Quotes About Communication

There are certain natures of which the mutual influence is such, that the more they say, the more they have to say. For these out of association grows adhesion, and out of adhesion, amalgamation.

Rivers and rocks and trees have always been talking to us but we've forgotten how to listen.

Don't knock the weather nine-tenths of the people couldn't start a conversation if it didn't change once in a while.

A great deal has been learned about cell communication. The universal nature of cellular structure and organization in bacteria, plant and animal cells has been discovered.

But theater, because of its nature, both text, images, multimedia effects, has a wider base of communication with an audience. That's why I call it the most social of the various art forms.

If you've never been hated by your child, you've never been a parent.

Good parenting give headaches but bad parenting gives heartaches.

It is not a bad thing that children should occasionally, and politely, put parents in their place.

Parents often talk about the younger generation as if they didn't have anything to do with it.

It isn't the size of the family, it's the interactions of the members inside.

Don't quarrel with your parents even if you are on the right.

The most precious things in speech are the pauses.

Better a little chiding than a great deal of heartbreak.

When you stop knowing your kids' business and who they're hanging out with, you have stopped parenting.

Parents need to listen as much to their kids as they do to them: "The first duty of love is to listen."

If as a family we must be selective listeners, then let us pay more attention to the words of the heart and less to the words of anger

~I try to call my mother, Betty, with more regularity because I think, What if Hazel didn't call me for two weeks? I'm able to see her mothering now from a different vantage point.~

The parents exist to teach the child, but also they must learn what the child has to teach them; and the child has a very great deal to teach them

The problem with children is that you have to put up with their parents.

First you have to teach a child to talk, then you have to teach it to be quiet.

Praise your children openly, reprove them secretly.

Sometimes, kids want you to hurt the way they hurt.

A man can't be in the space where there is feminine rage and bitterness. He doesn't know how to navigate it.

Communicating w/kids, its a 2 way street, sometimes they just need us to be there for them & listen.