Famous quotes containing the word knew:
“We who knew him well know how great he would have been if he had never written a line.”
—Edith Wharton (1862–1937)
“I may say it of our preposterous use of books,—He knew not what to do, and so he read.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“And turned on him with such a daunting look,
He said twice over before he knew himself:
“Can’t a man speak of his own child he’s lost?””
—Robert Frost (1874–1963)