Deaf Quotations

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

A friend of mine has a son who became deaf through meningitis. He called me one spring and asked me to keep a week out of my schedule because he wanted to start a school for deaf kids. I wanted to help.

I'm particularly proud of my work with the Starkey Hearing Foundation for whom I raised a million dollars in one day on 'Celebrity Apprentice.' They do great work around the world helping deaf children in developing countries get proper attention and free hearing aids.

Hear only the things you should hear - be deaf to others.

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.

Taste is one of the five senses, and the man who tells us with priggish pride that he does not care what he eats is merely boasting of his sad deficiency: he might as well be proud of being deaf or blind, or, owing to a perpetual cold in the head, of being devoid of the sense of smell.

In other restaurants you'll see employees signing to each other, since we also hire many deaf men and women.

I was deaf and dumb and blind to all but me, myself and I.

I'm not a deaf musician. I'm a musician who happens to be deaf.

Success listens only to applause. To all else it is deaf

We've all been sick; we're all afraid of infection. I think the easiest application to help people understand what quorum sensing is and why it's important to study is to tell them that if we could make the bacteria either deaf or mute, we could create new antibiotics.

If you're powerful, you are much more likely to be blind and deaf to signals from outside.

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

At some point we have to stop and say, There's Marlee, not, There's the deaf actress.

I have terrible hearing trouble. I have unwittingly helped to invent and refine a type of music that makes its principal proponents deaf.

Cancer cells have a lot of other things that are really wrong with them, and we should never forget that these are cells that have become deaf to all the signals that the body sends out, such as you can multiply a certain amount, you can be in a certain place in the body, where to stay, where to move, and so on.

Must whales and dolphins be subjected to deafening noise that will cause more than 3.5 million instances of temporary and/or permanent hearing loss? For species that depend on hearing for survival - to find food, migrate, and communicate - any hearing loss could be catastrophic. As one scientist noted, a deaf whale is a dead whale.

When George W. Bush hit the campaign trail in 2000, the precious possession he brought with him from home was his personal feather pillow. The theme of the Bush years was obliviousness. He was famously unavailable for debate and dialogue. He was deaf to countervailing voices. He hit the sack early and always got a good night's sleep.

When I was young I knew I was deaf. I couldn't accept it.

Getting bogged down in old stories stops the flow of learning by censoring our perceptions, making us functionally deaf and blind to new information. Once the replay button gets pushed, we no longer form new ideas or conclusions - the old ones are so cozy.

I am deaf to the word 'no'.

We regret that the government turned a deaf ear to the many calls for the release of this respected journalist. At least, after 15 months of detention, Zhao is going to be able to defend himself in court against the baseless charges brought against him by the Chinese authorities. We hope, at the very least, that the trial will be fair and that foreign observers and the press will be able to attend.

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.

When they want to seek our vote, they know where to reach us. But I don't see most of them here with us. They know we exist when they need to be elected, but after the election they become blind and deaf when it comes to our problems. ... We demand the government to use its power, as one of the greatest nations in the world, to end police brutality, to end racial profiling.

She's pretty much totally deaf now. She can't hear me. We have to write things back and forth. Anything I have to communicate with her now has to be written.

She's dedicated. She cross-trains all summer long. Her grades are excellent. I think that comes from having to deal with deaf parents.

Sign language was a great experience. I have a deaf aunt that I am able to communicate with because of that class.

Sign language is useful to the deaf but vital to the Italians.

No one is as deaf as the man who will not listen.

None so deaf as those that will not hear.

Music is good to the melancholy, bad to those who mourn, and neither good nor bad to the deaf

No one told him he had limitations. We just told him he was deaf and blind.

Pope Francis emphatically does not buy the argument that poverty can be alleviated by the 'trickle down' effects of wealth creation. He is deaf to arguments that the global economy has brought a billion people out of poverty. He is convinced, in short, that the best and only way to expel poverty is fairer distribution of the world's goods.

I was telling my story to deaf ears, because I was telling my story to a person who would give their first-born child to be doing what I was doing.

Celebrity is a mask that eats into the face. As soon as one is aware of being ''somebody,'' to be watched and listened to with extra interest, input ceases, and the performer goes blind and deaf in his over-animation. One can either see or be seen.

If a deaf person has to go to court, is it still called a hearing?

He either has had to have some knowledge or admit to being virtually blind, deaf and dumb. Has he condoned it? Has he ignored it? Has he encouraged it? Those are the questions that have to be asked, and sooner rather than later.

When I am around a deaf person for about an hour I start relaxing and it starts coming to me easier. Right now I'm pretty rusty though.

We made some suggestions that fell on deaf ears - that tells you about the motivations of people who support the bill.

Kindness is a language the dumb can speak and the deaf can hear and understand.

I think the plea is falling on deaf ears.

I will see that you get a response on all those issues. I appreciate you raising these concerns, and I can assure you, they have not fallen on deaf ears.

Our power has the grave liability of rendering our theories about the world immune from failure. But by becoming deaf to easily discerned warning signs, we may ignore long-term costs that result from our actions and dismiss reverses that should lead to a re-examination of our goals and means.

Some people are too severely deaf to benefit from conventional hearing aids; a cochlear implant may be a suitable alternative but only for a proportion of them.

Living the life I have lived - being raised by deaf parents, assimilating to a different culture, and the challenges I have faced over time - has given me insight to the fact that each person has their own complex, intricate story, and it's rarely what I suspect it is. We must have compassion and grace for each other. We must.

Look at your heart and tongue, one feels but deaf and dumb, the other speaks in words and signs.

