Famous quotes containing the word knew:
“... what a strange time it was! Who knew his neighbor? Who was a traitor and who a patriot? The hero of to-day was the suspected of to-morrow.... There were traitors in the most secret council-chambers. Generals, senators, and secretaries looked at each other with suspicious eyes.... It is a great wonder that the city of Washington was not betrayed, burned, destroyed a half-dozen times.”
—M. E. W. Sherwood (1826–1903)
“For our sake he made him to be sin who knew no sin, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.”
—Bible: New Testament, 2 Corinthians 5:21.
“He was very beautiful,
the old man,
and I knew wisdom,
I found measureless truth
in his words.”
—Hilda Doolittle (1886–1961)