Understand

Famous quotes containing the word understand:

“When old settlers say “One has to understand the country,” what they mean is, “You have to get used to our ideas about the native.” They are saying, in effect, “Learn our ideas, or otherwise get out; we don’t want you.””
—Doris Lessing (b. 1919)

“Once you have looked at the land from atop the Kahlenberg, you will understand what I write and who I am.”
—Franz Grillparzer (1791–1872)

“You are intricate tune;
endangering spark;
I don’t understand the ways of you,
nor why
your eyes should be dark.”
—Hilda Doolittle (1886–1961)