Dumbness comes from the fact that a child is born deaf and that it consequently never learns how to articulate, for it is by the medium of hearing that such instruction is acquired.
Alexander Graham Bell
ChildBornDeafNeverHearingFact
I am not deaf. I hear the anger. I see the dissatisfaction, and I have to go faster.
Francois Hollande
AngerI AmGoDeafSeeI See
If you are the master be sometimes blind, if you are the servant be sometimes deaf.
R. Buckminster Fuller
BlindYouSometimesDeafMaster
After becoming deaf, I realized that I'd better get an education if I was ever to do anything with my life.
I. King Jordan
LifeEducationBetterMy LifeDeaf
Before working with Deaf West, I had never met a deaf person, and now I can't imagine life without ASL.
Michael Arden
LifePersonNowDeafNeverWithout
When I was a child, I dreaded blindness. We used to ask: 'Would we rather be blind or deaf?' I said I'd rather be blind, even though I was scared of it. I couldn't bear not being able to hear music or talk to people.
Sue Townsend
MusicChildPeopleBlindSaidDeaf
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
ThinkEndHelpYouKindDeaf
Policing of the disabled and how many deaf people get shot by cops is sort of insane. And it's not talked about.
Wyatt Cenac
PeopleDeafGetCopsInsaneShot
If thou art a master, be sometimes blind; if a servant, sometimes deaf.
Thomas Fuller
ArtBlindSometimesDeafMaster
There are so many deaf kids out there being deprived of their own language.
Nyle DiMarco
LanguageDeafOutOwnBeingKids
I think being deaf gave me an increased sense of sight.
MeThinkDeafSightBeingSense
In middle school, I had the best math teacher I've ever had, and he was deaf... and I felt inspired by him. I knew from then on that I wanted to be a math teacher.
TeacherBestSchoolDeafHimMiddle
I hated my childhood. It was loathsome. My parents were deaf and dumb. Profoundly so. They could make noises when they were emotionally aroused, but they couldn't form it into speech.
Richard Griffiths
ChildhoodParentsSpeechDumbDeaf
What the Bleep Do We Know was not written with a deaf person in mind, but when they met me, it clicked with them to have me in it. But that happens with a lot of actors in Hollywood, not just with me.
Marlee Matlin
MindMePersonKnowHollywoodDeaf
I'm half deaf. I have nerve damage and a constant ringing in both of my ears, and there are certain times and conditions when I can hardly hear at all.
James Nachtwey
I CanDeafHalfEarsDamageHear
France turned a deaf ear to the demands, but Ho had succeeded in attracting great publicity in progressive French circles to the situation in Indochina.
Wilfred Burchett
GreatSituationDeafCirclesFrance
As Christians, we are responsible for our fellow brothers and sisters suffering and fighting for the basic resources we all need to survive. To deny this is to turn a deaf ear to God's teachings.
Catherine Cortez-Masto
GodSufferingSurviveFightingDeaf
Inequality within the deaf and hard of hearing community is something I feel really passionate about and always will do.
Rachel Shenton
CommunityFeelInequalityDeafWill
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.
Gary Hamel
HeartTrustBestDeafMatterSeem
I know a little bit about deaf culture because a friend of mine has been in the deaf culture for awhile. Over the course of 25 years, she and I have talked about many of the issues and concerns for deaf people and deaf culture.
John Scalzi
FriendCulturePeopleKnowDeafShe
If one can only see things according to one's own belief system, one is destined to become virtually deaf, dumb, and blind.
Robert Anton Wilson
BlindDumbDeafBeliefBecomeSee
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
MusicPeopleDeafGoingBecause
I am going slightly deaf in my right ear. It's tinnitus... something like that.
Louis Tomlinson
I AmDeafRightSomethingGoingEar
If Beethoven could write his 'Eroica Symphony' stone deaf, then William Wyler can do a musical.
William Wyler
StoneDeafWriteSymphonyHisThen
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