“You do not really understand something unless you can explain it to your grandmother”
Proverb
“I know that you believe you understand what you think I said, but I'm not sure you realize that what you heard is not what I meant.”
Robert McCloskey
“Never explain -- your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyway.”
Elbert Hubbard
“It's tough. You're sort of in shock. I just can't get over the fact, whether it's my grandmother or not, but the respect of our elders, just to brutally do that.”
Ralph Lewis
“We should be praising these grandmothers, not prosecuting them.”
Norman Siegel
“What should be, is.' As my grandmother explained it to our family the winter she lost three fingertips to frostbite when the furnace in her little house broke and she fell and cracked a hip while trying to light it, 'Accepting life's imperfections is not the secret. The secret, dears, is to understand life has none. How could it? We've got nothing to compare it to. We can dream something up, of course- some pretty maybe life where fingers are very hard and indestructible- but that's pure mischief, darlings. Fingers freeze. It's one of the things they like to do sometimes.”
Walter Kirn
“Yes, I am (going to be a grandmother again.) Well, I think so. Oh, well I have not checked lately,”
Blythe Danner
