Deaf Quotes

Instant messaging and chat rooms have basically created a level playing field for deaf people.

Vint Cerf
- People
- Instant
- Deafness
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
- Child
- Suffer
- Towers

As long as we have deaf people on earth, we will have signs.

George Veditz
- Earth
- Deaf
- Signs
All my life I've felt on the outside wherever I am - out of the picture, the conversation, at a distance, as though I were the only one able to hear the sounds or words that other's can't, and deaf to the words that they hear. As if I'm outside the frame, on the other side of a huge, invisible window.

Delphine de Vigan
- Picture
- Distance
- Window
I am at the moment deaf in the ears, hoarse in the throat, red in the nose, green in the gills, damp in the eyes, twitchy in the joints and fractious in temper from a most intolerable and oppressive cold.

Charles Dickens
- Moment
- Ears
- Deaf
On a series of apparently tiresome, flat sittings seeming to lead nowhere - one day something happens, the touches seem to 'take', the deaf canvas listens, your words flow and you have done something.

Walter Sickert
- Lead
- Canvas
- Tiresome
Wherever the deaf have received an education the method by which it is imparted is the burning question of the day with them, for the deaf are what their schooling make them more than any other class of humans. They are facing not a theory but a condition, for they are first, last, and all the time the people of the eye.

George Veditz
- Education
- Condition
- Deaf
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, but it should not be deaf.

Herb Kohl
- Justice
- Blind
- Owners