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For me, the wheelchair symbolizes disability in a way a cane does not.

~Annette Funicello

Topics: Cane Disability Does Me Way Wheelchair

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I want to be an old lady, with my cane, shouting, 'Action!' and 'Cut!'

~Ava Duvernay

Topics: Action Cane Cut Lady Old Old Lady Shouting Want

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When you get to a certain age in society, they want to dictate to you when you should pack it in and that you should mentally grab a cane, a box of Depends, Geritol, listen to the oldies, and not eat spicy food after 9 o'clock.

~Bernard Hopkins

Topics: After Age Box Cane Certain Certain Age Depends Dictate Eat Food Get Grab Listen Mentally Oldies Pack Should Society Spicy Spicy Food Want You

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I really have a distaste for poets who announce themselves at 50 yards; you know, here he comes, you know, with the beret and the cane and the cape and the whatever - whatever mishegas is part of the outfit there.

~Billy Collins

Topics: Announce Cane Cape Distaste He Here Know Outfit Part Poets Really Themselves Whatever Who Yards You

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You can't go out to the mound hobbling and take a pitcher out with a cane.

~Casey Stengel

Topics: Cane Go Out Pitcher Take You

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That is why, no matter how desperate the predicament is, I am always very much in earnest about clutching my cane, straightening my derby hat and fixing my tie, even though I have just landed on my head.

~Charlie Chaplin

Topics: About Always Am Cane Derby Desperate Earnest Even Fixing Hat Head How Just Landed Matter Much Predicament Though Tie Very Why I Am

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I thought I would dress in baggy pants, big shoes, a cane and a derby hat. everything a contradiction: the pants baggy, the coat tight, the hat small and the shoes large.

~Charlie Chaplin

Topics: Baggy Big Big Shoes Cane Coat Contradiction Derby Dress Everything Hat Large Pants Shoes Small Thought Tight Would

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My forebears refused to cut the sugar cane for plantation owners, and I am recognisably a product of that background.

~Diane Abbott

Topics: Am Background Cane Cut Owners Plantation Product Refused Sugar I Am

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Well, I'm using a cane, so what? So what if they shot me sitting in a wheelchair? That's life!

~Dick Clark

Topics: Cane Life Me Shot Sitting Using Well What If Wheelchair

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My grandmother, Amalia Pia Emilia Vignola, whom I called Nonna, brought out the fairy tale in everything. She used to tuck me into bed so vigorously that I never felt anything less than comforted, and then afterwards, she would sit on a cane basket box next to my bed and read Hans Christian Andersen to me.

~Emilia Wickstead

Topics: Afterwards Anything Basket Bed Box Brought Cane Christian Comforted Everything Fairy Fairy Tale Felt Grandmother Less Me Never Next Out Read She Sit Tale Than Then Tuck Used Whom Would

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