20 Best Deaf Sayings and Deaf Quotes
20 Best Deaf Sayings and Deaf Quotes – The following quotes were made during or shortly after the DPN protests of March 1988. The sources for these and other citations used on this website are from either Jack Gannon’s book, The Week the World Heard Gallaudet or Gallaudet in the News Special. protest issue.
1.Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.
Mark Twain
2.Sign language is the noblest gift God has given to deaf people.
George Veditz
3.Every one of us is different in some way, but for those of us who are more different, we have to put more effort into convincing the less different that we can do the same thing they can, just differently.
4.Marlee MatlinEvery one of us is blind and deaf until our eyes are opened to our fellowmen, until our ears hear the voice of humanity.
Helen Keller
5.It requires wisdom to understand wisdom: the music is nothing if the audience is deaf.
Walter Lippmann
6.People will make a life in their own terms, whether they are deaf or colorblind or autistic or whatever. And their world will be quite as rich and interesting and full as our world.
Oliver Sacks
7.I hope I inspire people who hear. Hearing people have the ability to remove barriers that prevent deaf people from achieving their dreams.
Marlee Matlin
8.Deaf people can do anything, except hear.
Marlee Matlin
9.Nature is not mute, it is a man who is deaf.
Terence McKenna
10.Hear only the things you should hear – be deaf to others.
Ford Frick
11.As long as we have deaf people on earth, we will have signs.
George Veditz
12.Music is universal too. Even deaf people like to dance, love rhythm, and can kind of pick it up.
Rainn Wilson
13.God hears no more than the heart speaks; and if the heart be dumb, God will certainly be deaf.
Thomas Brooks
14.Colour is the touch of the eye, Music to the deaf, A word out of darkness.
Orhan Pamuk
15.Colour is the touch of the eye, Music to the deaf, A word out of darkness.
Orhan Pamuk
16.One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar.
Helen Keller
17.Success listens only to applause. To all else it is deaf
Elias Canetti
18.Success listens only to applause. To all else it is deaf
Elias Canetti
19.None so blind, so deaf, as those that will not hear, that will not see.
Matthew Henry
20.I would write plays for my grandmother, who was stone deaf, my mother and the dog, that was our audience.
Jayne Meadows
