Helen Keller: Quotes & Facts

This book is an anthology of 167 quotes from Helen Keller and 67 selected by Blago Kirov facts about Helen Keller.

Helen Keller was born with the ability to see and hear.
Her paternal lineage was traced to Casper Keller, a native of Switzerland. One of Helen's Swiss ancestors was the first teacher for the deaf in Zurich.
Helen Keller had her eyes replaced with glass eyes when she was 30.
Helen Keller learned German, Latin, Greek, and French before she graduated from Radcliffe College.
Helen Keller helped promote the use of Braille among blind people.
In 1902, Helen Keller became the first person who was deaf and blind to write a book. Her autobiography, The Story of My Life, was the first of 14 books she wrote in her lifetime.

“I cried because I had no shoes until I met a man who had no feet.”
“It is a terrible thing to see and have no vision.”
“Do not think of today's failures, but of the success that may come tomorrow.”
“A bend in the road is not the end of the road…Unless you fail to make the turn.”
“A happy life consists not in the absence, but in the mastery of hardships.”
“While they were saying it couldn't be done, it was done.”
“You don't love someone for their looks, or their clothes, or for their fancy car, but because they sing a song only you can hear.”