Famous quotes containing the word knew:
“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)
“I knew the poor,
I knew the hideous death they die,
when famine lays its bleak hand on the door;
I knew the rich,
sated with merriment,
who yet are sad.”
—Hilda Doolittle (1886–1961)
“Rome has betrayed itself. It knew the truth and chose violence, it knew humaneness and it chose tyranny.”
—Friedrich Dürrenmatt (1921–1990)