Deaf Quotes · Page 5

The deaf community and the hearing community, there's not always a ton of interaction.

— Constance Marie

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

— Mark Twain

“Language is a key. I felt so many doors were opening to me.”

— Ann Clare LeZotte

The deaf community relies so much on eye contact, expression and body language. It's such a huge part of who we are.

— Millicent Simmonds

The loss of my sight was a great fillip. If I could go deaf and dumb I think I might pant on…

— Samuel Beckett

I never really dreamed of becoming an actor because I've seen how hard it is within the deaf community.

— Lauren Ridloff

None so deaf as those that will not hear. None so blind as those that will not see.

— Matthew Henry

I would write plays for my grandmother, who was stone deaf, my mother and the dog, that was our audience.

— Jayne Meadows

Sorrow and frustration have their power. The world is moved by people with great discontents. Happiness is a drug. It can make…

— Winifred Holtby

I see thou art implacable, more deaf To pray'rs than winds and seas. Yet winds to seas Are reconcil'd at length, and…

— John Milton

So that is a shift I've seen from growing up: watching my parents feel oppressed by the hearing man, to now deaf…

— Paul Raci

The wisdom of providence is as much revealed in the rarity of genius, as in the circumstance that not everyone is deaf…

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

I am fourth-generation deaf, which means everyone in my immediate family is deaf. So I grew up always having 100 percent accessibility…

— Shoshannah Stern

A friend of mine has a son who became deaf through meningitis. He called me one spring and asked me to keep…

— Stan Mikita

We're blind, deaf and dumb. It is only that Self, which is our life force that makes who and what we are.…

— Frederick Lenz

There are two worlds: the deaf world and the hearing world. There are some people in the deaf community that feel that…

— Sean Berdy

Be deaf unto the suggestions of tale-bearers, calumniators, pick-thank or malevolent detractors, who, while quiet men sleep, sowing the tares of discord…

— Thomas Browne

When I grew up, there were no teletypewriters or video calls, so I primarily interpreted phone calls. At that time, where I…

— Jack Jason

Most people think visual information is more important than aural information - like, what's this big deal about sound? And why should…

— Gordon Hempton

Ah, many a one has started forth with hope and purpose high; Has fought throughout a weary life, and passed all pleasure…

— George Arnold

“My sister Amy lives above a deaf girl and has learned quite a bit of sign language. She taught some to me…

— David Sedaris

My son, I do not say these are foals and those asses, these little monkeys and those great baboons, as you would…

— Giordano Bruno

“In his sixties and partially deaf, Jimmy came from some vague Middle East country. Periodically, during the Iraq war, he had gone…

— Marshall Thornton

I was born deaf. I was raised in a hearing world and in a deaf world at the same time. I can't…

— Sean Berdy

It's been incredibly special to be 'EastEnders' first regular deaf actor.

— Rose Ayling-Ellis

“Music is inaudible to deaf people, just as dancing is invisible to me.”

— Jarod Kintz

They thought I was deaf when I was a kid because I was always totally off in my own little world.

— Lynne Ramsay

I think you can't deny that because the cochlear implant exists, the signing world is shrinking.

— Andrew Solomon

Just remember if we get caught, you're deaf and I don't speak English.

— Rick Riordan

There is neither a cure for nor a way to repair autism. There is no implant like there is for the deaf.

— Andrew Solomon

I'm almost completely deaf anyway. So I'm worried. I'm very worried.

— Robert Pattinson

“Oh, the things we can achieve when we aspire to the greatness within ourselves.”

— Anonymous

“I sent him a silent message with my body language, but he must be deaf—or, rather, blind.”

— Jarod Kintz

I know what deaf fans want is more stories that are authentic.

— Lauren Ridloff

Love was more than blind. It was deaf and dumb, too. It was catatonic. It was vegetative.

— Francine Pascal

Being the first deaf person to play a regular character is a huge privilege and was long overdue.

— Rose Ayling-Ellis

I think that subtitles benefit everyone: deaf, hard of hearing, hearing.

— Lauren Ridloff

As long as one people sit on another and are deaf to their cry, so long will understanding and peace elude all…

— Chinua Achebe

Helen Keller was blind and deaf when she graduated from college with honors. So what's your problem?

— Charles Stanley

Sign language is the noblest gift God has given to deaf people.

— George Veditz