Deaf Deafness Quotes

#1. The time will come, without my seeking it, that my words will almost serve as law. If I ask a certain thing, it will be done. If I don't want something, it will not be done.

Sun Myung Moon

#2. Think you of the fact that a deaf person cannot hear. Then, what deafness may we not all possess? What senses do we lack that we cannot see and cannot hear another world all around us?

Frank Herbert

#3. There is very little moral mixture in the 'Antislavery' feeling of this country. A great deal is abstract philanthropy; part is hatred of slaveholders; a great part is jealousy for white labor, very little is consciousness of wrong done and the wish to right it.

George William Curtis

#4. For me, it's not just about blessing my generation, I've done that already, I also have to be a father to the fatherless.

Onyi Anyado

#5. If I hadn't lost my hearing, I wouldn't be where I am now. It forced me to maximize my own potential. I have to be better than the average person to succeed.

Lou Ferrigno

#6. A bigot is a stone-deaf orator.

Kahlil Gibran

#7. Our body is the temple of our spirit.

George W. Romney

#8. 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

#9. Proverbs may not improperly be called the philosophy of the common people.

James Howell

#10. Metaphorical tone deafness is when people are unable to discern what is of value in something. I think I'm tone deaf to poetry, for instance. Despite having studied it into a second year of university, most of it just leaves me cold.

Julian Baggini

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

Myron Uhlberg

#12. 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

#13. He saw a blinded convulsing body thrown down into an open grave. It was an image he could not escape.

Shane K.P. O'Neill

#14. Like music, yoga is a journey
one that is long enough so you keep developing, and keep learning. I don't see an end to it.

Sting

#15. I'll never go. How can I? How far would I get without my heart?

Charlotte Lamb

#16. Read at a time when everything feels intense, seminal, and like you're the first person to discover it, freshman year of college, Carol Gilligan's 'In a Different Voice' made my hair stand on end with awe.

Emma McLaughlin

#17. I wash myself clean of guilt, of pain, of fear, of emotion. I am the ocean. I am empty. I am nothing.

Kiersten White

#18. We can't expect a blind man to appreciate beautiful patterns or a deaf man to listen to bells and drums. And blindness and deafness are not confined to the body alone - the understanding has them, too.

Zhuangzi

#19. If she had not been imprudence incarnate, she would not have acted as she did when she met Henchard by accident a day or two later.

Thomas Hardy

#20. You of the fact that a deaf person cannot hear. Then, what deafness may we not all possess? What senses do we lack that we cannot see and cannot hear another world all around us? What is there around us that we cannot -

Frank Herbert

#21. And the blind man said to the deaf man, Do you see what I hear?

Wayne Gerard Trotman

#22. Ah," said Lien Shu, "it is true that a blind person cannot appreciate beautiful patterns and forms, and the deaf cannot appreciate the music of bells and drums. Yet blindness and deafness do not only afflict people physically, they also exist in the minds and attitudes of people.

Zhuangzi

#23. Or you may be such a thunderingly exalted creature as to be altogether deaf and blind to anything but heavenly sights and sounds. Then the earth for you is only a standing place- whether to be like this is your loss or your gain I won't pretend to say.

Joseph Conrad

#24. 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

#25. Only the autodidacts are free. And not just in school matters - those who decommoditize, detouristify their lives.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb