Adversity Quote by Jacques Barzun

“From the first two-hour class on, I had not said a word. I wanted them to know a little bit of what it is…

— Lou Ann Walker

“There is a master way with words which is not learned but is instead developed: a deaf man develops exceptional vision, a blind man…

— Criss Jami

“Being deaf is not a weakness or it shouldn’t be seen as one and that’s what I wanted to get across that day. It’s…

— Melyssa Winchester

“The subject of reading aloud was farther discussed. The young men were the only talkers, but they, standing by the fire, talked over the…

— Jane Austen

“The writer whose words are going to be read by children has a heavy responsibility. And yet, despite the undeniable fact that the children’s…

— Madeleine L'Engle

“We are all born almost Deaf, Dumb and Blind; trial and error have, thus far, been our best teacher.”

— Balan Gothandaraman

I've found that the chief difficulty for most people was to realize that they had really heard new things: that is things that they…

— P.D. Ouspensky

I struggled a lot with English, with grammar. You write what you hear. Deaf people have to remember it and spell things out. That…

— Rose Ayling-Ellis

I've seen the needless struggles that deaf children and deaf people face, and that gave me the impetus to write.

— Rachel Shenton

“One of the criticisms leveled at deaf people is that they’re rigid thinkers. For”

— Lou Ann Walker

“In those days, you must understand, children were basically thought to be inadequate adults. A child’s nature was not something that could be developed,…

— Andrew Davidson

“The failure in reading -the omnipresent verbalism- of those who have not been trained in the arts of grammar and logic shows how lack…

— Mortimer J. Adler