Deaf Quotes

417 quotes by 313 authors

Love was more than blind. It was deaf and dumb, too. It was catatonic. It was vegetative. — Francine Pascal
Faith is not a soft option offered to people who need a crutch to get through the rest of their lives. Faith is the supernatural… — Alistair Begg
And, anyway, no matter how much you may behave like the deaf adder of Scripture which, as you are doubtless aware, the more one piped,… — P.G. Wodehouse
And as I grew older, I then auditioned for the Royal Academy of Music in London, and they said, well, no, we won't accept you,… — Evelyn Glennie
I'm not a deaf musician. I'm a musician who happens to be deaf. — Evelyn Glennie
Be deaf, be blind, be dead to gossip, and it will grow disgusted with you and select a more sensitive victim. — Charles Spurgeon
Being preoccupied with our self-image is like being deaf and blind. It's like standing in the middle of a vast field of wildflowers with a… — Pema Chodron
I knew he would never play for Wales ... he's tone deaf. — Unknown Author
God hears no more than the heart speaks; and if the heart be dumb, God will certainly be deaf. — Thomas Brooks
France turned a deaf ear to the demands, but Ho had succeeded in attracting great publicity in progressive French circles to the situation in Indochina. — Wilfred Burchett
O that men's ears should be To counsel deaf but not to flattery! — William Shakespeare
For example, the first time McDonald's put a deaf person in a commercial they saw a jump in sales. I think that happens with other… — Richard Masur
Before we decide to trust you with this power, we ask you to stand before the public and explain your views. Justice may be blind,… — Herb Kohl
The interior deprives men of their senses. Here, the eerie stillness of the wilderness and the darkness of night render the men both deaf and… — Joseph Conrad
A linguist deaf to the poetic functions of language and a literary scholar indifferent to linguistics are equally flagrant anachronisms. — Roman Jakobson
Every one of us is blind and deaf until our eyes are opened to our fellowmen, until our ears hear the voice of humanity. — Helen Keller
Speech is the birthright of every child. It is the deaf child's one fair chance to keep in touch with his fellows. — Helen Keller
Kindness is a language herd by deaf men and felt by blind men. — Mark Twain
People will make a life in their own terms, whether they are deaf or colorblind or autistic or whatever. And their world will be quite… — Oliver Sacks
The vault above us is not deaf because the universe is an idiot; the silence is not the heartless silence of an endless and aimless… — Gilbert K. Chesterton

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