Deaf Quotes · Page 10

As a profoundly deaf woman, my experiences have shown me that the impossible is indeed possible!

— Heather Whitestone

“One of the best things about being deaf is that you can't hear anyone talking smack about you.”

— Ashley Fiorek

I love being deaf because it's given me a purpose, it's given me something to aim for.

— Rose Ayling-Ellis

The rain came down upon my head - Unshelter'd. And the wind rendered me mad and deaf and blind.

— Edgar Allan Poe

Everybody should learn sign language or, at least, 'Hello, do you need help? How are you?'

— Rachel Shenton

“I like great music, but who doesn’t? Oh yeah, deaf people.”

— Jarod Kintz

A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.

— Michel de Montaigne

I became deaf when I was 18 months old. And I learned to sign when I was 5 years old.

— Marlee Matlin

What the Bleep Do We Know was not written with a deaf person in mind, but when they met me, it clicked…

— Marlee Matlin

“Self-serving biases and self-centered agendas are cotton jammed in the ears of our conscience. Even if truth shouts, we can’t hear it.”

— Craig D. Lounsbrough

When you get old, you can't talk to people because people snap at you… That's why you become deaf, so you won't…

— Edward Albee

Be it terrorists or 'blinded by greed' capitalists or 'deaf and dumb and siloed' officials, special interests will always tyrannize the common…

— Mark Goulston

“It was 7 AM, so what else could I say but, “Have a great night.” Plus, he was as blind as Helen…

— Jarod Kintz

The pure products of America go crazy--mountain folk from Kentucky or the ribbed north end of Jersey with its isolate lakes and…

— William Carlos Williams

It has taken us that long to get the deaf, dumb, and blind black men in the wilderness of North America to…

— Malcolm X

When I was a child, I dreaded blindness. We used to ask: 'Would we rather be blind or deaf?' I said I'd…

— Sue Townsend

Knowledge is power." Rather, knowledge is happiness, because to have knowledge - broad, deep knowledge - is to know true ends from…

— Helen Keller

What is very exciting with children is they like to play, and they don't care so much about the meanings [of things],…

— Lucile Hadzihalilovic

The private citizen today has come to feel rather like a deaf spectator in the back row, who ought to keep his…

— Walter Lippmann

Say what you want to say about the rest of his presidency, including his tone-deaf response to Katrina and a war waged…

— Ron Fournier

All my life I've felt on the outside wherever I am - out of the picture, the conversation, at a distance, as…

— Delphine de Vigan

If you are deaf, you need captions for spoken elements. If you are blind, you need voiced descriptions of Web contents and…

— Vinton Cerf

The terms good and bad indicate no positive quality in things regarded in themselves, but are merely modes of thinking or notions,…

— Baruch Spinoza

Listening is totally different from hearing. Hearing, anybody who is not deaf can do. Listening is a rare art, one of the…

— Rajneesh

Who is so deaf or so blind as he that willfully will neither hear nor see?

— John Heywood

We're deaf men working as musicians; we play the music but we can't hear it.

— Sebastian Faulks

American Sign Language is my native tongue. That's the first thing that I learned to communicate with.

— Paul Raci

A great ancient poet was blind. A great classical composer was deaf. Many of us are dumb. What have we to show…

— Vera Nazarian

Kindness is a Language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.

— Mark Twain

Everyone was laughin'. Even that deaf mute boy was breathing heavy and pointing at me. Which is laughter to their kind.

— Dave Attell

God hears no more than the heart speaks; and if the heart be dumb, God will certainly be deaf.

— Thomas Brooks

I will love you til a mute man tells his deaf friend about a blind man that saw a guy with no…

— Anonymous

It is the tyranny of hidden prejudices that makes us deaf to what speaks to us in tradition.

— Hans-Georg Gadamer

I think deaf people are actually really good at listening, and how ironic is that?

— Paul Raci

Before working with Deaf West, I had never met a deaf person, and now I can't imagine life without ASL.

— Michael Arden

You [the Gallaudet students] have brought the deaf community together… You are my heroes.

— Tom Harkin

In other restaurants you'll see employees signing to each other, since we also hire many deaf men and women.

— Carl Karcher

“My father spoke with his hands. He was deaf. His voice was in his hands. And his hands contained his memories.”

— Myron Uhlberg

I can not remember even thinking that I was deaf when I was dancing.

— Stephanie Beacham

Kindness is a language which the deaf can hear and the and the blind can see

— Mark Twain