Amy Purdy
12 quotes
Biography
"I love the smell of rain, and I love the sound of the ocean waves."
"I've never wanted sympathy votes in anything I do in my life."
"I've learned that borders are where the actual ends, but also where the imagination and the story begins."
"I don't want to see myself as this sad, disabled girl. I know that. I don't want other people to see me as that, either."
"In my dreams, whatever I am doing, I look down to see if I have prosthetics. It sets my time frame in my dream, I think. I'd have these dreams that I am running and launching myself, and I look down and see that I have prosthetics. I have a lot of those, where I do great, amazing things with my prosthetics."
"I was in kidney failure. I ended up having a kidney transplant on my 21st birthday."
"Pfizer's actually teamed up with my nonprofit organization, which is called Adaptive Action Sports. I cofounded this organization in 2005 to help people with physical disabilities get involved in action sports, go snowboarding, skateboarding."
"We did everything we could to save my legs, and it just came to a point where if we didn't amputate my legs, I wouldn't survive. In that situation, you kind of go into survival mode, and you find strength."
"I got this second chance at life, and I live it."
"I feel that losing both my legs was a blessing. It was meant to happen to me: I wouldn't have had the opportunity to touch so many lives in such a positive way."
"You don't have to be positive all the time."
"When I turned 16 and got my license, the Chevy Blazer was passed down from my sister, so it was very much a starter car."