Robert Pattinson Quotes

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

I'm hard of hearing. I miss a lot. It's really tough.

I'm quite deaf now; such a comfort.

The late Président de Montesquieu told me that he knew how to be blind--he had been so for such a long time--but I swear that I do not know how to be deaf: I cannot get used to it, and I am as humiliated and distressed by it today as I was during the first week. No philosophy in the world can palliate deafness.

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

I became deaf when I was 18 months old. And I learned to sign when I was 5 years old.

I was born deaf. Sound never existed in my life, and this is completely normal to me.

Deafness and sign language are extremely close to my heart.

You must speak loud to those who are hard of hearing.

[On being deaf:] We must struggle for whatever may be had, without encroaching on the comfort of others.

I can not remember even thinking that I was deaf when I was dancing.

I was born deaf. I was raised in a hearing world and in a deaf world at the same time. I can't say that I like one better than I like the other. I like them both. I speak pretty well; I gesture. If I don't understand something, you know, pen and paper, texting. I use it all.

I learned to speak first, and then to sign. I have never really known what it was like to hear, so I can't compare hearing aids to normal hearing.

In my normal life, I do not speak with an accent. It's harder for people to realize my hearing loss in everyday life.

But people who think they can project themselves into deafness are mistaken because you can't. And I'm not talking about imagining what a deaf person's whole life is like I even mean just realizing what it is like for an instant.

I took some classes in sign language when I was in my early teens because I was told that I would be completely deaf very early. But I never really wanted to learn.

I live my life like everyone else; everyone has their own obstacles. Mine is deafness.

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

The only thing I can't do is hear. I can drive, I have a life with four kids, I work on TV, I do movies, so the deafness question, is it that they want to know because, what? Not sure.

In 1967, I found out I was losing my hearing. I went 10 years without any help. I had otosclerosis - hardening of the bone in the middle of the ear.

On the other hand, there are only so many people who really knew how she was exactly, like what did her accent sound like, and the fact that she developed profound deafness when she was first running the Harriet Lane.

In the deaf community, in order to play a role of someone with a hearing loss... you have to have hearing loss.

I have to constantly remind myself that I am communicating with a person with hearing loss.

You shall not curse the deaf.

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.