Famous quotes containing the word knew:
“With drums and guns, and guns and drums
The enemy nearly slew ye,
My darling dear, you look so queer,
Och, Johnny, I hardly knew ye!”
—Unknown. Johnny, I Hardly Knew Ye (l. Chorus.)
“As far as I knew white women were never lonely, except in books. White men adored them, Black men desired them and Black women worked for them.”
—Maya Angelou (b. 1928)
“Rome has betrayed itself. It knew the truth and chose violence, it knew humaneness and it chose tyranny.”
—Friedrich Dürrenmatt (1921–1990)