DJ Jazzy Jeff Quotes

Don't keep telling your parents they don't understand you. Believe me it's much worse when they do. There's just a chance, you know - they really might.

It's sometimes comical to hear the younger generation ask their peers to repeat themselves.

There's no such thing as a teenager that listens to a single word their father says.

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

There's no winning arguments with your parents

I was a smart kid and I was not understood by my parents.

I am reminded that no matter how hard you try, you can never be more than twelve years old with your parents. Parents earnestly try not to inflame, but their comments contain no scale and a strange focus. Discussing your private life with parents is like misguidedly looking at a zit in a car's rearview mirror and being convinced, in the absence of contrast or context, that you have developed combined heat rash and skin cancer.

I'm not a tech-savvy parent. I communicate with my children via the old-media format called yelling.

My parents don't really understand my career. They don't really bring it up that much.

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.

It seemed like my father and I were always fighting. I know a lot of kids go through that with their families, but it was hard for me.

When you fail to communicate, there are gray areas. And when there's gray areas, then bad things happen.

There are times families don't see eye to eye.

Well, I don't want to say mad, but there was 'heated' exchanges back in the closing days of OVW when I said that I was running our own business there in OVW and they said, no, we are running their storage closet. They didn't actually say that, but that was how they treated it.

If a parent keeps on saying that, 'my kid is not understanding me at all,' he or she needs to look inside and ask, what wrong am I doing that my child is unable to understand me?

Whatever your age, parents generally embarrass their children. I think that's a role we have to play.

Parents have too little respect for their children, just as the children have too much for the parents.

Oh, Daja," moaned Jory, "you sound just like my parents." She ran from the schoolroom. "Well, there's no reason to insult me, "muttered Daja, half offended.

Mutual ignorance breeds mutual distrust.

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

Nobody can misunderstand a child as much as his own parents.

The 1143-year-long war hand begun on false pretenses and only because the two races were unable to communicate. Once they could talk, the first question was 'Why did you start this thing?' and the answer was 'Me?

In another couple of generations, we're really gonna see the effect of this single-parent raising. And I think that's the problem. That's the disconnect. That's the miscommunication.

Parents cannot expect advice to have the same force upon their children as experience has upon themselves.

Where is he? Bridgerton!" he bellowed. Three chestnut heads swiveled in his direction. Simon stomped across the grass, murder in his eyes. "I meant the idiot Bridgerton." "That, I believe," Anthony said mildly, tilting his chin toward Colin, "would refer to you.