David Archuleta Quotes

I am a little deaf now. Without my hearing aids in, I miss a lot of peripheral sounds. I had tinnitus, too, for a while.

If not music, I think it would be pretty cool to be an ear, nose and throat doctor.

I've had tinnitus for about ten years, and since I started protecting my ears it hasn't got any worse - touch wood.

Its rock n' roll that has done my hearing in.

I've always worn earplugs, but I'm sure my hearing's not great.

I can't be quiet, as that's when I notice the ringing in my ears.

During the summer months of my high-school years, I befriended Dr. Robert Kough, a physician who cared for members of my family. Although he was practicing general medicine in a rural community when I met him, he was well equipped to arouse in me an interest not only in the life of a physician but in the fundaments of human biology.

I have really severe tinnitus.

I was always interested in medicine and I was actually a pre-med major.

I had a lot of ear infections when I was younger, so I didn't learn to swim until I was about 14.

I've seen the needless struggles that deaf children and deaf people face, and that gave me the impetus to write.

I'm Turkish-American; I was a freshman at Harvard in 1995 and 96. I did teach English in Hungary in the summer of 1996. I'm an autobiographical writer in the sense that whether in fiction or nonfiction, the issues and relationships and phenomena and problems I'm most interested in exploring are the ones I've experienced personally.

Thinking is like loving and dying. Each of us must do it for himself.

The real world is where I get to educate and entertain myself. I go and touch the real world and touch real people. That's my way into movies.

Did you see where President Reagan finally got a hearing aid? People have been telling him to get one for years, but he couldn't hear them.

I think I kind of grew up with that a little bit and have great admiration for people who do [medical practice] for a living and who are real empaths. So I suppose I drew on - , from my mom a bit.

I learned about a lot of things in medical school, but mortality wasn't one of them.

Medicine is of all the Arts the most noble; but, owing to the ignorance of those who practice it, and of those who, inconsiderately, form a judgment of them, it is at present behind all the arts.

THE most important day I remember in all my life is the one on which my teacher, Anne Mansfield Sullivan, came to me

I am interested in physical medicine because my father was. I am interested in medical research because I believe in it. I am interested in arthritis because I have it.

We used to have superb public schools. I guess we don't anymore, but, boy, the public schools were really something and I am a product of those in Indianapolis.

You will have to learn many tedious things,...which you will forget the moment you have passed your final examination, but in anatomy it is better to have learned and lost than never to have learned at all.

Never believe on faith, see for yourself! What you yourself don't learn you don't know.

Why had I taken all those useless classes like bio and German when I should have been taking lipreading?

The child realizes to every man his own earliest remembrance, and so supplies a defect in our education, or enables us to live over the unconscious history with a sympathy so tender as to be almost personal experience.