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Quotes About Deaf

The human creature, humiliated and offended in ways that are inconceivable to the mind and heart, defies the blind and deaf divinity.
~ Françoise Mauriac
Grant that the voice of our own desires may not be speaking so insistently that we become deaf to your word.
~ William Barclay
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.
~ Voltairine de Cleyre
Pain is God's megaphone to rouse a deaf world.
~ C. S. Lewis
Find your happiness before the music of this world falls on deaf ears.
~ Saim .A. Cheeda
Take her home. And-" "Say nothing- yes, yes, I heard you the first seven hundred times," Myrnin said, much too sharply. "I'm ancient. I'm not deaf.
~ Rachel Caine
Historians are like deaf people who go on answering questions that no one has asked them.
~ Leo Tolstoy
As for hearing, the sloth is not so much deaf as uninterested in sound.
~ Yann Martel, Life of Pi
some of the best music was composed by Beethovan, but he was deaf, some of the best poetry of nature was written by Milton, but he was deaf.possible is always inside the impossible...
~ Shibin Mohammed
As so many deaf people, he passionately loved opera
~ Aleksandr Kuprin
Watch me when people say deaf and dumb, or deaf mute, and I give them a look like you might get if you called Denzel Washington the wrong name.
~ Marlee Matlin
When I signed up for 'Dancing with the Stars,' I was nervous. If I threw everything off, there are 10-15 million people watching, and that would be a negative viewpoint of deaf people, and I didn't want that.
~ Nyle DiMarco
I don't need pity. I want to be looked at like a musician, because I am one. I happen to be deaf.
~ Mandy Harvey
We do need more deaf people in Hollywood. But I don't think that deaf people always have to play a deaf role. I think we can play different roles. We need to see more diversity period. More people of color. More disabled people. More gender diversity. All kinds of diversity.
~ Millicent Simmonds
The availability of roles for deaf actors has always been very limited. After 'Switched at Birth' began including deaf actors, a ripple effect has definitely been created in the industry. 'Switched at Birth' has made an impact for the better.
~ Sean Berdy
I think we can all agree that this deaf elf sure plays a mean pinball.
~ Rick Riordan
How would he manage if he became blind? At least if he was blind he could get a guide dog - there was an upside to everything, a silver lining of helpful Labs and noble German Shepherds eager to be his eyes. What if he became deaf? They had dogs for the deaf, too, but Martin wasn´t sure what they did. Tugged at your sleeve a lot probably while looking meaningfully at things.
~ Kate Atkinson
Heaven is never deaf but when man's heart is dumb.
~ Francis Quarles
To put it another way, pain is God's megaphone to rouse a deaf world. Why must it be pain? Why can't he rouse us more gently, with violins or laughter? Because the dream from which we must be wakened, is the dream that all is well.
~ William Nicholson
Had I been blind and deaf, or does it take the glare of disaster to show a person's true nature?
~ Jean-Dominique Bauby
Whatever the rights or wrongs of their affection, in the teeth of danger and despair love is entitled to speak its mind, and all others should be blind and deaf.
~ Ellis Peters
I feel the need to reframe our community positively and better deaf youth's lives, and with the 'DWTS' platform, I can - but it's not enough until I win.
~ Nyle DiMarco
In effect, I feel like a blind, deaf, and illiterate person working through the sensibilities and multiple, real talents of other people. Everything I do is collaborative.
~ Godfrey Reggio
Policing of the disabled and how many deaf people get shot by cops is sort of insane. And it's not talked about.
~ Wyatt Cenac