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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• 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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• 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 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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• I am deaf to the word 'no'.

  Dhirubhai Ambani

  Inspirational, Powerful

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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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• Use your eyes as if tomorrow you would be stricken blind. Hear the music of voices, the song of birds, the mighty strains of an orchestra as if you would be stricken deaf tomorrow . . . Smell the perfume of flowers, taste with relish each morsel as if tomorrow you could never smell and taste again. Glory in all the facts of pleasure and beauty which the world reveals to you.

  Helen Keller

  Song, Flower, Eye

  Helen Keller (2000). “To Love this Life: Quotations”, p.11, American Foundation for the Blind

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• Heard about the young deaf boy who used sign language-One day he told his mother a dirty joke and she washed his hands out with soap

  Red Skelton

  Mother, Dirty, Inspiration

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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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• One of the things I did when I was in New York, which has a wonderful deaf community, is I have worked on making Broadway more accessible to deaf people.

  Camryn Manheim

  New York, People, Community

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

  Evelyn Glennie

  Musician, Happens

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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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• If blind people wear sunglasses, why don't deaf people wear earmuffs?

  Bob Monkhouse

  People, Sunglasses, Questions And Answers

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• For example, the first time McDonald's put a deaf person in a commercial they saw a jump in sales. I think that happens with other kinds of disabilities and products and that is something that is being realized more and more.

  Richard Masur

  Thinking, Mcdonalds, Being Real

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• The will is deaf and hears no heedful friends.

  William Shakespeare

  William Shakespeare, Warne Routledge (and Routledge (Londres)), William Hazlitt (1864). “The Dramatic Works of William Shakspeare: From the Text of Johnson, Stevens, and Reed with Glossarial Notes, Life &c. : in Four Volumes”, p.679

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• But as far as my work is concerned, I see no impediment, and various advantages, to being deaf.

  Stephanie Beacham

  Advantage, Concerned, Various

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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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• Even though I am nearly deaf, I seem to be gifted with a kind of inner hearing which enables me to detect sounds and noises which the ordinary person does not hear.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Motivational, Sound, Ordinary

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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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• My father spoke with his hands. He was deaf. His voice was in his hands. And his hands contained his memories.

  Myron Uhlberg

  Memories, Dad, Father

  Myron Uhlberg (2009). “Hands of My Father: A Hearing Boy, His Deaf Parents, and the Language of Love”, p.2, Bantam

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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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