Deaf Quotes - Page 12

• The bomb was necessary to awaken England from her dreams. We dropped the bomb on the floor of the assembly chamber to register our protest on behalf of those who had no other means left to give expression to their heart-rending agony. Our sole purpose was to make the deaf hear and give the heedless a timely warning. Others have as keenly felt as we have done and from such seeming stillness of the sea of Indian humanity, a veritable storm is about to break out.

  Bhagat Singh

  Dream, Heart, Mean

  Bhagat Singh, Bhupendra Hooja, Democratic Youth Federation of India (2007). “Bhagat Singh, on the path of liberation”

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• Musically, I just think in terms of what's next. There's a lot of things I've always dreamed of doing, and I hope I get to them before I get too deaf.

  Kevin Shields

  Thinking, Next, Term

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• When I grew up in Tanzania, I went to school with kids who were blind and deaf, and we were all in one class. There wasn't a different class or teacher for them, so they didn't learn anything. I'm hoping to organize a school to train teachers to help children with disabilities. It's my future goal. I want to move back to Tanzania and do that eventually.

  Herieth Paul

  Teacher, Children, Moving

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• A world government run by the UN will be like getting an old, purblind, half-deaf substitute teacher.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Running, Teacher, World Government

  P. J. O'Rourke (2007). “The CEO of the Sofa”, p.7, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• Raising awareness about the Deaf culture is a huge cause that I advocate. Because both of my parents are deaf, I am passionate about it in an entirely different way.

  Grace Gealey

  Parent, Different, Culture

  "Empire Actor Grace Gealey: Gratitude and Forgiveness". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. January 27, 2015.

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• Ego is something that everybody, creative especially, has to grapple with. You need enough ego to keep going but not so much ego that you're deaf or blind, that you're making a mistake and can't fix the course.

  Steven Soderbergh

  Mistake, Creative, Ego

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• Cocaine made people deaf, it made people dead and it made people real obnoxious.

  Linda Ronstadt

  Real, People, Cocaine

  "On a dark desert highway" by David Sinclair, www.theguardian.com. April 14, 2006.

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• At Gallaudet, deafness isn't an issue. You don't even think about it. Students can pay attention to accounting or psychology or journalism. But when a deaf person goes to another college, no matter how supportive it is, that person doesn't get the same access.

  I. King Jordan

  College, Thinking, Issues

  "Gallaudet University Interview With Former President I. King Jordan". Interview with Ken Adelman, www.washingtonian.com. March 1, 2006.

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• Sorrow and frustration have their power. The world is moved by people with great discontents. Happiness is a drug. It can make men blind and deaf and insensible to reality. There are times when only sorrow can give to sorrow.

  Winifred Holtby

  Happiness, Frustration, Reality

  Winifred Holtby (1937). “Pavements at Anderby: tales of "South riding" and other regions by Winifred Holtby”

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• I know a little bit about deaf culture because a friend of mine has been in the deaf culture for awhile. Over the course of 25 years, she and I have talked about many of the issues and concerns for deaf people and deaf culture.

  John Scalzi

  Issues, Years, People

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• After a few months without writing, months I've lived turned outward... I fear going deaf, not being able to hear the silence.

  Isabel Allende

  Writing, Silence, Able

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• When I say 'I will be true to you' I am drawing a quiet space beyond the reach of other desires. No one can legislate love; it cannot be given orders or cajoled into service. Love belongs to itself, deaf to pleading and unmoved by violence. Love is not something you can negotiate. Love is the one thing stronger than desire and the only proper reason to resist temptation.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Love Is, Order, Drawing

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• There is no relation to sound for deaf people. It is a totally different mental process.

  Richard Masur

  People, Sound, Different

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• 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.

  Edward Miner Gallaudet

  People, Weight, Argument

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• Have not all theists painted their Deity as the god of love and goodness? Yet after thousands of years of such preachments the gods remain deaf to the agony of the human race. Confucius cares not for the poverty, squalor and misery of the people of China. Buddha remains undisturbed in his philosophical indifference to the famine and starvation of outraged Hindoos; Jahve continues deaf to the bitter cry of Israel; while Jesus refuses to rise from the dead against his Christians who are butchering each other.

  Emma Goldman

  Christian, Jesus, Philosophical

  Emma Goldman (1915). “Mother Earth, a Monthly Magazine Devoted to the Social Science and Literature”

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• The blind won't admit that I have eyes in my head, and the deaf say that I'm dumb.

  Karl Kraus

  Communication, Eye, Dumb

  Karl Kraus (1976). “Half-truths & One-and-a-half Truths: Selected Aphorisms”

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• The pure products of America go crazy--mountain folk from Kentucky or the ribbed north end of Jersey with its isolate lakes and valleys, its deaf-mutes, thieves.

  William Carlos Williams

  Crazy, Lakes, Kentucky

  William Carlos Williams, Charles Tomlinson (1985). “Selected Poems”, p.53, New Directions Publishing

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• Deaf people are struggling to find their favorite show or something that represents them. It's hard. There are some examples of shows that have a deaf storyline in one episode, like Cold Case, or another show where they are focusing on the cochlear implant or the medical aspect.

  Sean Berdy

  Struggle, People, Example

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• During a visit to California, when a friend of my grandmother's told my parents that I must be deaf because I was not responding to sounds, my father was absolutely convinced that I was simply being stubborn.

  Marlee Matlin

  Father, Grandmother, California

  "My Father’s Chutzpah" by Marlee Matlin, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 17, 2011.

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• I'm the only one in my family who is deaf, and there are still conversations that go around me that I miss out on. And I ask what's going on, and I have to ask to be included. But I'm not going to be sad about it. I don't live in sad isolation. It's just a situation I'm used to.

  Marlee Matlin

  Missing, Isolation, My Family

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• Wherever the deaf have received an education the method by which it is imparted is the burning question of the day with them, for the deaf are what their schooling make them more than any other class of humans. They are facing not a theory but a condition, for they are first, last, and all the time the people of the eye.

  George Veditz

  Eye, Class, People

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• Yo, yo, yo, check it out," said PJ, with enough hand gestures that any deaf person watching would have thought he had ASL Tourette's syndrome

  Christopher Moore

  Pjs, Hands, Gestures

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• [On being deaf:] We can never get beyond the necessity of keeping in full view the worst and the best that can be made of our lot. The worst is, either to sink under the trial, or to be made callous by it. The best is, to be as wise as is possible under a great disability, and as happy as is possible under a great privation.

  Harriet Martineau

  Wise, Views, Trials

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• [On being deaf:] We must struggle for whatever may be had, without encroaching on the comfort of others.

  Harriet Martineau

  Struggle, Comfort, May

  Harriet Martineau (1836). “Philosophical essays. Essays on the art of thinking. Sabbath musings. Moral essays. Parables. Poetry”, p.259

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• [On being deaf:] How much less pain there is in calmly estimating the enjoyments from which we must separate ourselves, of bravely saying, for once and for ever, 'Let them go,' than in feeling them waste and dwindle, till their very shadows escape from our grasp!

  Harriet Martineau

  Pain, Feelings, Shadow

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