Quotes About Deaf And Mute

#1. I know what it's like to be growing up, called 'deaf and mute' and 'deaf and dumb.' They're words that are very degrading and demeaning to people who are deaf and hard of hearing. It's almost ... it's almost libelous, if you want to say that.

Marlee Matlin

#2. O deaf and mute
and blind and beautiful and interminable rose
who into time, attar and verse transmute

Cecilia Meireles

#3. The vine bears three kinds of grapes: the first of pleasure, the second of intoxication, the third of disgust.

Diogenes

#4. Watch me when people say deaf and dumb, or deaf mute, and I give them a look like you might get if you called Denzel Washington the wrong name.

Marlee Matlin

#5. She hit bottom when she physically attacked a deaf-mute. This was a boy of fourteen, a beloved neighborhood figure who delivered for the nearby deli.

David Sedaris

#6. God is a sure paymaster. He may not pay at the end of every week, or month, or year, but I charge you remember that He pays in the end.

Anne Of Austria

#7. We are the creature of language, and through language we affirm ourselves, we find out about the world, including ourselves, through words, and we share with one another through language.

Robert Coles

#8. I never gossip - but after all, a tongue is given one to speak with, and I'm not deaf mute.

That you most certainly are not. A tongue, Henet, may sometimes be a weapon. A tongue may cause a death - may cause more than one death. I hope your tongue, Henet, has not caused a death.

Agatha Christie

#9. Love is blind, and a deaf-mute too.

Patrick Rothfuss

#10. Be careful of what you wish for because sometimes it just might come untrue.

Jonathan Dunne

#11. The web presents an opportunity to showcase any character your sick mind desires. Want to create a cross-dressing, deaf/mute, corrupt politician who has a soft spot for saving children? Go for it!

Issa Rae

#12. His carefully calculated sincerity is almost entirely indistinguishable from the real thing.

Richard Russo

#13. What an incredible thing! How much less they had than other human beings. Mentally retarded, deaf, mute - and still eagerly sanding benches.

Daniel Keyes

#14. I didn't know how to explain what I meant; sociopathy wasn't just being emotionally deaf, it was being emotionally mute, too. I felt like the characters on our muted TV, waving their hands and screaming and never saying a word out loud.

Dan Wells

#15. Sorry - Americans only buy things that come from suffering. They just enjoy it more when they know someone's getting hurt.

Louis C.K.

#16. Nature is not mute; it is man who is deaf.

Terence McKenna

#17. The genetic theory of homosexuality has been generally discarded today ... Despite the interest in possible hormone mechanisms in the origin of homosexuality, no serious scientist today suggests that a simple cause-effect relationship applies.

William H. Masters

#18. Everyone was laughin'. Even that deaf mute boy was breathing heavy and pointing at me. Which is laughter to their kind.

Dave Attell

#19. Nature is not mute, it is a man who is deaf.

Terence McKenna

#20. Independence of mind, enthusiasm, dedication to the field, and willingness to challenge and question and to explore new direction. There are plenty of people like that, but schools tend to discourage those characteristics.

Noam Chomsky

#21. You lost my interest, you aren't a nice guy and very nasty guy.

Deyth Banger

#22. Integrate what you believe in every single area of your life. Take your heart to work and ask the most and best of everybody else, too.

Meryl Streep

#23. Gonna pretend to be a deaf mute who knows no sign one day, meet a woman, and we'll write for the rest of our lives.

Darnell Lamont Walker

#24. Failure is a human condition, not victory over odds; for each Hellen Keller who triumphs, there are tens of millions who fail, mute and deaf and insensate as vegetables tossed upon a vast garbage pile to rot.

Joyce Carol Oates

#25. My middle name is Marshall. A lot of people think it's a stage name, but it's not.

Trevor St. John

#26. Past is deaf. Future is mute. Present is blind.

Akiane Kramarik

#27. And if the government was stone-deaf, the press was mute. The media are convinced in 1987 that they're doing a great job reporting the AIDS story, and there's no denying they've grasped the horror. But for four years they let the bureaucracies get away with passive genocide,

Paul Monette

#28. and hit play on his cassette tape.

Brittainy C. Cherry

#29. We've all been sick; we're all afraid of infection. I think the easiest application to help people understand what quorum sensing is and why it's important to study is to tell them that if we could make the bacteria either deaf or mute, we could create new antibiotics.

Bonnie Bassler

#30. The Bible's blind, the Torah's deaf, the Qur'an is mute; if you burned them all together you'd get close to the truth.

Conor Oberst

#31. Moses said to the LORD, "Oh, my Lord, I am not eloquent, either in the past or since you have spoken to your servant, but o I am slow of speech and of tongue." 11Then the LORD said to him, "Who has made man's mouth? Who makes him mute, or deaf, or seeing, or blind? Is it not I, the LORD?

Anonymous

#32. Okay," she said. "I'm so glad to see someone, who cares if it's a deaf-mute and a retard.

Stephen King

#33. I think you have everyone kind of pulling on the same end of the rope. It's not like you're Robin Williams and everyone else is a deaf mute. It's like - there's plenty of help.

Michael McKean

#34. There is no book so bad it does not contain something good.

Pliny