Best 113 quotes in «deaf quotes» category

Most of my friends seem to be either dead, extremely deaf or living on the wrong side of Kent.

None so blind, so deaf, as those that will not hear, that will not see.

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

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

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

O that men's ears should be To counsel deaf but not to flattery!

One and the same thing can at the same time be good, bad, and indifferent, e.g., music is good to the melancholy, bad to those who mourn, and neither good nor bad to the deaf.

Say what you want about the deaf.

Ring the bells for the blind and deaf.

People are going deaf because music is played louder and louder, but because they're going deaf, it has to be played louder still.

Sign language is the noblest gift God has given to deaf people.

Take her home. And-" "Say nothing- yes, yes, I heard you the first seven hundred times," Myrnin said, much too sharply. "I'm ancient. I'm not deaf.

The Bible says that God uses the foolish things and the base things of the world to accomplish His work. He apparently uses the tone deaf of the world to do something too.

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.

So the blind will lead the blind, and the deaf shout warnings to one another until their voices are lost.

The Americans have no faith, they rely on the power of a dollar; they are deaf to sentiment.

The deaf community is hungry to see itself in the most positive way.

The gods are deaf to hot and peevish vows. They are polluted off'rings, more abhorred! Than spotted livers in the sacrifice.

The fact that I'm virtually deaf. Any woman who's going to date a rock musician has to be prepared to repeat herself every 10 seconds. My wife asks me where we should go for dinner and it sounds like the schoolteacher from Charlie Brown.

The time-deaf are unable to speak what they know. For speech needs a sequence of words, spoken in time.

The Lord heareth the prayers of those who ask to put aside hatred. But he is deaf to those who would flee from love.

The same arguments which go to show that knowledge is power, that the condition of a people is improved in proportion as the masses are educated, have their application with equal weight to the deaf.

Trust is not simply a matter of truthfulness, or even constancy. It is also a matter of amity and goodwill. We trust those who have our best interests at heart, and mistrust those who seem deaf to our concerns.

The wisdom of providence is as much revealed in the rarity of genius, as in the circumstance that not everyone is deaf or blind.

Ultimately, I don't think you can teach a tone-deaf person how to sing. Some talents you're just born with, unfortunately.

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

When Elliott Smith came out, it was falling on deaf ears. But artists were reacting to it.

Through endless time God's greatest gift is continuously given in silence. But whenmankind becomes completely deaf to the thunder of His Silence God incarnates as Man.

When Beethoven went deaf, the mynah bird just used to mime.

A bigot is a stone-deaf orator.

Without big data, you are blind and deaf and in the middle of a freeway.

You see, the deaf have an intimacy with silence. It’s there in their dreams.

A man who saw has turned blind, A hearer deaf, A leader now leads astray!

Before you look down upon the cripple, understand why you walk. Before you judge the dumb, understand why you talk. Before you judge the deaf, understand why you listen and hear. Before you judge the blind, understand why you look and see. Before you speak negative, understand why positive speech exists. Before you think negative, understand why positive thinking exists. Before you react negatively, understand why reacting positively exist. There exist positive and negative choices always. You have a choice. Good or bad, you choose!

Who is so deaf or so blind as is he that willfully will neither hear nor see?

Yo, yo, yo, check it out," said PJ, with enough hand gestures that any deaf person watching would have thought he had ASL Tourette's syndrome

A deaf and dumb in the mist of morons is a renowed talkative among brains.

A world without radio is a deaf world. A world without television is a blind world. A world without telephone is a dumb world. A world without communication is indeed a crippled world.

Don't see a person from someone's eyes, don't talk a person from someone's mouth and don't hear a person from someone's ears, you are not blind, dumb and deaf

Even if all our senses fail to function − eyes turn blind and ears fail to listen − the heart will still listen, see and beat.

A world without radio is a deaf world.A world without television is a blind world. A a world without telephone is a dumb world. A world without communication is indeed a crippled world.

Dance was invented for those who could not hear.

Every time I can’t tell where someone’s calling me from in a room and every time I accidentally start to put my earbuds in both ears I think about you.

For the rest of our lives, all we can hear are our names chanted over and over, until we are deaf to everything else.

He invited me to his home for Christmas dinner and his little girl learned a few signs before I got there, and I taught her a few more." I smiled, thinking of little Claudia. "She asked me the sign for love and I spelled out your name.

Eyes are a deaf man’s ears. Ears are a blind man’s eyes.

I do think my story is very unique because having a partial disability, you are deemed by society as someone who is born to fail. This alone had made me more determined to succeed not just for myself but for the Deaf community as well. Hence my motto in life is to live a purpose driven life, be an example to the lost in the world and to leave a legacy.

He is deaf, and keen to accept, any economical operation, that will correct his situation. He visited the doctor best, and started talking on subject, like the after-effects, and if any threats. The doctor medically checked, and asked him what he expects? He expressed, he wants to be addressed- in words, and not in signs. And how keen he is, to have his ears listening. He wants to listen the echo of, sun-set over that crimson dawn. He is keen to know, the sound of, a blooming rose. He wants to know what it sounds like, when a seedling grows. But Doctor- if you say: You are incapable, then I better get away, for then there is- nothing worth to be heard, in your seemingly wordy world.

If I only could communicate in sign language, I couldn't visit other deaf people overseas because I'd be worried I couldn't understand their accents.

I want to feel breath on my ears. They aren't dead. They can still feel.