Famous quotes containing the word knew:
“They felt the rush of the sap in the spring, they knew the wave which cannot halt, but every year throws forward the seed to begetting, and, falling back, leaves the unborn on the earth. They knew the intercourse between heaven and earth.”
—D.H. (David Herbert)
“I didn’t think I’d come out alive; in fact, I was seeing death. But I was prepared to die as long as I died for the truth, and I knew that people would know that this was the case.”
—Connie Mofokeng (b. 1959)
“I never heard a single expression of fondness for him fall from the lips of any of those who knew him well.”
—Thomas Babington Macaulay (1800–1859)