Deaf Quotes
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The same arguments which go to show that knowledge is power, that the condition of a people is improved in proportion as the masses are educated, have their application with equal weight to the deaf.
Edward Miner Gallaudet -
If you are the master be sometimes blind, if you are the servant be sometimes deaf.
R. Buckminster Fuller
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Passion is born deaf and dumb.
Honore de Balzac -
I am tone deaf.
Rachelle Lefevre -
The Bible's blind, the Torah's deaf, the Qur'an is mute; if you burned them all together you'd get close to the truth.
Conor Oberst Bright Eyes -
If you're powerful, you are much more likely to be blind and deaf to signals from outside.
Adam Michnik -
I placed over a thousand deaf people in jobs throughout my career working for the deaf.
Camryn Manheim -
Let's just say that if you were stealing TVs instead of thoughts, you would have been caught by a half-deaf, mostly blind, fifteen year old dog three robberies ago.
Elizabeth Chandler
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You know, we should have cards like the deaf have. "Can't talk, I'm writing today."
Sandra Cisneros -
Love's not only blind but deaf.
Alexander David Turner Arctic Monkeys -
Hear only the things you should hear - be deaf to others.
Ford Frick -
I can't stand loud guitars that make me deaf.
Eunice Kathleen Waymon -
Cocaine made people deaf, it made people dead and it made people real obnoxious.
Linda Ronstadt -
There is neither a cure for nor a way to repair autism. There is no implant like there is for the deaf.
Andrew Solomon
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Helen Keller became deaf, dumb, and blind shortly after birth. Despite her greatest misfortune, she has written her name indelibly in the pages of the history of the great. Her entire life has served as evidence that no one is ever defeated until defeat has been accepted as reality.
Napoleon Hill -
The voices of cold reason were talking, as usual, to deaf ears.
Ellis Peters -
The deaf community and the hearing community, there's not always a ton of interaction.
Constance Marie -
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 -
The rain came down upon my head - Unshelter'd. And the wind rendered me mad and deaf and blind.
Edgar Allan Poe -
Instant messaging and chat rooms have basically created a level playing field for deaf people.
Vint Cerf
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Cow protection means protection of the weak, the helpless, the dumb and the deaf.
Mahatma Gandhi -
The fact that I'm virtually deaf. Any woman who's going to date a rock musician has to be prepared to repeat herself every 10 seconds. My wife asks me where we should go for dinner and it sounds like the schoolteacher from Charlie Brown.
Dave Grohl Nirvana -
The transept belfry and the two towers were to him three great cages, the birds in which, taught by him, would sing for him alone. Yet it was these same bells which had made him deaf; but mothers are often fondest of the child who has made them suffer most.
Victor Hugo -
Those who hear and do not understand are like the deaf. Of them the proverb says: "Present, they are absent."
Heraclitus