Knew

Famous quotes containing the word knew:

    “In the nineteenth century ... explanations of who and what women were focused primarily on reproductive events—marriage, children, the empty nest, menopause. You could explain what was happening in a woman’s life, it was believed, if you knew where she was in this reproductive cycle.”
    —Grace Baruch (20th century)

    “I lived in Judæa eighteen hundred years ago, but I never knew that there was such a one as Christ among my contemporaries!”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    “I pray my companion, if he wishes for bread, to ask me for bread, and if he wishes for sassafras or arsenic, to ask me for them, and not to hold out his plate, as if I knew already.”
    —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)