Quotes About Communication

In a family, the same spoken lines come in over and over. Intimacy exhausts.

That's how it goes within a family. You think you know each other so well, and so you don't bother hardly getting to know each other at all.

In my family, we seem to have a tortured history of not saying what we ought to and not meaning what we do.

Antagonism in my family comes wrapped in layers of code, sideways feints, full deniability. I believe the same can be said of many families.

I know. You know I know. I know you know I know. We know Henry knows and Henry knows we know it. We're a knowledgeable family.

In my family, in the days prior to television, we liked to while away the evenings by making ourselves miserable, solely based on our ability to speak the language viciously.

A close family member once offered his opinion that I exhibit the phone manners of a goat, then promptly withdrew the charge - out of fairness to goats.

Because I found myself telling the story of his family to people without the visual aids that I was able to employ by filming them eventually. But I very much knew exactly what I was going to do.

Growing up, my family wasn't very tight. We were more like a tour group with secrets.

If we're sitting at dinner and there's no conversation going on because everybody's got their head someplace else in their iPhone, that's a family problem that needs to be solved.

We use tools such as email, not just as a way to keep in daily touch with family members who live in other cities, but also as a way to keep in touch with staff and members of the public.

I talk to my parents more than anybody in my family.

The television set's on while the family's sitting around having dinner or talking. Nobody's watching TV; it's there; they're aware of it, but they're not participating. That's passive.

Any person who says their family is perfectly functional is lying.

Never make any reference to the other person's family. "You're just like your - " because that is out, completely.

There is no problem in the family, ward, or stake that cannot be solved if we look for solutions in the Lord's way by counseling - really counseling - with one another.

Does everyone turn into a truculent thirteen-year-old when they go home, or is it just me?

There were many things they simply didn't talk about: between them, silence was not so much a form of evasion as a way for solitary people to exist in a family.

I think growing up in a big family taught me a lot of problem solving and how to share and compromise, and that's been helpful in my marriage.

There's a voice when I write. I speak everything aloud. My family is so accustomed to me talking to myself that often times they don't answer me when I am trying to speak to one of them.

There's a kind of emotional exploration you plumb with a friend that you don't really do with your family.

Everyone in my family has seen me cry before.

When it comes to my family I never quite know how protective I have to be, or what I should or shouldn't say.

Families and their problems go on and on, and they aren't solved, they're dealt with.