Knew

Famous quotes containing the word knew:

    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)

    Time for the flat-headed man. I recognize that listener,
    Him with the platitudes and rubber doughnuts,
    Melting at the knees, a varicose horror.
    Hello, hello. My nerves knew you, dear boy.
    Have you come to unhinge my shadow?
    Theodore Roethke (1908–1963)

    I never knew a writer yet who took the smallest pains with his style and was at the same time readable.
    Samuel Butler (1835–1902)