It's different for each individual. It's different when you talk about homosexuality. It's different when you talk about a malady like deafness.… — Famke Janssen Copy Share Image
Blindness separates people from things; deafness separates people from people. — Helen Keller Copy Share Image
No history of the world can be complete which does not mention Mary Helen Keller... whose overcoming of her blindness and deafness… — Theodore Zeldin Copy Share Image
The students at Gallaudet University deserve our congratulations. They educated the nation about deafness, and won a long overdue victory for all… — Michael Dukakis Copy Share Image
John Glenn's father, known as Herschel, was mostly deaf from injuries in World War I. To help out at home, young Glenn… — Bill Dedman Copy Share Image
During a visit to California, when a friend of my grandmother's told my parents that I must be deaf because I was… — Marlee Matlin Copy Share Image
Brimstone: '...I shall smite thee with my fightful blasting wand so that thy teeth shall drop out, thy skin shall wrinkle, thou… — Herbie Brennan Copy Share Image
I had once believed that we were all masters of our fate--that we could mold our lives into any form we pleased...… — Helen Keller Copy Share Image
What matters deafness of the ear, when the mind hears? The one true deafness, the incurable deafness, is that of the mind. — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
Deafness, though it be total and congenital, imposes no limits on the intellectual development of its subjects, save in the single direction… — Edward Miner Gallaudet Copy Share Image
“My father spoke with his hands. He was deaf. His voice was in his hands. And his hands contained his memories.” — Myron Uhlberg Copy Share Image
By deafness one gains in one respect more than one loses; one misses more nonsense than sense. — Horace Walpole Copy Share Image
“Relatedness is vital in a time when so many people suffer from social deafness. Emotional insensitivity being caused by a redoubtable “tin… — Erik Pevernagie Copy Share Image
At Gallaudet, deafness isn't an issue. You don't even think about it. Students can pay attention to accounting or psychology or journalism.… — I. King Jordan Copy Share Image
“One of the greatest tragedies in my life is my deafness, for it's been over twenty years now since I've been able… — Luis Buñuel Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“I'm always trying to figure out what's really going on. Always having to fill in the gaps, but never getting all the… — Chrissie Keighery (Perry Copy Share Image
And I found out about the wonderful world of sign language. I suddenly realized: If we as a society recognize Jewish culture,… — Andrew Solomon Copy Share Image
Why shouldn't I be interested in politics? That is to say, what blindness, what deafness, what density of ideology would have to… — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
I always say deafness is a silent disability: you can't see, and it's not life-threatening, so it has to touch your life… — Rachel Shenton Copy Share Image
I live my life like everyone else; everyone has their own obstacles. Mine is deafness. — Marlee Matlin Copy Share Image
The world is his who can see through its pretension. What deafness, what stone-blind custom, what overgrown error you behold, is there… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
