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Quotes About Communication

You have to be polite with your friends and your family, but in your art, it's important to not be polite.
~ Lisa Yuskavage
A family reunion is an effective form of birth control.
~ Robert A. Heinlein
Family, like arsenic, works best in small doses...unless you prefer to die.
~ David Levithan
I grew up in a family where we weren't allowed to talk about beauty or to put any emphasis on physical appearance.
~ Pam Grier
All the songs I write are about human dynamics, whether it's with girlfriends, boyfriends, or family.
~ Amy Winehouse
I think every family is dysfunctional, and some manage to control it better than others.
~ Viggo Mortensen
I have always kept my personal relationships pretty private, whether it's intimate or my family or friends - at least in videos. It's always been something that I've sworn off from sharing online.
~ Tyler Oakley
When you deal with your brother, be pleasant, but get a witness.
~ Hesiod
When I was very little, we would get letters from China, in Chinese, and they' be censored. We were a very insular little family.
~ Maya Lin
unhappy families are conspiracies of silence. The one who breaks the silence is never forgiven.
~ Jeanette Winterson
Families break up when they get hints you don't intend and miss hints that you do.
~ Robert Frost
Ridley and I talk every day. Our family is very close because were from North England.
~ Tony Scott
I know all those words, but that sentence makes no sense to me.
~ Matt Groening
Never write an advertisement which you wouldn't want your own family to read. You wouldn't tell lies to your own wife. Don't tell them to mine. Do as you would be done by.
~ David Ogilvy
I do know what my family has done for me, but they do need to give me some space to let me be myself. There would be some things I would handle differently.
~ Kim Wilde
One regret I have: I didn't get as much of the family history as I could have for the kids.
~ Robert De Niro
What I'd really like, Dad, is to borrow the car keys.
~ Harry Chapin
A family is a burial mound of its own doings and sayings.
~ Han Suyin
A family, like a canoe, must be steered or paddled, or it won't take you where you want to go.
~ William J Doherty
I think when someone is injured in your family, you want to speak to the individual and you want to hear their voice and you want to make sure they are OK.
~ Roger Goodell
They had nothing to say to each other. A five-year age gap between siblings is like a garden that needs constant attention. Even three months apart allows the weeds to grow up between you.
~ Zadie Smith, On Beauty
Forgiveness is important in families, especially when there are so many secrets that need to be healed - for the most part, every family's got them.
~ Tyler Perry
My iPhone stays on. All my friends and family know that I hate the phone, so no one calls me on it. I just use it to play Words With Friends and take pictures of cute shoes.
~ Unknown
The youngest child in any family is always a jokemaker, because a joke is the only way he can enter into an adult conversation.
~ Kurt Vonnegut