Birthright Quote by Helen Keller

“By the age of two, hearing children perceived their parents’ deafness well enough to know automatically that they must use gestures with their parents…

— Lou Ann Walker

No child is capable of speech until he has heard other human beings speak, and even two infants reared together cannot develop a language…

— Peter Farb

Speech is for the convenience of those who are hard of hearing; but there are many fine things which we cannot say if we…

— Henry David Thoreau

The interests of the deaf child and his parents may best be served by accepting that he is a deaf person, with an elaborate…

— Harlan Lane

Speech has both an individual and a social side, and we cannot conceive of one without the other.

— Ferdinand de Saussure

Speech is a very important aspect of being human. A whisper doesn't cut it.

— James Earl Jones

Most profoundly deaf people have speech that is very difficult to understand.

— Richard Masur

Speeches are like babies-easy to conceive but hard to deliver.

— Aristotle

A society in which adults are estranged from the world of children, and often from their own childhood, tends to hear children's speech only…

— Beatrix Campbell

Listen to all the conversations of our world, between nations as well as between individuals. They are, for the most part, dialogues of the…

— Paul Tournier

Speech is a powerful master and achieves the most divine feats with the smallest and least evident body. It can stop fear, relieve pain,…

— Gorgias

A child speaks more sense than an adult half of the time.

— Zoe Saldana