Deaf Quotes

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  Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.

  Mark Twain

  Inspirational, Relationship, Positive

  Mark Twain (2015). “Bite-Size Twain: Wit and Wisdom from the Literary Legend”, p.18, St. Martin's Press

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• Sign language is the noblest gift God has given to deaf people.

  George Veditz

  People, Sign Language, Given

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• Every one of us is different in some way, but for those of us who are more different, we have to put more effort into convincing the less different that we can do the same thing they can, just differently.

  Marlee Matlin

  Individual Differences, People, Effort

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• Every one of us is blind and deaf until our eyes are opened to our fellowmen, until our ears hear the voice of humanity.

  Helen Keller

  Eye, Voice, Humanity

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• The interests of the deaf child and his parents may best be served by accepting that he is a deaf person, with an elaborate cultural and linguistic heritage that can enrich his parent's life as it will his own.

  Harlan Lane

  Children, Acceptance, Parenting

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• It requires wisdom to understand wisdom: the music is nothing if the audience is deaf.

  Walter Lippmann

  Inspirational, Positive, Music

  Walter Lippmann (1960). “A Preface To Morals”, p.324, Transaction Publishers

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• People will make a life in their own terms, whether they are deaf or colorblind or autistic or whatever. And their world will be quite as rich and interesting and full as our world.

  Oliver Sacks

  Our World, People, Interesting

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• I hope I inspire people who hear. Hearing people have the ability to remove barriers that prevent deaf people from achieving their dreams.

  Marlee Matlin

  Dream, People, Inspire

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• I'm not a deaf musician. I'm a musician who happens to be deaf.

  Evelyn Glennie

  Musician, Happens

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• Deaf people can do anything, except hear.

  Marlee Matlin

  People, Gallaudet, Can Do

  "Pam's House Blend mini-interview with Academy Award-winning actress Marlee Matlin". Interview with Pam Spaulding, shadowproof.com. March 24, 2007.

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• 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.

  Richard Masur

  Mean, Thinking, Talking

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

  Terence McKenna

  Men, Environment, Mute

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

  Ford Frick

  Should

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• As long as we have deaf people on earth, we will have signs.

  George Veditz

  Long, People, Earth

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• Music is universal too. Even deaf people like to dance, love rhythm, and can kind of pick it up.

  Rainn Wilson

  Inspirational, Dance, People

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• 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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• Colour is the touch of the eye, Music to the deaf, A word out of darkness.

  Orhan Pamuk

  Eye, Darkness, Colour

  Orhan Pamuk (2006). “My Name Is Red”, p.186, Vintage

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• As long as we have deaf people on earth, we will have signs. And as long as we have our films, we can preserve signs in their old purity. It is my hope that we will all love and guard our beautiful sign language as the noblest gift God has given to deaf people.

  George Veditz

  Beautiful, Long, People

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• 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

  Silence, Way, Vibrations

  Madeleine L'Engle (2013). “A Wrinkle in Time Trilogy”, p.38, Macmillan

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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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• Success listens only to applause. To all else it is deaf

  Elias Canetti

  Applause

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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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• Helen Keller became deaf, dumb, and blind shortly after birth. Despite her greatest misfortune, she has written her name indelibly in the pages of the history of the great. Her entire life has served as evidence that no one is ever defeated until defeat has been accepted as reality.

  Napoleon Hill

  Reality, Names, Dumb

  Dr. Robert C. Worstell, James Breckenridge Jones, Napoleon Hill (2015). “Think and Grow Rich, Updated and Complete - With If You Can Count to Four...”, p.34, Lulu.com

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

  Stephanie Beacham

  Thinking, Dancing, Remember

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• I would write plays for my grandmother, who was stone deaf, my mother and the dog, that was our audience.

  Jayne Meadows

  Mother, Dog, Writing

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