Billy Graham Quotes

One age misunderstands another; and a petty age misunderstands all the others in its own ugly way.

Parents just don't understand.

Nothing so dates a man as to decry the younger generation.

You guys are both saying the same thing. The only reason you're arguing is because you're using different words.

If you don't speak Spanish, then don't accuse me of insulting you in that language, let alone insulting you ten times.

It hurts a lot when you cannot really comprehend what a person is saying in a meeting, or you don't even understand what you're reading in your contract.

Not understanding anything is terrible, because I communicate very much in my real life.

Old and young disbelieve one another's truths.

No one gets angry at a mathematician or a physicist whom he or she doesn't understand, or at someone who speaks a foreign language, but rather at someone who tampers with your own language.

There are younger directors, and anybody over 30 is ancient to them, because they're not that old.

Grown-ups never understand anything for themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them.

The dead might as well try to speak to the living as the old to the young.

Today's younger generation is no worse than my own. We were just as ignorant and repulsive as they are, but nobody listened to us.

There are two barriers that often prevent communication between the young and their elders. The first is middle-aged forgetfulness of the fact that they themselves are no longer young. The second is youthful ignorance of the fact that the middle aged are still alive.

What Thucydides said of the Greeks at the time of the Peleponnesian War applies to us at present [1860]. The Greeks did not understand each other any longer, though they spoke the same language; words received a different meaning in different parts.

I'm sure all the people who have been born 20 years ago don't know anything about me at all except 'LOVE', and that's a nasty word.

Sometimes, words are twisted and don't reach people in their intended way.

I hate when I see someone who speaks English speaking to someone who speaks a different language, and they're screaming as if going louder is going to help the other person understand.

Most of the trouble in life comes from misunderstanding, I think,' said Anne.

There,” she said triumphantly. “Like that.” He began to wonder if they were speaking the same language. “Like what?” “That! What you just said.” He crossed his arms. It seemed the only acceptable reply. If she couldn’t speak in complete sentences, he saw no reason why he had to speak at all.

Most of our life is miscommunication, and when you add a language barrier to it, it just becomes total mayhem and confusion... It just adds to it with all of the cultural differences. It could be an American family meeting another American family and you could still have a total clash. With family, it's like visiting another planet.

The trouble was that he was talking in philosophy but they were listening in gibberish.

I actually don't understand a word Paula's saying anymore. It's like a new language.

I have not the pleasure of understanding you.

I think sometimes I might scare the editors, because they might feel they're getting old and they're not understanding it. The problem lies on their side of the fence, not mine. I come from a different era and I design clothes for our era.