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Quotes About Deaf

A cricket tour in Australia would be a most delightful period in one's life if one was deaf
~ Harold Larwood
True love's memory, You are heavy! In your smoke I sing and burn, And the rest -- is only fire To keep the chilled soul warm. To keep warm the sated body, They need my tears for this Did I for this sing your song, God? Did I take part of love for this? Let me drink of such a poison, That I would be deaf and dumb, And my unglorious glory Wash away to the final crumb.
~ Anna Akhmatova
I am truly humbled. Not only that I am going to be known as the final Top Model but as a final Top Model who is deaf! And that is an amazing tagline. This proves that deaf people can do anything and everything.
~ Nyle DiMarco
Brexit can tend to be a dialogue of the deaf.
~ Fiona Bruce
Only dead people need loud music, you know. I call loud rock 'Dracula music' because you look out, and there are all those dead and deaf and soulless zombies clod-hopping across the floor.
~ Alice Walker
Ha ha," he told her. "I get it. Very funny. Everyone loves a good deaf joke. Hey, why did God make farts stink? So deaf people could enjoy them, too." When
~ Joe Hill
Ludwig van Beethoven, as you may have heard, was deaf.
~ Joe Schwarcz
The referees have always been blind, it's our job to make them deaf.
~ Anonymous
Love is blind; hate is deaf.
~ Anonymous
Los sordos pueden oír los latidos de su propio corazón, frau Elena?
~ Anthony Doerr
Can deaf people hear their heartbeat?
~ Anthony Doerr
If I'd been born into a hearing family and went to a public school, I would have probably felt much more isolated, and being deaf would have become my identity.
~ Nyle DiMarco
I am the fourth generation of being deaf.
~ Nyle DiMarco
Anybody with my background in the airline business who is not deaf is a fraud.
~ Maurice Flanagan
The human creature, humiliated and offended in ways that are inconceivable to the mind and heart, defies the blind and deaf divinity.
~ Françoise Mauriac
None so deaf as those that will not hear. None so blind as those that will not see.
~ Matthew Henry
I would love to do a talk show. Naturally, I would love to do more films. I'd love to be able to see casting directors more willing to put in a character who happens to be deaf. I'm not talking about doing deaf storylines, but putting in deaf characters. I'd love to be able to do Broadway.
~ Marlee Matlin
'Switched at Birth' has an amazing cast, including an Oscar winner and two Emmy nominees. The writing is very innovative, and the show's producers have redefined U.S. TV by launching a mainstream show which includes multiple deaf cast members whose characters communicate only in ASL (American Sign Language).
~ Rachel Shenton
Texting has definitely improved the communication between the deaf and hearing communities, but it shouldn't be... a substitute for learning the language to really connect with someone, especially someone you want to date or have a relationship with.
~ Millicent Simmonds
Those who tell you that the territorial question is an abstraction, that you can never colonize another territory without the African slavetrade, are both deaf and blind to the history of the last sixty years.
~ Robert Toombs
The woman doesn't look up. It's as if she's deaf. Maybe she is. Maybe she's like the Cambodian women I've read about, the ones who witnessed so many atrocities that they have willed themselves blind. Maybe that's what you have to do sometimes to survive. You kill off part of yourself, your hearing or eyesight, your capacity for hope.
~ Ron Rash
Jen's eleven-year-old brother was a gentle, deaf kid named Shel who wanted to be a veterinarian when he grew up. He suffered a bout of food poisoning just one week in and had to be tended by their parents, so that ID was made. The mother had adult braces and droopy shoulders, the father a greasy ponytail. He picked his nose while talking. He talked and picked, picked and talked.
~ Lydia Millet
A irmã era uma pobre velha, que além desse achaque, tinha mais dois: era surda e gostava de política.
~ Machado de Assis
It was the same way with silence. This was more than silence. A deaf person can feel vibrations. Here there was nothing to feel.
~ Madeleine L'Engle