Quotes About Deafness

'Mosaic' is about what we see and what we don't see. I learned how people can develop other senses to compensate for a missing one when I was a child. My best friend, Carol, who is profoundly deaf, saved me from an approaching car that she 'heard' when I didn't.

But people who think they can project themselves into deafness are mistaken because you can't. And I'm not talking about imagining what a deaf person's whole life is like I even mean just realizing what it is like for an instant.

I'm particularly proud of my work with the Starkey Hearing Foundation for whom I raised a million dollars in one day on 'Celebrity Apprentice.' They do great work around the world helping deaf children in developing countries get proper attention and free hearing aids.

É uma das coisas boas de o carinha ser surdo. A gente não precisa se preocupar que ele escute as partes realmente horríveis e fique triste.

When you get old, you can't talk to people because people snap at you.... That's why you become deaf, so you won't be able to hear people talking to you that way.

Regina seemed so good-natured about her handicap that Jessica could hardly believe it. Then a horrible thought entered her mind. Is Nicholas deaf, too? she asked.

Julia was blind and deaf to to the truth. She was ignorant. Did one reprove a blind woman for inability to see? Did one become angry with the deaf for not hearing?

Pense no fato de que o surdo é incapaz de ouvir. Sendo assim, será que não sofremos algum tipo de surdez? Que sentidos nos faltam para que não consigamos ver nem ouvir outro mundo a nossa volta?

Be deaf! You do not need to hear or, hearing, you do not need to remember. How soothing it is to forget. And how dangerous

Think you of the fact that a deaf person cannot hear. Then, what deafness may we not all possess?

In her opinion her singing falls on deaf ears anyway; there is no lack of enthusiasm and applause, but she has long since given up hope of genuine understanding as she conceives it.

If Beethoven could write his 'Eroica Symphony' stone deaf, then William Wyler can do a musical.

I like to say that the greatest handicap of deafness does not lie in the ear, it lies in the mind. I hope that through my example, such as my role on 'The West Wing,' I can help change attitudes on deafness and prove we can really do everything... except hear.

the sole, general, complete expression was that of selfish impassivity, that of eternal deafness, that of a rigid will.

She was blinded, deafened, made senseless.

The difficulty of learning spoken English for a person profoundly deaf from an early age has been likened to a hearing American trying to learn spoken Japanese while locked within a soundproof glass cubicle.

I knew whatever I said right then she wouldn't hear; with that kind of pain, a deafness comes.

All have been blind to the light, deaf to admonitions, and hardened against the commandments.

These waiters were hand-picked for pleurisy, deafness, and a variety of speech defects. They were flushed of skin, gnarled of hand. The dishes that jumped on to the floor from their palsied hands were never referred to again, as it were, but just lay there for the rest of the evening to be ground under foot by passers-by.

Selfishness has made most people so mentally blind, virtually deaf and sensibly dumb that they can't see, hear and speak anything besides and beyond their individual profit in everything and literally do not understand that which is actually of everyone's benefit.

Or is it this: To be sick and send away the comforters, and to make friends of the deaf, who never hear your requests?

The deaf who deny they are deaf will never hear; the sinners who deny there is sin deny thereby the remedy of sin, and thus cut themselves off forever from Him Who came to redeem.

I began acting on stage when I was 7 years old. My first role was as Dorothy in 'The Wizard of Oz' at Chicago's Center on Deafness in Northbrook, Illinois.

Is this what it sounds like, going deaf?