Deaf Quotes

Deaf Quote of the day

If the deaf are to hear the sound has to be very loud

People will make a life in their own terms, whether they are deaf or colorblind or autistic or whatever. And their world will be quite as rich and interesting and full as our world.

As long as one people sit on another and are deaf to their cry, so long will understanding and peace elude all of us.

One of the most effective ways to learn about oneself is by taking seriously the cultures of others. It forces you to pay attention to those details of life which differentiate them from you.

France turned a deaf ear to the demands, but Ho had succeeded in attracting great publicity in progressive French circles to the situation in Indochina.

I ask you: turn a deaf ear to the special interests. Let politics stand down for a while. don't waste anytime thinking about future elections until we've done our jobs here.

Deaf people can do anything, except hear.

Say what you want about the deaf.

I prefer to sleep with deaf girls. Those crazy chicks never have a safe word.

Nature is not mute, it is a man who is deaf.

If I, deaf, blind, find life rich and interesting, how much more can you gain by the use of your five senses!

I have terrible hearing trouble. I have unwittingly helped to invent and refine a type of music that makes its principal proponents deaf.

I use the grotesque the way I do because people are deaf and dumb and need help to see and hear.

When gentle persuasion [of children] falls on deaf ears, we resort to ridicule and rebuke. Then we return to threats and punishment. This is the modus operandi of a mutual frustration society.

As a profoundly deaf woman, my experiences have shown me that the impossible is indeed possible!

Without big data, you are blind and deaf and in the middle of a freeway.

I'm not a deaf musician. I'm a musician who happens to be deaf.

I am deaf to the word 'no'.

Without big data analytics, companies are blind and deaf, wandering out onto the Web like deer on a freeway.

Listen to your body. Do not be a blind and deaf tenant.

Sign language is the noblest gift God has given to deaf people.

I had to keep on acting deaf if i wanted to hear at all.

Few are altogether deaf to the preaching of pine trees. Their sermons on the mountains go to our hearts . . .

It is the tyranny of hidden prejudices that makes us deaf to what speaks to us in tradition.

Love is the tyrant of the heart; it darkens Reason, confounds discretion; deaf to Counsel It runs a headlong course to desperate madness.

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

Love's not only blind but deaf.

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.

God hears no more than the heart speaks; and if the heart be dumb, God will certainly be deaf.

I would write plays for my grandmother, who was stone deaf, my mother and the dog, that was our audience.

Beethoven's last quartets were written by a deaf man and should only be listened to by a deaf man.

The question of souls is old—we demand our bodies, now. We are tired of promises, god is deaf, and his church is our worst enemy.

The same men who are blind and deaf to feminism are acutely sensitive to what threatens their dominance and privilege.

Every one of us is blind and deaf until our eyes are opened to our fellowmen, until our ears hear the voice of humanity.

The sorcerer's description of the world is perceivable. But our insistence on holding on to our standard version of reality renders us almost deaf and blind to it.

There are some men who turn a deaf ear to reason and good advice, and willfully go wrong for fear of being controlled.

Be deaf, be blind, be dead to gossip, and it will grow disgusted with you and select a more sensitive victim.

All rock musicians are deaf... Or insensitive to mellow sounds.

I placed over a thousand deaf people in jobs throughout my career working for the deaf.

A deaf and dumb person who sees two men in conversation - may nevertheless understand from the attitudes and gestures of the speakers, how well their discussion is getting along.

Dwelling upon the self too much produces terrible fatigue. A man in that position is deaf and blind to everything else. The fatigue itself makes him cease to see the marvels all around.

I took some classes in sign language when I was in my early teens because I was told that I would be completely deaf very early. But I never really wanted to learn.

If blind people wear sunglasses, why don't deaf people wear earmuffs?

Doomed to total failure in a deaf world of ignorance and indifference, he inexorably kept on cutting out his diamonds, his dazzling diamonds, of whose mines he had a perfect knowledge.

When I learned to sign and speak at the same time, the whole world opened up to me. That's the beauty of encouraging kids who are deaf to use whatever it takes to communicate.

Music is universal too. Even deaf people like to dance, love rhythm, and can kind of pick it up.

Heard about the young deaf boy who used sign language-One day he told his mother a dirty joke and she washed his hands out with soap

Those who hear and do not understand are like the deaf. Of them the proverb says: "Present, they are absent."

Hear only the things you should hear - be deaf to others.

Helen Keller was blind and deaf when she graduated from college with honors. So what's your problem?