Deaf Quotes - Page 13

• The Americans have no faith, they rely on the power of a dollar; they are deaf to sentiment.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Faith, Dollars, Sentiments

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1866). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Comprising His Essays, Lectures, Poems, and Orations”, p.245

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• I'm almost completely deaf anyway. So I'm worried. I'm very worried.

  Robert Pattinson

  Worried

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• How little we realize things till they come upon us personally. I believe I have been a perfect fiend of indifference, even intolerance, of deaf people, and now it's me. Well, I am determined to become the most Delightful Deaf Old Lady that ever existed and I am practicing to that end.

  Susan Hale

  Believe, Realize Things, People

  Susan Hale (1918). “Letters of Susan Hale”

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• Most of the time, I get auditions for deaf characters where the scene has them communicating in really convoluted ways, like reading lips from across the room when the other persons back is turned or having other people parrot what they say.

  Shoshannah Stern

  Reading, Character, People

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• I am fourth-generation deaf, which means everyone in my immediate family is deaf. So I grew up always having 100 percent accessibility to language and communication, which was wonderful and something so many deaf people dont have.

  Shoshannah Stern

  Communication, Mean, People

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• John Glenn's father, known as Herschel, was mostly deaf from injuries in World War I. To help out at home, young Glenn sold rhubarb all over town from the family garden.

  Bill Dedman

  Father, War, Home

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• I am so deaf I am debarred from hearing all the time articulation and have to depend on the judgment of others.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Hearing, Judgment, Articulation

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• Throughout my childhood, I had served as an interpreter for my family. When I left home, I also left the Deaf community. I'd had enough of being a de facto intermediary and wanted to find my own identity. But, over time, I learned to embrace both cultures and find balance between them. I love my Deaf and CODA family and hope they would be proud to call me one of their own.

  Kambri Crews

  Home, Childhood, Community

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• But I remember one thing:
  it wasn't me that started acting deaf;
  it was people that first started acting like
  I was too dumb to hear or see or say anything at all

  Ken Kesey

  Memorable, People, Dumb

  Ken Kesey (2012). “One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest: 50th Anniversary Edition”, p.187, Penguin

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• Getting married, having children, and staying together long after all love has died, saying that it's for the good of the children (who are, apparently, deaf to the constant rows).

  Paulo Coelho

  Life, Children, Long

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• If the deaf are to hear, the sound has to be very loud. When we dropped the bomb, it was not our intention to kill anybody. We have bombed the British Government. The British must quit India and make her free.

  Bhagat Singh

  Government, Sound, India

  "Awakening Indians to India" by Chinmaya Yuva Kendra, (p. 82), 2008.

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• I was born deaf, and I gained my hearing back when I was six months old - it was a miraculous event.

  Lindsay Pearce

  Events, Six Months, Back When

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• The question of souls is old—we demand our bodies, now. We are tired of promises, god is deaf, and his church is our worst enemy.

  Voltairine de Cleyre

  Tired, Worst Enemy, Soul

  Voltairine de Cleyre (2012). “Exquisite Rebel: The Essays of Voltairine de Cleyre -- Anarchist, Feminist, Genius”, p.232, SUNY Press

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• I wrote this story for you, but when I began it I had not realized that girls grow quicker than books. As a result you are already too old for fairy tales, and by the time it is printed and bound you will be older still. But some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again. You can then take it down from some upper shelf, dust it, and tell me what you think of it. I shall probably be too deaf to hear, and too old to understand a word you say, but I shall still be your affectionate Godfather, C. S. Lewis.

  C. S. Lewis

  Girl, Book, Reading

  C. S. Lewis (2013). “The Chronicles of Narnia Complete 7-Book Collection with Bonus Book: Boxen”, p.106, Harper Collins

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• There are many deaf people who couldn't imagine living in a marriage without someone who doesn't speak their language. For me, I believe that hearing or deaf is fine as long as both parties are willing to communicate in each other's language. But if there's no communication, then the marriage, I believe, will be difficult if not doomed.

  Marlee Matlin

  Communication, Party, Believe

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• When I learned to sign and speak at the same time, the whole world opened up to me. That's the beauty of encouraging kids who are deaf to use whatever it takes to communicate.

  Marlee Matlin

  Kids, Use, World

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• Differences among deaf people are okay, but we need to recognize those differences and work together.

  I. King Jordan

  Differences, People, Working Together

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

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• People after death become complete again. The blind can see, the deaf can hear, cripples are no longer crippled after all their vital signs have ceased to exist.

  Copyright: Elisabeth Kubler-Ross Family Limited Partnership.

  Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

  People, Vital Signs, Blind

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• I would certainly not want my child to be schizophrenic. I wouldn't want him or her to be a criminal either. If, on the other hand, I had a deaf child, it would help that I have developed a real admiration for Deaf culture.

  Andrew Solomon

  Children, Real, Hands

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• It seems unbelievable that a man should perish in whose favor Christ said to His Mother: 'Behold thy son', provided that he has not turned a deaf ear to the words, which Christ addressed to him: 'Behold thy Mother.'

  Robert Bellarmine

  Christian, Mother, Son

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• Cow protection means protection of the weak, the helpless, the dumb and the deaf.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Mean, Dumb, Cows

  Mahatma Gandhi, U. R. Rao (1963). “The Way to Communal Harmony”, Ahmedabad, [India] : Navajivan Publishing House

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• This habit of free speaking at ladies' lunches has impaired society; it has doubtless led to many of the tragedies of divorce and marital unhappiness. Could society be deaf and dumb and Congress abolished for a season, what a happy and peaceful life one could lead!

  M. E. W. Sherwood

  Happy, Divorce, Lunch

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• Deafness produces bizarre effects, reversing the natural order of things; the interchange of letters is the conversation of the deaf, and the only link with society. I would be in despair, for instance, over seeing you speak, but, instead, I am only too happy to hear you write.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Writing, Order, Despair

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• The late Président de Montesquieu told me that he knew how to be blind--he had been so for such a long time--but I swear that I do not know how to be deaf: I cannot get used to it, and I am as humiliated and distressed by it today as I was during the first week. No philosophy in the world can palliate deafness.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Philosophy, Long, World

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• Pleasure and revenge
  Have ears more deaf than adders to the voice
  Of any true decision.

  William Shakespeare

  Revenge, Voice, Decision

  William Shakespeare, Samuel Ayscough, Fenton John Anthony Hort, Nicholas Rowe (1790). “Shakspeare's Dramatic Works: With Explanatory Notes”, p.8

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