Switched At Birth Quotes

#1. The availability of roles for deaf actors has always been very limited. After 'Switched at Birth' began including deaf actors, a ripple effect has definitely been created in the industry. 'Switched at Birth' has made an impact for the better.

Sean Berdy

#2. If the bible myth of Jonah in the whale and the Mother Goose myth of Jack and the Beanstalk were switched at birth so that Jack in the Beanstalk were in the bible, do you think any child would notice?

Bill Maher

#3. I did my first series lead back in 1991 on a show called 'Reasonable Doubts' and have done many shows with other actors who are deaf. But 'Switched at Birth' is the first TV show where there is more than one actor who is deaf or hard of hearing and who are series regulars.

Marlee Matlin

#4. My fantasy was that I was the long-lost switched-at-birth child of wealthy eccentrics. One day, they would find me and take me away from the gypsy caravan that was my life, and give me hot meals, a decent dress, and a pony.

Roberta Pearce

#5. I can see that 'Switched at Birth' is attracting audiences because of the diversity and the American Sign Language as well. American Sign Language is such a beautiful language, and people want more of that.

Sean Berdy

#6. The deaf culture is portrayed very accurately on 'Switched at Birth' because the writers did the opposite of the norm. They did their homework before portraying anything on television.

Sean Berdy

#7. A man needs to be polite, not just to me but to everyone. I watch that. How does he treat the waiter? How does he treat the coat-check girl? How does he treat the driver?

Adriana Lima

#8. Do not store dreams in ur eyes, they may roll down with ur tears.. Store them in ur heart that each heart beat will inspire u 2 fullfill them ......

Ravi Singh

#9. It was true. Men could be with whomever they pleased. But women had to date better, kinder, richer, and bright, bright, bright, or else people got embarrassed.

Lorrie Moore

#10. Edinburgh is my adopted home. It's a place where I wanted to come and live, and I managed to arrange my life so it happened.

Peter Higgs

#11. I think if you read all my books you know where I stand, pretty much. You could probably give the reader a questionnaire and they could figure out what I'm about. But I don't think my job is to tell you that.

T.C. Boyle

#12. She knew so many people so many but what was the point? How many of them did she really care about? How many of them really cared about her?

Amy Zhang

#13. Over time even two armed blind men in a room can do enormous damage to each other, not to speak of the room.

Henry A. Kissinger

#14. Football was just the playing I enjoyed at first, but the longer you're playing the more it becomes a social event. You meet new people and make new friends. I still know some of the people I played with when I was 11-years-old, which is nice.

Hope Powell

#15. How dull it is to have people defining you.

Octavia E. Butler

#16. We're closer than friends. It's like we've got this invisible thread tying us together.

Denise Grover Swank

#17. I shuffled to the back. 'You there - new girl. I can't see you.' Precisely: that had been the idea.

Joss Stirling

#18. I want to confess. I thought that her story was comprised of scenes. I thought the tragedy could be glamorous and her grief could be undone by a sunnier future. I thought we could pinpoint dramatic events on a time line and call it a life.
But I was wrong.

Nina LaCour

#19. She had switched from counting her years not up from birth, but back from death - a grab-bag of time not growing, but shrinking, use it or lose it.

Lois McMaster Bujold

#20. You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is like an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.

Mahatma Gandhi