Quotes About Deaf

clogged with all kinds of muck and wax and bits of chewing gum and dead flies and stuff like that. This made him deaf. 'SPEAK LOUDER,' he said to Bunce

was absorbed and deaf to the world; alternately scribbling and sucking the top of his pencil. It

Beware of arguments based on probability. When he was a young man, Einstein worked as a clerk in the Swiss Patent Office. What are the odds that a clerk in the same office today will be the next Einstein? It's an absurd question to pose that way (like asking the odds that a deaf person will become the next Beethoven).

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.

You'd have a better chance persuading someone to change their sexual orientation than reaching people who have rendered themselves so deaf and blind.

I was born deaf. I was raised in a hearing world and in a deaf world at the same time. I can't say that I like one better than I like the other. I like them both. I speak pretty well; I gesture. If I don't understand something, you know, pen and paper, texting. I use it all.

Hear the birds? Sometimes I like to pretend that I'm deaf and I try to imagine what it's like not to be able to hear them. It's not that bad.

I'm happy being deaf. I'm happy with my life and my family.

To really understand a deaf person's experience, you need someone that is deaf to be able to tell you what their experience is.

I can not remember even thinking that I was deaf when I was dancing.

Growing up, I was always involved in the deaf community.

Before working with Deaf West, I had never met a deaf person, and now I can't imagine life without ASL.

There are so many deaf kids out there being deprived of their own language.

I got my mathematics degree because I wanted to teach deaf children math.

I grew up with deaf teachers, and I thought all deaf children should have exposure to deaf educators.

The lions sing and the hills take flight. The moon by day, and the sun by night. Blind woman, deaf man, jackdaw fool. Let the Lord of Chaos rule. -chant from a children's game heard in Great Arvalon, the Fourth Age

I know why your gift was deaf to me ~ Dillon

with the complete lack of shame of the extremely deaf and the complete lack of grammar of the extremely inbred.

He was a talkative man and jabbered away the whole time as his horse meandered about the road. It saved us from having to construct a story for him, though by the time he left us in Banbury, I was most weary of smiling stupidly out from under my hat brim and trying not to squint. As his wagon pulled away, I turned to Holmes. "Next time we do this, I will play the deaf old woman and you can laugh at rude jests for an hour.

I am aware that those hateful persons called Original Researchers now maintain that Raleigh was not the man; but to them I turn a deaf ear.

You look but have no eyes, you listen but have deaf ears. Because divine love is not in you, you are like empty barrels—

Taste is one of the five senses, and the man who tells us with priggish pride that he does not care what he eats is merely boasting of his sad deficiency: he might as well be proud of being deaf or blind, or, owing to a perpetual cold in the head, of being devoid of the sense of smell.

Unfortunately, once in that state of mind, he was all but deaf to criticism.

Hatred is blind and anger deaf: the one who pours himself a cup of vengeance is likely to drink a bitter draught.