Tells

Famous quotes containing the word tells:

    Anthropology is the science which tells us that people are the same the whole world over—except when they are different.
    Nancy Banks-Smith, British columnist. Quoted in Guardian (London, July 21, 1988)

    O, what damned minutes tells he o’er
    Who dotes, yet doubts; suspects, yet strongly loves!
    William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

    My son and daughter tell me where they are in very different ways. I know where my son is because I hear him. I know where my daughter is because she tells me.
    —Anonymous Father. Raising a Daughter by Jeanne Elium and Don Elium, ch. 1 (1994)