Late Deafened Authors Quotes

“Civilization thrives in vigilance -- not complacency.”
― Michael C. Haymes

“When you can't hear, you learn to listen.”
― Michael C. Haymes

“I'd always tell them that I was hard-of-hearing. One minute they said it didn't bother them, the next they'd tell me to forget it.”
― Michael C. Haymes

“You can't join the movement for the thrill of the cause.”
― Michael C. Haymes

“The problem is never what you believe, but that you demand everybody else believes it too.”
― Michael C. Haymes

“Whether you call it heads or tails, a quarter is still just twenty-five cents.”
― Michael C. Haymes

“The greatest dangers lurk in the darkness of our own ignorance.”
― Michael C. Haymes

“I'm depressed because the people I love are dead. I don't think my deafness has anything to do with that.”
― Michael C. Haymes

“A moment may be remembered for a lifetime, but a lifetime is always more than a moment.”
― Michael C. Haymes

“America is an idea, a dream rooted in a directed vision that boldly declares that life is not simply meant to be endured but enjoyed through our pursuit of happiness; that liberty and justice are not granted by a privileged few but earned by the oppressed through their devotion toward a more perfect union; and that the progress of inching ever closer toward the sanctity of what America must be takes a multigenerational marathon of endurance, vigilance, and, above all, responsibility.”
― Michael C. Haymes

“I was brought up to believe we can be better. We can be more than who we are...that's our gift. We have the ability to learn, the capacity to change. We grow. That's how we become better. We evolve with each new lesson we learn, if we're willing to accept those lessons.”
― Michael C. Haymes

“Letting go does not mean you've moved on. Moving on does not mean you must let go.”
― Michael C. Haymes

“I decided that I was going to live my life, in spite of the mess it had become.”
― Michael C. Haymes

“I felt like a castaway lost at sea during a nasty nor-easter. And nobody could see past the storm...”
― Michael C. Haymes

“Any fool can sit on a moral high horse when he isn't challenged by the reality of the race.”
― Michael C. Haymes

“She listened -- and that's the best advice I ever got about grief.”
― Michael C. Haymes