Listen or thy tongue will keep thee deaf

If the deaf are to hear the sound has to be very loud

Who is blind, dumb and deaf will live a peaceful life of a hundred years.

Will it make a difference? I don't know. I doubt it, to be honest, but it's to the point where I had to say something. If it falls on deaf ears, so be it.

We've been fighting for a long time to strengthen the levees and get full funding for these. Hopefully, it will no longer fall on deaf ears, ... Would the money have saved us? Unfortunately, we'll never know.

We go to foreign countries and say, 'Our farmers will do what is right,' but turn deaf and dumb when those countries do not play by the same rules.

We are constantly searching out events and things where we can interact with deaf people or learn more about deafness and deaf education.

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.

The deaf community is nearly never portrayed accurately on television/film because most writers never took the time to immerse themselves in the deaf culture before portraying it on television. They also never got to know their deaf actors.

The deaf community is in a favorable position because they have a national theatre and training groups of their own to get them started. Deaf actors have often acquired very valuable skills and experience before they get their break.

Love's not only blind but deaf.

I fink I gots deaf on me willie.

There is neither a cure for nor a way to repair autism. There is no implant like there is for the deaf.

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.

We will continue to engage them. We're not completely deaf to it.

We're tired of begging others to do for us what we have the capacity to pool our resources - intellectually and financially - to do for ourselves. We will make demands from our government, but we know those demands will fall on deaf ears unless and until we are mobilized, sensitized and extremely organized.

When you have a dialogue with the deaf you have to stand up and be counted. My message to the Government is stop this disgraceful butchery of public service jobs.

To see my New Orleans in the state she is in is my worst nightmare. We are all praying for our extended family to be reunited. Hopefully, our prayers are not falling on deaf ears. By the grace of God, New Orleans and the entire Gulf Coast will pull through this massive devastation.

To hear Dave protest his innocence, and to see it fall on deaf ears, was very difficult after we've spent three or four years of our lives defending him.

We try to warn them of the risks but they are deaf to what we say.

You'd really have to be blind and deaf to watch the shows and never know--we make it quite clear they're adult shows for adults, ... Even though technically we're not regulated and there's nothing the FCC could do, we feel that we have little choice right now.

At some point when your case falls on deaf ears, you have to start looking elsewhere.

Disney directors would have to be deaf and dumb not to understand they're under a microscope. The shareholders of Disney will examine this process very carefully to understand whether the Disney board has learned anything from the Ovitz matter.

Consumers should take note that complaints will no longer fall on deaf ears.

Europeans' cries are falling on deaf ears. Their wish that the euro not bear the burden of readjustment will not make it into the G7 statement.

Europeans' cries are falling on deaf ears, ... Their wish that the euro not bear the burden of readjustment will not make it into the G7 statement.

The word is out (among deaf people) that there's an opportunity to live independently.

These debates on blame alone won't get us anywhere with most people. Complaints about 9/11 investigations fell on deaf ears.

The supervisors have turned a deaf ear to the pleas of sick and dying people, and now they have shown that they are equally willing to ignore the law.

At home, I'm the only deaf person. When I'm here, I can communicate.

The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman.

You would have to be blind, deaf and dumb not to see that as pointing to a direction for the dollar.

They should have an interpreter in every class session where there is a deaf student,

All of our attempts to reach out to people and get people to move on this have fallen on deaf ears. We're frustrated.

They have the right name. They must be deaf if they don't hear me.

It's a way for the deaf and hearing communities in the Valley to come together.

It's one of the places you can go and know that there will always be a deaf person for you to talk to.

It's like Randy went deaf this year. I don't know what happened.

There was a powder keg of public anger about to explode out there, ... But that fell on deaf ears.

The labels going straight to the consumer has retailers more nervous than a cat with deaf kittens.

IMPROBABILITY, n.His tale he told with a solemn face And a tender, melancholy grace. Improbable 'twas, no doubt, When you came to think it out, But the fascinated crowd Their deep surprise avowed And all with a single voice averred'Twas the most amazing thing they'd heard -- All save one who spake never a word, But sat as mum As if deaf and dumb, Serene, indifferent and unstirred. Then all the others turned to him And scrutinized him limb from limb -- Scanned him alive; But he seemed to thrive And tranquiler grow each minute, As if there were nothing in it."What! what!" cried one, "are you not amazed At what our friend has told?" He raised Soberly then his eyes and gazed In a natural way And proceeded to say, As he crossed his feet on the mantel-shelf:"O no --not at all; I'm a liar myself.

I had thought that North Korea might compromise even a bit in order to speed up talks on normalization of diplomatic ties, but as always our message fell on deaf ears.

I must say, I'm really not optimistic. We've done everything we possibly could to demonstrate our passionate commitment to this city, the state, our fan base, and it's going on deaf ears.

I remember a lot of name calling. If I didn't turn around, they didn't get to turn around. Whatever was said was said to deaf ears.

In that first blow to the deaf walls of those who have everything, the blood of our people, our blood, ran generously to wash away injustice. To live, we die. Our dead once again walked the way of truth. Our hope was fertilized with mud and blood.

A cricket tour in Australia would be a most delightful period in one's life if one was deaf

How can a profoundly deaf person become a musician?

I thought what I'd do was I'd pretend I was one of those deaf-mutes.

I'm quite deaf now; such a comfort.

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

I'm not deaf and the Commission isn't operating in a parallel world of legal texts.

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

if you listen too hard to the technology, your ear goes deaf to its implications.

If he wants to come to the state capital and lecture my legislature, his message is going to fall on deaf ears. I think they'd stop him at the state line.