Deaf Quotes - Page 2

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

  Thomas Brooks

  God, Stupid, Heart

  Thomas Brooks (2013). “The Secret Key to Heaven: The Call to Closet Prayer”, p.147, Ravenio Books

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• There is a master way with words that cannot be learned but instead developed: a deaf man develops exceptional vision, a blind man exceptional hearing, a silent man, when given a piece of paper.

  Criss Jami

  Writing, Men, Vision

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• The truth is that no one who hasn't actually experienced the senseless chaos and violence of combat can possibly understand it, but those who have and who try to explain it to the rest of us are offering us a precious gift: a part of their soul that's been scorched in the flames of Hell. It's a little like trying to describe music to the deaf or color to the blind ... to make the irrational somewhat sensible, which is always confusing and frustrating, and ultimately futile.

  Khaled Hosseini

  Offering, Flames, Color

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• I was deaf and dumb and blind to all but me, myself and I.

  Loretta Young

  Dumb, Blind, Deaf And Dumb

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• At some point we have to stop and say, There's Marlee, not, There's the deaf actress.

  Marlee Matlin

  Actresses

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

  Ford Frick

  Should

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• Children who hear acquire language without any particular effort; the words that fall from others' lips they catch on the wing, as it were, delightedly, while the little deaf child must trap them by a slow and often painful process. But whatever the process, the result is wonderful. Gradually from naming an object we advance step by step until we have traversed the vast distance between our first stammered syllable and the sweep of thought in a line of Shakespeare.

  Helen Keller

  Children, Distance, Fall

  Helen Keller (2003). “The Story of My Life: The Restored Edition”, p.81, Modern Library

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• I'm quite deaf now; such a comfort.

  Evelyn Waugh

  Comfort

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• Moral justification is a powerful disengagement mechanism. Destructive conduct is made personally and socially acceptable by portraying it in the service of moral ends. This is why most appeals against violent means usually fall on deaf ears.

  Albert Bandura

  Powerful, Fall, Mean

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

  Camryn Manheim

  Jobs, Careers, People

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• Most profoundly deaf people have speech that is very difficult to understand.

  Richard Masur

  People, Speech, Difficult

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• One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar.

  Helen Keller

  Inspirational, Life, Leadership

  Address to American Association to Promote the Teaching of Speech to the Deaf, Philadelphia, Pa., 8 July 1896

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

  Terence McKenna

  Men, Environment, Mute

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• There are so many people, deaf or otherwise abled, who are so talented but overlooked or not given a chance to even get their foot in the door.

  Marlee Matlin

  Doors, Feet, People

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• 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.

  Stephanie Beacham

  Class, Would Be, Teens

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• None so blind, so deaf, as those that will not hear, that will not see.

  Matthew Henry

  Deaf And Blind, Blind, Deafness

  "Exposition of the Old and New Testament".

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• Deaf? If you're near there, no wonder you are deaf.

  Prince Philip

  Edinburgh, Classic, Wonder

  "Deaf Insulted by Duke's Remark". Said to a group of deaf children standing next to a Jamaican steel drum band, news.bbc.co.uk. May 27, 1999.

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• 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.

  Larry David

  Bird, Trying, Able

  "Curb Your Enthusiasm". TV Series, www.imdb.com. (2000– ).

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• Historians are like deaf people who go on answering questions that no one has asked them.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Funny, Humor, History

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• I've always wanted to write a book relating my experiences growing up as a deaf child in Chicago. Contrary to what people might think, it wasn't all about hearing aids and speech classes or frustrations.

  Marlee Matlin

  Children, Growing Up, Book

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• People are going deaf because music is played louder and louder, but because they're going deaf, it has to be played louder still.

  Milan Kundera

  Reality, People, Music Is

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• 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

  Stupid, Names, People

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• I think you have everyone kind of pulling on the same end of the rope. It's not like you're Robin Williams and everyone else is a deaf mute. It's like - there's plenty of help.

  Michael McKean

  Thinking, Robins, Rope

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• If you're powerful, you are much more likely to be blind and deaf to signals from outside.

  Adam Michnik

  Powerful, Blind, Signals

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• 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

  Years, Deaf And Blind, Territory

  Robert Augustus Toombs (1860). “Speech of Hon. Robert Toombs: On the Crisis. Delivered Before the Georgia Legislature, December 7, 1860”, p.8

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