Profoundly Deaf Quotes

#1. As a profoundly deaf woman, my experiences have shown me that the impossible is indeed possible!

Heather Whitestone

#2. The first four months of my life were spent in care, before I was adopted by my wonderful parents - my mum and dad - Ernie and Christine. They went on to adopt my sister, who is profoundly deaf, and invested both of us with a love and support that informs everything I do today.

Michael Gove

#3. 'Mosaic' is about what we see and what we don't see. I learned how people can develop other senses to compensate for a missing one when I was a child. My best friend, Carol, who is profoundly deaf, saved me from an approaching car that she 'heard' when I didn't.

Gayle Lynds

#4. Most profoundly deaf people have speech that is very difficult to understand.

Richard Masur

#5. The difficulty of learning spoken English for a person profoundly deaf from an early age has been likened to a hearing American trying to learn spoken Japanese while locked within a soundproof glass cubicle.

Andrew Solomon

#6. Most people took no more notice of the profoundly deaf than they did of their own shadows. They

Joe Hill

#7. I don't care if it's rap, metal, whatever. You still should play Beatles records mixed with Limp Bizkit mixed with Foghat mixed with Creedence Clearwater Revival, stuff like that.

Afrika Bambaataa

#8. Most Swiss banks do have a whistleblower program, but they use it to punish those who avail themselves of it.

Herve Falciani

#9. My life is together, both professionally and socially.

Heath Ledger

#10. Thirty-five craters on the moon are named for Jesuit scientists and mathematicians.

Thomas E. Woods Jr.

#11. I hated my childhood. It was loathsome. My parents were deaf and dumb. Profoundly so. They could make noises when they were emotionally aroused, but they couldn't form it into speech.

Richard Griffiths

#12. There is no good war or bad peace

Benjamin Franklin

#13. the girl somewhere,
who reads you,
whose skin has memorized your life.
Nothing stops her fingers;
they swim with you at night.

Larissa Szporluk

#14. Don't talk about yourself; it will be done when you leave.

Wilson Mizner