Hearing Impairment Quotes

I am just as deaf as I am blind. The problems of deafness are deeper and more complex, if not more important than those of blindness. Deafness is a much worse misfortune. For it means the loss of the most vital stimulus- the sound of the voice that brings language, sets thoughts astir, and keeps us in the intellectual company of man.

I've always wanted to write a book relating my experiences growing up as a deaf child in Chicago. Contrary to what people might think, it wasn't all about hearing aids and speech classes or frustrations.

You can knock on a deaf man's door forever.

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.

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.

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.

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

Nothing is going to improve my hearing. I've only got to prevent it from getting worse.

The total loss of hearing was a process that lasted more than a decade, but it was sufficiently gradual for me to attend Sydney Boys' High School and to profit from the teaching there.

"Doctor, I have a ringing in my ears." "Don't answer!"

You see, the deaf have an intimacy with silence. It’s there in their dreams.

Rule number one is, make sure that you face the person with hearing loss when you are speaking to them.

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

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

Let your deafness no longer be a secret - even in art.

Would I have signed to Def Jam if I knew they was deaf? Nah.

The world's worst is when you find yourself going like Mother Hubbard and cupping your hand behind your ear. I was a major glutton for volume: 'Gotta feel it, gotta hear it.' Sooner or later you're going to pay the reaper.

Hey, yummy leather guy? Can you hear me? (Amanda)

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.

Deafness and sign language are extremely close to my heart.

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.

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.

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

Calls her beautiful, but she cannot hear.

I'm quite deaf now; such a comfort.