Patti Page Quotes

Ah, Harry, how often this happens, even between the best of friends! Each of us believes that what he has to say is much more important than anything the other might have to contribute!

Parents just don't understand.

I would rather be a swineherd, understood by the swine, than a poet misunderstood by men.

Children wish fathers looked but with their eyes; fathers that children with their judgment looked; and either may be wrong.

Let us make a special effort to stop communicating with each other, so we can have some conversation.

I can't get on girls' wavelengths at all. I think we are completely different. I don't know, maybe that's the way it should be. If we could all get along occasionally though, that would be nice.

For me, when we're all human beings, it's just interesting that we cannot understand the other person or how they think. That's one part of the human aspect that fascinates me.

People don't listen to each other anymore, and I think that's why people get offended or their feelings get hurt: because you're not actually listening to the person that's giving you signals they're upset.

It's an honest place to be if you don't understand someone else's experience, but there's no way for the other to understand if a conversation or an explanation isn't made.

Adults weren’t supposed to understand their children and you were doing something wrong if they did.

When you work with people who misunderstand you, instead of getting transmissions, you get transmutations, and that's much more interesting in the long run.

Vaisey said, "Is it because your parents don't understand you?" Charlie said, "No, it's because our parents understand us very well, and that is why they wanted us to go away.

We ought not to make those people our enemies who might have become our friends, if we had only known them better.

Our intentions tend to be much more real to us than our actions, and this can lead to a great deal of misunderstanding with other people, to whom our actions tend to be much more real than our intentions.

Okay, I don’t like it when you walk away from me, but other than that...(Arik) Yeah, I guess that makes sense. You transcend a dimension to come here and I brush you off. I can see where that might get annoying. (Geary)

You have to put up with the risk of being misunderstood if you are going to try to communicate.

I really do wish people could understand me some day.

Nobody is ever misunderstood at a fireside; he may only be disagreed with.

Just because we're related doesn't mean we are any good at understanding each other.

I know you despise me; allow me to say, it is because you don't understand me.

Our children are trying to tell us something. And we are not listening.

The one thing I think you must do is, as painful as it is as a parent, is listen.

No one really listens to anyone else, and if you try it for a while you'll see why.

When people ask what I write about, that's what I tell them: 'The drama of human relationships.' I'm not even close to running out of material.

I think the greatest challenge between child and parent is communication.