Deaf People Quotes: top 40 famous quotes about Deaf People

Deaf People Quotes & Sayings

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They were two people staring at each other knowingly, communicating psychically amidst an ocean of deaf, dumb and blind meatsacks. — Travis Luedke

When you do not respond to the needs of others, pretending you do not hear them, other people will also pretend they are deaf in time of your need. — Sunday Adelaja

Instant messaging and chat rooms have basically created a level playing field for deaf people. — Vint Cerf

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

There is no relation to sound for deaf people. It is a totally different mental process. — Richard Masur

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

Sometimes we should say NO loudly.Some people have deaf hearts — Mohammed Sekouty

Historians are like deaf people who go on answering questions that no one has asked them. — Leo Tolstoy

People can't listen until they're ready. I sure couldn't. I was, like, deaf to everyone except the thoughts. They were the boss of me. — Teresa Toten

People thinking that God abandoned them are deaf because they have no hope. How could God create life without hope? — Robin Sacredfire

As long as one people sit on another and are deaf to their cry, so long will understanding and peace elude all of us. — Chinua Achebe

You'd have a better chance persuading someone to change their sexual orientation than reaching people who have rendered themselves so deaf and blind. — Epictetus

Some people are color-blind; some are intellectually-deaf. — Mokokoma Mokhonoana

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

I placed over a thousand deaf people in jobs throughout my career working for the deaf. — Camryn Manheim

To remain motivated, be deaf to people who keep saying to you that it can't be done. — Amey Hegde

If blind people wear sunglasses, why don't deaf people wear earmuffs? — Bob Monkhouse

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. — David McMullen-Sullivan

People tend to pay attention to the guy who shouts and ignore the one who whispers. — Kelly Moran

Cruelty is a language that the blind can see, the deaf can hear, and the heart feels forever. — Shannon L. Alder

Most people took no more notice of the profoundly deaf than they did of their own shadows. They — Joe Hill

Musical people are so absurdly unreasonable. They always want one to be perfectly dumb at the very moment when one is longing to be absolutely deaf. — Oscar Wilde

Like the majority of deaf people, I don't like blind people much. — Luis Bunuel

Deaf people talk with their mouths full. — Darynda Jones

I use the grotesque the way I do because people are deaf and dumb and need help to see and hear. — Flannery O'Connor

Musical people always want one to be perfectly dumb at the very moment when one is longing to be perfectly deaf. — Oscar Wilde

...beer makes people deaf... — Maggie Stiefvater

There are so many people, deaf or otherwise abled, who are so talented but overlooked or not given a chance to even get their foot in the door. — Marlee Matlin

Choose your words wisely with consideration for others & self because repetitive, meaningless words ... leave people tone deaf. — Sanjo Jendayi

Can deaf people hear their heartbeat? — Anthony Doerr

All disputation makes the mind deaf; and when people are deaf, I am dumb. — Joseph Joubert

Perhaps its not the world that is soundless but we who are deaf. — Margaret Atwood

Music is universal too. Even deaf people like to dance, love rhythm, and can kind of pick it up. — Rainn Wilson

We were like deaf people trying to dance to a beat we couldn't hear, long after the music actually stopped. — Brandon Sanderson

The good man believed that shortsighted people were also deaf and that their spectacles would become clearer if their ears heard more sharply. — Joseph Roth

There were few things Deaf people found more amusing than hearing people who knew just enough sign to be dangerous. — Darynda Jones

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

There are two worlds: the deaf world and the hearing world. There are some people in the deaf community that feel that hearing people look down on us. — Sean Berdy

Cocaine made people deaf, it made people dead and it made people real obnoxious. — Linda Ronstadt

Differences among deaf people are okay, but we need to recognize those differences and work together. — I. King Jordan