I fully recovered.

I did not walk for the first four years of my life.

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

I was born with a crippled leg. I wore a corrective shoes since I was three years old and I still wear them.

I began thinking about my skeleton, this solid, beautiful thing inside me that I would never see.

A body without bones would be a limp impossible mess, so a day without steady routine would be disruptive and chaotic.

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

Injuries are tough. I tore my ACL 50 percent in my left leg. I can't kick. I'm not going to fight without my left leg, which is my best weapon.

Today, I am a touring standup comic who cannot stand up. Within three minutes, I begin to wilt, lose my balance, and topple over. I can tap dance and run in heels, but I need to use a wheelchair to navigate airports.

If everybody walks into the room wearing crutches you don't know who can stand on their own two feet.

Fear is a bigger disability than having no arms and no legs.

in California I began to think that, except on the beaches, no-one had the use of their legs.

My handicap? Man, I am a one-eyed, black Jew! That's my handicap!

Just because I am wheelchair-bound doesn't mean I don't get around.