Children Quote by Lou Ann Walker

“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 next generation of quiet kids can and should be raised to know their own strengths.”

— Susan Cain

One of the reasons I wanted to teach deaf children was because it made me very sad that they spoke so clumsily and that…

— Stephanie Beacham

“Sometimes children must be left alone to be still and silent, and to do.”

— David Almond

“From what I can tell, the chief distinguishing factor between children and adults is that children hear everything while appearing not to and adults…

— Stephen McCauley

“I knew the importance of listening from my younger days spent with my own grandmother. She taught me the importance of listening, and not…

— Murray Sinclair

“Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.” —James Baldwin”

— Wendy Jo Peterson

“Time and again I heard my grandmother Wells say she would give her own hearing to make her daughter “whole.” In her mind, deafness…

— Lou Ann Walker

“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

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

— Balan Gothandaraman

“Pioneer children were always having mishaps, but they were expected to know how to use their heads in emergencies.”

— Carol Ryrie Brink

“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